Meet the Contributors to Real Estate Radio USA Blogzine
Stefan Swanepoel
Stefan Swanepoel is widely recognized as the leading visionary on trends and change in the real estate industry. He has penned 14 Books, Whitepapers and Reports including the 1998 Amazon.com bestseller, Real Estate confronts Reality (1997) and the annual Swanepoel TRENDS Report.
His academic accomplishments include a bachelor’s in science, a master’s in business economics and diplomas in arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, computer science and marketing.
Today Stefan serves as CEO of the RealtyU Group, one of the largest career development companies in the real estate industry.
His writings can be viewed at http://www.retrends.com/ and to reserve his as a speaker visit http://www.swanepoel.com/.
Dave “The Shef” Sheffield
In our continuing effort to bring you the best from the world of real estate and business Real Estate Radio USA is proud to present the writings of Dave Sheffield.Daveâ€The Shef†Sheffield is one of America’s most sought after experts on marketing, leadership, Generation X and Y, and Sales training. He has spoken to over 350,000 people ; delivering messages that not only inspire and motivate, but also give the attendees tools that they can put to work right away.
He is a contributing author of 4 books Unleashing the Leader Within You, Unleashing the Vision Within You, One Step From Striking Gold, and A Massive Dose of Motivation. These books have sold over 70,000 copies worldwide.
For booking or other information, please visit Mr. Sheffield’s website or call Sheffield Development Group at 1-800-863-2591.
Wayne Malcomb
Wayne Malcomb is the Broker/Owner of Niagara Frontier Funding & Realty, serving both Niagara and Erie counties of Western New York.
Wayne is called upon as the local expert for newspapers and radio shows including his own weekly radio show on WLVL 1340.Wayne follows the theme of Sy Syms, “an educated consumer is our best customer.”
When asked what sets his company apart, Wayne said, “We use a combination of technology and one stop shopping to reduce both time and expense per transaction, which saves the average customer $3,200.”Do you know anyone who could use an extra $3,200?”
If you need real estate sales or financing information in Western New York call Wayne Malcomb at
800-216-6829 or visit him on the web http://www.niagarafunding.com.
You can also email Wayne at wayne@niagarafunding.com
Erik Wesoloski
Erik Wesoloski is a shareholder of Wesoloski Carlson, P.A., a law firm located on Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida. Erik graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill School of Law in May 2001, and is licensed to practice law in the State of Florida. Erik also has a Masters in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin which he obtained in August 1998, a Masters in History from Emory University achieved in 1996 and a Bachelors in History from Emory University also achieved in 1996.
Mr. Wesoloski’s law practice concentrates in real estate litigation and real estate transactions.
Erik began his career in the corporate practice group of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP and in 2003 became a founding shareholder of Wesoloski Carlson, P.A. Mr. Wesoloski is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.
Contact him at 305-329-1020. You can reach Erik on the web at www.wesoloskicarlson.com
You can also email Erik at erik@wesoloskicarlson.com
George E. Sinacori
George Sinacori is a Licensed Real Estate and Mortgage Broker in Florida. Practicing and investing in residential real estate in South Florida since 1990. Previously involved in residential, commercial and business investments in NY, he presently operates GES Real Estate, LLC a discount real estate brokerage in South Florida. He is a military vet. He holds a bachelor degree in business management. GES Realty LLC is small and experienced with 4 broker/agents in 3 counties including himself.
Contact him at 877-566-2430 or 561-306-6736. You can reach George on the web at www.ges-realty.com
You can also email George at george@ges-realty.com
Mike Lefebvre
Mike Lefebvre, The “Uncommon Agent”, is a Massachusetts licensed real estate agent with Hallmark Sotheby’s International Realty in Hopkinton, MA. In addition, he is also a certified residential real estate appraiser and the owner/chief appraiser at MeetingHouse Appraisals. Mike wields a double-edged sword, combining his appraisal expertise with his sales and marketing prowess to maximize benefits and profits for both his buyer and seller clients.
A self-admitted marketing junkie, Mike loves exploring all things Web 2.0 and brings a refreshingly unique approach to real estate marketing. Last but not least, Mike is also a proud card-carrying member of Red Sox Nation.
Contact him at 617-828-4127 or 508-359-1465. You can reach Mike on the web at The “Uncommon Agent”
You can also email Mike at mike@theuncommonagent.com
Hunter Jackson
Hunter Jackson is a licensed Real Estate Agent with Exit Realty serving Greater Columbia SC.
