An agreement has been reached so our local MRIS portals listings to Zillow. How did this happen? For a while now there have been rumblings that Zillow was in trouble. Big Trouble. It all began when a man you may have heard of named Rupert Murdoch, who owns News Corp. purchased a company called [...]
Real Estate Agents lose business ALL the time, one way is through their social media channels. The #1 social media channel where real estate agents lose business is Facebook. I've learned (the hard way) that it is easy to think that your "friends" and "followers" on social media have the same thoughts and feelings [...]
The end of the year is fast approaching and now is the time when Real Estate agents start business planning and setting their goals for the next year. Before you do, you need to look at what you did this year. Did you make your goals for 2014? Perhaps you set your goals too high [...]
Are you looking to be a more successful Title Sales Rep in 2015? The new year is here and that means new goals, new clients, expectations to bring in more business, and have better numbers than 2014. If you have spent much time on this site you know that most of my posts and [...]
It's that time of year when my clients are looking for real estate holiday event ideas. These are ways to get back in front of your client base and your prospects with the end goal of strengthening those relationships and getting qualified referrals going forward for 2015. It is one of the best ways [...]
Are you looking to increase SEO for your Real Estate blog? Of course you are! Better SEO means the greater likely hood that you will be "found" organically by your ideal client in an online search. That is the end goal, to have someone who is looking for what we do to find us [...]
We are all looking for ways to run our businesses more efficiently. We want to save time, make more money, and also have time to enjoy our families. That is the goal anyway. In many instances that balance is way out of whack and we spend a lot of time doing things that make [...]
As we head into the "slower" time of the year for Real Estate, now is the time Realtors reflect back on what made them succeed or not succeed through the year. What needs to change and what needs to be implemented into their business so they knock it out of the park in 2015. [...]
As Real Estate agents and Mortgage Lenders you deal with a lot of different companies when closing your transactions. If you are in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area hopefully you deal with just Stewart Title when it comes to your Real Estate closings. Do you ever notice that some of the companies you deal [...]
Not sure about you...but I LOVE using Instagram. In fact, the first social media site I check when I wake up in the morning is Instagram. A few months ago I came across this really cool application that is made by Instagram called "Pic-Play-Post." The application works exactly how it sounds...you pick several pictures/videos [...]
