In working with new Real Estate clients and also adding new friends from the world or even here on Active Rain it is interesting how some harmonize with you and just "click". I have been curious why this clicking happens sometimes and other times you are more neutral toward a new person or even t
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06/30/2008
There's a story about some hikers at some high elevations in the mountains who got lost down a trail. It was getting cold and they couldn't find their way out and with the elements closing in on them they were goners. They came across a backpack luckily that had within it some matches, warm socks
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06/29/2008
I need to solicit your collective opinion on these Sales Tally Boards that you find in many name brand Realtor firms. With 100% clubs, Presidents Club, Poohbah, and Exalted Poohbah clubs, based on production levels it surely follows that the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World is the one on t
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06/29/2008
At Christmas or after a birthday celebration you can always go back to the store and exchange a present that is the wrong size or you want a different color or for that matter even get an entirely different gift. In our conversations with our business clients in speaking or writing, our friends a
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06/29/2008
I was invited to an annual field day by the Irving, TX Amateur Radio Club. This group of Ham radio enthusiasts have many events throughout the year but this one they conducted tests with the local authorities with their half million dollar mobile communications unit and checked out all systems in
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06/28/2008
In real estate parlance you will hear many talk of keeping up with the Joneses. People at work get promotions and buy bigger houses and better cars, and they want to likewise. How superficial in life is that? But I see something far more insidious in that in life and that is trying to "be" someon
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06/28/2008
In reading the newspaper, watching TV, and especially reading the doom and gloom even spread by some bloggers about the doldrums of the real estate industry and that these are just the "signs of the times" I just have to say I beg to differ. As a matter of fact the signs of the times I have seen
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06/27/2008
In the newbie world of real estate blogging many agonize over a single post. Whether it should be all text with no pictures, or have links or jokes or misspellings or videos or no bold text, it really doesn't matter. I am a firm believer in just putting your toe in the water, and then slowly get
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06/26/2008
This time of year a handful of REALTORS and many buyers and sellers plan vacations for the summer months. It is a tremendous reminder to us all that life is about "moments." Are you WALKING THROUGH FIELDS OF GOLD? What I mean by that is life is so much about the "good memories" that we ca
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06/26/2008
How many Psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb ? - Just one. But the bulb has to really WANT to change. Change is VERY HARD. Don't fool yourself in this area. With Realtors at our office, some video tape their listing presentation with a coach to evaluate their own nuances of their pit
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06/25/2008
