Better Homes and Gardens offers free recruiting tool to franchisees

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate announced Tuesday it will begin offering its affiliated brokerages access to Sisu, a talent acquisition and performance tracking tool. Continue reading

Realogy, KW top Swanepoel Mega 1000 rankings

Realogy and Keller Williams are the creams of the real estate crop once again, according to the second annual Swanepoel Mega 1000 list of the country’s top 1,000 brokerages along with top 20 franchisors and holding companies. Continue reading

Zillow unveils new logo and Premier Agent scoring system

Zillow Premier Agents who earn scores of 90 or higher on online customer satisfaction surveys will be awarded a “Best of Zillow” badge on the site. Continue reading

Zillow will lend consumers money to buy homes

In a statement, Zillow framed the new program as a way to beef up its online homebuying and re-selling program Zillow Offers (in which the company makes all-cash offers on homes to homeowners and prospective sellers) Continue reading

The 4 C’s to Help You Live Your Best Life

About two decades ago, Laura Gassner Otting was a successful, turbocharged executive recruiter for nonprofits. But, she writes in her new book Limitless,  she felt “bored, unsatisfied and empty.” And, she told me in an interview, “I was stuck by the de… Continue reading

What Are the Alternatives to Knee Replacement Surgery?

Did you know that arthritis is the main cause of knee pain and disability? Depending on the type and severity of the condition, treatment options include “conservative” medical, lifestyle and non-surgical interventions (oral medications, injections, ph… Continue reading

Blue Zones, Part 1: How the World’s Oldest People Make Their Money Last

(In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his bestselling book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, about the five “longevity pockets” around the world: The Nicoya Peninsula of Costa R… Continue reading

Pipeline problems? Get back on track with these 5 lead gen tips

All agents go through ups and downs in their careers. Part of staying afloat is knowing where your next client is coming from. When you feel a dry spell coming on, stick to these reliable lead generation strategies to stay on track. Continue reading

Why mortgage brokers are our industry’s Cinderella story

After the housing market crash of 2008, mortgage brokers’ market share dropped to less than 10 percent. Today, their market share is back up to 17 percent — the highest it’s been in almost a decade. A lot of hard work has gone into this upward climb, a… Continue reading