By Jeremy Conaway
May 14, 2013 – 4:39 PM
It was the 26th iteration of the Gathering of Eagles. The conference, a Real Trends ‘by invitation only’ conclave, is generally recognized as the premiere learning and networking event for those within the top 250 North American real estate brokerages. Real Trends entrepreneur and “Gathering” impresario Steve Murray set the tone during his opening. “We [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
April 10, 2013 – 8:35 AM
Yesterday I had an intense telephone call with a client who had recently come to realize that his cable, wireless and telephone company, financially flush from the mobile communications boom of the past few years, was about to become a major competitor. Assuming he was just being his usual high energy animated self I made [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
April 2, 2013 – 9:11 AM
One of the real joys of being engaged with the real estate industry, at this particular moment in its history, is the opportunity to understand the course of the industry’s current migration while, at the same time, being able to identify the behaviors and adaptations that will allow certain of its present brokers and practitioners [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
February 19, 2013 – 5:16 PM
They call it Family Reunion and for 2013 it was Dallas, Texas that played host to over 11,000 raving Keller Williams Real Estate participants from all over North America and nine overseas markets who gathered to celebrate the company’s 30th birthday party. For those who made an appearance at CEO Mark Willis’s State of the [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
January 16, 2013 – 1:12 PM
One of the joys of my world is to encounter the similarities of opportunity and challenge facing clients within the three industries in which we are currently engaged. Our thoughts trace back to a recent meeting in the Wexford County Road Commission garage in central Michigan. In attendance were twenty some county road superintendents each [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
December 4, 2012 – 3:07 PM
The participants in a recent, by invitation only, industry conference for strategic managers had mixed reactions upon learning about a number of the developments that can be anticipated in 2013. Those developments that garnered the most interest were increased investor involvement, a return of those agents who bolted during the 2006 through 2010 period and [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
November 16, 2012 – 5:05 PM
The events surrounding the very positive multicultural experiences of last summer’s Olympics in London have given this subject a whole new “impact” factor in both marketing and business circles. In fact, the impact of these events on marketing business in the US is so far-reaching that retail giant Wal-Mart has completely reorganized the role that [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
November 13, 2012 – 5:40 PM
Over the past several months, the traditional real estate media and real estate related social media channels have been increasingly critical of the industry’s apparent unwillingness to consider either the natural or even unnatural expansion of its traditional brokerage business model through one of the many service opportunities [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
October 23, 2012 – 4:39 PM
The questions are simple. Is our industry’s traditional business model on target for a major invasion? If so, how will we know it is upon us? If we knew that it was imminent what would we do? Some suggest that it all started with the mythical Trojan horse first credited to the Greeks as part [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
July 17, 2012 – 5:16 PM
Starting on September 1st of this year something very exciting will be happening in over 50 REALTOR® communities across the country. September 1st is the date that the Pinnacle Group Project, an extraordinary experience for REALTOR® associations, is set to begin. Although only a few months old, this project has already earned and, based on [...]
