Professional One Franchising

If you’ve read very much within this blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge Seth Godin fan.  If I could only follow or read one “Social Media/business guru/author” or whatever the heck Godin is, he is that guy. A lot of what we’re doing right now at Professional One is STRAIGHT OUT OF Godin’s playbook [...]

My good friend and noted real estate coach and trainer Darin Persinger (@DarinPersinger) of ProductivityJunkes.com asked me to give my input on a little project he’s putting together to help agents continue on their quest for greater productivity in the coming year. Grossly condensing this, Darin asked me to provide a list of the 12 [...]

I just took a “safari of self-discovery”… …and I never left home! Instead, I simply read this awesome new book, entitled “Surviving your Serengeti,” written by internationally renowned speaker, educator, trainer and author Stefan Swanepoel (@Swanepoel). Through this safari of self-discovery, I did all of the following: Take the Free Quiz! First, I took the [...]

I LOVE reading real estate blogs. And I especially love reading the posts written by the people who I believe are shaping the future direction of the real estate industry. I’ve learned so much from some of the brightest minds in the game. How much? Several of the major components of our real estate franchise [...]

What’s the ROI of a person who joins a gym…and then goes to that gym once per month? What’s the ROI of a person who starts a New Year’s resolution to lose weight…and then eats pizza and ice cream five times a week? Are You as Tired of This Question as I Am? What’s the [...]

The year was 1990. The music scene was decidedly late-80′s. That is, it sucked. Like a Dyson How badly? Debbie Gibson bad. Richard Marx bad. New Kids on the Block comically bad. Post-Laker-girl/pre-American-Idol Paul Abdul bad. And Milli-freaking-Vanilli “we’re-winning-a-Grammy-while-lip-syncing” bad. Yeah, THAT bad. And then, from nowhere, a new sound exploded on the scene. And [...]

Originally, I was going to come up with some catchy, ironic title for this blog post to lure you in. But then I thought, to heck with that, I’m just going to play it straight. Video is SUPER important, and the savvy people already know that (as anyone reading this can attest).  In fact, earlier [...]