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The REport

The REport

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Sherry Chris.

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The amplitude of the Internet was proven once again last weekend when WikiLeaks released approximately 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan.  White House officials are no doubt revisiting their handling of classified documents in light of this.  What is your policy on protecting important business files from ending up on the Internet? What [...]

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The REport

The REport

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Sherry Chris.

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Google is yet again making our lives easier. Now, you don’t have to search for iPhone or Android apps of interest, as they will be pushed to you based on your searches. Interesting! In other search news, check out CityGrid Media, a company resulting from the merging of Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon. Not only [...]

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Two Things: Agents and Listings

Two Things: Agents and Listings

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Wendy Forsythe.

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I believe there is great power in simplicity. I think we generally over complicate business. Heck, I think we generally over complicate life. But that’s a completely different blog post. Let’s get back to keeping it simple in the real estate business. I have several people in my life who remind me almost daily that what we [...]

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Job Loss Report – The Rest of the Story

Job Loss Report – The Rest of the Story

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Rick Gregory.

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While many of my previous blog’s use of attempted humor to prove a point have generated some fun conversations, my goal is always to share relevant information that is hopefully found useful by many of our franchisees and sales associates.  After reviewing Friday’s jobless numbers, providing some direct factual information that can help shed some [...]

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Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Sherry Chris.

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Happy Holidays! As we look forward to a New Year, we may not see the real estate market recover as much as we all hope. In the Chinese calendar, 2010 will be the Year of the Tiger, which seems appropriate as the animal represents unpredictability. We have seen improvement in the past few months, but [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Sherry Chris.

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Promotion and publicity. These days, especially with all the attention you need to give to marketing yourself online, becoming a skilled promoter and publicist serving you as your client is a full time job. WebWorkerDaily offers 7 tips on how to Take Center Stage and promote yourself. There’s hardly a day that goes by where [...]

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The Executive Suites Model: Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Executive – Seattle, Washington

The Executive Suites Model: Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Executive – Seattle, Washington

Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Robert Albanese.

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(From a phone interview with Keith Nelson, CEO) As early on as 1991 with only 25 agents, Keith Nelson, CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Executive in Seattle Washington was already experimenting with alternate business models. Over time, his concept of “executive suite” type locations has emerged as a strong operational alternative. The [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by Jason Steele.

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There’s lots of theories around on how to increase traffic ranking and manage all the various aspects of your website. Link building would be included as one of them. Some believe the art of link building is dead. The folks at Search Engine Land believes that’s a lie Like us, if you are using WordPress [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Jason Steele.

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Augmented Reality is a type of virtual reality that aims to duplicate the world’s environment within a computer by combining real scenes viewed by the user and a virtual scene generated by the computer and augmenting it with additional information. The virtual scene generated enhances the user’s sensory perception of the virtual world they are [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.

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It’s been sort of quiet these past months on the technology front. Not a whole lot of innovation going on inside real estate. But outside the space, the API space is on fire. Tesco, a grocery-and more change from the UK is about to unveil an API for its online store that allows developers to [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 05. Jun, 2009 by Jason Steele.

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Anthony Tjan, CEO, Founder and Managing partner at VC firm Cue Ball believes that businesses rely to heavily on demographics to understand their customers when instead they ought to be focusing more on their psychographics. But now, with new technologies such as OpenID single sign-on service, gleaning that data could change all that. Read more over at Harvard Business Publishing in his post titled Want to Understand Your Customers? Go Psycho.

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