RISMEDIA, February 13, 2010—In my 13 years of coaching entrepreneurs to be successful, I have uncovered that many people have a deep-seated fear of success. When I probe for the reasons behind this fear of success, the pattern is very similar. The clients that I work with who are afraid to be successful often had situations in their childhood that caused them to retreat. There were hostile environments, turmoil, chaos and fighting, and the individual did the only safe thing to do, which was to withdraw and form the belief that it’s really not safe to be visible. Along with that, other core beliefs

RISMEDIA, February 11, 2010—More than ever before, home buyers are on the Web and sellers want to sell their homes. What can we, as Realtors, give sellers that they can’t get by going FSBO? The answer is quite simple: maximum exposure to potential buyers through advanced marketing strategies. By utilizing the MLS, in combination with a targeted Web strategy and search engine

RISMEDIA, February 9, 2010—It has become an all-too-familiar obstacle to writing about successful agents: “My partner doesn’t want anyone to know who we are. We’re number one in our 50-agent company and everyone copies everything we do. My partner’s afraid that if they know how we get so much business from the Internet, they’ll steal that from us. Feel free to have anyone outside our market area call me for a recommendation, but I’m afraid you can’t use my name—we just can’t risk it.”

RISMEDIA, February 8, 2010—The numbers don’t lie. The facts are clear, people are just not communicating verbally as frequently as they once did. Text messaging, e-mail, Internet and social networking sites are all so readily available to us through our beloved mobile devices that we don’t need to either. We ...

RISMEDIA, February 6, 2010—In today’s “Internet Age,” it is crucial that real estate professionals stay ahead of the knowledge today’s buyers and sellers possess. Acting as a trusted and definitive source of counsel is a valuable tool in today’s market. Here, Rick Gregoy, VP Operations and Business Development, Better Homes ...

RISMEDIA, February 5, 2010—RISMedia has announced the session lineup for its 2010 Real Estate Leadership Conference—“The Real Estate Social Media Summit.” The official conference of the Top 5 in Real Estate Network®, RISMedia’s Leadership Conference will be held June 9-10, 2010, just outside of New York City at the beautiful and conveniently located Hilton Rye Town in Westchester County, New York. This year’s Conference will take the form of a Summit

RISMEDIA, February 4, 2010—Is that a question you’ve ever asked yourself? Have you ever wondered why some entrepreneurs do well in today’s economy while others fail?

RISMEDIA, February 4, 2010—It’s a big challenge to create a distinct brand personality if you are an individual entrepreneur or have a small company. But, while there are now many exciting

RISMEDIA, February 3, 2010—Real estate veterans Greg Rand and Kevin Levent have not only seen it all but survived it all…with flying colors, I might add—expanding, growing and gaining marketshare throughout all kinds of real estate cycles. In 2009, these two brokers made a bold statement at a bold time and switched from their longtime brand affiliations to Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate. Why mess with a good thing?

RISMEDIA, February 2, 2010—Recently a Mississippi agent wrote to a client of ours who is on our website’s list of success stories, asking for advice. “I am with Coldwell Banker in Mississippi and looking into the PROLeadS™ system with Compass,” she wrote. “I saw a success story about you on their website and I would greatly appreciate your opinion about the number of leads and the quality of them as well. $4,000 is a lot of money to me in this economy but would be worth it for quality leads that I could convert.”