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Teresa Boardman
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Last weekend I attended an event designed to teach people how to be good at meeting people and dating. I was the official photographer, which is the same as being the official observer.
There are some similarities between online dating and online marketing, and some of the tips the daters got for interacting with total strangers on a first date work for...
Stephen Fishman
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Here are some important tax changes for 2011 that you should be aware of as you prepare your return.
Different due date for return
Ordinarily, your tax return is due April 15. However, this year the deadline has been extended to April 17. The reason: April 15 is a Sunday and April 16 is the Emancipation Day holiday in Washington, D.C....
Bernice Ross
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Real estate industry professionals seem to be engaged in a war both within the industry as well as with the consumers they serve. At the core is one simple issue: failure to adequately articulate the value they provide.
Due to technology changes and the worst real estate market in our lifetimes, everyone has had to redefine their...
Gahlord Dewald
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As you are no doubt aware, Google is consolidating its privacy policies across all services in its platform. This means instead of 60 disparate privacy policies there will be one.
Simplification is good. Especially when it comes to privacy. While there are certainly concerns to be had with the new policy (such as wording that...
Lou Barnes
Inman News®
The game of "Grecian chicken" flaps and clucks on, with Greece near default and likely to leave the euro, which would ruin its economy; and Europe withholding new money until Greece agrees to austerity that will ruin its economy.
The 10-year Treasury note's yield needs no scary help from Europe to stay low....
Bernice Ross
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What does it take to successfully market your real estate business online? Matthew Shadbolt, director of interactive product and marketing at The Corcoran Group, shared six great tips that have made his company Manhattan's leading real estate agency. These same tips can help your business, too.
1. Share the...
Teresa Boardman
Inman News®
This is a real-life Facebook case study, or at least an example of how not to use Facebook.
Last December, a Realtor stopped by a Facebook group page for a neighborhood in my area and introduced herself by telling the members that she just got her real estate license and is looking forward to handling all of our real estate needs. She said we should feel...
Gahlord Dewald
Inman News®
One of the common things real estate brokers and agents say to me is, "We're so behind as an industry when it comes to using technology."
I always make it a point to clearly disagree with anyone who says that.
Last week, I was asked to present at the Global Strategic Management Institute's Social Media...
Stephen Fishman
Inman News®
Q: I run a property management company. We receive rent on behalf of an owner, pay expenses, and disburse the net to the owner. We do not consider the rental income as (our) income, nor do we deduct the expenses these properties incurred.
We keep our business income and expenses completely separate from the properties we manage. Do we need...
David Fletcher
Inman News®
Economic recovery will be in full swing by October 2012. Why? Because there is a presidential election in November 2012. This is America. This is the way it works.
Inventory is coming down in many markets, according to just about any report we read these days, and hopefully employment opportunities will...