Jennifer Shimizu's Blog

Find your dream trip...

Jennifer Shimizu (Keller Williams Palos Verdes Realty) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:25:48 -0600

As a real estate agent, manager, etc, I travel a lot (for both business and pleasure). I spend most of my time in the LAX airport (sometimes not by choice)!

Well, knowing this, one of my friends introduced me to a great product, and now I am passing it on to you. The produce allows me to become a travel agent and book my own trips. I can get great vacation packages and even upgrades. It works just like a Costco or Sam's Club. You buy a membership and then get great discounts. Even if I only book my own trips for the year, I am getting my money's worth just by the savings. You can also get passive income through this too!

What makes it even better, is you can use this in real estate for your clients. Give them a membership as a closing gift. This give them an opportunity to have a dream vacation on you.

If you would like to check it out, log on to FindYourDreamTrip.com.

The Search for Scholarships

Jennifer Shimizu (Keller Williams Palos Verdes Realty) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:53:22 -0500

The Search for Scholarships, written by Eve-Marie Andrews, is the guide to tracking, applying and winning scholarships. If you have a college bound child, or have a child already in college, take the time to read this book.

Andrews provides tips for completing your application, how do deal with Financial Aid, what to write in your personal statement and so much more.

If you would like to more about The Search for Scholarships, please click on the link below:

http://findingmoneyforcollegebook.com/

Habitat for Humanity with Jimmy Carter

Jennifer Shimizu (Keller Williams Palos Verdes Realty) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:05:51 -0500

Hey Everyone!So Habitat for Humanity is coming to our town and Jimmy Carter will be helping out! They just notified me that they need volunteers from October 28 - November 2.
They are looking for Companies to help out for a full week. What does this mean?

Most companies are looking to donate all there employees on one day. Habitat would prefer if the companies volunteer people for the full week. However, because they know that it is hard to take off that much time, they are looking at having the week split in half. So, for example: I would volunteer Monday and Tuesday, then someone would come to replace me Wednesday, Thursday, Friday... or visa versa.

This is a great opportunity for networking as they said there are over 1000 people volunteering. Please let me know if you are interested by sending me an email at JenniferShimizu@kw.com!

Flu Shots

Jennifer Shimizu (Keller Williams Palos Verdes Realty) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:03:26 -0500

Keller Williams Palos Verdes is conducting a Flu Vaccination Clinic in our office on: October 26, 2007 from 3:00PM to 4:30PM.

It will be headed by the Nurses of Sof Medlink . It's convenient and affordable, only $23 cash or check. Invite your friends, family, and clients... this is a great way to show that you care about their wellbeing!

Please RSPV by October 20, 2007to Jennifershimizu@kw.com

500 Silver Spur road, Suite 303Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275

Gary Keller: The only market that matters is yours!

Jennifer Shimizu (Keller Williams Palos Verdes Realty) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:41:05 -0500

Last week on the Today Show, during a segment on the national real estate market, CNBC's Jim Kramer uncompromisingly stated, "now is the absolute worst time to buy!"

Concerned that remarks such as these from so-called experts might be pushing potential buyers to the sidelines?

Here's what Gary Keller, co-founder and chairman of Keller Williams Realty has to say about waiting out the current market:

First, residential real estate is not a national market product - it is a local one. To say from a national position that this is either a good time or a bad time to buy real estate is like saying the national forecast for the U.S. today is 92 degrees - it is a useless and irrelevant perspective. What is happening in your local market is all that matters.

Second, trying to predict when it is a good time to buy, or not, means you're trying to time the market. Staying on the sidelines is the surest way for most people to never time anything correctly.

Last, and maybe most important - there are always two markets in every market. There is the market of properties that are good buys and there is the market of properties that are not a good buys. Interestingly enough, this is true in either buyer or seller markets. To categorically say that this is the time to buy or not is absolutely ignoring the fact that every market really has two markets inside it.

Gary Keller once again recognized for his influence in real estate

Jennifer Shimizu (Keller Williams Palos Verdes Realty) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:16:24 -0500

Gary Keller once again recognized for his influence in real estate

Inman News names Keller one of the Top 100 thought leaders in the industry

Chairman and co-founder of Keller Williams Realty, Gary Keller was named to the Inman News list of the Top 100 Most Influential Leaders in Real Estate last week.

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Keller Williams Realty Case Study now part of Stanford and Yale's core MBA curriculum

Jennifer Shimizu (Keller Williams Palos Verdes Realty) — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:09:05 -0500

Keller Williams Realty Case Study now part of Stanford and Yale's core MBA curriculum

Distinct cultural and economic models presented as inherently intertwined

AUSTIN, TEXAS (July 11, 2007) - Keller Williams Realty Inc., announced today that both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Yale School of Management have added a Keller Williams Realty Case Study to their core MBA curriculums.

Completed earlier this year by Brian Tayan, research associate with the case writing office of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and James N. Baron, Ph.D., formerly with Stanford, who since the publication of the study has taken a professor of management position at the Yale School of Management, the case study describes the economic and cultural models that have led to the success of Keller Williams Realty.

"Case studies are fundamentally teaching materials," Tayan explains. He adds that he anticipates that the most predominant impact of this case study will be a realization among MBA students of the "significant impact that culture can play in the strategy of an organization."

"This level of recognition from two such prestigious universities is among the greatest honors that this company has ever received," emphasizes Mo Anderson, vice chairman, Keller Williams Realty. "It's a reflection of the combined talents and unique contributions of all of our associates throughout North America."

Anderson was on hand at Yale when the case study was first presented to students at the Yale School of Management by Dr. Baron.

Baron noted, "One of the things I heard from several students was how refreshing it was for them to hear the perspective of a highly effective executive with a leadership style so different from the formulaic one they encounter over and over throughout business school."

Having spent a considerable amount of time talking to associates and interviewing top executives at Keller Williams Realty, Tayan notes that the Keller Williams "business model and culture operate very much in conjunction with each other. The company's culture has not been developed for the sake of it."

Keller Williams Realty has become the fourth largest and fastest growing real estate agency in North America by building a culture that rewards its agents as partners through its profit sharing program and by empowering its agents to fulfill the company mission of ‘building careers worth having, business worth owning and lives worth living.'

"The Keller Williams Realty case study should serve as a source of pride for associates throughout the organization and a validation of the way the company is proceeding," Tayan says. Noting the distinct business model and rapid growth of Keller Williams Realty, he adds, "I'm surprised that more has not been written about it."

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About Keller Williams Realty Inc.:

Founded in 1983, Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the fourth-largest real estate franchise operation in North America, with more than 650 offices and 76,000 associates in the United States and Canada. The company, which began franchising in 1990, has an agent-centric culture that emphasizes access to leading-edge education and promotes an economic model that rewards associates as stakeholders and partners. For more information, visit Keller Williams Realty online at (www.kw.com).