Most Realtors know that the selling season is springtime. What many fail to realize is the official 2nd selling season is the day after labor day. Now I know many of you are thinking shouldn’t always be selling season? If you have been in business long enough you know that summertime always slows down; Realtors are on vacation, kids are home from school, sellers pull their home off the market, or let’s just be honest we just don’t feel like working that hard.

The day after Labor Day almost feels like January 1 for me. (more…)

I have been working with real estate agents for over 6 years now and being a 20 year veteran of the industry myself here are a few of my Top Ten lists that you must be doing in order to be a superstar agent!

First and foremost, top agents are crystal clear on what their vision is.  If you ask any top agent where they will be in 5 years they will give you a detailed answer.  I want you to think about will you have a team, an assistant, how many deals do you want to be doing.  Where is your business mainly coming from?  (more…)

I know what you are thinking I am so tired of hearing about social media or you may be thinking ok I hear of it so much I guess I should be doing it too! I started only 18 months ago and honestly I thought I really don’t have time for this! My brother introduced me to Facebook, he is 10 years my junior and actually thought this was just another My Space. He started communicating with me on Facebook and adding some pictures and tagging in me in posts and we were talking more often which was pretty cool. I started spending some more time on there and connecting with old friends and distant family members but more importantly my past clients! (more…)

In this economy I don’t care what business you are in, you have to be a master networker. It is not what you know but WHOM you know for sure!  I want you to write down how many networking groups you belong too, whether it is BNI the chamber, a social group, heck it could be your softball team that you play with every week.  I am curious when you were writing or thinking about the networking groups you belong too, did you include your (more…)