Sometimes when you write often enough you do get ideas about another topic you would like to throw out there but then in your mind you determine that no one would really be interested. I have to credit fellow Associate and excellent Realtor from Myrtle Beach, SC Mirela Monte for encouraging me to
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07/19/2008
I humorously wrote earlier about taking an imaginary virtual trip away from our daily work efforts in the Real Estate industry. The reponses from that post fell into two camps. Those who had already enjoyed refreshment in Ocean City, NJ, Maui, getting back from Spain, planning trips to the Caribb
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07/19/2008
I have somewhere along the way in life found that I have been a "helper" to other people. Are you a helper? It is something that some gravitate towards. Maybe coming from a family with multiple children we all had to pitch in and it was to be expected. But, DO YOU HAVE THE CALLING THAT WILL
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07/18/2008
Sometimes in the real estate world or life in general you may have had a hard week. It may have been physically hard on you. It may have been an emotional roller coaster. You may have been distracted by any number of issues from family situations to health to just being overwhelmed for whatever r
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07/17/2008
In web site design especially for Realtors you often hear of the term "stickiness" or how long a visitor stays on the site. In working with buyers or sellers in the marketplace Internet leads are a "component" of any good Marketing plan. Typically third on the list yet some agents in building bus
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07/17/2008
This is a bad news and good news post. First off if you are alive you are going to have problems. Next some of those problems are going to be doozies. These are troubles. The worst of these troubles are both out of your control AND unexpected. Think of ferocious weather. I live in tornado alley a
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07/16/2008
If you think about the steps in buying or selling Real Estate it is like a sequence of solving problems along the way. As in life if you don't solve the problems when they are in front of you, nipping things in the bud, the accumulated problems can overwhelm you. Here are some thoughts for KNOCKI
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07/16/2008
I sometimes feel like I am living in a Twilight Zone episode. Recently I dropped a new watch I bought on the pavement as I was taking it off to go into a fitness center. From that point on it turned into MY MAGICAL WATCH. What I mean by that on a hot sweaty day I took my watch off to dry
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07/16/2008
In Real Estate as with many other professions there is always the search for success. There is the looking for success in life too, and many coaches tell us or books are written about the "key" to success. Who knows if there is one answer to that. I do believe you have to know what your definitio
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07/15/2008
Lately I have been frequenting one particular Chinese restaurant because it seems the messages I am getting from the fortune cookies have been amazingly accurate. I'm thinking of weaving them into a shoe of some sort so I have all these predictions and words of wisdom, ahem, right at my feet.
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07/14/2008
