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What is Your Referability?

Blog Contributor Advertising & Prospecting, Business Challenges, Commitment to Excellence, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing, Working with Clients 1 Comment

By Jason O’Neil Referrals, referrals, referrals. We all get them and we all want more. We want referrals from our lenders, our title reps, our barbers, our past clients, and we especially want them from other agents. We love referrals because they are easy leads. They are not faceless Internet leads or the sometimes abrupt sign calls; they are real …

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Conference Virgin? I Think You’re Ready.

Blog Contributor Classes & Education, NAR Annual Conference and Expo, Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development, YPN Events 2 Comments

By Anand Patel With conference season in full swing, I have met many new and seasoned real estate professionals debating if conferences are worth attending at all. For newer agents—the conference virgins—they look at the cost and automatically dismiss the events as too expensive to even consider. Some seasoned agents—those that have gotten rusty at it—are “too busy” to waste …

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Is 30 the New 60?

Blog Contributor Being a REALTOR®, Personal Fulfillment, Young Pros in the Spotlight 33 Comments

By Brian Copeland This week, I turn 40 and my future with you is, well, uncertain.  While we’ve never defined “under 40” as what the Young Professional Network’s age limit is, it has turned into an awkward elephant in the room no one is willing to talk about.  So, let’s talk about it. We’ve heard “young and young at heart” …

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My #RETSO V.5 Review

Blog Contributor Classes & Education, Helpful Tools, Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development, Technology & Social Media 5 Comments

By Stefanie Hahn Now that I’ve had time to digest all that I learned at Real Estate Technology Solutions’ RE Tech South (RETSO) conference, which was April 11-13 in Duluth, Ga.,  I decided to fill this video with the most important nuggets of information from the conference that could be helpful to your business.  Take some time to check out …

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Vendor Speed Dating

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Networking, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing, YPN Events 1 Comment

By Lynn Minnick This post follows along the same idea as Cory Brewer’s last post about relationships.  My office has a new office leader/manager and she recently put together an event that I thought was pretty genius AND helped build relationships. She asked each of us to provide her with a list of the different real estate service-related vendors we …

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Take Advantage of Your Relationships

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing 1 Comment

By Cory Brewer I was recently a guest on a local radio show to discuss my brokerage and our services.  The platform for the show revolves around business, finance, and real estate…and the other two guests on the program were an investment fund manager and a representative from a non-profit group advocating cancer research.  It was a well-rounded group and …

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How to Communicate by Actually Having a Conversation

Blog Contributor communication, Technology & Social Media 3 Comments

By Jared James I was thinking about our culture recently in this time of voicemails, emails, and social media, and it appears that everyone has a greater desire to communicate, but a lesser desire to actually have conversation.Believe it or not, communication and conversation are two completely different things. The actual definition of the word “communicate” is the activity of …

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What I Learned at Leadership

Blog Contributor Classes & Education, Helpful Tools, Professional Development 5 Comments

By Lynn Minnick I was lucky enough to have been picked to participate in NAR’s Leadership 200 and 300 classes this week at my association.  I say lucky enough because we’re the largest association in our state and there were only 35 seats open.  Last summer I was involved in our two-day strategic planning session, which was a first for …

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Start Building Your Referral Network

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, communication, Helpful Tools, Managing Your Agents, Networking, Professional Development 1 Comment

By Scott Newman I often encounter other REALTORS® who see little to no value in developing relationships with their fellow agents, and it just baffles me every time!  We are in one of the most challenging real estate markets in U.S. history, not to mention we’re in an environment where rules and regulations change daily, which is only adding barriers …

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Volunteer Your Way to Success!

Blog Contributor Code of Ethics, Commitment to Excellence, ethics, Outreach, Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development 2 Comments

By Anand Patel I have a wonderful agent in West Palm Beach, Fla., who decided he wanted to give back by getting involved with his local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. While on site at his first project, he struck up a conversation with a fellow volunteer working along side him. As they carried on their conversations throughout the day, …