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Real Estate Related Real Estate Scam from China. Last week, one of our agents was contacted via email from a man wanting to buy this agent’s listing (Condo).  This man claims he is about to retire  from China and move to the USA.  He wants to pay cash and wants the agent to write up the transaction and Docusign it to him.  The […]
Interesting stuff Things I learned from the Inman Connect in San Fransisco. July 13th to the 15th I attended Inamn Connect in San Fransisco. I had a great time seeing a lot of new things. Also some not so new things, and then some things that didn’t impress me at all. The 3 things I came away with were.. 1. The Real Estate Industry as a whole […]
Business today A different spin on Social Media. So today I had to de-friend someone. Why you ask? Because they were so focused on being a Real Estate agent that they no longer added value to my wall, but rather filled it up with listing noise that I wasn’t interested in hearing about. Lets remember that Social media is about being social. If […]
Business today Whats the deal with business cards? So I was looking at my desk the other day and noticed a stack of business cards that I have collected over the past few months. You know how it goes, you go to a business meeting and we all exchange business cards. While in the meeting if I look around the room I also […]
Living J.J.'s Way, AKA John Jacobi So I’m at my desk this morning and finding that I have more things to do then hours in the day. You could say there was some frustration, anxiety, and stress. I got up to get a 3rd cup of coffee and just looking up on my bulletin board I saw something that was given […]
Living J.J.’s Way, AKA John Jacobi So I’m at my desk this morning and finding that I have more things to do then hours in the day. You could say there was some frustration, anxiety, and stress. I got up to get a 3rd cup of coffee and just looking up on my bulletin board I saw something that was given […]
Real Estate Related Starbucks has it figured out. Recently watched this video form the Social Media Examiner Blog where they interviewed Alex Wheeler who heads up Starbucks social media strategy. I believe Windermere is similar to Starbucks in that  we have overtime created a very strong and successful brand, one agent, one owner, and one office at a time. This didn’t happen over night but happends because we found […]
Real Estate Related Foursquare may already have a place in Real Estate So you may have heard of this new Social Media phenomenon using geo-tagging called Foursquare. It is the newest fastest growing game in the smartphone social media arena today. If you want to get a great idea on how it works here is a great article from Realtor Magazine‘s blog that gives you a better understating about the application. I […]
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Real Estate Related You need to put some thought into your social media engagement. So because I have a blog and I am engaged everyday in social media this blog post  and video from Social Media Examiner really appealed to me and I think you will find some great tips in it as well. The main points I pulled from watching this is below. 1. You have to listen. Too many […]
Real Estate Related What I learned at RE Bar Camp in Seattle last Friday! It is always interesting what you are going to learn when you attend a BARcamp. Social Media was a very hot topic this year. I attended A few facebook classes and I also attended a few video blogging classes. In the facebook class it was very obvious that agents are still a bit unsure of […]
Interesting stuff Are you genuine with your customer base? Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with Julie Hall over a cup of coffee to talk about her approach to being a successful gen Y real estate agent. Julie is a successful Associate Broker in our Renton office but her approach to engaging with her clients is different than what a traditional agent […]
Real Estate Related Something to consider when buying a home… Having lunch today with a friend and we got on the topic of customer service.  He was upset because over the weekend he was working with a very large bank that will remain nameless, trying to approve a business line of credit.  He was frustrated because he felt as if he was being treated like a number, […]
Real Estate Related What makes a great leader? This came to me today via e-mail from a co worker of mine (Scott Wetzel). I got to thinking about our business in real estate and how we may come across sometimes to our clients.  In today’s world your buyers and sellers need a person to lead them down a road of success and home […]
Real Estate Related The new Windermere Beta search site launched. Yesterday Windermere launched their improved home page. Preview.windermere.com After lots of feed back from the public we realized there were some features that we needed to bring back. You will now see on the main page the ability to use a general map, advanced search parameters, and better organization of over all information. You will […]
customer services What do you know about your customers? Think about this for a min “Today, if you go to an important meeting and you haven’t bothered to Google the person and their company, it’s practically an offense. Your about to spend an hour together and you couldn’t be bothered to look them up? It’s expected, no longer amazing.” With the Internet being what […]
Real Estate Related There isn't an app for that! As I was driving in today to work and listening to track 13 of the new Black Eye Peas CD called (Now Generation) it made me think about the world we live in today.  We really have become a now generation.  We want everything to be instant and without flaw and to have little face […]
Real Estate Related There isn’t an app for that! As I was driving in today to work and listening to track 13 of the new Black Eye Peas CD called (Now Generation) it made me think about the world we live in today.  We really have become a now generation.  We want everything to be instant and without flaw and to have little face […]
Real Estate Related Twitter for real estate, yes or no? So it is always interesting when I’m out in the real estate offices as of late and I start to talk about twitter. I will get one of two looks. One will be that of curiousness and wanting to know more, and the other will be a look of skepticism.  If you had to guess which one I […]
Real Estate Related Don't be a real estate Dinosaur, 5 ideas for 2010! So it is 2010 which means it is time to analyze your business and make sure you are relevant with technology in the eyes of your customers. I have broken this down to 5 items. 1. Do you understand the power of social media? Are you engaged in the world of Facebook, and Twitter? If you aren’t then watch this […]
Real Estate Related Don’t be a real estate Dinosaur, 5 ideas for 2010! So it is 2010 which means it is time to analyze your business and make sure you are relevant with technology in the eyes of your customers. I have broken this down to 5 items. 1. Do you understand the power of social media? Are you engaged in the world of Facebook, and Twitter? If you aren’t then watch this […]