Can you advance your real estate career when you can’t get out and about? Sure you can. You may or may not be stuck in the house – different rules are in place in different communities. Regardless, your activities have slowed down as you, your clients, and your prospects try to observe social distancing. For […]
Social distancing in real estate – how to keep selling
Agents across the country are coming up with ways to keep selling homes while accomplishing social distancing in real estate. One agent on Active Rain told me that she used photos and videos to create interest in her new listing and to “weed out” the buyers who would not have been interested after viewing the […]
The Corona virus and your real estate business
Despite the Corona virus, there are still people who will buy or sell homes. For whatever reasons, they can’t or don’t want to wait around for weeks or possibly months to make their moves. There ARE many reasons why people will still buy and sell. For instance: Some need to sell a house in probate […]
Effective real estate networking in 2020
Do the words “real estate networking” make you cringe? When you hear the words “real estate networking” do you cringe? Does it make you think of events filled with people running around shoving their card at everyone without stopping to get acquainted? Those people ARE annoying, and the events can be less than fun, but […]
Boost your real estate presence for 2020
Does your real estate presence need a boost? Having a real estate presence used to mean being in the office, attending community events, and getting out in your territory to talk with people. Now it also means having a real estate presence on line. Internet marketing is something you can’t afford to ignore. You, and […]
Tis’ the Day after Christmas and…
You may still be in “Holiday Mode” and willing to put off getting back to work for at least a few days, or even for another week. If your house is anything like mine, you’ll be wondering where to put the gifts you received. You’ll still be working around all the leftovers in the refrigerator, […]
Get ready for early success in 2020
In just 3 weeks the holiday season will be over. Will you be ready for early success in 2020? For the last couple of weeks I’ve been urging you to keep prospecting so you can stay 3 steps ahead of the agents who have been goofing off since early November. I hope you’re still prospecting […]
Keep Marketing in December for 2020 Sales!
It can sometimes feel like a waste of time to keep marketing in December, but it’s not. All those listing and/or buyer leads you’ve been working on may seem to have vanished. And of course, some of them have – at least temporarily. In addition, the agents and others that you want to contact may […]
Does your real estate marketing overlook the obvious?
Has it occurred to you that the service you provide for your clients might be “more and better” than the service other agents provide? If providing exceptional service is, to you, no more than doing things the way you believe they should be done, you might not notice how special you are. As a consequence, […]
The Holiday Home Selling Season is Here!
If you’re thinking of slowing down from now through January 1, think twice. There really is a holiday home selling season and you might as well be the one doing the selling. Plenty of agents shut down during the holiday home selling season. For all of the 19 years that I was an agent, I […]