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How to be the Best Chicago Real Estate Agent

Agent Publishing launches AgentEDU.com What are the best tactics for winning a multiple offer situation for your buyers? Do you know how to optimize your Yelp profile to attract potential clients? Are you a new licensee who needs to ramp

9 Ways to Take Your Business to the Next Level with a Better Business Plan

Two words strike fear into the hearts of business owners everywhere: business plan. If you’re like many real estate professionals, you know you need a business plan; however, you may feel so overwhelmed by the process that you’re not

How Photographers Get “That” Shot

You know THAT shot – it’s the one that gets the most interest, the most views, the most “oohs and ahhs,” clicks, shares and showing requests – and it’s the property that sells quickest. Many times, it’s that one shot that

Better Business, Better Agents: How Document Management Software Is Changing the Game

There are few industries that are as highly competitive as the real estate business. To stay current and keep up with the competition, Realtors and title companies are likely to update their business models within the next few years.

Study: Vast Majority of Consumers Dissatisfied with Real Estate Office Phone Skills

New research from the PH Media Group has found that only 28 percent of American consumers are satisfied with the way real estate businesses handle their phone calls. The study also found that the standards for phone manner for

Marketing Techniques for Selling Luxury Real Estate

Selling luxury real estate isn’t just about selling more expensive houses. As the price of a property increases, so too does the complexity of properly marketing it. The most successful professionals working in the high end understand how to

HSF CEO Gino Blefari on Finding Leadership Inspiration in Unlikely Places

Last week, I was in Raleigh, NC for a meeting with Tommy Camp, president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Carolinas Realty and his fantastic managers. After talking leadership, best practices and recruiting with the team, we had dinner

3 Ways to Really Connect With Your Customer Through Mobile

In today’s digital world, we use the word mobile very loosely. Sometimes we underappreciate its true value – being able to do just about anything anywhere. One of my pet peeves is having a device or a tool and

17 Chicago Suburbs Named Among Nation’s Safest

Though crime can be found in all major cities, the severity and frequency of it vary greatly from metro to metro, as two new reports from real estate analytics provider NeighborhoodScout recently pointed out. Annually pulling data from upwards of 18,000

Cheaper Oil, Cheaper Mortgage Rates – A Buying Opportunity

There are a lot of cities in the U.S. – Houston, New Orleans – that have felt the sting of falling crude values (“sting” being a cozy euphemism for economic haymaker). But the news isn’t all bad. Take, for instance, mortgage

4 Simple Marketing Techniques that Will Help You Sell to the Modern Buyer

If you’re a real estate agent or lead a real estate brokerage, the truth is you’re an entrepreneur. And like most entrepreneurs, that means you’re also in charge of sales and marketing. It doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie agent

Realtor.com Attracts a Record of 50 Million Unique Viewers

Realtor.com attracted a record 50 million unique users in Jan. 2016, according to a new report from the website OPP.Today. The website’s number of users has been steadily increasing over the years, with a 40 percent growth in 2015.

5 New Green Building Innovations for New Construction in 2016

The National Association of Homebuilders’ annual International Builders’ Show has become a platform for top and emerging brands to showcase the most innovative technologies in the industry today. Following the trend of sustainable building, which has almost become a new

Is Move, Inc. Taking Steps Towards Online Real Estate Transactions?

New agreement offers unified platform for transactions Move Inc., which runs realtor.com for the National Association of Realtors, announced an agreement with zipLogix that will bring the zipForm digital library to the Reesio document/transaction management platform, according to Housing

4 Steps for Brokers to Harness the Power of Diversity in Their Business

Real estate brokerages across the country understand the demographic base of real estate practitioners is rapidly evolving. ADP recently published that for the first time in U.S. history, we have four generations in the workforce adding to the multicultural

New Ruling: Realtor MLS Data Exempt from Chicago’s Cloud Tax

The Chicago Association of Realtors has announced that Realtor data on the MLS will be exempt from the city of Chicago’s “Cloud Tax.” “We’re pleased to announce that coordinated efforts between the Chicago Association of Realtors, our fellow local

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