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[8 Oct 2008 | One Comment | 2 views | by Dirk Zeller]
DETERMINING THE INFLUENCE OF OTHER REGIONAL MARKETS

Real estate in your market area is affected by influences outside of your own region.  For example, when I sold real estate in Portland, Oregon, what was happening in terms of inventory, appreciation, and activity in Seattle, Washington had an effect on my own marketplace. The two metropolitan areas are less than 200 miles apart, and one influences the other due to the easy and frequent population movement between the two cities.

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[30 Sep 2008 | 2 Comments | 1 views | by Andy Capelluto]
Times they are a’ changing….

 It’s been fascinating to witness developments in the home staging industry over the past few years.  For my first few years as a staging instructor I had to define and explain staging.  Nowadays it is a phenomenon that has changed the way real estate is sold.  In 2004, I

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[27 Sep 2008 | 5 Comments | 2 views | by Robyn Hardy]
Nurturing Real Estate Leads

Bringing a person from being a lead to generating a transaction is becoming increasingly more complicated

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[16 Jun 2008 | One Comment | 3 views | by Dirk Zeller]
TIME BLOCKING YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS

A time-blocked schedule reserves and protects slotted time segments for pre-planned, pre-determined activities. The objective of time blocking is to increase the amount of time you can invest in direct income-producing efforts.  In more than 20 years as a business owner, I

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[6 Jun 2008 | 6 Comments | 2 views | by Andy Capelluto]
Staging Homes Successfully this Summer

It doesn’t matter what the “experts” say about the market – it’s June, school is out and folks are on the move. Now is the time to ensure that you haven’t left anything to chance. It’s the time to embrace the concept of home staging like it’s your best friend … because it is!

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[27 May 2008 | 4 Comments | 1 views | by Robyn Hardy]

Give me a break!  Can we please try to remember that we are in the business of solicitation????  Why do some agents have so much trouble when others try to solicit them via legitimate email?  I guess one man’s “junk” is another man’s treasure.

People are sending the stupid “contract” response emails, like the one below, to senders who are legitimately marketing to them from a list THE RECIPIENT subscribed to…..  Please, remember what we do for a living.  In my mind, sifting through promotional emails is no different than shuffling through my snail mail.  A mailbox is a mailbox is a mailbox.