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Is Perception The Truth, Even If It Isn’t?

A Harris poll released in 2007 listed real estate agents along with stock brokers and insurance agents as the least trusted professionals.  Once again that old adage is proven true – “one’s perception tends to become their reality.”

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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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What Is The New World Order Of Real Estate All About?

Total Market Domination! That’s What the New World Order Of Real Estate is all about. The term “new world order” has been used to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power.

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Real Estate Social Networks Explode

Both ActiveRain and RealTown have reached that magical six figure membership number – 100,000. Add to these two frontrunners the re-engineered Inman News that now includes an online real estate community and the rapid expansion of the real estate side of LinkedIn and the evidence supports that social networking and community has officially taken hold [...]

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The Power of Online Video

As CNN stated it started in an article it all starts innocently enough by you visiting YouTube for, say, a few minutes of football bloopers. Then you switch to funny dog antics, followed by goofy juvenile stuntmen. Before long you’ve inadvertently spent 30 minutes watching videos on your computer.

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Realtors Need to Realign Their Tactics

  The action on the local media battlefield has certainly shifted to the Web.  Newspapers are scrambling to make up losses in classified advertising.  TV stations are scrambling to cover declines in automotive and political ads. 

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Hindsight is Always Easier

During the last 20 years the global financial and real estate markets have experienced huge volatility. We’ve had more bubbles and crises than during any other post Second World War period.

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Gone In 60 Seconds

“Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation,” says Congresswoman Melissa Bean.  

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