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Your Prospecting Seven Point Checklist


Marketing Looking for a unique mailing to set you apart from others? Consider sending prospects Walter Sanford's Seven Point Checklist, which will encourage interactivity. 1.  Does the real estate professional guarantee his service or allow you to cancel the listing contract at any time? We do, here it is...
Oct-08-2012


Real Estate App of the Week: CamCard


Blog If you're like me, you come home from events and conferences with handfuls of business cards. This simplifies the process. CamCard: Business Card Reader and Scanner Available on Apple’s iOS platform and is supported on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. It also works on iPod Touch and A...
Oct-04-2012


Eight Tips to Get Your Phone Calls Returned


Marketing You diligently set aside two hours each day to cold call but you rarely get a call back. Why? Colorado writer John Heckers has some great tips in this article: In a recent search for a new health insurance broker, I made what turned out to be a pretty major mistake: I posted a request for good br...
Oct-02-2012


Basic Business Tips


Business [caption id="attachment_4399" align="aligncenter" width="244" caption="Drew Johnson"][/caption] After serving in the Navy from 1998 until 2002, Drew Johnson, AREO, co-owner of Touchstone Realty in Martinsburg, West Virginia, decided to get involved in his grandfather’s land development company....
Oct-01-2012


Real Estate App of the Week: Suburb Scout


Blog Are you a new agent trying to get the lay of the land? Want to farm an area that you're not completely familiar with? What it is: Suburb Scout (Android) Suburb Scout allows you to search for possible nuisances in the area of a potential home purchase. Includes sewage plants, airports, nuc...
Sep-27-2012


Awards and Recognition


Community Congrats to the following brokerages on their awards and recognitions! PRUDENTIAL NORTHWEST PROPERTIES NAMED TOP WORKPLACE Prudential Northwest Properties has been selected as one of The Oregonian’s Top Workplaces. Companies receiving this honor are determined solely on anonymous employee feed...
Sep-26-2012


September 2012 Real Estate Newsletter


Newsletter While the housing market struggles to regain its footing and the trend towards the widespread use of technology continues, there are a few threats that bear some thought by the leadership of the realty business. From our view these are only potential challenges at this time and they may or may not m...
Sep-25-2012


LORE: Support for Real Estate Professionals Affected by Joplin Tornados


Community The Joplin, Miss., tornado on May 22, 2011, was the deadliest single tornado since modern recordkeeping began in 1950. It had winds in excess of 200 mph and a track lasting six miles. Yet, Mary Tennant, president and COO of Keller Williams International in Austin, Texas, while on vacation in Ark...
Sep-24-2012





 

 

          

 

 

 

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