Diary of a Video Shoot – Day 3

Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by Camilla Sullivan.

Well they say the best laid plans of mice and men… The furniture that was to arrive in Vienna , VA today must have gone to Vienna, Austria instead. Easy mistake, but it seems that it will be arriving sometime before 11 p.m. tonight.  Luckily, the producer is the one who has taken the job [...]

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Diary of a Video Shoot – Day 2

Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Camilla Sullivan.

5.30 a.m. – My alarm goes off. Well, I guess I drew the short straw this morning.  To keep budgets down, we don’t have any producer’s assistants coming in until 10a.m., so I have the job of meeting the painting team from ‘Tech Painting’ to begin the makeover process.  I know which colors are going [...]

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Who Are These People We Call REALTORS®?

Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Wendy Forsythe.

Insight on that question can be found in the 2008 National Association of REALTORS® Member Profile. If you are looking to catch up on some reading this holiday season,  add this report to the stack on your bedside table. Here are some of the highlights I found interesting: The typical REALTOR® has been in the [...]

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Creating Web Content – Diary of a Video Shoot

Posted on 15. Dec, 2008 by Camilla Sullivan.

Following on from my last blog post about working on some content for our website with designer Stephen Saint-Onge, I thought I would write my blog this week about the project we decided to undertake, and follow each day of a 6 day, on location video shoot.  There is a lot more to creating great [...]

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Is Facebook the New Birthday Card?

Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Sherry Chris.

Ok, some of you might think this post is just a little self serving, because it is sort of about of my birthday, but not really. It’s really about people taking the time to do something nice, and using social media as the distribution channel. Many of you know that an important part of our [...]

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Measuring Talent Attraction (AKA Recruiting) Success in Real Estate

Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Robert Albanese.

The concept that ‘attracting talent’ as opposed to simply ‘recruiting people’ is central in the hiring of sales agents, an it has been discussed in several blogs by Wendy Forsythe in recent months. These are articulate and well written pieces that you may want to review as you consider the ideas contained in this entry. [...]

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To Do’s in 2009 (but you could get started now!)

Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by Wendy Forsythe.

Okay, I admit it. It’s rough out there, it’s rough in here, it’s rough everywhere.  That doesn’t mean we can give up. I think there are a lot of agents and managers out there who have given up. They may still technically have a real estate license or hold a managers title, but they are [...]

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Attention: Agents, Brokers, Builders, Lenders… We have some work to do!

Posted on 08. Dec, 2008 by Sherry Chris.

When I saw the headline in the Saturday New York Times entitled “It May Be Time to Think About Buying a House”, I thought to myself…  “Good, a positive article about the housing market.” A few of those, coupled with the rumored drop in the 30 year fixed to 4.5%,  might just be what we [...]

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Are Real Estate Mobile Search Apps a Good Idea?

Posted on 04. Dec, 2008 by Jason Steele.

I have never been a fan of technology for the sake of technology.  Although tech ideas can be very high on the cool scale they tend to usually be very low on the ROI or usefulness scale.  I am sort of perplexed by all of the hype surrounding real estate search on your mobile phone.  [...]

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We Don’t Recruit – We Attract

Posted on 03. Dec, 2008 by Wendy Forsythe.

A big thanks to RISMedia for featuring my thoughts on attracting and retaining talent. We receive dozens of inquiries weekly from people across the country considering a career change. If you are responsible for attracting talent to your office, you might be surprised to know that almost 70% of these inquiries are coming from seasoned [...]

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Tough Times, Tough Decisions

Posted on 02. Dec, 2008 by Sherry Chris.

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