It’s a great time to dial in your vetting process, get new hires started off on the right foot and start building your best team yet. The Agency’s Rainy Hake Austin walks you through the steps required to optimize your hiring and recruiting. Continue reading
Real estate professionals were preparing for spring buying and selling season when our lives were upended by COVID-19. As chief operating officer of Coldwell Banker Real Estate, I work with hundreds of business leaders from our Gen Blue network, offeri… Continue reading
We in the real estate industry deal with a mountain of technology and an avalanche of information. We shovel through big data in the hope of wowing our potential customers, but I believe the thing that really matters is our ability to relate to people. Continue reading
Social distancing. Consumer fears. Government guidelines. Staying productive during this historic time is one great way to not only keep morale up but also prepare for when restrictions are lifted and normalcy is regained. Continue reading
In real estate, you learn by doing. Licensing is the first step, of course, and many agents and brokers pursue continuing education and other formal accreditation programs to further hone their business. Continue reading
With nearly 20 years in the biz, I’ve seen a lot: the transition from “property phone books” that were our source of truth to IDX feeds and websites, the presence of boom and bust cycles, the rise of digital, the creation of amazing marketing technolog… Continue reading
There are many non-negotiables that today’s discerning real estate consumers are demanding from their full-service agents. They expect them to operate ethically and, ideally, for them to provide as much of a one-stop-shop service as possible with a wea… Continue reading
Since adding commercial practitioner to my professional service offerings, it still surprises me that a larger percentage of my colleagues on the residential side of the industry do not practice commercial, and vice versa. Continue reading
What makes a runner in a race strive to run harder and faster? Peer pressure, that’s what. Without the other runners, there is little for a single sprinter to achieve except perhaps a personal best time. It takes other competitors running shoulder-to-s… Continue reading
Almost fifty years ago, RE/MAX was born as a disruptive startup. The real estate industry was mostly made up of independent local brokerages that varied by size, reputation, and quality of agents. But one thing was common among most; agents surrendered… Continue reading