Proudly part of Generation Y, Hunter is just finishing up his first year of real estate at the age of 23. Firmly believing that the only way to sell a house is through marketing, Hunter focuses his areas of expertise on targeted demographics. Focusing on young families needing single family homes, Hunter takes his marketing to the internet through his Columbia SC Real Estate Blog and via Social Media.
Gladly, Hunter spends his time learning all he can about real estate firmly believing that Great agents are not born, they are trained. In addition to Real Estate, Hunter’s passions involve Exotic Animals, primarily African Tortoises.
You can reach Hunter via phone at 803.609.5214 or his Columbia SC Real Estate Blog at http://www.columbiascrealestatehomes.com/
You can also email Hunter at nhjacksonrealty@gmail.com.
Pat Kitano
Pat Kitano authors Transparent Real Estate. He’s currently a Principal of the Domus Consulting Group, a management consulting firm working with real estate brokerages, media companies and Web 2.0 companies to develop technology marketing strategies, and with venture investors on new business models.
Since graduating from Cal Berkeley (Geophysics) and Columbia University (MBA), he’s been involved in four competitive industries – films and new media, investment banking, internet technology and real estate. He lives in San Francisco.
Nancy Friedman
When Oprah, The Today Show, FOX News and CNN need an expert on customer service and communication skills, they called on Nancy Friedman, the Telephone Doctor. We did too!
Nancy is no ordinary speaker. She’ll leave you with practical and actionable techniques for bolstering your bottom line. She shares skills and techniques that are proven time and time again to help businesses keep and gain customers.
Her style is dynamic and laugh-out-loud funny. Her feedback ratings from attendees are off the charts.
Nancy is the founder and president of Telephone Doctor, a St. Louis based international customer service and communication skills training company.
She has authored six best selling books, was recently selected as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Business Women in St. Louis and is the spokesperson in the Telephone Doctor DVD library series.
Website Info: http://www.telephonedoctor.com/
Charrissa Cawley
My name is Charrissa Cawley and just a few short years ago, I was a 30 year old stay home mom running a home based business and living paycheck to paycheck. I was looking for a way out of the rat race and longed for not only financial freedom, but the freedom to do with my time as I chose.
I had been to every seminar, read every book, listened to every tape and CD out there on real estate investing, yet I still didn’t have the confidence or the specific knowledge I needed to take action. I’d gotten all the fluff and puff, but had no real System that I had the confidence to follow.
A few years back, I made the one decision that would forever change my life. I made my first investment property purchase for 36,000 in St. Louis Missouri and shortly thereafter, put over $30,000 into my pocket from that purchase. By the end of my first year of investing, I was worth over 2 million dollars, all because of this business!
I haven’t turned back since. Because I finally figured out the “real estate investing game”, I decided to give back by teaching others EXACTLY what I did every step of the way to get from where I was to where I am now in such a short period of time.
My true passion is helping people break through financial bondage or inhibitors that stop them from reaching true freedom financially, mentally & spiritually. This business has transformed my life as well as the lives of many of my students all across the country. The principles I teach come from “real world/in the trenches experience” and can change your life!
Whether you have absolutely no previous experience or are on your way to building your empire, my step-by-step system will take you to the next level.
The foundation of my teachings and principles are strictly based on what I currently do on a day-to-day basis and you won’t hear anything from me or my team that we have not personally used or done ourselves. We provide accurate and proven real estate strategies to investors of all different levels, so whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned veteran, listen up, grab a pen, take notes and tune in , because it can change your life!
Website Info: http://www.reiconferences.com/
Jennifer Allan
Jennifer Allan 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.
To learn more about Jennifer’s books and philosophies, please visit her website at http://www.sellwithsoul.com/.
Charlie Adams
Charlie Adams is an authority on Customer Service and Peak Performance. As an award winning Television Anchor, Charlie interviewed hundreds of high achievers over two decades. He shares their insights with audiences across the country.
Charlie’s “Stoke the Fire Within” program kindles the flames of excellence within organizations. His “Spirit of Customer Service” equips people with the passion and tools to build loyal customers. In 2008, Charlie will be sharing his message in such locations as Philadelphia, Chicago, Durango,CO and Fairbanks, AK.
He is the author of “Stoke the Fire Within: A Guide to Igniting your Life”
For more information on Charlie’s programs please visit
http://www.stokethefirewithin.com/
or email charlie@StokeTheFireWithin.com
Robin Sing-Cunningham
Robin Sing-Cunningham, is a real estate agent serving Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, Florida. Robin specializes in distressed and bank owned properties in the Fort Lauderdale real estate area.
