I recently had a chance to catch up in person with a good friend of mine, who is the founder and CEO of a mid sized technology company with about 100 employees. It had been about three years since we’d spoken, and at that time the company he’d started years before was occupying every aspect…
As the residential real estate market in the United States continues to heat up, I’ve been looking for alternative ways to invest. One option, first introduced to me by my Grandfather years ago, is landing banking. Land banking is the practice of acquiring land, and then just “sitting on it” like you would a savings…
It seems that lately a lot of friends with residential rental properties have been lamenting to me about how difficult they are to manage. They talk about constant issues and problems, and how they’re so fed up that they just want to sell their rental properties and get out of the landlord business completely.I can…
As part of my series on real estate marketing best practices for real estate agents, I’ve put together a list of my favorite real estate marketing tools and solutions. These tools and solutions will save you time and money, and most importantly you don’t need to be a technical wizard to use them! Website I’m…
As many of you know, I’m passionate about sales and marketing. And I love real estate. So I decided to combine my interests into a short series on effective marketing for Real Estate Agents. This is the first article in the series. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran real estate agent, or just starting out, you’ll…
I recently made the ultimate jump into the 22nd century, and purchased a Rachio home sprinkler controller. This technology not only allows me to control my sprinklers from my phone (because, let’s be honest, who doesn’t have the frequent need to water their lawn remotely) but it also monitors the weather and turns off my…
This afternoon I received a call from a friend looking for some advice on building out a sales compensation plan. Her challenge was especially difficult because a lame-duck manager (who had secretly been planning his exit) had reduced his teams’ 2019 sales quotas by 30% – absorbing the difference under his own quota. Naturally, since…
Advertisers have (seemingly) always been trying to analyze the effectiveness of their advertising dollars. The old adage “I know that 50% of my advertising is working – I just don’t know which 50%” has never been more true. While technology has provided advertisers with tremendous insights into their ad campaigns and audiences, the more advertisers…
It’s been a little more than 6 months since news broke that (allegedly) Russian backed online hacktivists targeted US voters across several social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube. [You can read the comprehensive timeline here, which traces these types of activities back to a Ukrainian election in 2014.] By current accounts, the total…
What is Net Neutrality? In short, it’s the FCCs rules which require companies, in particular Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Verizon, Cox, etc. , to treat all content equally. These rules (note that they are rules, not laws) prohibit ISPs from blocking or discriminating against lawful Internet content. In a world where ISPs are playing…