Professional One Franchising

As I’ve mentioned in many other things I’ve written, I am a Certified Public Accountant. I worked as a CPA for nearly a decade before getting into real estate nearly 20 years ago. In the profession of public accounting, the sheer quantity and specificity of rules, guidelines and promulgations is truly amazing. For every possible [...]

I got up this morning to find a Tweet written by my partner Todd Waller linking to a blog post written on December 23, 2009 by Chris Brogan. Brogan is the author of New York Times Best Seller “Trust Agents” and one of the icons of Social Media. The particular post was entitled,  “If I [...]

Whenever I interview a real estate professional currently working with one of our competitors, the first question I almost always ask is this: “What are the mission statement and core values of your current company?” Well over 90% of the time, I get laughter. Out loud. They actually, literally, laugh out loud. L.O.L. *sigh* I [...]

Does this feel like your current broker’s attitude toward technology in real estate? “…internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock…” Ok, so Senator Steven’s example maybe a little extreme.  After all, presumably you are reading this post off our blog, or [gasp!] you are reading this from your favorite RSS feed reader.  One [...]

I recently wrote a blog post about the “Future of Real Estate Franchising.”   I received a number of comments from people, but one in particular really stood out.  It was written by a person I met via social media. Her name is Judy Moriarty and her credentials noted below speak for themselves. I wanted to [...]

Professional One Franchising, LLC President & CEO Michael McClure yesterday was named by Inman News as one of “Real Estate’s 50 Most Influential Online” for 2009. Inman is the leading source of independent real estate news, information, research, opinion & commentary for industry professionals and consumers alike, and the most widely read real-estate-specific news portal. [...]

Every company in my market has me on their recruiting list. I love reading the emails my competitors send out attempting to recruit agents. I got one a few days ago that I found extremely amusing. It was from a local Team Leader of one of the “top brands” in real estate, and it was [...]

At the end of the day, the real estate consumer drives the real estate industry.  I realize this comes as no surprise to the readers of this blog, but let’s put the facts out on the table for all to see.  Ken Brand, over at AgentGenius.com, had a great post about the image issue that [...]

I’ll let Todd tell you himself… Apparently Todd now speaks of himself in the third person too! Here’s the press release concerning Todd’s addition to the Professional One Real Estate management team.