Mitch 's Blog

I've been living in Brevard County Florida now for 11 years.  The first two years I traveled 25 days a month so I really didn't get to experience this area.  And, yes, it's a beautiful area.   So I was just thinking... When I got into Real Estate, I never really thought about the impact that we, ...

Wow!  Is it really true?  Where did all those years go by?  Just yesterday I had hair down to my butt and weighed a whopping 120 pounds.  I've been reflecting a lot the past couple of weeks.  On Jan. 9th I'll turn 50.  I know it's not a big deal to most, but to me it's a realization of mortality ...

Over the past year or so the interest rates have been incredible. So why are consumers not buying homes? It's real simple, they are scared. They think the prices and the interest rates are still going to go down. One of the things we have done to educate our buyers is our buyers presentation. If ...

As most of you know, working Internet leads is pretty much my life these days. Ok, it has been for the past 9 years. Almost daily, I read posts throughout the Internet on the subject. I read different views on so many aspects of lead conversion and most of the times it is from people who don't ha...

Every year I wonder how bad December and January will be for my brokerage. It's probably my most stressful time of running my brokerage. It seems that most years, Agents decide that from the second week of November through the first of the new year, it's time to take off. I have seen this over an...

Lately I've been travling a lot.  It's a lot tougher than it was 15 years ago when I traveled almost every day of the month.  I guess it's age.  My schedule the past few weeks has been crazy.  Three weeks ago I spoke at the Inman's Agent Reboot in Fort Lauderdale, the day before I was at a Fannie...

It's been a rough few years.  There isn't many people who understand this as much as Realtors understand.  Most of us have seen our businesses plummet over the past 4-5 years.  In Brevard County Florida our home prices have fallen from an average of $275k in 2005 to $117k in 2010.  My personal ho...

Well we are almost a week away from our full day seminar in Orlando on Internet Marketing and Lead Conversion.  If you have been trying to figure out how to generate business by using the Internet, this is one seminar you don't want to miss.  As most of you know I've spent years and tons of money...

I'm sitting in my hotel room, it's 3:41am and I am speaking on lead conversion at Inman's Agent Reboot at 9:30am this morning in Fort Lauderdale.  More and more these days people call my office and send me notes at The Real Estate Success Network, my education company asking how they can improve ...

On November 3rd, from 9am - 5pm, I will be holding an Internet Marketing Seminar for Real Estate.  Basically I will be teaching the processes and systems I have used to build my Melbourne Brokerage to over 300+ sales annually from the Internet.    I will be teaching the following: Website do's an...