8 Red Flags that Your Company Needs a Service Overhaul These days providing a great—heck, exceptional—product or service won't keep customers happy. (You can thank the hyper-connected global economy for their fickleness.) No, we must also delight customers with an outstanding service experience. Problem is, it's all too...
2016-06-07
8 Essential Strategies for Achieving Business Longevity Everyone who starts or leads a business dreams of passing it along to the next generation. But few are successful in making it happen. Every year, countless businesses and organizations fail. Excuses are made and fingers are pointed. Long-term success takes more than hard work and a...
2017-05-01
78 Percent Expect Digital Technologies to Transform Corporate Marketing over Next Five Years Seventy-eight percent of marketing executives believe corporate marketing will undergo a fundamental transformation over the next five years due to the use of analytics, digital and mobile technologies, according to a new global survey by Accenture. However, a similar number of...
2014-06-17
7-Day NFIP Extension Granted, Senate Calls for Longer-Term Resolution Congress has approved a seven-day extension for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)—the eighth short-term extension this year. Congress will need to pass another extension by Dec. 7 in order to continue funding the federal program and to avoid a government...
2018-12-03
7 Tips to Make More Sales with Social Media Does the time you spend working on social media show a huge return on your investment? Not many agents can measure their online effectiveness directly to sales, but the top-performing agents know what to do and how to do it, and show impressive results. Critics are quick to point...
2015-11-20
6 Tips for Making the Most Out of Trade Shows and Conferences As winter blooms into spring, conferences and industry events pick up, and stay strong until the fall. Industry events can either be small, intimate, and local, or they can be huge, international events. We’ve developed 6 tips to help you make the most of your industry trade...
2014-01-21
6 Success Lessons from Business Thought Leaders Want to succeed? Learn from the greats! Finding a mentor in the real estate industry can give you an edge on your journey to achieving success. Not only will you gain valuable insights, you’ll also have the benefit of learning from their mistakes.
Your mentor...
2016-05-06
5 Ways to Leverage Your Business Expertise Locally As the proprietor of your brokerage firm, your expertise not only applies to the daily operations of your business, but to the wider scope of finding success in the small-business sector as a whole. And in a bipolar economic landscape, there is tangible demand for individuals with...
2013-09-23
5 Ways to Craft a Compelling Media Pitch Business owners need to be able to sell their news to the media and the public if they want coverage. But how do you go about garnering media coverage?
Simple: You have to craft a compelling pitch. But what’s a pitch? A pitch can be as simple as an email to a journalist that...
2015-07-29
5 Tips for Today's Small Business Owners Do you have a trusted advisor? Know who your successor is? A recent poll released from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) revealed that small business owners are doing a lot of things right but there's room for improvement. The top findings of the...
2018-05-31
5 Things to Know When Working with Hispanic Clients If there’s any doubt on whether or not accessing the Hispanic consumer is a solid business strategy to grow your marketshare, you haven’t heard these stats:
13 million of the 17 million projected new households between 2010 - 2025 will be ethnically diverse, of which 40...
2016-08-19
5 Signs You’re Letting Fear Run Your Company Here's the harsh truth: No matter how much you plan, no matter how many rules you put in place, no matter how much risk you avoid, you'll never control all the circumstances that influence your business. Never. And if you can't learn to coexist peacefully with that truth,...
2015-03-27
5 Mobile Finance Trends on the Rise in 2013 The world's Internet denizens are increasingly embracing mobile computing. It's not hype. A growing body of evidence supports the notion that the mobile web will free us from the constraints of the desktop.
As more of our everyday online experiences – email, banking,...
2013-07-12
5 Barriers to Implementing Strategic Direction Strategy is a framework within which decisions are made, which influences the nature and direction of a business. Strategy directs organizations as they make plans, marshal resources and make day-to-day decisions. It is imperative that strategy is clear, concise and congruent....
2015-07-21
4 Ways to Combat Lukewarm Leadership The CEO of a software firm was tasked with a major change initiative after a large and lengthy acquisition. The board of directors wanted to see a definitive integration plan that included a timeline, and an organizational management plan that would ensure the merging of cultures and...
2017-10-30
4 Ways Agents Benefit From Shared Innovative Office Space The shared office space concept has risen steadily in popularity over the past decade, and by 2020 more than 26,000 co-working spaces will be in use globally, according to Small Business Labs, which tracks trends in small businesses. Those co-use office locations will be the work...
2018-02-24
4 Recruiting Tips for Busy Brokers As a real estate broker/owner, you're beyond busy - and that isn't likely to change. One moment, you're serving as a salesperson, trying to close that new deal. The next, you're playing service rep and solving a buyer's problem or doing executive tasks like running...
2017-07-20
4 Reasons Why You're Losing Leads U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars generating sales leads only to lose more than 70 percent of them simply because they don’t make contact quickly enough, according to one study.
But that’s not the only way they’re losing out on opportunities, says Brandon...
2013-06-13
35th Anniversary of the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers On October 31st, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (NAR) will release the 2016 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. NAR has been producing this survey research report since 1981. To mark the 35th year of publication, we will be highlighting some of the key trends gleaned from...
2016-10-19
3 Ways Technology Is Changing Real Estate From digital open houses to artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to bitcoin cryptocurrency, new technologies are taking over the real estate industry by storm and accelerating the pace of business. With tech-savvy millennials representing the largest group of homebuyers, it is...