Kevin Kauffman's (kevinlkauffman) Blog

Saw this Active Rain post about our recent appearance at Rain Camp in Dallas on Social Media and I thought I would re-blog it.  Would love to know your thoughts and comments on it as well.       Thanks, KevinKevin and Fred are known as the flip flop guys.  They realized they wanted to be a brand,...

Get it done and do it now! There are too many people in the world right now that are planning on doing things some day, when they have more time. Just get it done now. When my check comes in, I want it now. When I send in a short sale package, I want you to look at it now. When you ask for tax re...

Today, we'd like to share a Forgetable Friday story. We are currently working with one of our favorite banks, M&I Bank. One of our favorite people in the entire world, we'll call him Kyle, works at this bank. This is interesting because "Kyle" learned that the short sale file he was assigned was ...

We just got back from attending Masterminds in Dallas, TX. Any time you spend two days in a room with Gary Keller, you can't help but think bigger. Our heads are full of ideas now. We've had a great month, but there are still hundreds of things that we are doing wrong. People that want extraordi...

As we've been doing for the last few weeks, we've bene sharing some of Brian Klemmer's leadership lessons. They're great lessons for our business and our lives. Everything is mindset and lesson #37 is about Accentuating the positive. Leaders don't tolerate negative conversation. Lots of real est...

The real estate industry has changed significantly over the past decade. Marketing yourself and your business is critical to your success. Building a reputation in your community has always been an important part of being successful in the real estate industry. However, your online reputation, bu...

We're motivated to talk about a particular group, HOA's in the short sale process. From time to time, they can cause trouble in the short sale process. HOA's are a weird part of this process. Depending on where you are in the country, you might see HOA's behave differently. In Arizona, we are a n...

We're talking about Brian Klemmer's leadership lessons and the manner in which they can help you improve and increase your business. The concept today is about growing your root structure. The idea behind this principal is that leaders are more interested in developing their root structure than ...

First, we'd like to start with a few announcements. We have been asked to do a presentation for Activerain at their event called Raincamp in Dallas, TX on Tuesday, May 24th. We won't be talking about short sales very much on that day. We'll be talking about branding your business. We also have lo...