A good digital camera is a business essential for real estate agents.

How important are great photographic images for marketing your listings? Having problems with blurred or dark images? Would you like to take better images of your real estate listing? Over the past few years we have seen the dramatic changes the digital age has brought to the Real Estate industry. With this recent technology, a real estate listing can be photographed, transferred to a web page, spliced together in a virtual tour and printed all within hours. Today’s listings are almost immediately available to other real estate agents… Finish Reading

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Is the ipad for You? Only you can decide.  I am hooked on it!

Is the ipad the “end all” in mobile devices? Does it replace my notebook computer? Not yet. It is a versatile, fast, light weight device that does many of the recreational things I now do on my notebook computer: music, films, photographs, games, email, playing on the web and reading books, magazines and newspapers etc. I don’t have to carry as many cords or devices when traveling and unless I need to work on spreadsheets and other business projects I don’t have to take the computer.… Finish Reading

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I’m sure you’ve seen the Sprint commercials on TV about 4G.  What is 4G and what does it mean to those who have it? 

In a nutshell it’s all about the speed at which we can send and receive data on our phones.  Have you ever watched a video on youtube only to sit through a stop and go session, waiting for the video to load?  This happens because of bandwidth.  Usually this means there is not enough of it on one side or the other.  Typically the faster the connection the less time we have to wait for things… Finish Reading

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With any job, position or career, one must have that ‘edge’ in order to succeed. Having that edge is what makes us number one and apart from others who strive for mediocrity. What is the edge?

I believe the components are Drive, Determination, Technology and Education/Training. This may sound a bit odd, or even obvious, but I believe these are the basic tenets of what makes one a success.

What is Drive? Drive, or Motivation is defined as the activation or energization of goal-orientated behavior. You either have it or you don’t; it can be acquired but there must… Finish Reading

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When I started with ERA Showcase I had to take the new agents class. It was given at the Merritt Island office up stairs. I think my class had about 14 students. We were taught by teachers all from ERA Showcase. Jean Burgdorff, Barb Keller, Gail Hawkins, Brenda DiSanti. I remember one particular class that Jean Burgdorff shared something that her husband said and have never forgotten it. 

Jean and her husband were in their office in New Jersey. A client her husband Doug had been talking to was just leaving the office. Just before she turned to leave. Doug… Finish Reading

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