Krisstina Wise is not just the owner of the GoodLife Team – Austin Realtors, one of the most innovative real estate brokerages on the planet. She is also in demand as a trainer, speaker and coach for leading international real estate companies. By the way, I didn’t make up the claim that her brokerage, The…
My 1 to 1 coaching clients, Christina and Chuck Ethridge, are crushing it. They are succeeding in social media and Facebook, but not by the way that many of you are being taught. Christina and Chuck ain’t some Social Media Guru’s or self proclaimed Facebook Experts. Nah. They are real real estate agents that list…
I got this question recently after speaking about video at an Inman News Agent Reboot event. “I am doing my first videos. Do you have a recommendation for royalty-free music source?” Yes. In this Productivity Nugget, I’ll share a really super, simple solution for adding Royalty Free music to your videos. Want to know more…
I want you to do something. Look at your marketing and the marketing from your brokerage and franchise. Is it at the level it should be? My observation is that we have been horrible in the real estate industry of creating marketing that conveys emotion and creates desire. I don’t know if its because we…
Katherine Cannon is the Founder of the real estate brand HighHeeledHomeowners.com It’s not a geographic brand. It’s a demographic brand, built around guess who? Here is a pic I took of her in a new shirt that a friend bought for her. Why did the friend buy it for her? Because when they saw it,…
I was talking with Chris Smith the other day about content creation and new quick, easy ways to get information out. He was telling me that he liked Tout and was looking forward to using that, and then he shared back with me about Cinch. I did check it out and here is my first…
I started my career selling real estate for Century 21. I didn’t make client fulfillment or customer service a goal of mine or a metric I would track. I just did my best and then tried to do better. Maybe it was from my parents being in the industry and I watched the way they…
Note from Darin – Man, the guy guest posting today, I think I’ve been reading him online for4-5 years. I still continue to read him and even many of many coaching clients read his stuff for ideas and inspiration. The man, the myth, the Brand…Ken Brand! Ken shares with us today a chapter from his…
All the social media experts say you have to engage, right? They say “Don’t promote listings, make your updates interesting and engaging,” Well of course one way to do that is with pictures, but I’m a big believer in using video for real estate. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much…
I am a big fan of the movie 300. The commitment that the Spartans showed is probably difficult for most of us to understand. The culture that they built of warriors isn’t exactly the culture we live in today. A scene that really sticks out to me is when King Leonidas, of the Spartans runs…
Guest post by Katie Lance, Social Media Director, Inman News @katielance I have a big heart for the real estate agent. Day in and day out, agents are pounding the pavement, working the phones, negotiating hard to close deals, trying to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers and working to build their sphere. The…
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison Yesterday, in my Productivity Nugget, I talked about how you are losing revenue every month because you are not putting a value on your time. I’ve been doing an exercise with some…
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” M. Scott Peck I got dragged into a semi interesting (more annoying) debate on facebook the other day. This expert of time and money and business told me that time should not factor into…
