3 D’s of Success

Last week I had the hono0r of speaking on a panel at Inman Connect in San Francisco. The conference was a fantastic mix of agents, managers, owners and technology companies all focused on making the real estate experience better for the agents and their clients. It’s amazing how many options are out there! As with…

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Why You Need To Hire A Boss

What? Aren’t we independent contractors, able to set our own schedules, call our own shots, do things the way we want them done? How is that working out for you? While the word “Boss” can sound oppressive and make you want to run in the other direction kicking and screaming (after all, if we were…

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How To Make Money This Summer

July 4th is next week. Weather you are taking off a day, the weekend or the entire week, it’s play time. I have grand visions about taking the entire summer off to do nothing but travel and play, but the reality is that I need my business to keep running. If you are like me,going…

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Opportunity Is Knocking. Open The Door

June is a wonderfully busy month. Business is booming, kids are graduating, farmers markets have started and the sun is out. Yet with all of this activity going on, does it ever feel like you’re missing out on something? Maybe it’s just me, but I can spend an inordinate amount of time looking at the…

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Business Is A Contact Sport

Actually all of life is. Yesterday, I was interviewed for the Live Rich, Spread Wealth tele summit. She asked me what is one thing I wanted to share with people about what it takes to be successful. Life is a contact sport Not in the aggressive, competitive sense, but in the you can’t get results…

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What’s The Right Networking Event For You?

There are endless networking events out there. You can easily fill your calendar morning, noon and night going from one event to another. Many of them are a lot of fun, but you still need to give yourself time to actually work. So how do you filter through the endless list to know which are…

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Building Your Internal Network

As I head out to teach a class in Oregon today and then Washington DC next week for the Women’s Council of Realtors meetings it seems like the perfect time to focus on building your internal network. Your internal network is the one within your own industry. Whenever I bring this up it seems to…

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Staying Productive When You Are Surrounded By Distractions

It’s spring! The real estate market is heating up and chances are, so is your social schedule. Both of our boys play baseball and between their game schedules, vacations, conferences, local events and the general spring fever of wanting to get out and enjoy the weather, life is getting busy. You may not have kids…

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When An Opportunity Arises, Take It

I was reading the Wallace D Wattles book,” Promote Yourself” yesterday and this line really stood out. If you are not familiar with Wallace D. Wattles, he wrote the book, “The Science of Getting Rich” over 100 years ago and is still quoted today for the wisdom available in his books. You can download a…

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