AGBeat Columnist: Mariana Wagner
Mariana is a real estate agent and co-owner of the Wagner iTeam with her husband, Derek. She maintains the Colorado Springs Real Estate Connection Blog and is also a real estate technology trainer and coach. Mariana really enjoys helping real estate agents boost their businesses and increase their productivity through effective use of technology. Outside of real estate, blogging and training, she loves spending time with her husband and 2 sons, reading, re-watching Sci-Fi movies and ... long walks on the beach?
The internet and blogging are just tools … not the answers
Thanks to each of you (both Agent Genius contributors and readers) who have made this point before… the internet and blogging are just TOOLS, not the answers to all things real estate. How True! I bring this up because I had this conversation (among many others) with Lani and Benn the other day … and it was NOT via email, ...
You Know You’re a Real Estate Agent If… Top 40 Ways
Originally published November 28, 2007: You know you are a Real Estate Agent if … Your car (or mode of transportation) has as many filing cabinets (or places that files can be stuffed) as your office Your monthly cell phone minutes are almost in the 6 figure mark. You can effectively answer the phone, reply to an email, send a ...
Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#10]
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Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#10] – SEO SEO = Search Engine Optimization, not Sour Evolution of Optimists (as some still believe). There are a million different blog posts out there (and books, too) that explain why blogs are good for SEO, so this will be short, sweet and to the point. Professional Blogs are sites ...
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Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#9]
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Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate – Promote Your Team and Your Real Estate Business Blogging can be a great facet to your business. (As we have all come to learn over the past few years …) One way that you can use blogging to your advantage is by using your blog to promote you and your ...
Top 6 Ways to Un-Creatively Add Good Content to Your Real Estate Blog
I am slammed. We took 7 listings this week, which brings our total close to about 40 homes for sale in Colorado Springs. I am also a real estate trainer and technology coach. Basically, I am a full-time, top producing real estate agent … a DOUBLE agent who teaches other agents how to be as busy as me. All that ...
Meeting People IRL Rocks
Many of my friends are ar #RETS (ReTechSouth) mingling and uniting and re-uniting with each other IRL (In Real Life). I am not there, but WILL be doing some IRL mingling this Sunday when some of my online peeps make it to Colorado Springs for a NAR event. Although these friendships are CREATED online, it is the IRL times that ...
Finding a New Home … For Our Team
We did it. We left our Keller Williams office. Now, we stayed with Keller Williams (the company), but switched offices. We needed to find new leadership, new culture and an overall new atmosphere that better “fit” who we are as a team. We had been with the same office for almost 5 years, and over that time, it was feeling ...
The Best Canceled Listing Agreement EVER
Our team has been averaging about 10 new listings a month. Because of our Certified Distressed Property Expert designation, about 1/3 of them are short sales or pre-foreclosures of some sort. Talk about being waist-deep in the personal lives of our Sellers… Job losses and illnesses and interest rate increases that lead to financial instability and stress that then even ...
34 Reasons Why I Love Real Estate
This current real estate market is _________________. But, regardless of how you finished that sentence I still love being a real estate agent. Here are 34 reasons WHY. I love waking up each morning knowing that no matter HOW much planning I do, my schedule will change at a moments notice. Apparently I like living on the edge. Being ill ...
Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Real Estate
I have been watching the History Channel’s series on the 7 Deadly Sins, and it got me to thinking about real estate. (I am pretty good at linking just about anything to real estate…) I realized that there are many ways that these 7 deadly sins creep into MY life, and I am sure there are times that they creep ...
Proposed New Real Estate Designations for 2009
I hate real estate designations. They mean absolutely NOTHING. Of course, this is only partially true. (But I like speaking in absolutes, as it is bound to piss someone off, and pissing people off WAS one of my New Years Resolutions for 2008.) Real estate designations only MEAN something if the agent actually uses the education that it TOOK to ...
How My Blog Kept Someone From Breaking the Law
The Call: Yesterday we received a nervous call from someone who left the following message: “Hi. My name is X. I am here in X, Colorado. I have been reading your blog and saw your post about mortgage fraud, titled: Colorado Springs Short Sale Scam is Mortgage Fraud. I am about to buy a house, and I need you to ...
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