There’s something about the arbitrary end of the year that makes us both regret the past and wonder about the future. Resolutions for both our business and personal lives abound. Savants tell us how to do what we already know…
Category: Wacky stuff
Lowering the Bar in Real Estate
Companies backed by VC money keep trying to re-invent the real estate industry. Some do little more than raise money and lower the bar, trying to reap profits for the creators. Here is the story of one of them.
6 Ways to Get Your Buyer’s Offer Accepted
In our hurry up and get it done world of texts and emails and business done from a distance, we sometimes build barriers when we mean to build bridges. If you want to avoid that, then these six simple steps will help you get where you want to go.
Zillow, Trulia and Realogy – Lessons From Wall Street
The big news this week was the acquisition of Trulia by their rival Zillow for 3.5 Billion dollars.
The real estate world immediately ceased helping people to buy, sell and lease property to discuss what this meant.
Are Discount Real Estate Brokers the Wave of the Future?
See more on Know Your Meme A little while back Michael McClure started a conversation on in his “Raise The Bar” Facebook group asking “Does the “discount brokerage model” have a future in real estate? Has its time already come…
2014 Predictions From a Broken Crystal Ball
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.- Peter Drucker New Year celebrations are arbitrary. We celebrate all over the world, following celebrations…
Disruption, Innovation, and Other Tired Concepts.
When I was a child, sometimes I would repeat a word so often that it became just a jumble of sounds and lost all meaning. Academics call that Semantic Satiation, but no matter what you call it, constant repetition degrades…
Chicken Little and the Future of Real Estate
Foxy Loxy : “This is the Voice of Doom speaking! Special bulletin! Flash! The sky is falling! A piece of it just hit you on the head! Now be calm. Don’t get panicky. Run for your life!” – Chicken Little…
Why Agents Aren’t Employees
The Raise the Bar Facebook group is always a fun place for me to visit. Its ostensibly a conversation about “raising the bar” (increasing professionalism) in the real estate business by people in the real estate business, but the conversation seems to meander all…
Twitter PR Strategy
Twitter PR Strategy, originally uploaded by ogilvyprworldwide. With the limited budgets of many real estate brokers and agents, Social Media is bcoming a place where you need to be if you want to increase your sphere of influence and obtain…
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