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Over 16,000 years ago the first human inhabitants of the Americas located themselves in what is now Clovis, New Mexico.  In 1932 an archaeological expedition discovered their artifacts and this led to some astonishing revelations.  For years it was believed the first people of the Americas had m...

Sometimes we believe we lose business due to opportunity cost.  We console ourselves with the euphemism, “You can’t win them all.”  No, you can’t win them all because that’s unreasonable, but you can win significantly more simply by offering prospective home buyers choices when they wish to recei...

It’s a data delivery device.  It’s Facebook, iTunes, a GPS locator, email, TV, gaming, voice memos, reminder lists and apps like Restaurant Roulette.  In May of 2010, the CTIA (the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry) published a report stating that, for the fi...

It’s a different world out there.  Information is everywhere; and it’s not gated.  Prospects are not reliant upon your access to the MLS to explore properties.  Ironically, the openness of information has made us more distant in our communications; in our desire to have real conversations with pe...

Of course… Over 1.8 million people purchased homes using the tax credit.  This credit helped increase sales of single family homes almost 27%.  Underlying trends, such as mortgage rates, perception of an improving economy, and home prices remaining steady, are increasing consumer confidence that ...

Our company, Arch, has recently received several calls inquiring about the ability to automatically send a prerecorded call or SMS/text to a consumer who called their 800 call capture number.  The short answer is “no,” you cannot send auto-responders in the form of prerecorded calls or SMS/text m...

  Expired properties may be one of the most competitive types of listings you can target.  They are easily identified; typically your MLS will send you a notification when a property expires, or allow you to perform a targeted query.  The challenges presented by expireds are many.   You have to: ...

The NAR reports that over 70% of buyers drive by properties that interest them before they contact an agent.  This is true whether those buyers find the property through the Internet, print, referral or your enterprise system that sends properties by predefined criteria to them.  With respect to ...

RainCamp was different; specifically Ben Kinney was different.  Ben taught tools anstrategies that he actually uses; most of them are free.  These are the type of things that you can’t read in a book and no-one else is teaching.  Ben learned these techniques by trial and error.   Guest speaker, M...

Two agents compete in the same marketplace.  They both have the same amount of time and access to the same information.  One is highly successful and the other struggles… why?  The answer is mindset.  Mindset resolves everything.  A proper mindset enables you to possess the tenacity to turn a bad...