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The Highway To Market Recovery Is Well Mapped

Residential markets will follow same road, but at different speeds. Anyone who has ever driven a car knows what it feels like to be lost, men included, even if they won’t admit it. People are feeling that same sense of panic today because they are finding themselves in unfamiliar economic territory.

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The Changing Rules of Online Marketing

The MLS, long the crucial center of a healthy, functioning real estate brokerage industry, now finds itself in the center of controversy and a fight for survival in turbulent times. More than just data warehouses, MLS systems are marketplaces for inventory and a proving ground for consumer access to the MLS.

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Sensationalism and the Housing Bubble

This makes me mad every time I see it.  Either the National Association of Business Economists is full of people with no real business experience or fools. This is a headline from a major online Real Estate publication, “Economists See Credit Problems as Bigger Threat than Terrorism.” 

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Welcome to the “ool”. Notice There is no ‘P’ in it, Let’s Keep It That Way

  My fiance and I were sitting around the house watching the Olympics the other night and she showed me a “bumper sticker” she received via Facebook from one of her friends.  The bumper sticker stated, “Welcome to the ‘ool’. Notice there is no ‘P” in it, let’s keep it that way.”  While she was [...]

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“So, What is a GOOD Real Estate Agent?”

 “So, What is a GOOD Real Estate Agent?” I recently did a presentation for a local (Denver) real estate company on Prospecting without a Sales Pitch. When I got to the part about why I think it’s more important to be a good real estate agent than to be a good real estate prospector, a [...]

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Blog Pirate or Copycat?

If you Google some of a Blog’s relative content the search will give you the original author. Think you read something somewhere else? A Google search can let you know.

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The Brand Umbrella

I live in San Francisco. For years, I’ve found it amusing to see a handful of all-over-the-map restaurants selling everything from pizza, donuts, espresso and chop suey…all offered on cluttered signs as part of the same menu!

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What Is All The Fuss About Short Sales?

What is all the fuss about short sales?  Everywhere you turn, there is another seminar, another guru, or another boot camp all teaching the same thing.  Can so many people be right?  How many different ways can there be to do the same thing?  Folks, believe it or not, there are not one hundred different [...]

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The Five Most Frustrating Voice Mail Phrases

Voice mail remains a large frustration in this busy business world.  It’s not just voice mail, the automated attendant is also on the list.  In an effort to help reduce voice mail frustration, here are the five most frustrating phrases that callers don’t want to hear.

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Home Sales on the Rise

NAR has published it’s June Pending Home Sales Index and it is encouraging. The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) is a leading indicator for the housing sector, based on pending sales of existing homes. A sale is listed as pending when the contract has been signed but the transaction has not closed, though the sale [...]

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