Apple TV is already outselling the competition. Man, oh man — Apple is going to crush it when they come out with an completely integrated “iTV”. Look at what they did to mp3 players, cell phones, the music industry, and the tablet market. Once they put their mind to it, they crush the competition is seemingly every vertical they tackle. If I were Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic, JVC, or any other television manufacturer on the planet? I would be scared shitless.

John Battelle has a great post up titled “Put Your Taproot Into the Independent Web“. It’s worth reading. The gist of John’s argument is that you shouldn’t put all your online eggs into a basket that you don’t control (like Facebook). It’s vital to your long term business to have your own brand, independent of [...] Continue reading →

What type of people do you spend the majority of your time with? Are they busy wishing, talking, or doing? Want to spend your time interacting with “doers” in both life and business? Also known as interesting people accomplishing amazing things on a daily basis? Take a clue from Joel and go DO SOMETHING. Heck, DO ANYTHING. As you know, like minded individuals group together. There is a reason every single one of my friends loves to travel. There is a reason I have many friends interested in microfinance. There’s a reason all my close friends are doing amazing things. It’s because I choose to associate with others who share similar interests — and who … Continue reading →

We all need to make money from the activities we spend our time on. Social media is no different. Every so often, there is talk about social media being a waste of time and the ROI not being there since most agents can’t directly attribute transactions back to clients they received from social media. But, make no mistake about it — there are agents and brokers making money from social media. But not in the way that you think. You want to know how agents … Read More » Continue reading →

If you’ve had a website for at least a few years, chances are good you’ve asked someone to make a change or two for you. And it’s equally likely that you were shocked at the cost to make such a small change. Usually, it’s in the $100-$200 per hour range for development time. Short of [...] Continue reading →

What do you currently use to handle your voicemail? I’m guessing it’s either Google Voice, your standard voicemail that comes with your mobile phone, or some other add on service you’ve randomly stumbled upon along the way. Sure, regular voicemail works. But we all know it can, and should, be better for real estate agents. For starters, when someone leaves you a voicemail, you’d like to know what property that person is inquiring about so that when you follow up (within minutes) you’ll already be … Read More » Continue reading →

I don’t really talk about it much here on this blog (though it is listed on my about page), but I am a proud member of Sigma Phi Epsilon (WA Beta chapter, PC02) and was on the executive committee during the transition to the Balanced Man program in 2004/2005. I was browsing my Facebook groups earlier today, and one of the ones I don’t frequent enough is the Sigma Phi Epsilon Washington Beta Chapter. As a reminder to how far the fraternity has come in the last 6 years, Eric Lord posted a link to the Today Show segment from 2006 that featured Sigeps WA Beta regarding their migration to the balanced man program back … Continue reading →