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I am talking about Oregons # 7 blogger on Active Rain. I am #8 but that can chane any minute as I have been #9 for a long time and Cindy Westfall has been #8 for the most part. Cindy and I have swapped leads a couple times just for fun. I have notice if we get very close to Mel's points total, s...
01/15/2014
As many know I have embrace technology for the most part. I am the only agent in our office with a personal website and IDX. I have my own scanner, camera and so on. I have been the "Holdout" on NOT getting a smart phone. I have been so turned off by everyone screwing with them all the time. It s...
01/14/2014
How soon do you need to get settled? That was a question that a speaker suggested about 5 years ago at a function I was attending. I unfortunately don't remember to ask it enough. When you stop to think about it, the answer they give you, will speak volumes. It will tell you everything about whet...
01/12/2014
This post is an off shoot of Carla Muss-Jacobs post yesterday about "This is the one---until we toured it" What intrigues you about this house? That is a question I am trying to ask more, with the explanation that if its not the one, I mat know where the "one" is So often clients come in with a p...
01/11/2014
This post will probably ruffle some feathers. Its all my opinion and not that of the company I work for. The question is, Does your business serve good coffee or is it "ground tree bark"? I have so many businesses I go into, that offer me coffee. I usually turn it down including the coffee at my...
01/09/2014
I total agree with what Lenn is saying! On the commenting part I try to respond to each comment as they took time to read my post. I try to respond to something they have written recently. I go with who I follow and branch out from there as time permits. Its a way to meet new peoplw and new mater...
01/09/2014
Active Rain Ambassador Patricia Kennedy has saved my bacon a couple times lately. Near the first of the week she has been spot lighting a few blogs the week before. I have been mentioned with one of my blogs a couple weeks in a row! That's not the point I want to make. What I want to say, is ther...
01/08/2014
"No one steals our clients, we give them away". This was advice given to me years ago by a business man I knew. I still forget that some times. I work in an area where we do NOT use Buyer Agreement contracts. The very few I have lost over the past 10 years were because I gave them away. I forgot ...
01/07/2014
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Do you look out for your clients I. D. security? I use my personal shredder in my office when something doesn't line up in the copier right. It seems like earnest money checks are the biggest culprit. I seem to get them in the copier upside down, backwards, you name it. So what do you do with the...
01/03/2014
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This evening I will do my usual New Years eve reflecting back. One of the things I notice, is how I still think I am 20 years younger than I really am. I think back to how my college age kids where grade schoolers only yesterday. I think of my former career (auto collision repair) and how fast I ...
12/31/2013