WHERE DID I PUT MY ELEPHANT??Thanks to Praful Thakkar and his re-blog of my original post "HOW DO YOU EAT AN ELEPHANT???", I have decided it is time to take another look at my marketing approach and my strategies for finding new business for 2018! Thank you Praful!!!The re-blog was so timely, eve
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01/26/2018
DID YOU SURVIVE THE "BOMB CYCLONE??"With the 16" of snow that we just got and with the temps now hovering around 0 degrees every day here in Southampton, I must say I am very happy I grew up in Michigan!I spoke to a friend today and she told me how she fared during the "Bomb Cyclone". She lives i
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01/08/2018
THE SLEDEarly childhood memories almost always come back to us in our adulthood. Sometimes they nurture us when we need that; sometimes they haunt us until we find a resolution. I saw the way this works, the stark realities of early trauma when I got to know a dear friend who lives here. I had an
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01/06/2018
WHEN A FELLOW RAINER LEAVES US...I just went back to read all the comments on the very last post that Lou Ludwig wrote here on AR Maximizing Your Resources To Maximize Your Life... and I can not help but express my thoughts about the man who wrote a post or 2 or 3 every day here on Activerain!He
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01/03/2018
KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MOLD?? ASBESTOS??--I DO, NOW!!I am sharing this story because as informed as I am in real estate and knowing the issues that environmental problems in older homes can be, I found myself living a horror story of monumental proportions without knowing what was happening! We al
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12/31/2017
BLOGGING IS THE "CHEESE"!!...The "Cheese" To Draw The Public InThis is the third in a series of posts about the importance of blogging to those of us in the real estate profession. We risk losing everything if we don't take the bull by the horns and use the platform of blogging to let the buying
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08/29/2017
HOW TO PERSONALIZE YOUR PITCH...If You Really Want To Win!! After getting featured on several of my past postings regarding "Pitching A Listing" I decided to share with all of you some of the techniques I used on my more successful pitches. One of my most favored posts is: "PITCHING" AS IF YOUR
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06/04/2017
OUT-WITTING THE ESTABLISHMENT...Now Its Real Estate In Need of Reform!I understand that there are small groups of agents gathering in smaller companies or partnerships offering the care and expertise that is needed by most buyers, in smaller quarters without the din of the busy bullpens found in
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06/03/2017
A MISSING LINK IN REAL ESTATE "BRANDING" ADS?*With a greater need for homeownership amongst qualified first time buyers I am seeing a widening divide between those buyers and large corporate brokerages. Do these brokerages really understand the needs of this buying demographic?...It is beginning
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06/03/2017
A MEMORIAL DAY MEMORIAL In 2014 on July 4th weekend I wrote a post that was featured. It was about things to do on a holiday such as the 4th here in the Hamptons...I had someone comment on that post and it was an unforgettable piece of writing---from the heart and soul of a man who valued his
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05/26/2017
