Something New for our Community Members

Welcome to what will be known as the Lighter Side of Real Estate Webmasters.  This concept is the brain-child of a few dedicated, interesting and bored (kidding!) staff members that were looking for a way to stretch their limbs.  After all, we can't all be like Gerry and create helpful, useful tutorials for REW products and technology... shame on you Gerry. (Image courtesy of Cartoonstock.com)

Now that I have seen it... what the h@ll is it?

Well, in a nutshell, anything and everything that is pop culture and remotely interesting.  Possibly not even interesting.  Every entry that is part of the Lighter Side of REW will not be for everyone, so don't go expecting the sun, moon and stars each week.  The sucker of the…

Networking is one of the fundamentals in life, nevermind real estate.  Families are networks, school is a network and a career is a network.  The trick is finding the interconnections between systems or processes - and simplifying the associated complexity.

One essential networking basic that was shared with me lately: being sincere.  This is something I took for granted and never really consciously acknowleged.  (Note: I am not a social butterfly, nor do I focus on networking much of the time... this is one of my weak points I am working to improve).  Strong networking is sustainable, like search engine optimization (SEO) practices.  You don't want to build a house on a poor foundation, only to have it crumble and need excess attention in the… Read Full Post

What is important.  Three words that most of us would wrestle with for a few seconds before instinctively answering.  Then a minute or two later after some reflection we may add to the initial response or even modify it.  I would guess that after a solid 10 minutes most of us would be satisfied with out response, and only one thing would be certain: the collection of responses would be hugely diverse.

So what is important within the context of the Real Estate industry? Based on a combination of personal experience and time spent within the REW Community Forum apparently a lot of things.  Technology.  Foreclosures.  Marketing.  Conversion.  Content.  Search engine rankings.  Response time.  Doing enough.  Doing too much.  Not doing enough.  Contracts. …