web 20 real estate brokerage: Ideas are Advancing Rapidly - r u? - 10/19/08 05:40 AM
I watched a few videos this morning from the TED conference. I'm always tempted to make it seem like "I've know this for a while" (about any cool website or idea or concept) but - truth is - until this morning, I didn't know what the TED conference was! It was … (8 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: New Digs for Diamond Dwellings office at Hamilton Mill, Dacula, Ga. - 08/04/08 08:11 AM
Well, we're just about set up at the new Diamond Dwellings office at Hamilton Mill in Dacula, Ga. We just moved a few steps down the road from our old office. So, we're located in the new Hamilton Mill Station complex (12Stone Church is at the front of the complex). To … (1 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: You Is Where You Is & You Ain't where you Ain't - 07/15/08 10:31 AM
I've just started a series of posts about "How to Start Your Own Brokerage" (man, I've been slow to post this past 2 weeks!)
It doesn't matter if you are starting a brokerage or not, accurately defining (and knowing) your hyper-local target market is critical
If you want to go back … (3 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: How To Start My Own Brokerage: Steps 1 thru 4 - 07/10/08 06:19 AM
(read step zero first)
So, you want to step out on your own (or atleast you are considering the idea)
Let's get several steps done in one day (though it might take you months or years to do it in real life)
Step 1 = Decide to do it
Step 2 … (10 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: How To Start My Own Brokerage: Step 0 - 07/09/08 08:43 AM
This post is actually just the pre-cursor to a set of posts to be released in the next few weeks. I'll link back to this post from the future content so that you can find the background and the basis for the series.
If you've seen any of my posts in … (1 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Inman SF Connect Will Be The Best Money You've Ever Spent - 07/02/08 10:26 PM
If you have not made plans yet to be at Inman Connect later this month, you just really missing it. What ever you spend to get out there, you'll surely double or triple it with something awesome that you learn there. I can't say enough about it. It's just THE number … (6 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: It's The Whole Package -- No Magic Bullets (Sorry) - 07/02/08 08:56 AM
This morning I received a group mail from an Active Rain group moderator. I read in his "tone" that he was a bit frustrated (this may have to do with other things besides blogging -- but I digress...)
In his note, he explained that there is "precious little" that you can … (6 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: How Do You Spot The Real Thing? (We're All Searching For It) - 07/01/08 10:08 PM
I've been meeting lots of new people lately (new business partners for Diamond Dwellings, etc)When we meet, they are evaluating me to decide if they believe what I'm saying, etc.I'm doing the same thing to them -- evaluating them and deciding if I believe them.Every time we meet someone new, … (7 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Doing Business with "The Jesus Filter" - 06/29/08 08:50 AM
It's Sunday morning & I'm pushing toward the half-way point of my 30 day "blogathon".Everything I've written so far about our business philosophy & strategy has been sort of "all business".The constant truth however is that I believe (and so goes Diamond Dwellings)
-- I believe that Jesus is the answer.
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Google Should Be The Key to Your Next Listing Appointment (but it probably isn't) - 06/28/08 08:04 PM
Before I even get started, I have to give credit to Miamism for the image above. Not sure if they created it or "borrowed it", but I thought is was super cool. Thanks guys! Hope to meet you if you are going to SF Connect.
To the point...
Most of … (9 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Show Me The Money! -- Blogging on Purpose - 06/27/08 11:55 AM
Yesterday I had lunch with my great friend Robert Mallon. Robert's pretty darn smart, but more than that, he just "knows about people". He knows about people in the sense that he understands them & has the unique ability to help them grow & develop. He's done that for me spiritually, … (1 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Losing Sucks! -- There's Only 2 Ways To Win Consistently Over Time - 06/26/08 07:49 AM
The first email that I read this morning was from one of the agents here at Diamond Dwellings. He was disappointed about a missed opportunity. A potential client has selected another Realtor because the client's wife has a very strong relationship with another Realtor. My friend was very disappointed -- … (1 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Get Specialized or Get Left Out - 06/25/08 10:28 AM
Kris Berg wrote a great post today on the Inman blog about the need to stand out from the crowd. I've never met Kris, but I like her a lot so far! Hopefully, I'll get to meet her at Inman Connect SF in a few weeks or at REbarCamp. (wow, … (3 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: What's a "Blogger's Brokerage"? -- A National 2.0 Brokerage? - 06/22/08 12:15 PM
Active Rain bosts nearly 94,000 members (according to the number I see here in my browser). A small fraction of the 3 million agents that exist nationally, but still a HUGE number of agents. I'd venture to guess that as a group, 80% will survive in this business going forward where … (1 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: "Seizing Your Divine Moment" to Do Something Great with Diamond Dwellings™ - 06/21/08 07:57 AM
About 6 years ago, I read an amazing book called "Seizing Your Divine Moment" by Erwin McManus. He's the Pastor of a progressive, "reach all the people" kind of Church in Los Angeles called Mosaic. I'll never forget that book because it changed me dramatically in terms of my willingness … (2 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: How Many Blogs Does One Man Need? - 06/21/08 12:01 AM
The answer is another question: How many different things are you passionate about?
Blogging is perhaps the holy grail of internet marketing. It's the single best online strategy to build your business today.
BUT, if you don't really have passion about the subject it will be completely obvious to the … (19 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Target Marketing Goes Web 2.0 with TruliaPro - 06/20/08 09:55 AM
Yesterday I wrote about how classic target marketing strategies have always been the most effective way to sell. The shotgun approach simply does not work (atleast not consistantly -- over time). So, focused target marketing is still the key. Of course today the tools are so different. You've got to have … (4 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: Classic Target Marketing Strategies Still Rock! - 06/19/08 09:43 AM
For 5 years now, I've been preaching "the gospel of target marketing"
(note: there's a much more important Gospel -- but that's a whole other post!)
At Diamond Dwellings™ we think that hyper-accurate target marketing is the only way to create a very clear value proposition -- one that will … (5 comments)
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web 20 real estate brokerage: What if you had Exclusive control of Your Market? - 06/18/08 01:46 PM
When I was at Keller Williams, I constantly found that 3 or 4 other KW agents would be competing with me for the very same client!!!
Yes, I was able to differentiate myself as an agent from my competitors (internal or otherwise) But, the point is that the KW brand was … (2 comments)
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