long foster: Long & Foster Names New President
- 10/24/08 05:37 PM
Today it was announced that David H. Stevens, the President of Affiliated Businesses for The Long & Foster Companies would be stepping into the role of President and Chief Operating Officer. The announcement was made this morning by Founder and CEO Wes Foster in a company wide managers meeting at Long & Foster's new corporate headquarters in Chantilly, VA. The move was a surprise to some of the company's managers, and will likely be received with equal surprise by some of the other leading brokerage firms around the country. Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. is the largest privately held real estate company in (20 comments)
long foster: Simple and Consistent
- 08/18/08 06:21 PM
I'm working on developing materials for a new class I'm teaching on Social Networking and Blogging. My first class, on Aug. 26th, is to a group of real estate agents. My second class is to a group of real estate branch office managers. Right at this moment I'm wondering why I chose one of the hardest ways in the world to earn a living. The only thing I want the managers to understand is that their job is to support the agents in really simple ways. Not every agent is a born blogger. And that's okay. But at Long & Foster (where I (17 comments)
long foster: Conjugating "Google"
- 10/31/07 04:31 PM
I have Googled, I will Google, I must Google, I will Google in future. Google is the "it" verb of this decade. If you want to find something, you Google it. I Google to find the phone number for a cab to the airport. If I own a phone book, I honestly don't know where it is. So I always ask Long & Foster agents if they've Googled their own name. A few hands go up, sometimes more than few. But for the most part they look at me. So I ask them how they think the consumer would go about looking (11 comments)