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I believe that effective communication is crucial. In fact, it’s so important, that, in my 20 years of experience as an agent and broker, I’d say that at least 80% of the “problems” that happen in real estate transactions can all be traced back to the issue of communicating effectively. I like the way Led [...]

THANK YOU! Before I get to the point of this post, we just want to say “THANK YOU” for your readership and your support of this blog. Much like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest, if a blog post is written and no one reads it, for all intents and purposes, it never [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 have purposely avoided writing this post for the better part of a year. But the issue just keeps coming up, and, after having this exchange for the fifth or sixth time with various colleagues on Twitter, I felt it was probably time to document the “missing out on Bill Gates” debate in a blog [...]

The second season of #RTB on the Radio has now officially kicked off. And it kicked off with a bang. Our first guest of Season Two was Chris Smith – aka @TechSavvyAgent -  the driving force behind and creator of TechSavvyAgent.com, Inman News’ 2010 Real Estate Blog of the Year. Chris dropped so much knowledge [...]

I’ve been bothered by something for a very long time. Basically, since that day I entered the real estate industry back in 1991. I’m going to call this problem the “ethics of open houses.” What She Said! I wrote an entire blog post on this topic last night. And while surfing the Internet this morning [...]

The new issue of Realtor Magazine came to our office today. On page 4, a graphic appears detailing the results of a Reader Poll that was conducted by the magazine. A simple question was asked: “Should real estate brokerage have a higher bar for entry?” A whopping 64% said, “Yes, much higher.” The next highest [...]