Robin began her blog recently after over seven years in the real estate business. She brings a unique perspective to her writing as she has worked on the building and development side of the business and has worked extensively with investors on the foreclosure side of the business.
Robin is an avid sport fishing enthusiast and when not selling real estate can usually be found off the coast o Fort Lauderdale looking for that next big game fish.
She’s also the wife of one of the hosts of the #1 real estate related talk radio show in America Real Estate Radio USA and occasionally makes appearances on the show to talk about Fort Lauderdale real estate and to lend her perspective on the industry.
You can contact Robin at 954-709-7461 or visit the Fort Lauderdale Real Estate Blog. You can also email Robin at robins@robinashley.com
Wendy Patton
Wendy Patton is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring speakers on “Little or No Money Down” real estate investing. Her real estate savvy, great depth of experience and viable knowledge has helped her in orchestrating the most complete and easy to follow Lease Option & Subject To Program in the country.
Wendy has been an educator and speaker on real estate investing since 1995. She is an avid golfer and currently lives in the Detroit suburb of Clarkston, Michigan with her husband, Michael Gott, and their 5 children.
For more information on Wendy Patton, please contact: Â Beth Slade at Limitless Options at Beth@WendyPatton.com or 248.394.0767.
Steven Van Yoder
Steven Van Yoder is a recognized expert on public relations, executive branding and thought leadership marketing. Yoder has been featured in over 200 publications. Steven speaks regularly to business groups and his insights about marketing, branding and thought leadership marketing.
Get The Word Out Communications, his San Francisco-based marketing, branding and public relations firm, helps helped hundreds of companies become recognized authorities in their industries, reach their best customers, and develop a unique brand identity to attract more business with less effort.
Steven is based in San Francisco and can be reached at steven@getslightlyfamous.com or at www.getslightlyfamous.com
Rich Levin
Rich Levin is an exciting and dynamic speaker. He is one of those presenters that entertain as he educates. He touches something inside you while you learn.
Rich’s work is based on a decade of remarkable success with his one-on-one coaching clients. These clients regularly become the Number One Salespeople in their companies and their marketplaces achieving exceptional measurable results. Raising a salesperson from a modest five-figure income into a healthy six-figure income is routine in Rich’s practice.
Rich Levin started his Real Estate career in 1979. He owned and operated the number one Real Estate office in Rochester, New York for nearly a decade where he was honored with the Sales Master award. He has served on Real Estate Board of Directors and has been a speaker at local, state, and franchise conventions, including The National Association of REALTORs’. Rich is e-Pro and CPBA certified. He continues to coach Real Estate Agents to extraordinary results and develop programs to continually raise Agents production levels. He has authored many articles for top Real Estate publications around the country.
Denny Grimes
Denny Grimes and Company,  ranks among the top three Realtors/Realtor groups in a county with more than 10,000 licensed real estate agents. Last year the team was responsible for almost $80 million in sales, which amounts to approximately 250 buyers and sellers that have met the goal of buying or selling a home.
The leader of this successful team, Denny holds a BA and MBA from the University of South Florida. His has earned the Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI) designation, obtained by only seven percent of Realtors, and he is a Certified Residential Specialist, a level achieved by only two percent of Realtors. Denny is a Certified General Contractor, Certified New Home Sales Professional (CSP) and Accredited BuyersRepresentative (ABR). He has received many awards during his career, including but not limited to the Sales Excellence Award, which he received every year since 1983; numerous Pinnacle Awards for top new home sales in Lee County; the Excel Award for Top New Home Agent in the state of Florida; and the National Sales and Management Award for the Top Home Agent in the Southeastern United States.
In addition to his award-winning and highly successful real estate career, Denny is a popular seminar speaker and trainer. A long time resident of Fort Myers, Florida, he is a family man and active in the community.
Website Info: www.marketwatchupdate.com
Dwan Twyford
Dwan Bent-Twyford, The Queen of Short Sales®, learned the “foreclosure†business the old-fashioned way, by knocking on doors. Her motivation to become an investor came out of sheer desperation. She went through a divorce and found herself a single mom not wanting to raise her child in daycare. She needed a career that would allow her the freedom of working from home and raising her daughter at the same time. Investing in foreclosures was the perfect solution. She made $22,000 her first deal and never looked back.
She now successfully handles every aspect of wholesaling, short sales, buying, rehabbing, marketing, and financing foreclosures and distressed properties. In a business dominated by men, this amazing woman quickly learned how to apply her unique experience to create win-win situations when buying property. With so many folks asking Dwan, “How can I learn this business?â€, she developed a complete home study training series.
