1) Don’t fall into the trap – Good planning is where it’s at – It is that time of year where as business owners and managers we should be thinking about our goals and objectives for 2010. There are some good tips here, not to get started on mine.
2) Turn off the Real Estate Muzak and demand perfection – I never thought I could learn anything from Michael Jackson that would help my real estate career. Marc Davison shows me I was wrong.
3) A ReTechulous real estate office website live chat approach – I have a live chat on my site, but will be updating it now that I have read this with a the Gmail approach.
4) Do your leads in your database have value? – I have hundreds of leads in my database, and in the past week I started going through all of them get a real pulse for them. This post hits on exactly what I have been doing, and in less than a week I have already seen a change in my business.
5) Luxury real estate branding: Connecting through emotional branding – a good illustration on how branding can move an emotional chord in someone and if you miss that emotion, your branding may fail.
6) Congress poised to keep homebuyers’ tax credit – Despite my repeated objections to extending the program it is looking more and more everyday like the $8000 first-time homebuyer tax credit will be extended. Guess Congress doesn’t watch my videos.
7) 5 reasons every agent needs a Facebook page – I have been working on my Facebook presence of late by checking out what Mike Mueller is doing, some of his customization work is amazing and makes you feel like you are not even on Facebook. The video at the bottom is very helpful.
8 ) Forget everything you know about social media and Google – The new Google Social Search should be effecting the way you use social media.
9) Newsweek: Foreclosures spread to middle class – Reading the whole Newsweek story it is interesting to see one persons perspective on the foreclosure crisis starting with bad loans, then unemployment in wave two and now speculation we will be moving into a third wave of adjustable rate mortgages coming due.
10) Staging with storage – Whether it is the kid’s toys or dad’s much larger toys, they need to be kept organized when you are selling your house.
