AGBeat » Public Relations http://agbeat.com News, insights, tools, and inspiration for business owners and professionals Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:21:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Consumers awarded $2.4 million in anti-trust lawsuit against MLS and Brokers http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/2-4-million-class-action-lawsuit-mls-brokers-blocked-discounters/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/2-4-million-class-action-lawsuit-mls-brokers-blocked-discounters/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:20:08 +0000 Tara Steele http://agbeat.com/?p=52591 Logue vs. Pennsylvania real estate players Pennsylvania homeowner Thomas Logue filed a class action lawsuit in April 2010, alleging that a group of real estate brokerages and a local MLS (and its board of directors) conspired to keep broker commissions artificially high by limiting competition among companies, according to court documents. The area real estate companies stifled competition by keeping [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/2-4-million-class-action-lawsuit-mls-brokers-blocked-discounters/feed/ 54 Realtors as catalysts for reviving the neighborhood http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/realtors-as-catalysts-for-reviving-the-neighborhood/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/realtors-as-catalysts-for-reviving-the-neighborhood/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:00:22 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=35479 We wrote last year about urban planner Candy Chang’s “I wish this was” stickers that New Orleans residences can place on vacated buildings to indicate what they wish was there (a library, a coffee shop, a studio) while building community. Her creativity extends beyond New Orleans, however- it can impact your own neighborhood. Chang designed “Neighborhood Doorknob Hangers” as a [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/realtors-as-catalysts-for-reviving-the-neighborhood/feed/ 9 “Please Maul Us”…and other offers you can’t refuse http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/please-maul-us-and-other-offers-you-cant-refuse/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/please-maul-us-and-other-offers-you-cant-refuse/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:00:12 +0000 Gwen Banta http://agentgenius.com/?p=37362 I just returned from an extended trip to discover that some things never change. There were so many funny misspellings and blunders in the MLS this week that I am trying to think of a way to get the bloopers into pill form. I think the MLS should be used for medicinal purposes – it’s a great alternative to laughing gas! Check out some of [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/please-maul-us-and-other-offers-you-cant-refuse/feed/ 9 National Association of Realtors magazine ads circa 1969 http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/national-association-of-realtors-magazine-ads-circa-1969/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/national-association-of-realtors-magazine-ads-circa-1969/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:18 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=37500 The National Association of Realtors (NAR) was founded in 1908 as the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges (NAREE) with 120 founding members, 19 Boards and one State Association. It remained the NAREE until 1916 when it became the National Association of Real Estate Boards (NAREB) which it remained until 1972 when it became known as the National Association of [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/national-association-of-realtors-magazine-ads-circa-1969/feed/ 17 The virus of hostility – experiencing an online existence http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/the-virus-of-hostility/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/the-virus-of-hostility/#comments Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:05:22 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=1561 The advent of social media has opened the doors to anyone and everyone with a computer to become a part of the conversation- business practices have become more transparent, marketing strategies have been shared publicly and a new networking vehicle was born. An advantage of the television and newspaper media is that for the most part, to get your voice [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/the-virus-of-hostility/feed/ 25 Wachovia Will No Longer Postpone A Foreclosure http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/wachovia-will-no-longer-postpone-a-foreclosure/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/wachovia-will-no-longer-postpone-a-foreclosure/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:28:36 +0000 Russell Shaw http://agentgenius.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/wachovia-will-no-longer-postpone-a-foreclosure/ In an effort to stop sellers facing foreclosure from gaming their system, Wachovia has completely stopped allowing any postponement of a foreclosure or Trustee’s Sale.  I have long felt that Wachovia was not simply a good lender to deal with for a short sale – truth be told – they were the very best. I’m being told that this new [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/wachovia-will-no-longer-postpone-a-foreclosure/feed/ 42 From the Vault: Adding Friends vs. Network Building http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/adding-friends-vs-network-building/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/adding-friends-vs-network-building/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:49 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=2089 We’re Not Friends I got a nasty Facebook message the other day from someone who requested to be my friend and I intentionally said no. “But you have so many friends,” he said with the assertion that I must spend my day arbitrarily adding friends in order to stroke my own ego. I wrote him back and began a conversation [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/adding-friends-vs-network-building/feed/ 50 Fear Amputates Opportunity. Here’s A Way To Embrace and Tame It. http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/how-to-comport-a-fearful-self/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/how-to-comport-a-fearful-self/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:07:10 +0000 Ken Brand http://agentgenius.com/?p=20450 If You’re Human… Needles of fear prick your skin, inside-out. Salty beads bubble up and bloom. Two perked ears hear a thumping heart.  A pie-hole, normally wet, goes desert dry.  Breathing quickens.  Imagination, formerly confident, runs rogue, bad things loom dark and certain. Fear robs your future, if you let it. What Do We All Fear? Rejection. Looking lame, inexperienced [...]
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