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 Chuck Curtiss
May 26, 2010 – 8:44 AM
As an association of just over 600 members, we have been a client of RECON Intelligence Services since 2002. We were not without our skeptics in that selection process, but we had visionary leadership who understood that if we wanted to not only keep our association relevant but develop it to its full potential that we [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
May 14, 2010 – 10:57 AM
The Gathering of Eagles event is an institution. Perhaps more than any other industry event, it provides its participants with an almost GPS accurate level of where the industry is in May of any given year and a crystal clear vision of the directions in which it is moving. Its program is always designed to [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
April 13, 2010 – 1:43 PM
Last month I had an opportunity to work with Brian Buffini and the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage team in a program called Meeting the Mortgage Challenge in 2010. I thought the program had great merit and I hope you will all forgive me for sharing both the experience and the message of that interaction.
The format [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
March 26, 2010 – 1:14 PM
It was a classic Keller Williams moment. The announcement was delivered at a key juncture during the Company’s annual Family Reunion event, in the middle of CEO Mark Willis’s annual State of the Company presentation.
For those who have never attended the reunion event, it is very difficult to describe. There is simply no [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
December 6, 2009 – 11:50 AM
2010 is so much more than just a new year. It is the beginning of a whole a new decade, a new national economy, a new American demographic, a new consumer culture and, for the American real estate industry, a whole new way of doing business. It will be a year in which: information will [...]
By Chuck Curtiss
November 3, 2009 – 3:25 PM
Innovation Connection (ICON), scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2009, will be held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Aqua Room 304. Our thanks to the National Association of REALTORS for providing us with this location.
Jeremy Conaway will facilitate the meeting again this year.
Elected Leadership of REALTOR Associations, who are pre-registered for this event, attend from [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
October 5, 2009 – 3:44 PM
RECON Intelligence Services prides itself in the quality of our research, the creativity of our thoughts and the innovative nature of the concepts that we advocate. Accordingly we have, over the past several years, attempted to make this column as original and thought provoking as possible. However, this month we are going to deter from [...]
By Chuck Curtiss
September 22, 2009 – 8:24 AM
The Web Marketing Association issued its WebAwards for 2009. The list includes one Association (kudos to the Kalamazoo Association of REALTORS), and brokerages of many sizes. The winners in the Real Estate category can be viewed by clicking this link:
WebAwards for Real Estate
