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Meetings are the life blood of our industry. Whether it’s with clients, business partners, random people we meet while out and about every day, one meeting can lead to your next step or success in business. Meetings however take up significant amounts of time and often we don’t get what we want o...

 How to be Approachable  Have a clean professional appearance. Where appropriate clothing, style your hair and have fresh breath. It is said that you get sized up by the person you meet within 10 seconds of making eye contact. Appearance in this sense is everything. Expressions. Walk tall and ope...

Happy Monday ActiveRain Bloggers! Mistakes are good not bad. Mistakes teach us to grow, to learn, and to become who we need to be in life. Make as many mistakes as possible to become great! If your not making mistakes your not learning and not making something of yourself! From the words of my gr...

Things move fast our business. We get our clients, show them houses, and before we know it were at inspection, appraisal, and closed. During the process it can be very stressful and sometimes like a turbulent flight. Throughout the process its very important to listen to all parties involved and ...

There are many people who walk through life accepting their situation as it is and not thinking about how it can become something better! As individuals we have the power to become something better through our experiences in life and impact we have on others.  It is our responsibility in life to ...

Being a mortgage guy, its been interesting how you drift from focusing on different sources of business every now and then. This could be calling leads three times a week, to fitting in networking groups, to obtaining referral sources. I have found a couple ways to break old habits and venture in...

Yesterday I was absolutely shocked. I've been calling refinance leads for quite a while now, and had a wonderful conversation with someone local about 2 months ago. It wasn't the right timing, but we decided to reconnect at a later point.   I got a call yesterday from this refinance prospect and ...

Everyone have a good weekend? I wanted to reach out and wish everyone a great start to the week! I'm already feeling accomplished from going to three open houses this weekend and my realtors being greatful for my help and advice. I can tell good things are going to come!   I'd like to share a quo...

Fellow AR followers! We are almost 4 months into the new year! Its gone by incredibly fast! As I've spend a large part of the last week helping to setup an office and getting the admin stuff taken care of, this week is dedicated to getting out there and continuing to build a pipeline! As the roma...

Fridays are my days to review my week and look back at how productive I was. If I feel like I came up short, I ask myself what happened that caused the days to go off track? Here are some great tips to make Friday an Admin/Productive day:   1. Make use of your drive to work! I spent 25 minutes ge...