A couple of months ago I was using Twitter search and discovered Deed Street.  Deed Street is an open micro-blogging platform which offers aggregation of real estate Tweets using the “^” tag on Twitter.  The site, which was launched in September, requires a user to…

I thought this video from Matt Dollinger was worth sharing — the takeaway is to “FOCUS” on what really generates business for you and not get sucked into spending unnecessary time and effort on tasks that don’t lead to real business. Paralysis by Analysis –…

In college, and for a couple of years after (including the first 6 months I worked as a licensed agent,) I was a bartender.  It was a pretty cush job – working ~25 hours/week and meeting interesting people who had to be nice to you…

How do you keep track of ALL the social networking sites you’re currently on? Are you on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendfeed, ActiveRain and others?  Do you have online profiles scattered all across these continuously growing WEB 2.0 platforms?  How many are you on?  How many…

Hi Everyone, The Coach here!         Haven’t spoken in a while, my apologies for that. I (Like so many others) was a little distracted by life and the “curve balls” in can throw you 🙂 Thus the moral of my (short) story today….As a Father…

Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb has put together a great post for anyone looking for a crash course in social media. Here are the lessons in Social Media U: Personal branding (a topic I’ve written about before) Know what web 2.0 is and how to…

Batman had Robin, The Lone Ranger had Tonto, Martin had Lewis, Kobe/Shaq, Gates/Allen…the list of successful “TEAMS” is endless. They accended to the highest levels of their crafts and became “icons”, “inspirations”, and most of all very very successful (Rich)! In Real Estate, the “Team” concept has…

Working with agents in the Portland, OR area, I run into many different contact management systems, but keep running into Top Producer. Just about every agent using this system is using version 7i, and with it’s quirks and annoyances, it seems to be doing a…

There is a debate going on among real estate professionals – To force registration, or not to force registration, that is the question. How you chose to answer it says a good deal about what your business philosophy is. Is one choice better than another?…

Ok, maybe not just like Britney. But you’re closer than you think. Did you know “Britney Spears” is one of the most searched keywords in both Yahoo and Google? It’s not likely as many people search your name. However your name is a keyword ,…