One of my favorite Hollywood staples is the bad ass hero that blows something up and doesn’t need to look back. He’s already won the battle, and he’s done his damage, and he’s walking away towards the next thing on his todo list. Jerry Bruckheimer seems to use this 3 times a minute in his […]
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I’m the nuts and bolts guy here. I don’t have the grace of Greg, the congeniality of Brian or the panache of Geno. What I will do with out a big damn brain this year is grind out a great living in an imploding economy. No laws, nothing will stop that. And with each successive […]
I’ve never been a lifer in the real estate business. That doesn’t mean I don’t have a lot to give, it doesn’t mean I don’t love it, and it doesn’t mean that I can’t kick ass. I say this: there is no finer, safer way to learn how to be in business than being a […]
I’m young. I am new to real estate, even newer to the RE.net. Inexperienced, blind, deaf, dumb, starving, full, big headed, blah blah blah. These are all adjectives that described me in my first months on the job. Heck, they probably still describe me. As Greg recently talked about, I was one of those people […]
As Professionals in the Real Estate Industry we try and do everything to stay on top of our game. We attend classes to further our education and knowledge, we try out the latest and greatest Social Networking Platform to find out about new Techie stuff, but what about what the clients are looking for? It […]
I once knew an eccentric, rather secretive old movie buff named Don who could determine if a flick was going to be a stinker just by the musical score playing during the opening credits. “If a film starts off with a single instrument playing; one guitar strumming, one piano twinkling, one horn of any kind–I get up immediately and demand my money back […]
I’m not picky about hotels because I don’t spend time in them. My criteria is this: No roaches, no bed bugs, and no DNA left by previous guests. That covers any cleanliness issues and that’s my biggest concern in a hotel. On the other hand, I do like to be around the people I like, so a few weeks ago I sent out a tweet asking if anyone had started looking at hotels. I have enough experience with this to know that since my hotel needs are fairly spartan, if someone else wants to do the research, I should step aside and let them. So I did.
I’ve had little luck selling the idea that REALTORS® should embrace an Internet rating system. Local associations, individual REALTORS®, other association executives, NAR, and even other bloggers have rejected the idea of allowing clients to rate their agent. Twice last week I pitched it to influential leaders in the industry, but both times the conversation […]
Book Recommendation He had me at “The Economist.” He being Dan Ariely, author of the new book Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. It’s about the buying and marketing choices we make and why we make them. And why the seemingly rational path to a purchase is often the road less traveled. […]
Okay, it’s my turn. I generally leave the loftier industry fodder for other, more qualified (if not more committed), real estate bloggers to cull over. I commend visionaries like Greg Swann for single handedly forcing readers across the R.E. Web (okay, me) to look up such words as disintermediation, Quixotism (just making sure), and even Odysseus, although the latter was only because Dan Green told me he thought […]
Responding at some length to a comment from Charles Woodall: > Changing the real estate business in the grassroots effort you suggest would be a slow process as well. I know you’re not joking with me, but are you aware of how quickly the real estate industry is changing right now? None of this is […]
Proposition 1: Groups, clubs, committees and professional associations would make better decisions if their smarter, more passionate members were to get involved. Proposition 2: Central banking would work if only Alan Greenspan had a smarter brother. Proposition 3: True Communism has never been tried. I don’t consider these statements equivalent, but they are of the […]
It’s always dangerous – and not a little misleading – to extrapolate a whole from a part. One of the problems facing the real estate industry is a phantom stereotype – generally negative – applied to all agents, when anyone in the business knows that the range spans the genius to the inept, the scrupulously […]
We have a long way to go, but this is a milestone we’ve been watching for… Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing