ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2011
Happy Grasshopper presents an interview with Jennifer Allan-Hagedorn, real estate trainer and author of Sell With Soul. Her new book, Prospect with Soul for Real Estate Agents is the third book of the "Soul" series and will be available in May.About Prospect with SoulIn Prospect with Soul for Re...
04/26/2011
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I need your help, RainMakers! I've been researching the follow-up methods used in real estate sales and need some love from my ActiveRain buddies. All of us want more of the people we meet to become our customers, right? So how do you do it? What methods are you using? What have you tried tha...
04/18/2011
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Chuck Carstensen recently wrote a great blog post, Not Everyone Is A Lead. I don't know Chuck, but he gave me a pretty clear sense of his priorities and I already like him. Isn't ActiveRain great? Anyway, Chuck made it clear that treating people like "leads" instead of living, breathing human b...
04/14/2011
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For this weeks movie night, I gave up my chick pick and let my beau choose. It was a good call, he picked one with a super hottie. The Fighter chronicles the story of Mickey Ward and his journey to a Welterweight Title. if you haven't watched it yet, its out on DVD and you should definitely ren...
04/12/2011
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Sitting in this restaurant, drinking this bad coffee. Oh what a wonderful day this will be. Its 7AM, haven’t eaten anything Oh what a wonderful day this will be. First comes the president, then all the intros Oh what a wonderful day this will be. Everybody stand up, everybody sit down. Oh what a ...
04/08/2011
50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Goldstein, Martin, and Cialdini, actually came out in 2008, but I just ran across it. It is packed full of scientifically proven strategies for increasing your influence. Many of these will surprise you! The authors take the position that persua...
04/03/2011
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Who is with me? ActiveRain is such a lame name. I mean what does it mean anyway. Whoever came up with that name is lame and should probably try to find a new line of work. When we named Happy Grasshopper a bunch of people said we were nuts. Now that ActiveRain has gone ahead with the move I t...
04/01/2011