Keyword: Business and Economy

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Websites

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Websites

Real estate agents and real estate brokerages are obsessed with their websites. We spend hours on thinking about them, discussing them, and attend seminars about how to make them better. We artfully craft the “About Us” section, check the graphics, and work on clever SEO tricks. But even though I’ve been prey to this thought process,   I’ve come to ...

Bill Lublin | 2009/09/12  | 22 Comments Editorials

Sign O’ The Times – Gives Me A Sign

Sign O’ The Times – Gives Me A Sign

Yesterday, the world collapsed. Ok, so maybe I’m being dramatic, but for me…it did. You all know, I’m still rather new to real estate and my past, well…I wouldn’t call that a “job.” I’ve never worked in a corporate type setting (unless you count the time I worked for my dad one summer). Most of my jobs have been of ...

Matt Stigliano | 2009/02/18  | 13 Comments How to

Are You A Professional?

Are You A Professional?

What Makes You Professional? There is a lot of discussion about what makes people professional. We have the Code of Ethics to help us determine the standards that we need to apply to our real estate practices. But in a contact intensive business like ours, the manner in which you interact with others is often the matter of courtesy (or ...

Bill Lublin | 2009/01/21  | 8 Comments Ethics

Where Is Gen Y?

Where Is Gen Y?

So we’ve all heard at least one place that Generation Y is huge, important, young, arrogant, etc.  I’m Gen Y and I’m not the only person here who is, but I was doing a mind-catalog of others I know in the industry, and couldn’t think of too many other Gen Y professionals.  There are a ton of Boomers and Generation ...

Nick Bostic | 2009/01/08  | 16 Comments Highlights