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JENNIFER GENTRY
For as long as she can remember, Jennifer Gentry has admired home design and architecture. “I just love being around properties,” she says. “And I like dealing with people and building a business.”
24-Hour Touch-ups to Maximize Your List Price
Sometimes it takes a full-scale overhaul to prepare a house for market. Other times, only a series of small adjustments are required to make a listing's true potential shine.
How to Cut Down on Digital Distractions and Up Your Productivity
As a real estate professional, staying tethered to your phone and computer are likely par for the course. When your office is on-the-go and you're fielding round-the-clock questions from clients, it's only natural that you'll be drawn to your phone for professional updates.
Welcome Home: Working with Relocators in Transition
People stage moves for all sorts of reasons. From the joyous and pre-planned, to the unfortunate and unexpected, new chapters begin with the help of an agent. When you're working with buyers from a different region, state, or country, the typical complications of a transaction can be compounded. So, what's a savvy agent to do?
Millennial Buyers: Where They Are & What to Know
Homebuyers and sellers come from all walks of life. If you've been an agent for long, you've likely worked alongside a wide variety of folks from first-timer homeowners and down-sizers, to second home searchers and those finally hunting for their dream home.
Playing the Real Estate Matchmaker Follow These 8 Dating Rules to Ensure You Match Your Client with the Perfect Home for Them
When you think a bit more about it, the ultimate goal of a real estate agent serving a client is really to match them up with the perfect house for them, almost the way a matchmaker tries to find two people that will fit well together as a couple.
Emotional Fluency: How to Communicate with Clients When Tensions are High
Managing emotions, expectations, and personalities are central to a successful real estate career.
Keeping in Touch HOW TO STAY IN YOUR CLIENTS LIVES FOR THE LONG HAUL
One sign of a great real estate agent is there long list of loyal client following.
CONNECT BEYOND REAL ESTATE to Attract Future Clients
What kind of content are you sharing on your blog, website, and social media? Does most of it have something to do with buying or selling a home? While sharing the latest market information or tips on how to qualify for a mortgage, or when someone should buy or sell is important and demonstrates your value as a REALTOR®, it shouldn’t be the only subject you cover.
5 Tips to Make New Hires a Long-lasting Success
Bringing a new employee into the mix is process commonly known as onboarding.
Is Finding A Niche Market Right for You?
A lot of Realtors® take the ‘jack of all trades’ approach to their businesses, and some are extremely successful with doing it all and doing it well.
6 Ways to Get Your Client to Trust You
The word “REALTOR®” can leave a sour taste in some people’s mouths.
PAULINA SCHUBEL
Top Agent Paulina Schubel and her husband Justin of West USA Realty, serve buyers and sellers in Navajo and Apache counties in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona.
MIKE ZOULIAS
Meet Mike Zoulias, a dynamic and energetic REALTOR® whose journey into the world of real estate began in the most unexpected way.
Easy Blog Topics for Your Real Estate Blog
Today, blogging looks a lot different than it did back in 2007, when the platform was just beginning to take off. Successful bloggers don't choose blog topics on a whim. They think strategically and develop pillar content that their target audience will come back to again and again.
JULIE CAPRON
Julie Capron is not just any agent-she's a proud owner of a rebranded brokerage: The Collective Home Group, with locations in both Buchanan, Michigan, and Granger, Indiana.
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.
5 SOCIAL MEDIA MISTAKES Real Estate Agents Must Avoid
There is perhaps no greater marketing tool for agents these days than having a large presence on social media, but there is more to social media marketing than just opening an account and gaining followers.
How to Speed Up First-Time Homebuyer Transactions
While helping first-time homebuyers navigate the transactional process can be a reminder of real estate's benevolent power, it can also come with its own bumps and bruises.
4 Ways to Win the Battle Against Procrastination
One of the most common professional afflictions is procrastination.
4 Easy Ways to Redecorate Your Office that Will Boost Morale & Impress Clients
Your office is a battle-station of sorts. It’s where you field business, launch your communications, and make the magic of your enterprise happen on a daily basis.
3 Ways to Make Your Workspace Work for You
Productivity experts agree that a curated workspace positively impacts productivity and mood, but oftentimes we settle for bland desks and cubicles that lack personalized details or considerations for workflow.
How's This for a Cliffhanger?
That poor henchman over there has a hammer stuck in his forehead.
COVER CROPS: THE SOIL HEALTH SWISS ARMY KNIFE
Like the multi-purpose tool, cover crops provide a wide range of attributes.
greener PASTURES
Ranchers are using adaptive grazing to restore soil health while increasing profitability.
ROTATIONAL GRAZING
Ranchers look to nature for carbon sequestration solutions.
SHIPPING STRUGGLES
The Mississippi River may present challenges again in 2024.
DISEASE SCOUTING IN THE DIGITAL ERA
Digital platforms offer new approaches to identify diseases and time fungicide applications to save time and protect yield.
TRANSFER THE FARM NOW OR LATER?
Problem: Is it better to start transferring the daily operation to the farm heir or focus on the farm estate plan first?
Pork Powerhouses 2023
THE 36 LARGEST U.S. PIG PRODUCERS REDUCED SOWS BY 17,348 IN 2023, THE FIRST NET LOSS PORK POWERHOUSES® REPORTED SINCE 2010.