You Don’t Have to Get Ready if You Stay Ready
We’ve all heard the Will Smith quote before, but as we move into the spring selling season, it’s worth repeating. If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. What does this ...
How does your brokerage promote you?
We all see the social posts touting “Sally Agent sold $1 million last month”. But there’s so much more to you than your production! In fact, I’d venture to say that since ...
What’s Missing In Your Real Estate Business?
No one is great at everything, not even you. When you decided to get your real estate license, I’m sure you never thought about the fact that you would suddenly be the CEO of something. ...
December is not the time to slack off
Here we are, in the final push to get things done before the New Year. The time of year when REALTORS take a look back at their business and plan forward for what’s to come. It’s also ...
What’s Your Mission?
When it comes to writing a mission statement, most agents will roll their eyes and proclaim it boring. Or unneccessary. Or a waste of their time. But your mission statement determines how you do ...
Trusting Your New Orleans Broker
Trust is the bedrock of the relationship between you and your New Orleans broker. When you decided to hang your license at your brokerage, I assume that you believed that it existed. Do you trust ...
What’s your real estate niche?
REALTORS are notorious for trying to be everything to everyone when what they really need is to choose and focus on a real estate niche. What’s a niche? A niche is a specialized segment of ...
If You Want to Get Paid, You Have to Do the Work
If there’s one thing that I get really tired of as a broker, it’s hearing about agents that don’t do their job well. Or at all. Here’s the thing. If you want to get paid ...
Real Estate Marketing is Your Resume
A hot market is when consumers and other agents can get a good feel for which agents are excellent at their real estate marketing and which ones do just enough to get by. Well, it sure ...
Ask Your Broker
All of those Facebook real estate groups can be an interesting diversion, but I’m here to tell you to stop getting your business advice from these groups, especially national ones. Every ...
The Dangers of Buyer Love Letters
How many times have buyers been advised to include love letters with their offers? Probably hundreds and hundreds of times over the years, all in an effort to make their offer stand out from the ...
Learn to Explain How REALTORS Get Paid
In case you missed it, the National Association of REALTORS, in response to a lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice, has agreed that the co-op compensation offered to buyer ...
