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My last two posts were about: Email/tech overload and some suggestions on how to get control of it all, Twitter being one of the suggested options and Twitter itself; what it is and how to connect with me. Here is an article from the Wall Street Journal on how professionals (Realtors are mentione...

Have you ever known a gambling addict?  An alcoholic?  A sex addict?  What about an email addict?  Turns out, there's not much difference.  Unfortunately there's a lot of shame around the first three and sheer ignorance of the fourth!On my career path as a Realtor and now a speaker, I've watched ...

Twitter is one of my favorite new tools.  Forgive me, there are quite a few who just don't know:  You open a free account on Twitter.com and with a limit of 140 characters, answer one simple question.  "What are you doing now?"  People can choose to follow you if they want and get these little b...

Most of my readers know I am a huge fan of Southwest Airlines and their No-Fee-Zone campaign is just one in a long list of reasons why. I ran across this video from ABC News that does a good job at explaining how much airline tickets really cost these days on the traditional airlines, and for my ...

Talk about a sign that catches your eye! This is in front of a home on my street that was all but knocked down and is being re-built. Even in a city like Austin, Realtors are dealing with a population that is more hesitant because of the Wall Street mess. Since this home will most likely enter th...

I'm in Phoenix this morning getting ready to teach Session 3 and came across this video that made me laugh!  When I was in Starbucks earlier I overheard someone talking about how the DOW was down over 300 points this morning; who knows where it will be by days end but I'm going to show this to th...

  Well, my return to triathlon was exceedingly fun and served only to strenghten my resolve to make it through to the end of an Ironman race. (4x the distance of this one). Race morning I got on a bus and we headed out to Joe Pool lake south of Dallas.  It was before dawn and with nothing on but ...

Everything is set up and ready to go! A little bit ago at the mandatory race briefing I found out how serious this event really is. It's the championship at the end of a series and the pros stand to earn half a million dollars! The swim course looked pretty tame but the bikes racked next to mine ...

Driving back to the airport after session 4 today I spotted this FSBO.  Poor guy, try not to make fun of his "location, location, location". In case you can't read the text on the photo of the flyer: $167,5006507 E. 74th Street. Tulsa 74133Scotty Baxter580-263-9665baxterslb@sbcglobal.netGo see if...