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Velvet Handcuffs The velvet handcuffs of real estate: free leads, free marketing materials, free desk space, free, free, free. Everything is FREE but the agents! It all reminds me of an Aesop's fable called "The Dog and the Wolf". It goes like this: A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when...
06/29/2010
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Did you know that when building rapport, 93% has nothing to do with the words we use (courtesy or research from Dr. Ray Birdwhistle at the University of Pennsylvania)? The actual break out is 55% physiology (or body language) and 38% tonality (or how we say our words) and 7% the content of the me...
06/22/2010
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Throughout my life, I have heard people say things like “man, he is a class act”. It’s like an illusive adjective that I understood, yet could not define. Recently, I was reading a book, and it gave excellent ways to be recognized as a class act. As not to R&D (rip-off and duplicate), I will shar...
06/09/2010
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It’s Roller Coaster Season, Baby! When I was a kid, one of the parks we visited during the summer, was of course, Opryland. They had amazing shows, great food (to a kid, at least) and wonderful rides. My favorite was “The Wabash Cannonball”. It was a metal coaster, and people would scream like cr...
06/01/2010