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2006 

Our local newspaper has a columinist named Sam Venable who writes some of the funniest stuff you've ever read.This mornings Halloween column was funnier than usual though.*** WARNING *** Don't be sipping on any sort of beverage when you get to the end unless you want to clean off your screen. Cli...
10/30/2006
In my part of the country we have a lot of rock formations close to the surface of the earth which creates a haven for Radon gas. For those of you that may not have had any direct experience or heard much about it; Radon is a colorless, odorless, gas that occurs during the natural breakdown of ur...
10/30/2006
Mine is doing OK, been better, been much worse. However I'm almost always a positive thinker and my glass of water is half full.I've always remembered and always loved this little story about attitude and your outlook on business and life in general. "A man sold hot dogs in a medium-sized town. H...
10/30/2006
I watched the lively debate and talk among Brad Inman, founder of HomeGain, Allen Dalton, President of Realtor.com, and Lloyd Frink, one of the principals of Zillow.com.Dalton got in some pretty good one liners about Zillow and alluded to them as being similar to the carnival hucksters who would ...
10/28/2006
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I got a call earlier this afternoon from a local television station looking for some input on a story they were doing on why housing sales were down so much. Locally our sale are not down and in fact have been pretty good all year long so I agreed to be interviewed. My 15 seconds of fame"The pric...
10/26/2006
A very simple model for a nationwide, open to the public to view homes, MLS service is up and running as we speak. No, it's not operated by Google, Yahoo, Oodle, Trulia, or any of those guys. The Nationwide Public Listings Search is operated by the same guys that run the e-PRO course for NAR; the...
10/25/2006
I just had an interesting sales solicitation call from an outfit called ClickSMart, who for a mere $495 a month will put you at the top of the most searched for keyword terms in your along with 19 of your closest Realtor competito....................er, friends. ;-)To see the ClickSmart deal in a...
10/24/2006
Getting potential buyers & sellers TO your website is one leg of a 3 legged stool.There are lots of different ways to get them there; pay per click, search engine optimization, URL in print ads, sign riders, etc.,etc. Once you get them there the other 2 legs are; keep them there & make them want ...
10/22/2006
My measure of success is that it leads qualified buyers (and sellers) to call me to do business and that leads to me getting a commission check that I can deposit into my bank account and spend.Everything else is irrelevant.My friend and columnist Peter Miller talked with me about this subject se...
10/21/2006
Do you try to help Mr. & Mrs. FSBO in your real estate practice???According to the latest NAR stats FSBOs are in more need of our help now than ever before.http://www.realtor.org/press_room/news_releases/2006/hmbuyersellersurvey06.html"Only 13 percent of sellers conducted transactions without the...
10/18/2006
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