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Incorporating Charitable Giving in Your Real Estate Practice
As real estate professionals, taking part in the community and serving others is central to a long-lasting practice.
CONNECT BEYOND REAL ESTATE to Attract Future Clients
What kind of content are you sharing on your blog, website, and social media?
Concierge Care: Services that Lure Clients and Transform Your Reputation
It’s a no-brainer: customer service is central to success in the real estate industry. While properties may be the product, this industry really revolves around people and the relationships you cultivate along the way.
If it's good for the soul, IT'S GOOD FOR THE BUSINESS
Visibility, name recognition and knowing you’re supporting the community that makes your success possible are good reasons to take part in community service.
Uncommon Contact: Connecting with Clientele Through Social Media
Social media is one of the newest and most powerful tools in an agent or mortgage professional's arsenal.
Small Yard? Big Statement:
How to Make the Most Out of Micro Outdoor Spaces
7 Deadly Sins of Personal Branding
What is a 'personal brand'? Just like company or product branding, it's built around imaging and messaging that is designed to create a feeling.
There Goes the Neighborhood: How to List High When Neighbors are a Nuisance
How do you diffuse difficult neighbors that could lower your bottom line or embarrass you in front of prospective buyers? It takes tact and a gameplan.
5 Reasons Why You Need a Mentor
As great as it might feel to start your own business, and be solely responsible for its success, at some point, every entrepreneur reaches the limit of their potential, and needs a boost that only experience can provide.
JASON XI
Ranked among Australia’s Top 100 Real Estate Agents in 2017, Jason Xi is the Managing Director of First National Clayton JXRE, where he leads an elite team to assist clients throughout Victoria.
Embracing Smart Homes: Does New Technology Really Increase Home Value?
Technology and innovation move at a lightning-fast clip, so it can be hard to keep up with all the smart-home trends sweeping the market at a given time.
4 Qualities of Exceptional Employees
Hiring a new employee is one of the more stressful parts of being a business owner. After all, you’re taking someone on and trusting that they’ll not only be a valuable addition to the team, but won’t do anything to hurt your business’s hard-earned reputation.
Is Branding the Way to Take Your Business to the Next Level?
Despite the importance of finding a Realtor® that is the best person to serve their needs, a lot of people only end up interviewing one Realtor when they're thinking about buying or selling a home.
Playing the Real Estate Matchmaker
Follow These 8 Dating Rules to Ensure You Match Your Client with the Perfect Home for Them
Why Millennials Are Now the Hottest Segment of the Buyers Market and How You Can Attract Them to Your Home
There are many factors when it comes to knowing how to sell your home to the Millennial generation. Millennials are becoming an important part of the buyer market, and to fail to cater to their needs will cut you off from a large and important segment. But, why have Millennials all of a sudden become interested in buying houses when they were perfectly content to rent for the rest of their lives?
ROGERS HEALY
Born and raised in Texas, Top Agent Rogers Healy is the CEO and owner of The Rogers Healy Companies in Dallas, where he and other like-minded agents help people achieve their real estate goals.
7 Reasons Why Your Prospects Aren't Turning Into Clients
Real estate experts suggest prospecting daily so that your sales pipeline never runs dry.
How to Get the Biggest Recharge Out of Your Lunch Hour
Taking a mindful break at midday can create mental space for extended productivity and provide the morale boost necessary to take on a new task for the afternoon.
NESREEN LABABIDI
REALTOR® Nesreen Lababidi may have only started her career in real estate three years ago, but her star is already rising in the industry. Since joining her brother's brokerage, The Firm RE, she has sold forty-four homes to date, completing $7.4 million in sales last year alone.
Productivity Killers: 4 Ways to Make Better Use of Your Working Hours
Even on the busiest of days, it can be hard not to get distracted by social media, smartphones, chatty colleagues, or personal to-do list items.
3 Easy At-Home DIY Projects to Increase Property Value
Most homeowners have a lengthy list of chores and bit projects they intend to accomplish around the house.
JESSICA CRUSE
With a passion for guiding her clients along the path to buying or selling their home, Jessica Cruse stands out for the personalized care she provides and the lasting relationships she builds.
9 Things the Best Leaders Never Say
As Spider-Man's Uncle Ben said, \"With great power, comes great responsibility.\" Being the boss is a great thing, but there's a reason the 'bad boss' is common stereotype. Some people tend to use their power in destructive ways and that isn't good for anyone. You might not even know you're being a bad boss, it can be subtle sometimes.
HERVÉ KIDIADI
Joining a team at exp Realty, Hervé Kidiadi has already proved to be a top agent in his office. Primarily serving Southside Seattle, Hervé completed over $5 million in sales volume within his first six months and he's only just getting started.
EFREN GRAFALS
Efren Grafals' diverse background has undoubtedly contributed to his immense success as a real estate agent. Prior to his career in the industry, he was a professional club DJ and spent 20+ years as an educator and administrator.
How to Get the Biggest Recharge Out of Your Lunch Hour
Taking a mindful break at midday can create mental space for extended productivity and provide the morale boost necessary to take on a new task for the afternoon.
3 Surefire Methods that Make for a Productive Meeting
Sometimes a business meeting can achieve exactly what it sets out to do: communicate, assess actions, set goals, or otherwise.
Modern Email Etiquette for Today's Agents
Though email is no longer a new-fangled invention, there are certainly ways you can modernize its use and take advantage of its ubiquity.
JANET MOORE
Top Agent Janet Moore of Premier Sotheby's International Realty can proudly say that 100% of her business comes from repeat and referral clients in Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg.
Beyond Cleaning and Decluttering: What Improvement Expenses Make the Most Sense?
Decluttering open spaces, emptying cabinets and drawers and removing knick-knacks might seem like obvious - and free - ways to improve a home's presentability. Unfortunately, however, not all sellers or agents are willing to do much more than decluttering and cleaning.