My son J.C. passed away, suddenly, in 2017. The work the people at Lifebanc did with our family to help facilitate organ donation has been nothing short of amazing; here’s the Facebook post announcing J.C.’s death. We donated his body in its entirety with no questions asked. I went back to Rainbow Babies to give a speech [...]
The Les Turner ALS Foundation is our charity of choice. ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease is an awful awful disease. My husband Mark's family has been visited by this disease five times. He's lost two uncles, his mother and two cousins. The most recent just this past July. Also in July we lost one of [...]
My partner Mark Maran and I are very proud to support The Wounded Veteran’s Relief Fund. This fund exists to provide emergency financial support to qualified post 9/11 veterans. We are passionate about supporting these local heroes at home offering them assistance with housing, utilities and transportation. Why we help? It is our way to [...]
Rejection is something real estate agents deal with every day. Whether it’s losing a long term client or getting stood up for a meeting, it’s going to happen. A bruised ego is our occupational hazard. Rejection is okay. Fear of rejection…that’s not okay. Fear is what holds you back from accomplishing your goals in life [...]
If you’re a real estate agent, the holidays are no time to press pause on work. While it may be tempting to take off two weeks at the end of December—because, hey, everyone else is doing it—those two weeks could actually be extremely productive for you. Because everyone else is off work, so they finally have [...]
You’ve probably noticed this by now (it is almost 2019, after all), but much of real estate has gone digital. It’s no secret that 80% of homebuyers conduct internet research when considering homes to buy, and 89% use the internet to find real estate agents. Millennials will be the largest group of homebuyers (at 34% [...]
Krista Mashore is not your average real estate agent. She is a top 1% of Realtors Nationwide for 15 consecutive years, selling over 1.700 homes alone, including 144 in 2016 with a $2.5 million gross in commissions. She also has a bachelor's degree in industrial psychology, which makes her a powerful force in the business [...]
While our company is headquartered in Denver, CO, we made the decision to open a satellite Realvolve office in Bolivar, MO. Mark A. Stepp did a great job, and has attracted some wonderful, hard working talent. The first question we’re often asked is “why Bolivar, MO?” Admittedly, I was reluctant, and questioned whether it fit into our short and [...]
Having trouble converting your online real estate leads regardless of the time of season? Let’s start by getting one thing out in the open—the problem isn’t the leads. The problem is how you’re handling the leads. To paraphrase Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, the leads aren’t weak—you’re weak. More specifically, your follow-up is weak. [...]
Renee Crabtree is a Realvolver, AKA user of Realvolve. She’s the business manager for The Home Team at Cressy & Everett, who has discovered the OMG of Realvolve workflows! What’s the OMG of workflows? You’ll get a sense of it in this Happy Hour podcast! But of course for these Happy Hour podcasts, the goal [...]
