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10 business words to ban – lets make it 11

A couple days ago David Silverman wrote a blog post titles 10 business Words to Ban. It was a great article where he talked about common cliches that are or have been used way to much.
I wanted to add another one to the list.
I wish business schools and books would stop using the phrase “Think [...]

Should Real Estate Agents be using twitter?

I was reading the new post on Real estate Tomato where they are talking about 8 things real estate agents should do on their blog.
The #1 thing was using twitter or micro blogging.
This is probably one of the stupidest things I have heard. Having worked in the real estate industry I have had some clients who [...]

What I learned about business while playing Rugby

When I was in college, my school started a Rugby Team. We were a small liberal arts college, with no football team so they didn’t have those ex-footballer players. Most of us, myself included, had never plaied rugby, never saw a Rugby game and were about half the size of the players on the players on [...]

Can You get to the top?

Every industry has barrier that needs to be crossed. If you are intrested in selling real estate you need to get a real estate liscense. If you are opening a tanning salon, the barrier is a little different.
Know what these barriers are, is the difference between your business failing or being highly successful.
This barrier has [...]

Local Search will help you win

Local search is just going to get bigger. The amount of people on the internet just keeps growing. When your grandma is using it, everyone is.
5 years ago when you looked up something on the internet you found a big national website that covered basically a general world wide topic. The Internet has changed since [...]

Happy New Years, whats your plan, Huh?

Well it is officially 2009. For the real estate industry, which I’m fond of currently, lets hope it is different than 2008. For most people lets hope this new year offers a time to start new things and quit old ones, because what we were doing in 2008 wasn’t really working that great.
So whats your [...]

I have $50 and I want to invest it

I keep seeing this question or variations of this question on forums. So I decided I would answer this question with a blog post.
Well $50 isn’t really enough to open an Ameritrade account and Wall Street probably isn’t where you want your money anyway. I want to give you an idea that is scalable that [...]

Is college worth the money?

I was asked this question a few weeks ago and of course I have thought about it. I think about it every time I write a check to pay one of my student loans.
For me it is a hard question to answer. I Graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications from Winthrop [...]

Your new Myspace friend Just Served You! I want in on this!

Having worked in real estate and being a landlord this story really interested me.
I wondered what exactly the future of Social Networks like Myspace and Linked In? would be I guess the future may be larger than I could imagine at least.
Way back, in say, November of 2008, most process servers had to serve people in person. So if [...]