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Here are two free webinars being offered by Trulia the week of February 16-20 for agents looking to sharpen their communication and marketing skills. We'll see you online!   Lead Conversion Master Strategies: Understanding Your Leads’ “Digital Body Language”Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015 | 10 a.m. PST / ...

You are invited to join Trulia for a free webinar! Trulia in 20: How to Smartly Manage Your Online Reviews (Yes, Even Bad Ones) Wednesday, February 1110 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET20 minutes   Let’s face it—client reviews are an integral piece of the new online real estate landscape. Like it or not, your...

Most busy real estate professionals struggle trying to find time to do all of the things we want to do in our day. We need to always be prospecting yet busy work can keep us away from the tasks that really make a difference to the bottom line. While we can never create more time, we can work smar...

There’s a long list of things that can kill or delay any part of a real estate transaction. Clients understand when factors, like the weather, delay a deal. But, for everything else they want you to have a solution. That includes having the tech you need to do business from anywhere. When it come...

Remember that commercial that popularized the catchphrase “There’s an app for that?” Imagine what viewers would say if they saw it today. “Duh,” one might say. “There’s more like 20 apps for that,” another might quip. Not only are there innumerable apps for all things shopping-, money-, and real ...

Time and again I hear real estate pros tell me that online prospecting doesn’t work, but truth be told, their difficulties may be caused by their own strategies - we hear about online prospecting success stories all the time. Their frustration is understandable, though; it’s easy to get frustrate...

This past June, we extended an offer out to the ActiveRain community that over 500 real estate agents took us up on.   We decided that December would be a great time to extend this offer one more time to our friends in the ActiveRain community. So, in case you missed out last time... ActiveRain M...

This business can be intense. Between competing for listings, showing appointments and servicing existing transactions, some months seem like they leave absolutely no time for the additional business-building that you know you need to do for the winter. Have no fear – having only a few minutes he...

I’ve been “social” for a while. I first joined my first facebook in 2003 (not to be confused "the Facebook" we know today), tweeted for the first time in 2008, and watched in 2009 as many professionals, real estate agents, and marketers who were early adopters started to dub themselves “gurus” an...

When client says nice things about you, the benefits don’t have to stop at the good feeling. Get smart. Start using your clients' feedback to generate more commissions. Check out these five smart ways you can use your recommendations to market your business:   1. Add Recommendations to Your Follo...