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Get Out…Sourced!

Blog Contributor communication, Helpful Tools, Managing Your Office, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing 1 Comment

By TG Gallaudet I first became in tune with the idea to outsource around the same time 4-Hour-Workweek became a hit. I assumed that if people could outsource their entire lives, then I could outsource most of our business systems and save millions, if not billions, at the same time. Although that reality didn’t come to perfect fruition, I have …

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For Your Blog: Give Sad Football Fans Free Wall-Repair Info

Blog Contributor Commitment to Excellence, Community, Helpful Tools 1 Comment

  Know any true football fanatics? You know, the normally mild-mannered dudes and dudettes who’ll hurl their official autographed football through the wall if their beloved team loses in this Sunday’s Super Bowl? Help them mend their broken hearts—and their drywall—by posting the free REALTOR® Content Resource article “Repair Walls to Give Rooms a Fresh Face” to your blog, Facebook …

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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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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 …

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Finding That Blogging Inspiration

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Professional Development, Technology & Social Media 2 Comments

By Jessica Hickok Nothing is more frustrating than when you can’t find the inspiration to update your social media statuses or knock out that blog post.  I have spent many nights staring at a blank computer screen trying to search deep within myself to write something engaging for my blog readers.  That’s because I’m a REALTOR®, not a writer. But …

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Smart Prospecting: Show Sellers How to be ‘Weekend Warriors’

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Homeownership Education & Counseling 1 Comment

By G. M. Filisko, contributing writer, HouseLogic Have you met your prospecting goals for the month? Drop in on potential clients and customers and encourage them to tackle minor but money-saving or big-impact home upgrades over Memorial Day weekend. Show them how with the May “Weekend Warrior” bundle now available at the REALTOR® Content Resource, the new tool brought to …

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Have You Googled Yourself Lately?

Blog Contributor Establishing Your Business, Technology & Social Media 1 Comment

By Brooke Wolford I recently blogged about this and I think it was very necessary to share with YPN. Yes, it’s kind of lame to Google yourself. Yes some people look at it as being egotistical. But there are several reasons to do it. If you are anything like me, you occasionally Google yourself.  I really have no reason to …

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For Your Blog, Web site: Free Consumer Content Updated in Real-Time

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Technology & Social Media 3 Comments

Just-released, free customizable content widgets available at the REALTOR® Content Resource, powered by NAR’s consumer Web site HouseLogic, let you easily incorporate homeownership content into your Web site or blog. Customize the size and shape of the widgets, and take advantage of hundreds of articles written by premier journalists on such topics as home improvement and maintenance, landscaping, pest control, …