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2008 

The most important lesson I have learned in 2008 is the need to practice the art of having two way conversations.  Having a real conversation means allowing for differing opinions.  Have a real conversation means speaking and listening. A few days ago I read a post, Ding!Dong! The Newspaper Ad is...
12/31/2008
2008 Reflections of Prejudice:  People in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones This is my trip through the looking glass at the vendor industry.  It's a picture that's hard to look at.  It's a picture I hope we will repaint in 2009.  Will you take this journey with me? Throughout the year I have w...
12/30/2008
How does reality fit into the lifestyle of a marketer?  When the marketer digs their hands into the dirt and is willing to be covered in soil, pulling up the weeds, planting the seeds, watching them grow.....learning their story.  Last August I began blogging to consumers online as a cororate blo...
12/30/2008
Once upon a midnight workday The house was quiet and still A mom named Rebecca finished up her script writing When a tweet sounded over her work hill She followed the link Then curious about categories Clicked on Financial and Business Videos   Video added February 4, 2008,  2941 views   You don'...
12/29/2008
What is your role as a real estate agent in 2009? Consumers will need good real estate agents more than ever to help them weave through the tangled web of the housing market.  Consumers will need a real estate agent who puts themselves firmly in the role of real estate advisor and marketer and co...
12/28/2008
  The survival instinct of a marketer kicks into gear when the marketer drops the megaphone and picks up the hearing aid. Distractions in the next few years of sonic proportions may threaten to disrupt your equilibrium.  The sense of hearing may become naturally impaired through disruption. The u...
12/26/2008
How often are you engaging in conversation with consumers?  Real estate blogggers are great at engaging conversations with fellow real estate and business professionals.  Most have got that art in the bag. They are masters at the craft of eliciting opinions and advice. My question is, what about ...
12/22/2008
Knock Knock.  Who'sThere? Banana. Banana Who? Knock Knock.  Who's There? Banana. Banana Who? Knock Knock Who's There? Orange. Orange Who? Orange Ya Glad I Didn't Say Banana? Consider this.  A knock-knock joke about a banana is akin to a website built in 2001 and never updated.  Both try to be ti...
12/20/2008
Advertise only what you are willing to answer.  A tried and true sales/marketing 101 basic that needs to be a refresher course in Web 2.0. I look around these expanding social networks and see many faux pas committed among real estate professionals, real estate coaches, real estate speakers, rea...
12/18/2008
Are you chasing your tail with your internet leads?  How are you doing with those half warm emails sitting in your Outlook Inbox?  I can tell you why at least half of those don't convert. You give up way too soon and you stick to this "Internet Rule" someone created about making contact only by e...
12/17/2008
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