Join us this week as we interview the best and brightest stars from the real estate industry and the general business world.
Monday June 23, 2008 – Jennifer Allan
Jennifer Allan, the newest contributing author here at Real Estate Radio USA, is a top producing real estate broker, a published author, a speaker and a trainer. She has written five books about the business of selling real estate, including her flagship book: Sell with Soul: Creating an Extraordinary Career in Real Estate without Losing Your Friends, Your Principles or Your Self-Respect.
Her book shows new agents how to jumpstart their career so that they can experience success before they become discouraged and risk being just another real estate statistic.
Jennifer began her writing career after ten years of selling real estate successfully in Denver, Colorado. She was dismayed at the low level of professionalism she frequently encountered in the real estate industry and, with her “soulful” message, hopes to encourage the real estate community to self-correct the negative stereotypes of the profession.
She is a regular columnist at Realty Times and RE/MAX Times, and one of the industry’s most popular bloggers. She recently rejoined her former RE/MAX office as a broker associate and is thoroughly enjoying dividing her time between real estate sales, writing, and coaching.
Website Info: http://www.sellwithsoul.com/
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Tuesday June 24, 2008 – Debbie Smith
Debbie Smith is a master real estate investor who specializes in locating and researching the best multi-unit investments and commercial real estate in the country. She currently owns and operates Prosper Real Estate Investments, an organization dedicated to helping both the novice and expert investor alike efficiently locate investment property.
Debbie Smith became interested in real estate as a school teacher in Los Angeles, CA. While teaching, it didn’t take her long to realize that teaching wasn’t the fastest way to get ahead. After scrutinizing the market for the most time tested and reliable ways to invest, she found real estate to be the vehicle that would get her ahead while at the same time allow her to help in the community as she did while teaching. Debbie has her Masters Degree in Human Development as well as her real estate license in California and Nevada.
Website info: http://www.prosperre.com/
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Wednesday June 25, 2008 – Debra Duneier
A born New Yorker. A real estate investor turned licensed real estate professional. No one understands Manhattan’s neighborhoods, market trends, or the emotional side of real estate better than Debra Duneier. Buyers and sellers alike find that Debra combines her extensive experience with their unique needs, creating seamless, satisfying transactions that are as professional as they are personal.Â
Debra is a valuable partner for her clients for many reasons, from her personal experiences to her extensive business experience. As a working mom, Debra understands the emotional value of a home. She treats each sale as if it were her own, building a personal relationship with her clients. Professionally speaking, Debra was the first woman to become a certified gemologist in the US, so she knows quality when she sees it.
She has also built two thriving companies and was a successful real estate investor before pursuing her career as a licensed real estate professional.
Therefore, negotiating is her forte and she certainly knows how to close a deal. This background has enabled her to develop an extensive network of high-net-worth individuals within public companies and private enterprises throughout the US.Â
As involved as Debra has been in the business world, she has been equally as active in both professional and charitable organizations including: LEXCI, The Real Estate Board of New York and the Advisory Board for Women and Finance for Oppenheimer Funds, The American Cancer Society, Mother’s Voices Committee – A Campaign to end AIDS, Reach Out for Youth, and the list goes on. Most notably, Debra’s peers elected her to the 2008 Corcoran Advisory Board. Â
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Extensive business experience. Comprehensive understanding of Manhattan’s market and neighborhoods. And genuine passion for living – Debra Duneier is your most valuable asset in real estate.
Website info: http://www.corcoran.com/
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Thursday June 26, 2008 – David Gibbons and Glenn Kelman
David Gibbons, community relations director for real estate valuation and marketing site Zillow.com
Website info: http://www.zillow.com/
Glenn Kelman, President & CEO Redfin
Mr. Kelman is Redfin’s CEO. Prior to joining Redfin, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market. In his seven years at Plumtree, Mr. Kelman at different times led engineering, marketing, product management and business development; he also was responsible for financing and general operations in Plumtree’s early days. Prior to starting Plumtree, Mr. Kelman worked as one of the first employees at Stanford Technology Group, a Sequoia-backed start-up acquired by IBM. Mr. Kelman is a member of the Board of Directors for Naviance, a hosted service for schools and colleges. Mr. Kelman was raised in Seattle and was graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley
Website info: http://www.redfin.com/
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Friday June 27, 2008 – Mike Butler
Mike was raised in the south end of Louisville, Kentucky and is the oldest of 7 kids. He bought his first house before age 20. In 1991, while buying another rental house, Mike met Ed Melton Sr., who introduced him to the Kentuckiana Real Estate Investors Association. From KREIA and by attending workshops and seminars around the country, Mike developed into a focused, aggressive real estate investor, who takes pride in avoiding banks to buy investment property. He is still very active in KREIA today.
Mike realized early on that he MUST have a strong foundation in order to grow quickly and safely. Mike has reviewed many property management software programs only to discover they fell short of what was needed. Remember, property management software is usually designed for those who manage property for others for a fee. Those programs can cost thousands of dollars plus more for tech support. Mike has spent THOUSANDS of hours tweaking and  researching Quicken and QuickBooks Pro. His method is getting the results that he needs.
Website info: http://www.mikebutler.com/
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Also on Friday
Mary McKnight is the Blogging Evangelist with RSS Pieces, a real estate blog provider. Mary provides the best instruction about real estate blogging. While technical in nature…she explains the questions you have about blogging as a Realtor.
The RSS Pieces website focuses on helping Realtors learn to successfully write and promote their real estate blogs. Our site has tons of advice, research and tutorials on real estate blogging.
RSS Pieces is the only blog developed for Realtors® with real estate specific functinality. Our blog site functions as your website and blog by directly integrating all the features of your website into a blog. The system features MLS data, ZillowTM Zestimates, mortgage calculators, automated blogging tools, “blog for you” services, SEO, RSS news feeds and podcasting/vcasting technologies. Our system is based on patent-pending technolgies.
Our patent-pending technologies automatically SEO all content to 100% search engine relevancy for guaranteed increases in traffic, search engine results positioning and listings within the first 6 months. The system also employs tools that allow you to easily add and modify content, track how the system is working for you, manage your MLS listings and generate qualified leads.
Website Info: Visit the RSS Pieces Website
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You are not going to want to miss these interviews this week. Stay tuned here for updates on future interviews scheduled on Real Estate Radio USA.Appearance dates and times and schedules subject to change.
Hi Barry,
I have been listening to your show for the past few days. I am intrigued with your discussion on the dirty word “vendors” and have had some similar questions that I posed on a post I wrote. I got only a few answers and a post was written in response about vendors as I believe it was leeches that need to be squelched. My personal favorite was “interlopers”. Would love to share my questions and see if I can get some more answers:
1. When does an internet prospect become your property?
2. When does an internet advertising company infringe upon business you “would have otherwise had”?
3. Do you ever consider offline marketing venues- newspapers, magazines, etc. to be interlopers to your real estate business?
4. If a past client bypasses you and goes through a third party company- Relocation OR Lead Generation- should this be considered an after the fact referral?
5. Which of these count as an interloper- Lead Generation companies, Relocation companies, Real Estate Social Networks, Referral Companies, Real Estate website vendors?
Thank you, an inquiring mind just wants to know:-)
Also, just an fyi to anyone who might be reading, using the words, “You People” regardless of whether you look service providers or not is going to get my back up.
Just sayin’