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JENNIFER GENTRY
Top Agent Magazine

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.”

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2 mins  |
Northern California June 2024
24-Hour Touch-ups to Maximize Your List Price
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
Michigan June 2024
How to Cut Down on Digital Distractions and Up Your Productivity
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
New England June 2024
Welcome Home: Working with Relocators in Transition
Top Agent Magazine

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?

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3 mins  |
Northern California June 2024
Millennial Buyers: Where They Are & What to Know
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
New England June 2024
Playing the Real Estate Matchmaker Follow These 8 Dating Rules to Ensure You Match Your Client with the Perfect Home for Them
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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5 mins  |
Florida June 2024
Emotional Fluency: How to Communicate with Clients When Tensions are High
Top Agent Magazine

Emotional Fluency: How to Communicate with Clients When Tensions are High

Managing emotions, expectations, and personalities are central to a successful real estate career.

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3 mins  |
Canada June 2024
Keeping in Touch HOW TO STAY IN YOUR CLIENTS LIVES FOR THE LONG HAUL
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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5 mins  |
Florida June 2024
CONNECT BEYOND REAL ESTATE to Attract Future Clients
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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4 mins  |
Arizona June 2024
5 Tips to Make New Hires a Long-lasting Success
Top Agent Magazine

5 Tips to Make New Hires a Long-lasting Success

Bringing a new employee into the mix is process commonly known as onboarding.

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2 mins  |
Florida June 2024
Is Finding A Niche Market Right for You?
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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3 mins  |
Arizona June 2024
6 Ways to Get Your Client to Trust You
Top Agent Magazine

6 Ways to Get Your Client to Trust You

The word “REALTOR®” can leave a sour taste in some people’s mouths.

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3 mins  |
Canada June 2024
PAULINA SCHUBEL
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
Arizona June 2024
MIKE ZOULIAS
Top Agent Magazine

MIKE ZOULIAS

Meet Mike Zoulias, a dynamic and energetic REALTOR® whose journey into the world of real estate began in the most unexpected way.

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2 mins  |
Canada June 2024
Easy Blog Topics for Your Real Estate Blog
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
Michigan June 2024
JULIE CAPRON
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
Michigan June 2024
Why Millennials Are Now the Hottest Segment of the Buyers Market and How You Can Attract Them to Your Home
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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4 mins  |
Ohio June 2024
5 SOCIAL MEDIA MISTAKES Real Estate Agents Must Avoid
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
New England June 2024
How to Speed Up First-Time Homebuyer Transactions
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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3 mins  |
New England June 2024
4 Ways to Win the Battle Against Procrastination
Top Agent Magazine

4 Ways to Win the Battle Against Procrastination

One of the most common professional afflictions is procrastination.

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3 mins  |
Ohio June 2024
4 Easy Ways to Redecorate Your Office that Will Boost Morale & Impress Clients
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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3 mins  |
Canada June 2024
3 Ways to Make Your Workspace Work for You
Top Agent Magazine

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.

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2 mins  |
Arizona June 2024
How's This for a Cliffhanger?
Fast Company

How's This for a Cliffhanger?

That poor henchman over there has a hammer stuck in his forehead.

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10+ mins  |
Spring 2024
COVER CROPS: THE SOIL HEALTH SWISS ARMY KNIFE
Successful Farming

COVER CROPS: THE SOIL HEALTH SWISS ARMY KNIFE

Like the multi-purpose tool, cover crops provide a wide range of attributes.

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6 mins  |
May - June 2024
greener PASTURES
Successful Farming

greener PASTURES

Ranchers are using adaptive grazing to restore soil health while increasing profitability.

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7 mins  |
May - June 2024
ROTATIONAL GRAZING
Successful Farming

ROTATIONAL GRAZING

Ranchers look to nature for carbon sequestration solutions.

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2 mins  |
May - June 2024
SHIPPING STRUGGLES
Successful Farming

SHIPPING STRUGGLES

The Mississippi River may present challenges again in 2024.

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3 mins  |
May - June 2024
DISEASE SCOUTING IN THE DIGITAL ERA
Successful Farming

DISEASE SCOUTING IN THE DIGITAL ERA

Digital platforms offer new approaches to identify diseases and time fungicide applications to save time and protect yield.

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4 mins  |
May - June 2024
TRANSFER THE FARM NOW OR LATER?
Successful Farming

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?

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2 mins  |
May - June 2024
Pork Powerhouses 2023
Successful Farming

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.

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6 mins  |
May - June 2024