(The following article is excerpted from the new book, Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life. Next Avenue co-published it with Wiley.) For a couple of years, when she was growing up in Hibbing, Minn., Rache… Continue reading
Startup Alley at Connect is a pulsing, technology-infused pathway into the future of the industry. Here are a few of the companies that have gained my interest. Continue reading
No matter what you do, there is no magic pill when it comes to old-school versus new-school prospecting methods. New opportunities truly arise out of a diversity of marketing techniques. Continue reading
If you don’t have a library of staging items when charged with selling a vacant home or showroom unit, there’s always cardboard. Yes, cardboard. Continue reading
One of the things that often gets lost when discussing major acquisitions by big companies is the individual agent, who goes from utilizing a startup’s service to potentially running a crucial part of a business on a competitor’s platform. It happened … Continue reading
The final 15 minutes of ICLV’s CEO Connect was supposed to be a broad discussion about the country’s biggest companies — Facebook, Amazon and Google — and whether they would ever substantially enter the real estate business. That was, until this mornin… Continue reading
At a session called “New Kids on the Block,” company leaders offered their solutions to agent pain points, including ways to boost their reputation, collect more referrals, easily fix poor photos and get more clients. Continue reading
What does it take for a nearly $10 billion company to pivot its business model? Onstage in front of about 300 executives at ICLV’s CEO Connect, Zillow President Greg Schwartz said it takes courage, but spent more time explaining his company’s new busin… Continue reading
CEO Connect panelists agreed Tuesday that brokerages and industry associations can do more to help agents learn the financial skills that aren’t routinely taught in the workplace. Continue reading
Douglas Elliman CEO Scott Durkin, however, slammed HouseCanary for ‘wanting a piece of our commission’ during an Inman Connect panel. Continue reading