Invest in yourself. If you aren’t willing to spend money on yourself, your career, and accomplishing your goals no one will. I am not joking if you can’t spend money on yourself no one will. I was on the phone with several agents yesterday discussing their business and how things were going. Conversations ranged all over the board but let’s cover a few of gems that I heard yesterday. I was speaking with agents all across the United States and in every market so this is a pretty... 

Is it a good time to work with buyers? For most markets across the US & our friends in Canada it most certainly is. I keep hearing that “if the banks just let the buyers the money it would be great”. I can’t change the banking industry and after watching months of news from the government I am not sure that they know how to fix the whole issue. There is a silver (or maybe gold) lining to everything though as there are buyers who sat on the sidelines during the boom time or maybe... 

Information is great, being helpful is awesome, asking for what you want is priceless. I am always surprised when my brother and I review a real estate agent’s website, via our free website tune-up, and find an overwhelming source of quality content but very few places where they actually ask the consumer to work with them or provide them with additional information. Here is the thing. If you are providing the consumer, your next potential customer, with the information that they are looking... 

That’s right I said it, effective. There are plenty of ways to generate leads on the Internet and in the not so distant future we will be having another call with even more ways to generate leads from the Internet. We hope that you are already generating leads from your website, blog, or craigslist system, but if you aren’t or you want even more than we have a call for you today. In this call we are going to be discussing what you can do right now for more leads. We are even going to... 

I believe someone once said The definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing that you have been doing and expecting a different result. How does this affect you? If your year isn’t turning out like you wanted you have two choices. You can sit and whine about “how bad the market is” or you can start taking some action and some responsibility that things aren’t like they used to and more work is needed to generate the same or less business than before. So what can you... 

In case you didn’t know it you need to be generating more leads than ever before. Most of us are facing a sinking budget or we are at a $0 budget so now we have to generate more with even less and unless you love making “cold calls” then the options you have are winding down. I would suggest that the only way to avoid having to leave real estate is to work on generating as many leads as you can with the lowest budget possible. So let’s cover a few things that will allow you... 

The phrase “content is king” rings loudly across the internet.  For the most part it is certainly true because if your content is compelling (and people actually view it) you can quickly develop raving fans across the globe.  But, the best content in the world can be hurt by poor presentation.  Remember in school when you had to to a term paper?  If you felt your paper was only average you might take the time to purchase a better binder to put it, make sure the cover page looked excellent,... 

Seeing your website and blog explode with traffic is a truly wonderful experience. Finally all the hard work of writing new pages, creating detailed ads, submitting to directories pays off.  You monitor your traffic nearly to a point of obsession, because you know if you can just get enough people to your website that the leads will just flood in! Strangely, for many, as the traffic increases, the lead count does not grow to the same degree.  Even hitting those great bench marks, like 1,000... 

That’s right I don’t care if you were a Top Producer and I don’t care what you sold last year. The reason is you can’t use that to sell homes this year. Just because something worked last year doesn’t mean it is going to work this year. By the way I don’t even know what a Top Producer is anyway so get over what this means and just start getting back to business. Why am I saying this? Well my brother and I have been doing a few training seminars on “12 ways... 

The 5th day of challenging yourself and learning new skills is upon you.  We hope that you have already started to see some changes in your business.  If you haven’t noticed any change, ask yourself the question “Have I really pushed my limits and implemented change in my business?“.  The pursuit of mastery is one that is often overlooked in today’s age of “I must have it now“.  Pursuing mastery is a concept that is evident in time honored traditions like the...