I am of course a HUGE fan of getting more traffic to websites.  Hopefully you know by now that Joe and I want your websites and blogs to have a veritable flood of people every day coming to your blogs eager to contact you. As much as we both love traffic (and leads) it is imperative that we do something with all of those leads!  It’s early here in 2009 so we wanted to make sure to address this issue.  Focusing on leads and traffic are great, but you need to focus on conversion!  Seriously,... 

Real Estate Coach The new year always brings great expectations and excitement.  It’s almost the end of the first month of 2009 and some of that fresh outlook may not be wearing off.  After all you started the year with a fresh business plan, maybe you even tried some new training materials, but that rush of energy is fading, even if ever so slightly. It’s natural and it happens to each and everyone of us.  The key is how do we keep that rush of energy to execute our plan all year... 

Sylvester Stallone must be happy this past weekend because AMC was playing a multitude of Rambo movies.  Sly’s character of Rambo, truly is an amazing action hero.  He is constantly put in situations where seemingly he has no way out.  He must overcome overwhelming odds, with seemingly no way out in order to save the day.  Whether it is rescuing POW’s or the Colonel he always finds a way to come out on top. One of the neat aspects about Rambo is that he is not one dimensional.  Now,... 

That’s right I said it, embrace work. If you aren’t prepared to build your network then going on facebook, linkedin, twitter, and plaxo is just goofing off. Yes just because you spend time on a social network website doing different tasks doesn’t mean it is work. I am serious about this. If you are going to use social networking to be a valuable part of your business(and it can) you have to have a purpose about it. You must embrace the fact that social networking is the dreaded... 

Do you need business quickly? To be honest we can always use business and sooner is better than later. If you are willing to work and put the effort in then we have a special presentation coming up in Pasadena and Arcadia this week. We have two special events that we are doing from our work over at 3 Deals in 45 Days. What are you going to learn? This event is going to cover items that you haven’t heard before because it is about succeeding in this very tough market. We are going to be speaking... 

I am being serious here. Many times in real estate I hear people’s goals of 24, 30, 60 or even 100 transactions a year and then I ask them their plan and it is made up of showing up to the office a whole 1 day a week. Now I am not taking a shot at those who show up every day, prospect, do their marketing, and work real estate I am talking about those who view real estate as a 2 day a week job where you can just make a bunch of money. This past weekend my brother and I were the first ones in... 

Rodney Dangerfield,"I get no respect" Rodney Dangerfield said it and in real estate we feel it all the time. We feel that our customers never give us any respect. We never get treated the way we want and we just kind of grin and go along with how people treat us. So how come with put up with it? Rodney made the phrase famous and made it part of just about every bit, movie, and scene that he did. In fact he made it funny to “get no respect”. Why in real estate though do we put... 

So we got a comment about the fact that “More leads doesn’t mean you will do more business.” This is just great in my mind that people even want to say this. Now of course you could say that more leads doesn’t guarantee that you will sell more homes but I guarantee you this: If you generate 0 leads I guarantee that you will fail in real estate To be honest you will fail in any business that requires you to generate leads. The comment leads me to believe that the person would... 

In case you hadn’t heard C21 was brave enough (in my opinion) to say that they were going to be focusing more on their online efforts than their TV. I wonder why? Finally someone came out and said what others have known for a long time. The Internet is a great place where you can accurately measure the ROI. I first found about this from our friends over at Future of Real Estate Marketing and they wrote a great post about it and provide a link to the actual interview (not sure why C21 doesn’t... 

There are some out there who would but you should know a little bit about the person you are going to be spending some time with before you decide to take your relationship to any other level. We don’t write relationship advice here so let me give you quick story of what I mean. Meeting Agents on Facebook I like facebook, great tool, it is fun, and has worlds of opportunity to generate referrals from past clients and other agents. You can find me on Facebook by looking for Joseph Bridges but...