The 9 Can’t-Miss Blog Posts of 2019

Blog Contributor Establishing Your Business, Helpful Tools 1 Comment

By Erica Christoffer The YPN Lounge bloggers are a group of involved YPN leaders who are dedicated to helping their fellow real estate peers thrive. Their efforts collected nearly 100,000 total page views in 2019. In case you missed these thoughtful, business-boosting articles, take a look at the top nine Lounge posts of the year. You’re bound to find tips …

9 Tips For Teaming Up With Family

Blog Contributor Being a REALTOR®, Business Challenges, communication 4 Comments

By Samantha Jones The beauty of the real estate industry is there’s no one way to run your business. We have fluidity and flexibility. This leads to some agents (like myself) adopting a team approach, and oftentimes, team members are part of the same family tree. After working with my mother for nearly five years full-time, I’ve learned a few …

How to Promote Your Real Estate Blog

Blog Contributor Establishing Your Business, Technology & Social Media 6 Comments

By Anita Clark Finding it difficult to make an impact with your real estate blog? In this industry, half the battle is making sure that your traffic is actually relevant. Use these guidelines below to do exactly that, then take a look at this extended guide to creating and promoting real estate content. The last thing you want your blog …

The Biggest Social Media Fails in Real Estate

Blog Contributor Technology & Social Media 18 Comments

By Bill Gassett It’s no secret that social media is a must in the world of real estate. Today’s buyers and sellers turn the to various platforms and make snap judgments on what you have to offer. You do get points for actually having accounts on all of the main platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest), but if you’re …

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Are You Settling For Mediocrity?

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development 1 Comment

By Chris Nichols There’s a story about a group of students that goes a little something like this: A Harvard professor was fielding questions from his class regarding the upcoming midterm exam. The questions were varied, but all seemed to carry a similar theme. Upon realizing this, the professor stopped the questioning and said, “Even though your questions sound different, …

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Best Practices for Multiple Offer Situations

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, Code of Ethics, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing 11 Comments

By Scott Newman Real estate is back in 2012 in a big way. Many markets are seeing price increases in response to dwindling inventories as more and more buyers are getting off the fence every day.  With that in mind — especially since it’s been so long since we’ve had the opportunity to use the phrase “multiple offer” — I …

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5 Tips to Avoid Website Snafus

Blog Contributor Professional Development, Technology & Social Media 5 Comments

By Stefanie Hahn Agents will often ask me to check out their real estate website.  They want to know how it looks, do I like it and are they doing it right?  I love when I get to peek into an agent’s website and get a glimpse of what is important to them.   Many agents opt for a template site …