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Juicing Up Your Listing Presentation

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By Subhi Gharbieh Have you ever thought about some things you can incorporate into your listing presentation that will really juice it up? Here are a few tips to help you get your listing presentation looking like Barry Bonds. Show them: 1.      Graphs, Charts, Tables of Market Data. Comps, recent sales, and anything that can be explained with numbers, make …

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Community Platform Will Connect YPN

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By Scott Newman At a recent Chicago Association of REALTORS® YPN Board meeting, YPN Manager Rob Reuter presented to us a beta-test version of NAR’s new YPN Community platform – an interactive and searchable system of registered YPN member profiles. I wanted to share the exciting details with you so you can get the word out and make this a …

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What They Didn’t Tell Me: Things I Wish I Knew About the Real Estate World Before I Jumped In

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By Brett Caviness I simply couldn’t wait two more years to graduate college before entering my dream career as a REALTOR®, so I didn’t.  I went active as a real estate agent in Cedar Falls Iowa in 2009.  Since entering the business, I have worked hard to manage my time.  With class, work on campus, activities and friends I was …

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Video: Eliminating the Mystery Behind QR Codes

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By Stefanie Hahn What are QR codes? How can they work for my business? This video tutorial offers tips and suggestions for utilizing this hot new marketing tool. Stefanie Hahn is the education director for Coldwell Banker Hearthside, REALTORS® in Malvern, Pa. Visit her Web site: www.StefanieHahn.com.

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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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Unclutter Your Space and Your Mind

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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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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 …

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5 Tips to Avoid Website Snafus

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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 …

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Hyper-Information and Real Estate

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By Jason O’Neil In today’s day and age of hyper-competition and hyper-information, consumers are looking for substance and relevance. They are looking to buy but not be sold. But how is that possible? How does one buy if they aren’t sold? Bill Gates wrote in his 1999 (but still relevant) book Business @ the Speed of Thought,  “The most meaningful …