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7-Point Checklist for a Healthy Website

Even the healthiest websites should be refreshed, retooled and refocused from time to time so that they generate the maximum results you desire. Here is a checklist to work from to make sure your website is on track for success: IDX maximized and leveraged. Gone are the days of just one link to search properties [...]

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Create a Miracle in your business in 2011!

One of my favorite movies it the movie Miracle in which Kurt Russell is playing the coach of the Olympic Hockey team in 1980. In the movie it was his job to assemble a team that would be able to play against the Russians. The American association’s vision was to create a team that would [...]

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8 Ways To Make Positive Changes In Your Real Estate Business

Now that we are half-way through February, are you still on track to achieve all those New Year’s resolutions you set seven weeks ago for your real estate business? Now is a good time to check your progress and adjust your habits if you have fallen back into old routines. You’ve probably heard Albert Einstein’s [...]

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Will Choosing A Real Estate Niche Work for You?

Whenever real estate agents ask me what the most cost-effective way to market their business, I tell them “specialize for a real estate niche and be able to clearly explain why you are different from other agents.” While most agents agree this might be the way to go in a city with millions of people, [...]

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7 Tips for Coping with Email Overload

This is the feature article in this week’s RealtyBiz Agent Success Newsletter. I’m now back from Spain and have spent the last week trying to catch up on email, contacts, client relationships, and everything else that I put on hold for my vacation. Getting away was great – and I made sure not to do [...]

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Be More Productive with the 80/20 Rule

This is the feature article in this week’s RealtyBiz Agent Success Newsletter. I’m headed to the Priorat region of Spain for a week on Friday. Of course, I still have a million things on my to-do list and a million more on would-like-to-do list. As I added yet another thing to the to-do list, I [...]

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Last Minute International Travel On A Budget

I’m traveling to Northern Spain (Priorat) for a week in wine country the last week in May. The trip was somewhat of a last minute decision – I had wanted to go as part of a tour (through The Wine School of Philadelphia, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Seriously, if you love wine and [...]

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A Marketing Plan Guide For Real Estate Agents

A couple of things – New Site Design – I’ve completely revamped the RealtyBizCoach.com design and moved the blog off the front page. It’s now at http://www.realtybizcoach.com/blog/. I think everything is working, but if you notice any bugs while viewing the site, please let me know. Free Marketing Guide – I’ve just released a revised [...]

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How To Build a Referral-Based Business

This is step 5 of a five-part series on how new agents can successfully break into the real estate market. Yesterday, I talked about the importance of nurturing your prospect list. Today, I’m going to shift gears and discuss what you need to do to build a referral-based business. Last week, Mike asked me, “Where [...]

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How To Build Trust and Credibility as a New Agent

This is step 1 of a five-part series on how new agents can successfully break into the real estate market. Building credibility and expertise as a new agent is somewhat of a chicken or egg dilemma. You need clients to gain credibility and expertise, yet clients won’t hire you unless you already have that credibility [...]

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