Silos are great. At maintaining the status quo. At being predictable. Silos hold grain. Get emptied. Get refilled with more grain. Over and over and over. A very predictable pattern. Silos suck if you are focused on growth. Sure, you can build more of them. But…

The bottom line is that you don’t know the best way to accomplish a goal until you try several different approaches of reaching the same goal. In the web world, that process is generally referred to as “A/B Testing”. A few months ago, I created…

I’ve been wanting to cover international real estate technology in detail for quite some time, but have never gotten around to it until now. PropertyFeast in India paid for a sponsored post via the Press Release submission tool built into this site (their Press Release is already…

Bill Taylor, the founding editor of Fast Company, gave a compelling keynote at the Texas Christian University’s Neely School of Business 75th anniversary dinner.  He talked about constant reinvention, long lasting change, and the art of disruption. But the topic that resonated with me the…

How Much Real Estate Will I Sell if I’m on the First Page Google I just saw this as a search query in my Google Analytics. Meaning at least one person is out there trying to figure out the answer. Of course, we all want…

I grew up in Chicago and kids had to choose between the White Sox or the Cubs as their favorite team. Since there has only been one World Series winner between both teams since 1917, choices are not the best. Anyway, my team was the…

This morning I was sitting in my office when a newer agent that I am friendly with popped in to say hello.  Naturally, we got to talking about how each of our businesses are doing and I loved what he shared with me.  It was…

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled Where are the real estate young guns? that highlighted a few very successful (and one might add “tenured”) bloggers, agents, and marketing mavericks in the real estate industry. Their stories are inspirational and serve as a benchmark for…

SAD DAY today when I was looking for one of my favorite real estate blogs (FOREM), and it was nowhere to be found. Where have the bloggers gone? I suspect  two things: mother companies like Inman or Zillow want to go in a different direction. …

Every year I look for one or two things to add to my arsenal of tools and I also look to get rid of the most under used or under performing ones.  I figure this will help my real estate  business stay fresh and continually…