• 1.9 min readPublished On: September 8, 2010

    How Attitude Determines Success

    How does attitude determine success? Two blogs back, I started a series about the determinants of success--as defined by the [...]

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  • 2.6 min readPublished On: August 20, 2010

    Are your Agents’ Offices ‘Clutter Coves’?

    Is your office--or the offices of your agents 'clutter coves'? Envision your real estate office. If I walked into your [...]

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  • 2.9 min readPublished On: August 8, 2010

    Is Your Management Style a Prius or a Pontiac?

    We all know that many automobiles that were popular in the past are being phased out now. So much has [...]

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  • 3 min readPublished On: July 16, 2010

    I Can’t Fire Joe….Why Keeping Non-Producers Hurts You–and Them

    Everyone has a Joe (or Josephine) in their offices. Joe has been an agent for six years. He's the guy [...]

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  • 3.2 min readPublished On: July 3, 2010

    Give Yourself a ‘Whack’ on the Side of the Head

    My dad used to say when my sister and I were behaving badly he thought we needed a a�?whack up [...]

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  • 2.8 min readPublished On: May 20, 2010

    Managers: Are your Systems Up to Speed?

    Are your systems up to speed? On a scale of 1 to 10, ten being high, how would you rate [...]

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  • 2.7 min readPublished On: May 16, 2010

    The One Thing You Should Teach All Your New Agents

    Having hired and trained probably hundreds of new agents, I know the myriad of questions they have. So, here's the [...]

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  • 1.9 min readPublished On: April 21, 2010

    Managers: Are Your Agents Raising or Eroding Trust?

    In my blog a few days ago, I talked about how agents need to a�?upa�� their trust establishment in this [...]

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  • 2 min readPublished On: April 16, 2010

    Your Agents: Creating Platinum or Tarnished Trust?

    We're always telling our agents to 'work smarter', not harder. Yet, what does that mean? For one thing, in this [...]

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