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

Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Sherry Chris.

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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Observations from the RISMedia Leadership Conference in NYC

Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Wendy Forsythe.

New York City was buzzing even more than usual this week with the US Open, Fashion Week and about a 1000 real estate industry professional chatting, tweeting, updating and generally creating a lot to think about. The event kicked off with a panel of 7 industry leaders sharing their perspective on the industry.
The audience wasn’t [...]

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

Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Sherry Chris.

From TechFlash, what if you wanted to subscribe to the Twitter feeds of large groups instead of just one individual? TweepML is a new service that let’s you do that.
For those who Twitter:  Some Twitter client updates and improvements for Tweetdeck and HootSuite worthy of note from Mashable.
From ReadWriteWeb this week, How Facebook beat [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things we liked from the week that was

Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by Jason Steele.

RIS Media cracked the week open with a post that takes a positively hopeful, yet pragmatic view of our economic status and how certain indicators suggest the worst may be behind us. But is it really? As this article suggests, it may still be too early to tell.

Inman also offered a sign of increased market activity. It published a reader survey that found most readers have seen signs of improvement in the past 60 days. We’ll see.

Michael Wurzer, prolific blogger and CEO of FBS Data Systems, a MLS software provider in Fargo, North Dakota, reports on the flooding in the area last week in his entry titled Still Fighting. Our prayers, well wishes and thoughts go out to everyone affected.

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The Final Day of an Interesting Year

Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Sherry Chris.

If you were to use one word to describe this year that is almost over, what would it be? Exciting? Devastating? Complicated? Confusing? Challenging? Most would say thank goodness it’s finally over. Since the beginning of my career, I have always been fascinated by the process of  how one year ends and the next begins. [...]

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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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NAR 2008 – It’s a Wrap… and it was pretty interesting!

Posted on 14. Nov, 2008 by Sherry Chris.

(This is one of my longest posts ever! Good for a weekend read…)
When you are building a brand from the ground up, you can’t do it without receiving feedback. What better place to get feedback than at the annual NAR conference where you have a captive audience of some 20,000+ REALTORS® to talk to?

I have [...]

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A Busy Day for Sherry and the Team at NAR

Posted on 07. Nov, 2008 by Kevin Doell.

What an agenda.
This morning at 10:00 a.m. Sherry will be giving a keynote address at the Unchained Orlando Marketing Conference sponsored by the Bloodhound Blog guys. That’s taking place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Orlando Airport.
Later in the day, Sherry will running a program, “Building and Managing a Network of Networks,”  at the [...]

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3 Talent Attraction (Recruiting) Tips

Posted on 10. Sep, 2008 by Wendy Forsythe.

Posted by Wendy Forsythe
1. Use competitors’ recruiting letters as part of your interview package.
Last week during the RISMedia Leadership Conference in NYC, I spoke on a panel about recruiting. A member of the audience asked the panel what she should do when her agents bring her copies of letters they are getting from other brokerages asking them [...]

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5 Ways to Cut Costs…and Still Profit

Posted on 04. Sep, 2008 by Nicolai Kolding.

The advantage of implementing these ideas is that they’re relatively easy and provide measurable results. Plus, I would think that positioning your company for the future would include shifting advertising dollars to online sources, eliminating faxes and excessive printing, and limiting your footprint.

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