AGBeat Columnist: Teresa Boardman
Full time REALTOR and licensed broker with Saint Paul Home Realty Realty in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of StPaulRealEstateBlog.com, Columnist for Inman News and an avid photographer.
A Moving Experience
Crazy busy and a little crazy It has been a busy couple of weeks for me which is why you have not seen me so much on agent Genius. Business has picked up in a huge way and less than two weeks ago I moved to Saint Paul Home Realty. It was an easy move. I own everything associated with ...
Don’t beat yourself up
Business is hard For most of us the real estate business isn’t easy these days. We find the clients or they find us but not all of out listings will sell and not every buyer will result in a closed sale. I don’t have a problem admitting that my numbers are down. I know I am a good agent and ...
Share your Stories
Story telling is an art People love to tell stories and they love hearing them. A good story can impart wisdom and some times teach a lesson. Before the written word was invented the story teller was an important member of the tribe. He or she was responsible for collecting tribal history and wisdom and passing it along to the ...
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Feeling Disconnected Can be a Good Thing
Disconnecting A few days ago I did something that I have not done in many months. I disconnected. What I mean by that is I stopped checking email, looking at twitter, answering the phone and going through my feed reader to read the latest news on the internet. I even managed to leave the house without my cell phone. Once ...
Secrets? What Secrets?
I recently agreed to give a four hour presentation as part of a technology day that is being put on by our local association of Realtors. When I met with the event coordinator to get the course approved for continuing education she asked a question that I have been asked before. Why would I teach direct competitors how to create ...
Are you a full service agent?
Full service I have been thinking a lot about what it means to be a full service Realtor. It doesn’t seem to mean the same thing to all agents so I thought I would outline what it means to me. Buyer pulls up to a listing and I meet them there. The first thing I do is get my tire ...
Finding Blog Posts
Writing every day is a challenge It isn’t easy to crank out a blog post every day and there are times when we all struggle to find content. Most of the 1500 or so posts on my local real estate blog come from my every day experiences but that isn’t enough. Over the years I have assembled a small collection ...
For The Joy of It
More than two years ago I started a mobile blog, jsut for fun. I guess the best way to describe it on the about page: “An experiment really. The places I go the things I see via camera phone, with real time posts to the internet via MMS. Kind of like watching paint dry except slower” The blog is on ...
What is Your Plan?
Plans I don’t have a plan. I make a business plan every year, and I create a budget and a marketing plan. I even have a plan for recovery if my computer fails. My blogs are backed up and I have a copy of my web site. I have a spare phone that I can use if mine should break. ...
Witty Title
Writing titles has always been a challenge for me. In this case I gave up because I spent more time trying to figure out what to use for the title than I did writing the post . . which will become apparent as you read it and follow me into the twilight zone if you dare. Folding the towels There ...
The Blog or the Newspaper?
Reporters looking for drama Some of the posts on my business blog get the attention of local media and the reporters call. What I find fascinating is that they often already have their story and they call people until they find someone who will corroborate it. I think it has something to do with needing two sources. As a Realtor ...
Don’t Mess With the Ancient Ones
Wow! a Netflix Account A few of years ago I was showing houses to a rather chatty twenty something. She noticed the Netflix envelopes sitting in the back seat of my car waiting to be mailed. She commented on how cool it is that someone my age knows about Netflix. A couple of years ago a very young local Realtor ...
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