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Agents, what matters most to you about your brokerage?

July 17, 2011

Do you remember the day you got your real estate license and joined your brokerage office? In all likelihood, it was a happy day for you and it was the first step on the path for you to become independent, helping others pursue their dreams while simultaneously pursuing your own.

What’s interesting is the process that people use to choose the brokerage that they associate themselves with.

I know people use different criteria, such as the freedom to run your own business, training, leads, desk space, support, compensation, advertising, brand recognition and I have even heard people say they chose a certain brand because of the color of the blazers that their agents wear on commercials.

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It’s What You Do, Not What You Say You Can Do

June 25, 2011

In the marketing and self-promotion side of real estate, there’s a tendency towards a lot of talk. But honestly ask yourself: Are you making good on the words you put out to the world? When you say “client service is my highest priority,” do you demonstrate it by regularly keeping in touch? Do you truly market a home, or do you find yourself merely “listing” homes? Do you make passing promises in conversation which quickly fade when the conversation away? We all fall short of our words from time to time.

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RE-Bar-Camp is Coming to Orlando Florida

June 23, 2011

Come Join in with the rest of the Florida’s Beautiful Homes group at the upcoming REBar Camp in Orlando on Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Newbie or old timer in the RE Technology area, we would be happy to show you the ropes.

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When the Smoke Clears in the Real Estate Biz

May 1, 2011

During the last four plus years the real estate brokerage industry in the Tampa Florida area has under gone massive changes with even more to come. The industry has long been thought to be heading the way of the travel and insurance industries. The economic melt-down of the past few years has hastened some of the changes and technology has had a huge share in the changes as well.

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A Droid Software App Perfect for Realtors!

November 19, 2010

A Droid Software App Perfect for Tampa FL Realtors and IRS Mileage Record Woes! I hate losing money to the IRS. And how is that? I under report my mileage because I hate even more keeping records of my mileage.

I have been using an Android ap that is so easy to use, I don’t even have to think about keeping a log. It keeps the log for me.

It is GPS based so you enter your beginning mileage, tag it, “showings – Jones”, and click Start. From your driveway and back, you now have a record of mielage with date and annotated.

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