AGBeat Columnist: Benjamin Bach

Benjamin Bach is a REALTOR with Keller Williams Realty in Kitchener
Waterloo, Canada (home of the Blackberry) and shows people how they can avoid a mediocre retirement by building wealth through smart Real Estate Investments. You can find out more at Kitchener-Waterloo-Real-Estate-Investments.com

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How You Can Make A Video Blog – cheap, quick & easy

a screengrab of my Video Site

A while ago I decided that I wanted a web site that was just for my videos. I have video embedded in blog posts on my main real estate site, but I wanted a clean looking page where people could go and just watch my content. A video-blog, or vlog, as the cool kids call it. As of yesterday, I have one: ...

Benjamin Bach | 2010/03/15  | 26 Comments Real Estate

How You Can Dominate Your Market Without Spending a Mint

How You Can Dominate Your Market Without Spending a Mint

Sound too good to be true? It’s not. There is a huge shift in consumer behaviour underway, impacting the way we buy and sell everything.  Innovate or die, and death isn’t an option. This is a huge opportunity for you. If you’re reading this site, chances are that you’re the type that will be attracting business away from agents who just ...

Benjamin Bach | 2010/02/03  | 25 Comments How to

Improve Your Real Estate Sales In Any Market

Improve Your Real Estate Sales In Any Market

Business is simple. It may not always be easy, but the principles of success remain the same. Most people think economic conditions dictate how well they will do, economically – i.e. times are good, business is good. When times are bad, they just know that business will suffer. I’m sure most of us hear this from agents we know. In ...

Benjamin Bach | 2009/10/16  | 21 Comments How to

Wealth Building, Rule #1

Wealth Building, Rule #1

Wealthy II “Only borrow money to pay for things that increase in value” – Seth People often say “Debt is bad.” It’s not quite this clear cut. Bad debt is very bad; Good debt can be very good. Bad Debt = borrowing to buy a depreciating asset or experience (shoes, boat, car, most vacations) Good Debt = borrowing to buy ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/06/09  | 23 Comments G-Love

Create Your Future Sales

Create Your Future Sales

(source: fotologic, some rights reserved) When I began in the Real Estate business, some 30 months ago (ed: does that sound longer than two and a half years, or shorter ?), I wasn’t sure as to what I wanted to sell: Follow my passion to help people build wealth, or help people buy and sell homes? Can I help a ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/05/26  | 14 Comments Real Estate

17 Reasons You Should Be Working With Real Estate Investors Too

17 Reasons You Should Be Working With Real Estate Investors Too

Even if you’re one of those house agents, it’s worth your while to develop the expertise to allow you start working with investors. Here’s why: 1. Most people retire poor, or very close to it. Investing in real estate can prevent this.2. Some investors buy multiple properties every year.3. The better you do for an investor, the more $$ they ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/04/25  | 10 Comments Real Estate

From Blog to Book in 24 hours

From Blog to Book in 24 hours

I received such a great response to my recent article, Facebooking 101, that I’ve decided to re-purpose the content into a 10 minute book that I’m distributing electronically. For now, the book is FREE, but within 1 month I will start charging a fee to download it. The early bird gets the worm… and in this case, AG readers get ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/03/09  | 8 Comments Marketing

Facebooking 101

Facebooking 101

Everything you need to know to get started on the ‘book, you can learn at AG What is Facebook? Why do you need to be on it ? Isn’t it just a huge time waste ? Can you actually generate revenue on it? Facebook is a social networking platform developed by a fraternity brother of mine from Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg. ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/03/08  | 16 Comments How to

Housing Market Recovery Imminent

Housing Market Recovery Imminent

You could bet against Sam Zell… but I’m guessing his track record is a bit better than yours. “The US economy will avoid recession as the housing market begins to recover this spring, according to billionaire investor Sam Zell. “Obviously what we have going on is an attempt to create a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Zell, chairman of Equity Investments Group ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/02/27  | 4 Comments Real Estate

Seth’s Words of Wisdom

Seth’s Words of Wisdom

image: johnabbottphoto.com This afternoon Teresa told us about Seth Godin’s excellent new book, Meatball Sundae. As with everything Seth, the book is packed full of ideas. I recently had a chance to speak with Seth Godin about meatballs, Purple Cows, & Permission Markeing, and I wanted to share some of the ideas he shared with me. “If you can’t make ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/01/29  | 2 Comments Service

Black Monday…

Black Monday…

“The stock market was in meltdown today as nearly £60billion was wiped off London shares.” Right – Real Estate is the asset class where normal folks will lose money…. Sure. Just don’t look at the elephant in the corner.

Benjamin Bach | 2008/01/21  | 3 Comments Real Estate

3 Tips to Win More Multiple Offers

3 Tips to Win More Multiple Offers

As soon as I saw the listing yesterday morning, I knew this was the house for them. We scheduled a tour to go through it in the afternoon, and already I knew that might not be quick enough. When we saw the home, it had been on the market for about 7 hours, and we had to wait outside while ...

Benjamin Bach | 2008/01/18  | 7 Comments Real Estate