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I'm getting a 1st gen iPhone as a gift from my brother and am very excited to get going with it. Before I jump in I'm looking for suggestions, tips & ideas from the iPhone users out there:

1) What CRM solution are you using & how does it work with your iPhone?

The objective of a great coach is to help you create an environment within your business that establishes boundaries with clients and balance within your personal life while maintaining a steady flow of new business in an organized fashion.

How many times in your business have you heard, “You need to choose a niche”? While nearly everyone talks about the benefits of a niche and that they need to find theirs;

One of the major challenges facing a new home sales specialist today is managing leads. Because there are people coming in and out of your models and projects daily, you often are blessed with more leads than you can work.  Selecting the right lead becomes critical to your success.

In this Part we’ll examine the subject of online advertising.  I am probably going to use some terminology that is new to you, but I will attempt to either keep it simple or provide explanations as I go so even the most un-tech-savvy agent should have no problem taking something of value away from this article.  I need you to forget everything you’ve ever heard about advertising while you read and I want you to turn on your common sense — not very common these days — and see if this doesn’t resonate with you down deep inside.  I believe it will, and I believe it will result in your changing the way you look at advertising, and particularly online advertising forever.

On Monday July 21st the practice of using naked shorts will come to an end.  What is a naked short and why do we in real estate care?

A naked short is a manuver in which a speculator shorts a stock and does not have the stock in place to cover the short.  The speculator borrows the stock and then makes a contract to sell the stock at a lower price than it currently trades.  The abuse has been geared around speculators that do not have a trade lined-up that would allow them to purchase the stock that they are now suppose to sell.

I had an opportunity recently to re-read Dirk’s post about Time Blocking and thought it was right on point -- especially where he suggests blocking time for our personal life before time blocking anything else. 

I have opened the recruiting flood gates!  I believe I have stumbled upon the cure for all recruiting and retention woes.  I am a genius and will forever go down in history for saving our industry from demise.....

One of the most difficult tasks in life is defining your purpose.  The pay off of clarity of purpose is enormous.  In working with some of the top Agents across North America, I have found that clarity is a big concern.  There is a direct correlation between clarity of purpose and success.  The more clarity you have in your business, the more profit you will make, and the time spent in business mode will be reduced.  The people with clarity

By now I think we’ve come to understand that there actually is a science to online lead capture, and we’ve identified the methodology where we can actually test and measure resulting in the ability to produce much more bang for our Internet marketing buck.  From here we will examine and discuss at great length a number of different crucial elements of the online lead capture process.