Business today What is “Fabled Services”? The last few days I’ve been teaching for Windermere in a class called Ninja Installation! The class is about life and business and the concept of, the more you give the more you receive. It also is about mastery and being extra ordinary, going above and beyond and getting people to say WOW!. By doing […]
Trivia Happy Spring Forward! It’s almost time for that annual ritual of turning the clocks forward, for me it means we will soon be enjoying an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day. Maybe get a bike ride in, play some catch with my kids or take a longer walk or run with my wife, either […]
Living What is all the hub-bub about Pinterest? Well as of late it seems everyone is buzzing about Pinterest! I’ll admit my board is terrible and the Pinterest bug hasn’t hit me yet. I decided I should do a bit more investigation What is Pinterest: It’s a social site that enables you to gather and share online images. Where facebook lets you read […]
Business today What you focus on expands. Have you ever been around someone and they just seem to darken the room? Their thoughts are just so entrenched on a negative focus and they never seem to understand why they attract so much negativity. Then you also know those individuals that seem to have such amazing things happen to them and they are […]
Business today Fun ice breakers at our Windermere RMS class with @nik_nik Well the last few days was awesome. Windermere’s 40th Anniversary Symposium was heald at the Seattle Sheraton. There many great classes to chose from. I have to say however that there was one class that really shined. This class had really great agents attending and one particular instructor that started one of the mornings off […]
Business today Tools to help the Real Estate agents. So Today at the Windermere’s 40th anniversary symposium we unveiled a new Ipad application called Touch CMA. This program is very robust and I thought I would just show you some of the screen shots of its functionality. Cover page of your CMA Map of comps around your home that has been GEO located. Draw […]
Business today Excellence vs mediocre, your decision. I recently watch a video from the Inman confernece in New York where Chris Smith was interviewing Phil Libin the CEO of evernote. There were two things he said that really stuck out to me. The first was that there are some amazing sites out there for searching real estate, however he did not mention […]
Business today Relationship, Marketing, Specialist. Well Jan 25th to the 26th at the Windermere annual Symposium agents will be able to take a two day course that will teach you how to become a Relationship Marketing Specialist in this new world of digital. Topics will cover 1. What has changed 2. Leveraging Social Marketing for Real Estate 3. What is […]
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Uncategorized Facebook time line is here! I started using timeline about 3 months ago and I really like the layout. There are a few things that I really like about what you can do with it. 1. Customize your header with a personal photo. This gives your site a great look. 2. Being able to click on the activity button in […]
Interesting stuff Thank you to all the Veterans out there today. Well today is a day to give thanks for all those who served our country. They allowed us to have what we have today. The freedom to achieve and be the best we can be. In my family, my Father (Harry Fanning) is a Vet, served in Vietnam on the USS Ranger. My uncle (Ben […]
Living What you may not know about WD-40. Ok I know this isn’t Tech or Real Estate related. However I read this and though Wow “who knew” Hope you find this a useful post! I received this in an e-mail. Being a non believer I went to snoops and found that they responded with a different list from WD-40. This list was still […]
Living Can I just unplug for a day? I was laughing the other night as I was sitting behind my drum set at the Tacoma Art Museum getting ready to quickly upload a pic to facebook when our lead singer said, “Hey Mike are you going to sound check or text all night?” It dawned on me that like many of you we […]
Business today 10 Common mistakes in sales work. So I read this article in the Puget Sound Business Journal last week and found that there are some mistakes I have made. I thought hmmmm.. I’m sure all of us have made some of these mistakes so I’m going to list them out for you. If you want to read the entire article written […]
Business today Let me tell you what they didn't print. Let me tell you what didn’t get printed. I also said that Just having a great website isn’t enough in today’s world. Windermere understands that you have to compete on all levels which is why we are launching some new amazing tools and options for our customers with a new www.windermere.com site. Great new office.com […]
Business today Let me tell you what they didn’t print. Let me tell you what didn’t get printed. I also said that Just having a great website isn’t enough in today’s world. Windermere understands that you have to compete on all levels which is why we are launching some new amazing tools and options for our customers with a new www.windermere.com site. Great new office.com […]
Business today The fabric of the Windermere culture. Being out in the field I’m often asked what is it about Windermere that has kept me here for 14 years. There are many reasons but below is a quote form a colleague and friend of mine at Windermere, Pat Grimm. This  was written on the bottom of his owner’s meeting agenda for next week. […]
Business today Consumers aren't listening anymore, there is too much noise! so today in the world of marketing we are completely overwhelmed with advertising in multiple mediums. I can prove this point using my son as an example. He can see 5 commercials on TV on a given Saturday, or look at an add in his kids magazine or here a radio commercial about a toy […]
Business today Consumers aren’t listening anymore, there is too much noise! so today in the world of marketing we are completely overwhelmed with advertising in multiple mediums. I can prove this point using my son as an example. He can see 5 commercials on TV on a given Saturday, or look at an add in his kids magazine or here a radio commercial about a toy […]
Living Just for fun! This post is  about the fun we have here at Windermere Services. It is great when you come to work every day and love what you do, but it is even better when you have fun with other great  individuals. Every year we play a Services softball game. From the beginning I have been one of the […]
Business today The person in the room with the most information wins. A recent stat I saw a few days ago stated that 73% of Realtors make most of their income from non real estate work. Scary! What if you walked into a coffee shop and the person making your latte was your doctor? I don’t know about you, but that would not instill very much confidence […]