She has been a featured speaker on MSNBC, Fox & Friends, Naomi Judd’s New Morning Show and many more national television programs. She now enjoys traveling and sharing her vast knowledge with new as well as seasoned investors. Don’t miss this exciting lady!
Web site info: http://www.theieu.com/
Dr. Maya Bailey
Dr. Maya Bailey, author of Law of Attraction for Real Estate Professionals, has been a business coach for real estate professionals for 12 years. Her articles are widely published in USA and Canada.
Prior to that Dr. Maya (as she prefers to be called) was a Psychologist for 20 years. Combining her psychological expertise with marketing expertise, she has created a Law of Attraction coaching program designed to help Real estate Professionals to double and even triple their incomes.
Most recently, Dr.Maya has created “Positive Buzz Coaching Program” to help real estate professionals throughout the world to create and maintain a positive mindset, and avoid being dragged down by the negative buzz that is so prevalent in today’s market.
To enroll , just go to www.positivebuzzsuccessprogram.com
For more general information, Dr. Maya can be reached at www.90daystomoreclients.com
Dave Lakhani
Dave Lakhani is the President of Bold Approach, Inc., the nation’s first Business Acceleration Strategy firm. A business acceleration strategy firm is a company that helps companies seduce consumers, build relationships, dominate top of mind awareness and create powerful personal and company brands . . . FAST.
Dave’s Company Bold Approach, Inc. was nominated as one of Fast Company Magazine’s Fast 50 companies and Dave was runner up for the 2007 American Business Award For America’s Best Sales Trainer.
Dave is considered one of the world’s top platform closers who regularly closes 20 – 70% of the people in the rooms he works and is often invited to speak at the largest personal development events in the world and around the world. His understanding of persuasion, behavior and human motivation make him an in demand sales and marketing trainer, and hired gun to close deals.
Web site info: www.boldapproach.com
David Meerman Scott
David Meerman Scott, the keynote speaker at this year’s NAR convention in Orlando, is a recovering VP, marketing for two publicly traded technology companies and was also Asia Marketing Director for Knight-Ridder, at the time one of the world’s largest newspaper and electronic information companies.
He is now an online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist and the programs he has developed have won numerous awards and are responsible for selling over one billion dollars in products and services worldwide.
David is the author of the number one best selling PR and marketing book The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to use news releases, blogs, viral marketing and online media to reach buyers directly which is being published in 15 languages.
He developed the New Rules of MarketingTM course for Pragmatic Marketing, Inc. based on his book. David has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, Boston, and Hong Kong and has presented at industry conferences and events in over twenty countries on four continents. Check out his blog at http://www.webinknow.com/ or download his free ebook The New Rules of Viral Marketing: How word-of-mouse spreads your ideas for free.
Website Info: http://www.davidmeermanscott.com/
Annie Jennings
Annie Jennings of the National PR firm, Annie Jennings PR is a National Publicist specializing in promoting authors and experts to the media. Annie’s vision and insight has revolutionized the publicity industry as many of the publicity techniques, tools and strategies in widespread use throughout the industry today have been developed by Annie Jennings PR.
Annie freely shares her publicity strategies with authors and experts so everyone can have access to PR strategies, both the basics and advanced PR thought, so they can share their messages with millions for the betterment of all.
Annie Jennings has been an invited guest lecturer for NYU’s Publishing Program and for the American Society Of Journalists & Authors. Annie Jennings PR has provided over 500 SMASH HIT PUBLICITY Teleseminars for consistent standing room audiences, reaching hundreds of thousands of author and experts.
Annie Jennings is the premier publicity expert in the country with her knowledge sought out by professionals and organizations everywhere.
Website Info: www.anniejenningspr.com
Laura Ries
Laura Ries is president of Ries & Ries, an Atlanta-based marketing strategy firm that she runs with her father and partner Al Ries.
In 1994, Laura partnered with her father to form Ries & Ries. Together they have consulted with many Fortune 500 companies. They have also co-authored four books together: The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding (1998), The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding (2000), The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR (2002), The Origin of Brands (2004).
The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR has generated enormous interest in the marketing community. The book made both the Business Week and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. In addition to being reviewed by these publications, it was also reviewed by USA Today, Harvard Business Review, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times and many other publications.
Laura has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNBC, ABC World News Tonight and CNN. She is a frequently quoted marketing expert in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, Advertising Age and other publications.
Website Info: www.ries.com
