2013 Business Management – Don’t Close Up Shop During The Holidays The period between Thanksgiving and The New Year is one of the most difficult times for businesses and professionals to get work done. Nearly everyone is shifting their focus from getting work done to thinking about family, holiday parties, gifts, religious services, and just […]
Prospecting – Thinking About Selling? Name Your Price
2013 Prospecting – Thinking About Selling? Name Your Price Agents can expect new listing opportunities to become more and more scarce during the coming months. The good old days where an agent could turn down a listing because of a difficult seller with unrealistic expectations will soon come to an end. Agents […]
Prospecting – Supercharge Your MLS Auto Notification Campaign
2013 Prospecting – Supercharge Your MLS Auto Notification Campaign One of the best prospecting tools developed by the MLS systems in the past couple of years has been the auto notification campaign. This program allows you to sign your buyers up to receive any new information about activity within the parameters that you set up […]
Prospecting – Use Your Hot Buyers to Get New Listings
2013 Prospecting – Use Your Hot Buyers to Get New Listings With the market heating up and next year promising to be a big year in real estate, why not take the opportunity to prospect for listings using your buyers? Consider the following scenario: You’ve been working with serious buyers that have expressed an interest […]
Presentation – The Final Step of the Listing Presentation
2013 Listing Presentations – The Final Step With listing inventory continuing to decline, 2014 is likely to be a challenging year for securing new listings. That’s why it’s extremely important that you pull out all the stops for each and every opportunity you have to list properties. Most sellers interview several agents before they make […]
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Economic Considerations – Expect Inflation to Become an Issue in 2014
2013 Economic Considerations: Expect Inflation to Become an Issue In 2014 With the economy improving each month it’s easy to be lulled into a false sense of security with respect to the prospects of a much better year in 2014. This belief could be a tad optimistic given the risk of inflation in the coming […]
Economic Considerations – Low Inflation? Don’t Count on it!
2013 Economic Considerations – Low Inflation? Don’t you Believe It! Virtually every article that is published about inflation implies that it hasn’t been an issue in the United States. If you look at how prices have affected the typical family in the United States, there is ample evidence that inflation is having a serious impact […]