7 trust-building social media hacks

To build trust with your audience (and stand out from the sea of other agents posting on social media), you need to give them some content that they don’t see every day. Here are seven things you can do to provide value for your audience. Continue reading

What agents are saying about Zillow’s self-guided home tours

A week after Zillow announced “Tour it Now,” agents lambasted the company’s moves to establish dominance in the iBuyer space. Continue reading

Facebook’s ad targeting was more exclusionary than most realized

Advertisers were offered thousands of attributes to choose from to exclude based on user data collected by Facebook, including words like “foreigner.” Continue reading

Big NYC brokerage strikes social media marketing partnership

Warburg Realty has embarked on a new partnership that will enable it to execute targeted social media advertising for all of its listings. Continue reading

Agents see growing demand as mortgage rates plummet

Like an avalanche growing larger as it tumbles down a mountain, agents are seeing swelling demand from buyers as mortgage interest rates plummet. Continue reading

The Problems With Do-It-Yourself Online Wills

As a professional trustee and executor, I have seen hundreds of estate-planning documents, including some from do-it-yourself online services. I appreciate that using a DIY site to draft a will can save money and time. But I’m also concerned that somet… Continue reading

Life With Cheeta the Chimp

The late Hollywood animal trainer Tony Gentry put it in his will that when he died, his best friend, Jiggs, who ­­he lived with and took care of for decades, was to be euthanized. Jiggs was better known to the public as Cheeta, Johnny Weissmuller’s com… Continue reading