Archives for March 2006
Typical real estate marketing is unimaginative. Pens, note pads and others. As a victim of this senseless marketing, I too can’t believe what I have convinced myself is a good idea. I say victim because there are plenty of influences marketing us….
Coldwell Banker Kalwest (25 agents approx) merged with Realty Executive Chinook city (50 agents) officially today. Its been great catching up with some old friends who are there and some current friends who are excited about their new company. I gu…
A lot of this we’ve all read before, but it’s nice to take a minute and refocus. The point of this article is that to build customers for life, you need to focus on the client, not the end result…
RISMEDIA, March 22, 2006—Fostering a client for li…
It is official Charlotte Sutherland from CB in Canmore is no longer with the Real Estate Council of Alberta after a long and in my opinion successful 6 year tenure. Charlotte represented members not belonging to organized real estate.
Having been i…
This just in from CBC news online. A bit of a cooling off period at least here in the west could only be a good thing from the perspective of the market here in Edmonton.
TD PREDICTS U.S. ECONOMY WILL COOL IN 2006, CHILLING CANADA WebPosted Wed Mar 2…
What’s in a name. More importantly how do you pronounce it. You know you’ve got a marketing genius screwing things up somewhere when a very senior executive of one Cendant’s biggest assests isn’t sure how to pronounce the name. Enough of my side b…
Office politics, economics and social hiearchy affects your bottom line. You can get sucked into like a fart in a wind storm or you can rise above it, separate yourself from the fray and maintain your sanity and profitability.
Maintining your directi…
What’s to say except sorry for the delay. Busy, busy days when we got back from Red Deer prevented us from getting this out sooner.
The new Coldwell Banker website is promised for launch on March 31st. The marketing strategy this year will hinge in …
A recent report shows that almost half of local keywords purchased online are purchased by real estate agents. The fact is, advertising online works, and thousands of agents are doing it. Here are some exerpts from a report on Inman News today:
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While this new book contains some real lame and generic stuff it is organized in such a way as to make it a good flip through for ideas for your own best buyer practises and recommendations.
March 17, 2006) –
Elizabeth Razzi, author of The F…