60 Days Into 2006 – How is Your Business Plan Working?

This article is written by Allen Wright, who is a Business Planner. It has some excellent points on checking in on your business, to see how you are doing so far, compared to where you intended to be. He talks about what points are important to kee…

What’s in a name?

Cendant and the brain trusts that be are in the process of reorganizing and renaming the individual units. Like this will make a difference, well at least not to those of us in the trenches.
It hopefully won’t mean extra overhead in corporate salarie…

Good times at Coldwell Banker IBC 2006

We had a great time in San Francisco connecting with old friends and meeting new ones. The educational courses were light in most cases but a few stood out as excellent. We thank everyone who had positive comments about Network News and for those…

Rookie Realtors, Will They Succeed? (Part 3)

This is the last of a three part series by
Bernice Rossof Inman News. Here are parts 1 and 2. In it she talks about different personality tests and character traits that might predict a new agent’s success or failure in the business. It’s certainly…

San Francisco IBC uppdate

Greetings from San Francisco. As you know Sara and I and about 350 other Canadians are down in Fran to partake in Coldwell Banker’s international business conference and 100th birthday celebrations.
The weather has been great so far but that is ex…

Managing Real Estate Relationships

Another good article from Inman News… this time talking about CRM or customer relationship management, specifically dealing with online leads. This aspect of our business is becoming crucial, as more leads are generated, and these people are 12-…

Rookie Realtors, Will They Succeed? (Part 2)

The long awaited second installment of this three part series on predicting a rookie’s success in this business (read part 1 here). This article, again by Bernice Ross of Inman News looks to see if demographic information can predict a newbie’s success…

Zillow Launches!

Surprise! It’s live!
There’s been a lot of talk about Zillow.com in this industry in recent months. Some people have actually feared it’s launch, thinking it would do to real estate what Expedia did to the travel industry (Richard Barton is the founde…

The Perfect Media Interview

So you’ve done something newsworthy! Congratulations! Now the media is calling and wants to do an interview. These 7 steps from Duct Tape Marketing will help you ensure the interview goes well.

7 Steps to the Perfect Media Interview So, what happ…

National Real Estate Convention – Free Registration

Can’t make it to IBC? Well here’s a convention you can attend without leaving your home. It’s totally online and it’s totally free!Allan Dalton to Keynote Fifth Annual National Real Estate On-Line Convention & Exposition In Cyberspace February 20 – 26,…