Business Strategies

Thanksgiving is next week, which means that there are about 6 weeks left in 2009.  What you do now will determine how your 2010 goes with your business.  Now is the time to be calling your clients to touch base and ask FORD questions and getting together with people and sending note cards letting people…

For years people have been advocating time blocking.  Virtually every coach I have ever had and every class I have taken swears that in order to be successful you need to block your time.  Well after almost 14 years in Real Estate, I have yet to see the light.  For those of you not completely…

This is one of those posts about being present.  It is easy to get so caught up in checking things off the to do list that you are not paying attention to where you actually are.  I admit it, I have had days where I dreaded running into someone that I know because catching up…

As a Real Estate agent I sell homes for a living, so of course knowing the inventory is vital to my ability to do that and do it well. That being said, there are large chunks of time in my career where I never previewed.  For anyone reading this that might not be in Real…

It has gotten much better, but when the boys were little and I would give them their snuggles good bye in the morning I would inevitably be in a meeting later in the day and look down only to notice that my shoulder was covered in snot from one of them.  Not exactly the professional image…

Today is the start of the 4th quarter which means that the holiday season  will soon be upon us.  This post was sent to my by Todd Fields of The Group Inc, in Ft. Collins Colorado.  (tfields@thegroupinc.com / 970-218-3535).  It has some tremendously value advice going into the holiday season, and for every interaction that…

When I was pregnant, my friend Kim told me to write everything down in a list and then put all of my energy into remembering where the list was!  For me I was pretty on top of things pregnant, it was after having kids that I noticed myself getting more scatterbrained and distracted.  ‘The List’…

With the kids back in school our Ninja Moms group got back together for the first time in a few months last week.  It was a great meeting with all sorts of fantastic ideas.  (Note, if you are in the Seattle area and would like to attend it is open to all, just sent me…

  This is an article that I wrote for a newsletter that was recently sent out.  I thought I would post it here for you as well.  Feel free to use it in your next mailing, but let me know that you did, because I love to know that the things I post here are…

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