Jasen's Blog

Blogs are about business. Blogs are also about fun, right? A window into your personality, so that you begin to develop relationships with your readers. That is something everyone thought impossible for the web even five years ago. Here's something fun. What can I say? I'm a child of the 80s. PS....

He's right. The complainer? She's right. Have you ever heard that saying that "a leading cause of divorce is a real estate transaction"? In fact, there is a beautiful home down the street from me. The owners knocked down the old house, build a fantastic new craftsman style home and 3 months after...

HA! Are you kidding me? That title was just to get your attention. I remember long ago when the agents in my office were in a very heated debate over whether the office should continue to pay for the MLS book (for those of you newer to the biz, that was a phone book size print out of the MLS that...

Opinion Polls & Market Research By now you must know that we do what you do. Prospect, persuade, attend appointment, etc. Floyd, being the master motivator that he is, has his trainers in a little contest. We were challenged to schedule and attend a certain number of appointments between quarterl...

Holy Cow! How long have I been in the real estate industry and I've never heard of this? Well, in case you haven't, check out the video. For fellow bloggers out there and folks who do email marketing to their Books of Business, spreading this kind of information to your past clients is a great wa...

"Jason, how do we keep this going?" - the #1 most asked question at graduation. A big part of the answer is being a part of a strong Mentor Group. Over time even fantastic groups break up; people change you know? The key is to find a replacement member or get an entirely new group when that happe...

Today I called Apple Computer to ask a general question and to my surprise, I quickly got through to a human.  This employee made me feel like the most important customer Apple has (of course I agree!).  She did this with her tone of voice, with her use of questions showing true interest in my pr...