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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

In the summer of 1966, Jimmy Ruffin released a song on the Motown label called “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted.” Here is the signature chorus of that song: What becomes of the broken hearted Who had love that’s now departed? I know I’ve got to find Some kind of peace of mind Maybe. In [...]

On November 9, 2010, we had the privilege and pleasure of interviewing Krisstina Wise (@KrisstinaWise) of The GoodLife Team (@GoodLifeTeam) on our #RTB on the Radio show (you can listen to the full archived show here). Krisstina is the mastermind behind and the founder of The GoodLife Team, a  boutique brokerage located in Austin Texas [...]

I’ve written a lot about the future of the real estate industry, particularly as it relates to branding and the things that I believe the successful brokerages of the future will be based upon and driven by. What I find interesting and encouraging is that I keep running into other brands who *seem* to see [...]

Recently, we had the opportunity to get an update from Reggie Nicolay (@ReggieRPR) regarding the progress being made with regard to the National Association of Realtors’ new Realtors Property Resource (RPR) project We originally interviewed Reggie seven months ago; you can listen to that archived show here.  And wow, has he been busy! For those [...]

I read an article in Inman News (@InmanNews) today that said this (emphasis added): First-time homebuyers accounted for half of all home sales from July 2009 through June 2010, according to a National Association of Realtors survey of buyers and sellers. That’s the highest share of first-time-buyer purchases in the history of the survey, which [...]