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Technology
August 28, 2014

Matterport 3D: It’s like Google street view for INSIDE your listings

Matterport allows viewers the ability to tour a property in an immersive 3-D environment… which can be really helpful during the home search process in deciding if they want to actually tour the home in “real life”. As the title suggests, Matterport is the equivalent of Google’s Street View but for the…
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Uncategorized
August 28, 2014

Closing Costs Are Rising Faster Than Ever

With housing prices on the rebound across the country, buyers are spending as much as ever on their new homes, and they’re also spending record amounts on the closing costs for those transactions. Closing costs have risen by over 20% since 2010, up 6% from last year, to an average…
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August 27, 2014

FICO is Changing its Scoring Methods. What That Means For You.

Your credit score can have a huge impact on your life. For most people, the most critical role it plays is in the securing of financing for the purchase of a home. A good score means good rates, which can save you thousands of dollars over the course of your…
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Skill DevelopmentTechnology
August 27, 2014


Your Bio is the Center of Your Digital Universe

“All roads point to Rome,” they say… Well in the world of real estate marketing, all roads should point to you. The whole purpose of blogging, social media, business cards, networking…of marketing, in general, is to get the word out to potential customers that YOU, and only you, offer the…
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Skill DevelopmentTechnology
August 27, 2014

3 Ways to Establish Yourself as a Resource for Future Clients

This post should be prefaced with yesterday’s post: 5 Great Ways to Use Your Blog to Engage Your Community Your blog is your primary venue to demonstrate your knowledge of all things real estate-related. You can talk about everything from market trends and the buying and selling process, to upcoming…
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August 26, 2014

Streamlining the closing process for buyers and sellers

Insights from Inman News‘ Real Estate Connect SF 2014: Hear what title insurers and settlement services providers are doing to streamline the closing process for homebuyers and sellers from Patrick Stone, President and CEO, Williston Financial Group and Matt Morris, CEO of Stewart Information Services Corp. The post Streamlining the…
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Skill DevelopmentTechnology
August 26, 2014

5 Great Ways to Use Your Blog to Engage Your Community

Blogs are powerful tools for building, engaging and maintaining an audience and demonstrating your market expertise. A blog is much more than a place to share your latest listings. In fact, if that’s all you’re doing with your blog, you’re probably not making much of an impact or gaining much…
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TechnologyUseful Apps
August 26, 2014

Instagram Hyperlapse: Create smooth time-lapse videos with ease

Over the last year or so, I’ve seen some really cool things done with time-lapse video in the real estate marketing space.  Having been part of building a full scale “media team” for a local Portland area brokerage I know that this process isn’t easy, and the equipment isn’t cheap. Today,…
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Uncategorized
August 26, 2014

10 Ways to Maintain Your Client Relationship After Closing

It’s no secret that many agents drop the ball when it comes to maintaining relationships with their clients, once a deal has closed. That’s counterintuitive though, given that there really is no better referral source than a happy former client, or better yet, a former client who is ready to…
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Uncategorized
August 25, 2014

Mortgage Pre-qualification is Coming to a Website Near You

These days, just about every agent has their own website. For the most part, they are all more or less the same, and it’s getting harder and harder to make them stand out from the crowd. They’ve all got blogs and neighborhood guides and mortgage calculators. Visitors can expect to…
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