real estate: Real Estate According to Gnat - 02/25/08 03:01 PM
I wrote a blog the other day about thriving or surviving in this changing real estate market. You can read the blog here: Survive or Thrive - Carpe Diem.
In response to that blog, I received the following email:
Right, right, I hear you loud and clear new agent, and my answer isn't … (62 comments)
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real estate: Survive or Thrive ? Carpe Diem! - 02/22/08 05:03 PM
For the first time in five years, the total number of real estate licensees in California dropped slightly in December!
The total number of CA real estate licensees dropped from 549,244 in November 2007 to 548,959 in December, a 0.1 percent decline. It was the first monthly decline since March 2002. Using … (14 comments)
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real estate: If You Fall In A Mud Puddle, Check Your Pockets For Fish - 01/25/08 11:36 PM
I got a call yesterday from Marc Davidson over at 1000Watt Consulting. He told me that he was tired of the the gloom and doom real estate reporting already. He said that he was writing a series on things that "fascinated" him in the real estate business. He wrote an inspiring … (20 comments)
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real estate: The 12 Days of Lead Generation - 12/20/07 03:12 AM
I thought it might be fun to make a video about real estate lead generation with a Christmas theme. Hopefully this will get you all in the spirit of the season or the spirit of lead generation, or better yet, BOTH!
We are all in the lead generation business. Following a plan and … (21 comments)
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real estate: Monster Mash Halloween Office Meeting - 11/01/07 03:02 PM
Who says Realtors can't be productive and have fun at the same time? Our office celebrated Halloween Monster Mash Style this year and everyone dressed up for our weekly meeting.
We all had a great time and it sure was nice to laugh and let our hair down a little since … (14 comments)
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real estate: A Turkey Call to Action - 09/21/07 10:41 PM
I was so inspired by Desiree Daniels post, Holidays...Are You Planning Ahead? that I wanted to share my Thanksgiving gift from last year.
I like to contact my past clients once a month. I send a newsletter every month and phone or send a personal note at least four times a year to each of my "A" clients. … (22 comments)
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real estate: 14 Ways to Improve Your Listening Skills - HUH? - 09/20/07 09:48 PM
More than anything else, people want to be heard and understood. Every relationship that we have, is one that we have with ourselves first.So how do we become an effective listener when these two statements are conflicting? We see the world through our own eyes and with our own experiences first … (12 comments)
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real estate: 10 Reasons Why You Should Share Info With Other Realtors, Even if They’re Not on Your Team - 08/04/07 10:03 PM
On my way to a listing appointment, I either listen to head banging, loud music or motivational CD's. This has been my "pre listing" warm-up since I started my career. I listen to the loud music when I need to get pumped up and I choose a motivational CD when I need … (56 comments)
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real estate: If this is how I market myself, can you imagine how I'd market YOUR house? VLOG (video log) - 07/28/07 01:31 AM
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then what is a video worth? In response to your requests for more ideas on building your data base Tyler Durden style I give you the following VLOG. Not as funny as Broker Bryant, but something I can use on my Blog Calabasas. Would … (36 comments)
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real estate: Coffee is for Closers! - 07/27/07 02:47 AM
“Coffee is for Closers!” Alec Baldwin
shouts this to Jack Lemmon in one of the best sales movies of all time,
Glengary Glen Ross. It’s the story of four real estate salesman trying to make end
of the month quotas. Their company is sponsoring a contest. First place is a … (48 comments)
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real estate: All's Fair in Love and War --- What About Real Estate Negotiations? - 07/23/07 01:01 PM
A few months ago I had clients from the East Coast impatiently looking for a home. They had been in a rental for close to a year and we were pretty much at the end of our rope, well I was anyway.
I had them set up on automatic MLS alerts. … (15 comments)
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real estate: Before You Make Any Home Improvements - Consult Your Realtor - 07/21/07 11:45 AM
I cringe when I have to tell a seller that they will see little return on the money they've spent in remodeling their home. Upgrades must be appropriate for the style and price range of the neighborhood or they could actually detract from the value and salability of the home.
This morning I … (4 comments)
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real estate: One of the reasons that I do a lot of Internet marketing is that I'm actually very shy - 07/20/07 07:07 PM
I always learn more from teaching a class than the students. A few days ago I was instructing a class on Internet marketing. I got a little off topic and started talking about adjusting your marketing strategy to fit your personality. So I say something like, "one of the reasons that … (32 comments)
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real estate: Building your Data Base Tyler Durden Style (Diary of a RE Agent Starting Over in a New City - Part 2) - 07/20/07 01:04 PM
Part one of this blog was about moving to a new city and
building a business from scratch quickly, using the methods learned from the movie Fight Club by joining groups. Part 2 focuses on
creating groups to build your data base.
Continued from Part 1………..Fast forward, the
year is … (7 comments)
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real estate: Building your Data Base Tyler Durden Style (Diary of a RE Agent Starting Over in a New City - Part 1) - 07/18/07 02:04 AM
When I moved to LA from NY eight years ago I only knew one person in the entire city. I had been selling real estate for about fifteen years in NY so I knew the real estate business. But how was I supposed to start over in a place where I … (43 comments)
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real estate: Win Win for Everyone! Hold a Food Drive in Your Farm - 07/13/07 06:12 PM
If you're looking for a great way to build your
database and meet the people in your farm plus give something
back to the community, you might want to try a food drive. Our Keller
Williams office recently sponsored a neighborhood food drive. This gave us an
opportunity to "touch" … (6 comments)
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real estate: Get your buyer off that fence already (Is your buyer really a buyer?) - 07/13/07 07:08 AM
There is nothing worse than spending endless
weekends driving Mr. and Mrs. Buyer around only to have them decide to "wait
until the market goes down". As the inventory and DOM climb here in
Southern California, agents are having difficulty getting buyers to write
offers.
I could … (12 comments)
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real estate: Video virtual tours are not only about selling the house, they're about selling yourself, the agent - 07/12/07 12:12 PM
I
started experimenting with video virtual tours about three years ago. This was
back in the day before YouTube made it's debut. When I told other Real
Estate Agents about my idea, they looked at me like I was nuts. Being the
computer geek that I am, I had a … (21 comments)
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