December 2009
101 posts
5 Questions You Must Ask to Make Sure Your...
By: Robb Murry, www.rismedia.com Creating and maintaining a personal brand is crucial to finding success in today’s real estate market. While an elaborate personal logo and a catchy tagline are solid foundations for your personal brand, it is important that every contact you have with a consumer defines and reinforces your personal brand. Below are five questions you must ask yourself to...
NAR Survey Shows First-Time Home Buyers Set Record...
By: Walter Molony, www.realtor.org First-time home buyers reached the highest market share on record during the past year, according to the latest consumer survey of home buyers and sellers. The study was released at the 2009 REALTORS® Conference & Expo in November. The 2009 National Association of Realtors® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers is the latest in a series of large national NAR...
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A Tale of Two Real Estate 'Tweeters'
By: Mary Umberger, www.inman.com This is a tale of two Tweeters. They’re tackling the microblogging phenomenon in ways that are polar opposites — and are equally convinced that it’s a great way to build their real estate businesses. Kelly Mitchell is a Honolulu agent who uses Twitter.com to send out brief dispatches that spotlight news in the real estate market and that also...
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Drawing Up a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Blueprint Will...
By: Paul Muolo, www.nationalmortgagenews.com Within the next 60 days the White House is expected to release its blueprint on what to do with the nation’s money losing — but much needed — Congressionally chartered mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If you think the answer to this dilemma is going to be an easy one, then I have some AIG bonds I’d like to sell you....
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Real Meaning of Words
Love Sorrow Innocence Departure Pain Solitude Music Respect Compassion Friendship Music Patience Stranger Rescued Best friends Divine “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” * Hey Just Thinking of You Today! See and...
14 Mistakes to Avoid with Your Will
By: Liz Pulliam Weston, www.moneycentral.msn.com Wills do more than distribute our stuff after we die. They also give our heirs a final, lasting impression of us and our intentions. That can be a good thing, if we’ve planned carefully and executed our estate plan meticulously. Or it can be a disaster, if we’ve made one of these common blunders: Not having a will. All of us have...
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The True Cost of Flipping a House
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What is Your Favorite Restaurant in Indianapolis?
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely...”
– Louis Pasteur
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not...”
– William Arthur Ward
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“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get Ready for 2010: Reaching Your Market
By: Linda Williams, www.nationalmortgagreprofessional.com In today’s mortgage market, efficient and compliant marketing is vital to developing a client base of reliable referrals. Right now, people are looking for a professional to help them take advantage of our current market. How are you letting them know you’re there to meet their needs? There are a number of sources for...
Avoiding Sales Resistance
By: Gill E. Wagner, www.honestselling.com Sales resistance is not a natural part of the buy-sell process, but rather it is a direct result of the salesperson’s behavior. To eliminate sales resistance whether you are a real estate agent, loan officer, insurance rep or car salesman — you must change your behavior so you do nothing to create it. A key aspect of honest selling is the focus...
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“The road to success runs uphill.”
– Willie Davis
Even the Rich are Treating Their Houses Like Piggy...
By: John R. Emshwiller and Jonathan Karp, www.wsj.com In recent years, millions of Americans looked at their houses and saw big, fat piggy banks. And it occurred to them to take out big, fat new mortgages. Few did it on the scale of Ronald Burkle. Mr. Burkle, the grocery-store billionaire, has $56 million in loans against two houses, including $9 million added last year. One is his iconic...
Do You Need Real-Time ID-Theft Protection?
By: Aleksandra Todorova, www.smartmoney.com Even as the effectiveness of credit monitoring services comes under fire, some of the same companies are pushing a new generation of personal data tracking: identity theft protection that involves real-time monitoring of your most important information. Here’s how it works. Companies that track personally identifiable information, or PII, contract...
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“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding, and it is not to be found in...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
There's Gold in Them There Leads!
By: Dirk Zeller, www.realestatechampions.com Creating an effective lead follow-up system can be the backbone to a consistent real estate sales business. The more effectively you handle the leads you generate, the more production you will achieve. Seems pretty obvious. Too many agents, however, are spending way too much time just trying to find the leads they generated. They know the leads are...
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“I am a slow walker … but I never walk backwards.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
– Goethe
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How Much is Enough?
By: www.thesimpledollar.com As time goes on, I begin to see more and more that personal finance is mostly psychological. Sure, it’s useful to have a long list of money-saving tactics, but if you’re under the belief that such tools are useless, it doesn’t matter how great the tips are. I can talk about savings tactics until the sun goes down, but if you’re psychologically...
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“Who told you it couldn’t be done? And what great achievement has he to...”
– Napoleon Hill
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Targeted Website Traffic: 12 Ways to Drive Traffic...
By: Michelle Salater, www.realestatebydesignny.com 1. Blog for Business: Blogging for business is free and is an excellent way to attract thousands of potential customers to your website, increase your search engine rankings, and boost company credibility. Regularly posting a blog also builds loyal readership and attracts more people to your website. Much has been written in the past year or two...
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“I never waste time looking back.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed...”
– William A. Ward
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
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