During my evening reading, I came across Seth Godin's latest blog entry, Meatballs and permeability. In it, one of the things he mentions is outsourcing. And there is so much whining in the world over outsourcing, but this is the good kind... mostly. Seth says" "A few decades ago, Tom Peters
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12/17/2007
Here is my stretch for the day. The following video demonstrates the importance of teamwork. Even individual agents are part of a team. Brokers supervise and should train and/or mentor. Those working for the big players, and even those with some of the regional or up-and-coming companies should e
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12/14/2007
There are three things in music of which I'm not a big fan. ReggaeElvisLed ZeppelinNow, I'm not against any of them. Just, none of them hit my top 287 list. But, when one takes a little of each, and blends them together, there is magic. I wish I'd had my thinking cap on when I went out to Vegas f
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12/13/2007
Once again, I have a little discrepancy in the numbers. This time, it’s because of the platform change and now there are actually numbers next to the list on the back end… I must have mis-counted previously. Hopefully that jazz is behind me. The next post in the series was about one of the bigges
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12/13/2007
I ran across a blog post by Jay Thompson regarding a story in the Wall Street Journal about on-line home searches. He noted that in his area the WSJ had it wrong. He researched the numbers for the local MLS, Trulia and Zillow. His findings were that Zillow only showed about 10-31% of the listings
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12/13/2007
In response to janeAnne's post about What would you do if money were no object to build a dream green home, I had to expand to a full post. Here is what I originally responded with in the comments of her post: If money were no object... but taste was: Active Solar water heating, and power gener
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12/11/2007
Sitting down this morning getting my Fox News fix, I noticed a release by the NAR that has me re-thinking a position I have taken... Here is the link to the NAR news release. To summarize, the position the NAR takes is that housing will start to pick up in 2008. Existing home sales will rebound
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12/10/2007
It is a big change for me. I started seriously blogging back in June on Active Rain. In July I picked up Blogger (Blogspot). I wanted an outside platform that would be more configurable. But, everything was fine with Blogger. I changed the theme a bit to better fit with my personality and su
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12/10/2007
I have two blogs and a dynamic (meaning not static) website. All of these platforms thrive on fresh material on a timely basis. In a couple of these cases, the timely basis means I have to put up a new post each day. In another, I limit myself to around 10 posts a week (guess which one that is
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12/10/2007
Everyone has weighed in with their opinions about the proposed government bailout of some of the 1.2 million people facing foreclosure... I guess I'll toss out my nickel (side thought... if everyone that has offered an opinion actually gave up the nickel, WE could bail out the people facing forec
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12/08/2007
