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YPN Lands Kodak for 2011

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By Rob Reuter, YPN Manager Starting this month, Kodak and YPN will begin a unique year-long sponsorship with high hopes of continuing this relationship into the future.  Along with the traditional sponsorship perks, Kodak will be holding quarterly contests where you can win some of their hot new products.  There will all so be a “Powered by Kodak” feature in …

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Real Estate is Sexy

Blog Contributor Being a REALTOR®, Business Challenges, Technology & Social Media 8 Comments

By Brooke Wolford Recently, I have noticed how often you see a character on TV playing a real estate agent or the several hundred reality shows about real estate.  It brings home the point that real estate has the interest of pretty much everyone.  You can’t turn on the news and not hear some sort of real estate-related story. Let’s …

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Too Much Disclosure: Be Careful!

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, Technology & Social Media, Working with Clients 12 Comments

By Cory Brewer An agent in my office recently had a deal where the clients on the other side of the transaction carelessly posted information online and it ended up costing them, BIG TIME. When selling a house, it’s very important that the seller provide full disclosure about its condition. When purchasing a house, it’s very important that the buyer …

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The ‘Q’ About QR Codes

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By Toby Boyce Realtor.net is all a buzz over how amazing QR codes are and how it will be a game changer in real estate. Really? A game changer? That’s a stretch. Is it part of the entire Technology 2.0 — smartphones, instant access and response, among the requirements — game changer? Of course. But it is a small piece, …

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How Not to Network

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, communication, Sales & Marketing, Technology & Social Media 4 Comments

By Crystal Webster Let me tell you a little story of what actually happened to me just the other day: I met with a new client just out of college. We met through one of my networking groups and he seemed like a very nice guy. At the end of our meeting he suggested I come and “check out what …

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Unclutter Your Space and Your Mind

Blog Contributor Managing Your Office, Personal Fulfillment, Technology & Social Media 5 Comments

By Kelly Reark Uncluttering: A great New Year’s resolution for all of us.  Clutter comes in many forms.  We advise our sellers to de-clutter their homes when preparing them for the real estate market.  We shred old papers in an effort to clean out our offices of unnecessary transaction documents.  We send clothes from our stuffed closets to local shelters.  …

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A Case For Facebook Fan Pages for Your Business

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing, Technology & Social Media 5 Comments

By Laura Rubinchuk Lately I’ve been convinced that Facebook business pages should be more like a community page, a 365 page, or another way to get your community involved and talking. While I see extreme value in that, and don’t mean to discredit that theory, because there are many ways to make social media work for you, I want to …

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Cutting Through the Noise – Part 1

Drew Burks Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development, Technology & Social Media 1 Comment

By Drew Burks Are You Distracted? In today’s world most of us are overwhelmed with information, new products, and services, most of which provide little more than distraction to the average person. As a REALTOR®, it is definitely easy to get caught up in the hype of the latest technologies; after all, most of them are very appealing with the …

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A Different Approach to Vlogging: Meet Internet Sensation Herman Chan

Melissa Tracey Professional Development, Sales & Marketing, Technology & Social Media, YPN Chapters 7 Comments

By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR® Magazine Herman Chan wants you to free yourself in your videos. Stop having the delivery of a “dial tone” and show some personality, Chan told a crowd at a session sponsored by the California Association of REALTORS® Young Professionals Network on Tuesday during the CAR Expo in Anaheim, Calif. Chan, an associate broker with Better Homes …

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Five Tech Tools You Need to Survive in 2011

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By Jonathan Osman No one would have guessed that REALTORS® would look back on 2009 as “the good ole days,” but as the real estate market continues to find bottom, that’s exactly what some are doing.  The reality for 2011 may be that we are all fighting for a smaller piece of the sales pie and remaining in business means …