Real Estate agent partnerships form constantly. Partnerships with lenders, Title Companies, inspectors, etc. People form these partnerships because they believe by doing so it will improve their business and make their life easier. Sometimes this is true, other times it is not. This is more true than in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area. Here [...]
It is without debate that video in real estate is here to stay. It is the "new kid on the block" for real estate marketing and agents are jumping on board. Some faster than others, but as I make my way around Northern Virginia/Washington DC more of the questions I'm receiving center around video. [...]
News came out over the last couple days that "Facebook Ends Organic Search" for business pages. Facebook has changed a lot in the last couple years, ever since they became a publicly traded company on Wall St. (NASDAQ: FB). The main reason is now they are "for profit" and shareholders expect a nice return [...]
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 [...]
