Creating Real Estate Content – What is Re-Purposing?

When it comes down to creating Real Estate content you can either take the time to create effective content that resonates with your ideal client (target client) or you can simply take articles from the Internet and copy and past them to your website and/or Social Media sites.  Unfortunately the second one I mentioned is [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:33-04:00December 13th, 2013|Comments Off on Creating Real Estate Content – What is Re-Purposing?

How to be a Better Title Insurance Sales Rep in 2014

Having been in the Title Insurance Sales "game" for over 8 years  I have seen pretty much everything...but I don't know everything...still gaining knowledge.  I'm learning more new things as I build my career and hopefully you are trying to learn more as well.  When I started in the business in 2005 I didn't know [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:34-04:00December 3rd, 2013|Comments Off on How to be a Better Title Insurance Sales Rep in 2014

The Importance of a Good Real Estate Call to Action

Last week I was meeting with a Realtor and we were talking about their business and how myself and Stewart Title can help expand their reach, streamline processes, and get more business.  As usual, I was asking all kinds of questions about their current Real Estate marketing tactics and what is working but more [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:36-04:00November 26th, 2013|Comments Off on The Importance of a Good Real Estate Call to Action

Best Social Media Platform for Real Estate You’re Not Using

I was giving an hour talk/class for a Real Estate association last week and I was talking about how to "Future Proof" your Real Estate business for 2014.  We covered WordPress for Realtors, Video, and Social Networks...which ones to use and more importantly...WHY.  As usual I like to take a poll the Realtors/Lenders in [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:36-04:00November 21st, 2013|Comments Off on Best Social Media Platform for Real Estate You’re Not Using

Homeowner Workshop to Avoid Foreclosure November 14th!

Do you own a home and might need to know WHAT your options are regarding doing a Short Sale vs Foreclosure?  If not you...do you know someone else who is in that situation?  My Realtor client Tina Collazo of Re/Max Gateway is hosting a FREE Homeowner Workshop at my Stewart Title office in Fairfax [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:37-04:00November 11th, 2013|Comments Off on Homeowner Workshop to Avoid Foreclosure November 14th!

Split Settlement Closing for my Real Estate Transactions?

The split settlement closing...something that I see on a more frequent basis since moving to the East Coast from Phoenix, AZ.  As the Director of Sales/Marketing for Stewart Title and having been in the Title business since 2005, this type of transaction confuses me.  The reason it confuses me is because it complicates the [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:39-04:00November 8th, 2013|Comments Off on Split Settlement Closing for my Real Estate Transactions?

How to WIN at Farming a Real Estate Subdivision

This blog is at "request" from a Realtor I work with.  I also constantly get questions about Farming a Real Estate subdivision.  Should I do it? Does it work?  How long does it take to "work?"  What do you send to the farm...how often?  Do these questions sound familiar to you?  Farming Real Estate [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:40-04:00October 30th, 2013|Comments Off on How to WIN at Farming a Real Estate Subdivision

Why an Effective Blog Post Title Helps you get Found Online

I have meant to write about this for sometime now but my crazy job as a Title Sales Rep in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area is getting busier.  Turns out...this blog/video/website stuff works...and well.  So in today's blog I want to talk about one of the main, core reasons the content you put out [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:41-04:00October 23rd, 2013|Comments Off on Why an Effective Blog Post Title Helps you get Found Online

Top 3 Real Estate Marketing Questions I was asked in September 2013

Ok...so normally I write about specific things as to HOW to do this or WHY to do that but as you know from reading my blogs I get questions from Realtors and Lenders every single day.  Many times they are the same questions so I thought I would start a new thing where I [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:42-04:00October 9th, 2013|Comments Off on Top 3 Real Estate Marketing Questions I was asked in September 2013

CFPB Proposed Rule Changes – How it Affects You!

The CFPB Proposed Rule Changes are here and the way we do business is going to be different...we think anyway.  What is the CFPB anyway?  CFPB stands for "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau." Another way of getting your attention as a Realtor or Mortgage lender is to say..."Did you know the HUD-1 is going away?"  [...]

2022-06-08T09:24:44-04:00October 3rd, 2013|Comments Off on CFPB Proposed Rule Changes – How it Affects You!