Tell the truth… you’d sorta like to see your boss have to wear a banana suit to the office one day, right? Think that might motivate you?  CEO of Howard Hanna Rand Realty, Matt Rand, certainly thought so. So he issued a challenge. Right…

Buying or selling a house in today’s market – and in today’s terminology… it’s a lot. A lot of stress. A lot of fast-moving parts. A lot of important decisions that need to be made quickly. And for some people, it’s too much. I’ve…

I have a really simple – yet potentially painful – question for you… Are you relevant? I recently met Greg Creed, former CEO of Yum! Brands and author of a great new book called R.E.D. Marketing. He brought up the topic of social and…

I was pretty stoked when I got to fire a t-shirt cannon on Tuesday at Day 1 of this year’s Success Summit into a crowd of 4,000 dedicated real estate professionals who joined me in Dallas. Then on Day 2, we took it up a notch and loaded that thing…

A lot of people have been reaching out to me for advice on team building recently. It makes total sense… right now is a great time to capitalize on robust market conditions and scale your business. And as I’ve been saying for years, teams…

I’ve often said your role as a real estate professional is to solve problems for a profit. The agents who are figuring out how to solve today’s problems are killin’ it… And those who aren’t putting in that effort are, well, struggling….

You ever notice your computer or phone acting a little sluggish? What do you do? A quick reboot usually does the trick, getting it right back to top performance. After almost a year and a half of pandemic-caused disruption, I think lots of real…

Sometimes the job of a real estate coach is to cut through some of the excuses agents use to avoid doing the things that will make them successful. We all know we’re operating in a “video first” marketing environment. But far too many agents…