By Jeremy Conaway
August 13, 2010 – 4:33 PM
For real estate brokers across the country one of the newest, and most difficult, concepts to live with is “C-level life”. This peaceful sounding phrase, recently coined by experts, has come to represent a whole new reality for businesspersons and entrepreneurs from virtually every industry in the American economy.
“C-level life” is a tag for “complete consumer [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
July 9, 2010 – 9:05 PM
It came as no surprise when, last fall, the annual Gallup Survey regarding respect of professions reflected that only 11% of Americans held marketing and advertising professionals in high respect. The same survey had been returning this same result for a number of years. In fact, in 2007 the profession had ranked only third from [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
June 14, 2010 – 12:10 PM
In the world of transitioning business competencies facing today’s broker and brokerage, few have proven more difficult to overcome than the once simple concept of knowledge. For over half a century, most North American firms have focused their efforts in the area of agent and manager education. Unnoticed by most is the fact that, at [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
September 15, 2009 – 10:54 AM
Charlene Li, and Forrester Research, continue to track Technographics. Give this a test drive by selecting age, location and gender.
This provides data on how your customers and members use social computing. Once you see the information, act on it and reap the benefits.
By Jeremy Conaway
June 9, 2009 – 12:51 PM
The theme of the closing session of the 2009 Gathering of the Eagles was building sustainable relationships with today’s consumer. The focus of the presentation was on the eleven golden nuggets that today’s consumer is looking for in their interaction with your brokerage firm.
The eleven points of light are: simplicity, innovation, speed, relationships, entertainment, collaboration, [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
May 9, 2009 – 8:41 AM
Every year it is a unique and singular event. It never fails to reflect and scrutinize the moment in time that the American real estate industry finds itself it. It has always fairly and correctly represented the image of an industry its spirit and, yes, its ego. It is the annual Gathering of the Eagles [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
March 3, 2009 – 10:11 AM
Our industry is in the forth year of the down market and everyone wants to know, what are brokers doing about it, are they going to survive? Unfortunately, the number one answer is hunkering down and waiting for the old market to return. This answer is often followed by a shrug and the question (generally [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
January 7, 2009 – 1:15 PM
A sneak peak at tools for Agents in 2009…
By Jeremy Conaway
August 8, 2008 – 2:11 PM
The Yahoo Real Estate folks provided the real estate industry with some really interesting information when they released a white paper entitled Embracing the Online Real Estate Market. The document reflects research conducted by Yahoo seeking to create a current economic and demographic profile of the Internet empowered consumer. The project further undertook to identify [...]