Just posted on the 7DS Blog — Leadership in a Time of Cholera: If you are the CEO, broker/owner, team leader, managing partner, or otherwise in charge of a real estate company today, this is an absolute must-read. In fact, if you read nothing else this entire year, I recommend you read this fascinating article … Read more
If you are the CEO, broker/owner, team leader, managing partner, or otherwise in charge of a real estate company today, this is an absolute must-read. In fact, if you read nothing else this entire year, I recommend you read this fascinating article from A.G. Lafley, Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble. The article is … Read more
So earlier tonight, I asked a simple question on Twitter: Question: How many of you Realtors have a business plan? How many years does it cover? The answers I got were somewhat amazing. The replies ranged from “I have a 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year business plans” to “Business plans are too complicated”. What an amazing … Read more
Back in April, I took part in a really fun panel discussion about social media in real estate hosted by GreenPearl, and moderated by Allie Herzog of Quinn & Co. She put up a post describing the panel, and put video footage of the panel. Here’s the first part of the video (from GreenPearl’s YouTube … Read more
[UPDATE: The text of Standard of Practice 15-2 has been released. Please see below the fold.] According to Ben Martin of the Virginia Association of REALTORS over at VARBuzz.com, NAR has released a new Code of Ethics: Standard of Practice 15-2 was amended and a new Standard of Practice was approved to strengthen members’ obligations … Read more
In my past writings, I’ve written about the seismic shift going on in the real estate brokerage industry from the perspective of Big Brokers and Big Brands. You can find those writings here (and the parts linked there), here, here, and here. At the same time, I’ve always wanted to write the other side of … Read more
Just thought some of you might want to check out this new post over on 7DS Associates blog: The annual Brokerage Performance Report put together by REALTrends is one of the most useful and important studies for the real estate brokerage industry. Unfortunately, the last report was released in 2007, and nothing has been released … Read more
The annual Brokerage Performance Report put together by REALTrends is one of the most useful and important studies for the real estate brokerage industry. Unfortunately, the last report was released in 2007, and nothing has been released since then. The trouble with the 2007 Report, as valuable as it is, is that it uses 2006 … Read more
If you’re on the RE.net, then you know that the hottest topic within the community right now is the issue of NAR’s ruling that search engines are no different from scrapers. Even my post on this blog talking about social media process using just the NAR handling of the issue as an example got enormous … Read more