real estate: Niching Boosts Business in Tough Real Estate Markets - 09/27/07 05:41 PM
I have several clients who are niching their businesses HARD. I've been preaching "niche, niche, niche!" for years, but there's nothing like a tough market to make that niching come to the surface. For those of you who are still looking for a niche in your own market, I want to … (4 comments)
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real estate: Apple offers $100 to $200 back on iPhones - 09/06/07 06:47 PM
Were you an early adopter? Upset about having an iPhone now that the announcement was made yesterday that the price is dropping by $200 effective this weekend? Well, I have some info you may want.
In an open letter, Steve Jobs offers early adopters $100 credit toward an Apple or online store … (7 comments)
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real estate: A Gift for You: Ask a Broker the Dirt on Working with Outsourcing Providers and Virtual Assistants - 07/19/07 09:13 AM
Ever wondered what it would be like to have someone help you with your overwhelming work load? Have you heard about virtual assistance, about outsourcing professionals, about freelance project services for real estate, but have hesitated to try it out?
How would you like to ask a real estate broker for the … (2 comments)
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real estate: Class Is In Session: Enjoy a Free Event Designed for New Virtual Assistants! - 07/16/07 09:30 PM
RemoteProfessionals.com is celebrating two years as a networking organization for outsourcing specialists, virtual assistants and offsite service providers. We want encourage everyone to join us as we celebrate . . .so we have developed two great events for July and August -- and we are offering them both for free!
(I'm … (0 comments)
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real estate: Lovin' My Shiny New iPhone! - 07/02/07 06:59 AM
Ok, I wrestled with the decision... but I did it. I broke down and got an iPhone on Friday -- despite the lines and the road-trip required to pick one up. (Maysville, over an hour away, was one of the two locations in KY that didn't sell out in the first … (13 comments)
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real estate: Multi-Touch Surface Computing for Real Estate Applications - 06/01/07 05:51 PM
For two days I've been salivating over the new technology recently introduced by Microsoft and due out at the end of this year. It's simply amazing.
I saw this multi-touch technology in its infancy last year and blogged about it then, when it was still in the lab.
I noticed today that … (1 comments)
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real estate: How NOT to Sell Real Estate: My Rant of the Day - 03/14/07 09:40 PM
Brace yourself. I'm on a rant...
I'm currently spending a bit of time at the beach in Ft. Pierce, Florida. It's lovely. I'm here with my mother, my grandmother and two of her sisters.
This is what I went out to see this morning before beginning my work for the day:
(I love … (39 comments)
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real estate: If I Had a Real Estate Niche: Tiny Houses and Trends - 03/12/07 12:38 PM
A tiny house trend is becoming more visible on the real estate landscape. Personally, I'm thrilled with the prospect. I am a tiny house advocate. I'm building my own little house on my 25 acre farm. I believe that the trend of the 80s and 90s of real estate expansionism is … (4 comments)
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real estate: Innovative Way to Market Your Blog and Yourself - 01/23/07 04:03 PM
I've come up with a few new ideas to help people market their blog while polishing up the innovation portion of a seminar I'm hosting later this week on Marketing Your Blog.
I thought it would be nice to share one of those ideas here with my Active Rain fellow-bloggers:
Cool "Blog" … (9 comments)
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real estate: As the Holidays Approach: Low-Cost, High-Impact Suggestions for Give-Aways, Promotional Items and Gifts - 11/21/06 07:36 AM
I'm going to be sending out some suggestions to my own clients over the next week, but I thought I'd share a few ideas here with the Active Rain community first.
As the holidays approach, you are probably getting a brain-strain trying to figure out how to plan your promotional items for … (12 comments)
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real estate: Another Online Tool of Merit for Mobile Professionals - 11/20/06 12:52 PM
I try to keep abreast of the cool new online tools that I think may be beneficial to real estate agents, brokers and other entrepreneurs that tend to be mobile.
Although this is one that I investigated some time back, I recently reviewed some of my favorites (during a flurry of organization, … (0 comments)
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real estate: Resources for Paper-Lovers: Low-Tech Organizational Solutions for a High-Tech Industry - 11/16/06 07:59 AM
I've been reading quite a few posts on the importance of technology in Real Estate and the importance of low-tech (classic) service. Heck, I've been writing them too!
In the vein of using technology to provide classic service (and classic paper-based tools in this case)... I wanted to share a great resource. … (8 comments)
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real estate: Home Inspector Uses Tablet PC - 11/13/06 04:57 PM
On the topic of technology that's useful, portable and makes life easier, I thought this story by a home inspector was a great addition!
I tripped across this story about a home inspector, Dana Bostick in California that I thought the other tech-lovers here on ActiveRain would like. He's a self-professed … (0 comments)
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real estate: Writing, Marketing and Technology: It's about the service, not the tools - 11/11/06 02:17 PM
I had a blog comment from Rob Lang today that reminded me that I may appear to be promoting technology for its own sake, which is not really my intent.
I'm a writer. That's my first love. That's my calling. I have a professional background in marketing and a personal love of … (8 comments)
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real estate: Mobile Communications: How Hard Do I Have to Work to Call You? - 11/10/06 04:20 PM
I want to take a moment to talk about the customer service aspects of making it easy to call you.
As a real estate agent... your objective is to get people to pick up the phone and dial your number. You don't want ANYTHING to dissuade them. Do you?
Then you may … (6 comments)
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real estate: Make Mine Mobile: Is a Tablet PC For You? - 11/10/06 01:51 PM
If you haven't already looked into a Tablet PC, you probably should. It makes being "mobile" less of an endurance test and more of a joy.
I highly recommend a slate because:
It's lighter (and who wants to lug around 30 pounds of stuff these days?)It's less obtrusive (clients will think you … (11 comments)
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real estate: Technology: Yours, Mine and Ours - How I Work and Why I Love My Tablet PC - 11/10/06 12:57 PM
I loved the Treo 600 and my Treo 650 for over two years. I still miss the portability of the device, the flexibility, the ways I learned to push it to the limits (see this Post on the Treo 650), but then I investigated the Tablet PC.
I purchased a Tablet PC … (11 comments)
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real estate: Yahoo! and Google Dabble in Real Estate - 11/09/06 10:26 PM
Most of you have probably heard of -- even played with -- the new Yahoo! Real Estate Search Tool, but I'd be willing to bet that very few of you have seen a "sneak peak" of the new Google Real Estate tool.
It's still in what I'd call "pre-alpha" -- although I … (2 comments)
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real estate: Learn How People Relate to Physical Places, Homes and Objects - 11/08/06 05:26 PM
As a professional real estate agent, broker or relocation specialist, you may be interested to know the complicated attachments people make with physical places and objects. I recently discovered the following free education unit on this particular topic, called "The Meaning of Home." Understanding these relationships may help you to market … (0 comments)
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