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What Patterns are You Willing to Change?

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, Helpful Tools, Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development 4 Comments

By Jared James Patterns are a powerful tool available to you. But just like ignorance of a law or principle does not make that law or principle any less powerful… neither is our ignorance of our patterns. Everything that we are currently and everything that we will become and achieve is directly tied to the daily patterns we have created, …

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Need a Good Laugh?!?

Blog Contributor Being a REALTOR®, Sales & Marketing, YPN News 6 Comments

By Jared James We live in a world where everywhere you look everyone seems to be arguing about something because everyone has their point-of-view. And, of course, they are always right. Sometimes when I flip through the channels while I am at home or on the road in my hotel room, or I read a particular blog, I am left …

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Housing Affordability at All-Time High

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, Buyers, Helpful Tools, Sales & Marketing 1 Comment

By Jared James Did you know that cash buyers have made up over 30 percent of the overall buying market for five consecutive months? To give you some context, only two short years ago cash buyers only accounted for about 12 percent of the market. More importantly, do you know how to leverage them to make more money this year? …

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Sadness in D.C.

Blog Contributor MidYear, Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development Leave a Comment

By Jared James Although many men won’t admit it, most of us have seen movies like “Sleepless in Seattle,” so I have no hesitation in saying that it is the inspiration for my blog post title. I have the great fortune of getting to speak at conventions all over North America, which, needless to say, lends itself to a lot …

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What Can We Learn From bin Laden’s Death?

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Home Sales Statistics, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing 4 Comments

By Jared James We are only a few days removed from the Navy Seals finally tracking down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, and while so many are focused on the world reaction, I would like to take a different view as to what this event can teach us as sales people in regards to proper follow-up with prospective clients. I …

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Groupon Could Be a Real Estate Marketing Mecca

Blog Contributor Helpful Tools, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing 24 Comments

By Jared James Part of my job as a real estate speaker/trainer is to keep up to date on the latest news, fads, tools and technologies that come out so that I can determine if I think they are here to stay and worth covering with REALTORS®, or if they are here today and gone tomorrow and not worth our …

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What’s the Magic Bullet to Create More Transactions this Spring?

Blog Contributor Business Challenges, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing 1 Comment

By Jared James Spring is the time when more people will be making a decision about who to use as their REALTOR® than at any other time of the year. So is there a magic bullet to create more transactions in the next couple of months?? Watch the video below and you decide. I look forward to your feedback and …

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Cast Your Vote for This Year’s 30 Under 30 Web Choice Award Winner

Blog Contributor Personal Fulfillment, Professional Development, Young Pros in the Spotlight 19 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50 finalists will not be revealed until March 26 at www.realtor.org/realtormag. Good luck to everyone who applied! By Jared James One of my favorite times of the year has come yet again. It is voting time for REALTOR® Magazine’s annual Web Choice Award, where we select our favorite REALTOR® among the 50 finalists for the 30 under …

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What Feeling Are You After?

Blog Contributor Being a REALTOR®, Helpful Tools, Personal Fulfillment 2 Comments

By Jared James All goals really have nothing to do with money or other things. Think about it. Are you really after a bunch of pieces of paper with dead people on them? No. Everyone of us is after a feeling whether it be power, security, influence or whatever. Take a moment and watch the video below and then reassess …

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What? Your House is on the Market with Someone Else?!?

Blog Contributor communication, Helpful Tools, Professional Development, Sales & Marketing 7 Comments

By Jared James Tell me that you have not ever had the experience of being fully committed to someone else, passing all of your leads to them, only to look on the MLS one day to see that they have listed their house through some other REALTOR®. Is there anything more frustrating in the world? Well, of course there is. …