Do you have an in depth knowledge of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites?
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Work the Top of Your Database with Facebook Groups
May 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Follow and friend your top 150 for great results.
Have you ever heard of the “Dunbar Number”? According to Wikipedia:
“Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.”
According to Dunbar the limit is 150 people. (Researchers debate this, with the number ranging as high as 290). However, 150 is a pretty good place to start, especially if you have a large database of contacts.
Ask yourself: Who are the “top 150″ in your database you feel you should be building better relationships with? Are they prominent community members? (Great networker.) Do they work in HR for a large company? (Great for relocations). Do you anticipate changes in their families in the near future? (Retirements, births, weddings, kids off to college).
One great way to keep tabs and keep in touch with these contacts is to friend them on Facebook and add them to a group on your Facebook page. Groups provide you with powerful ways to target status updates, share certain posts with only select members, and keep in “peripheral awareness” with what’s going on in the lives of certain groups of people.
With these “top 150″ grouped, you’ll never have to worry about missing out on updates in their life, and you’ll have more opportunities to network with those contacts. Engage them with comments and share links and stories that will catch their eye.
When you’re ready to dive into groups, educate yourself first by watching this excellent, 5-part “Facebook Groups Tutorial” from Butterscotch.com. (Parts 1 & 5 are most applicable to working your top 150.)
Part 1: Creating a New Facebook Group
http://www.butterscotch.com//tutorial/Creating-A-New-Facebook-Group
Part 2: Making a Group Email Address
http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Making-A-Group-Email-Address
Part 3: Adding Group Posts & Comments
http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Adding-Group-Posts-And-Comments
Part 4: Chatting With Your Group Online
http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Chatting-With-Your-Group-Online
Part 5: Managing Your Facebook Groups
http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Managing-Your-Facebook-Groups
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Make Your Own- Wicked WordPress Themes
April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is one very cool tool. Wicked WordPress Themes
If you have ever wanted to be able to make your own
WordPress Templates, here is the definitive guide for doing that.
I am a huge fan of WP and all our sites are on WP templates.
I tend to use Brian Gardner’s templates at Studio Press,
simply because I have never known how to make my own template.
This training manual changes all that.
If you have a small web business and want to sell your own templates
Wicked WordPress Themes
this would be a great way to do it. Give it a look.
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Will Smith Success Philosophy
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1000 Ways To Earn Money
July 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This website is a great little find. 1000WaysToMakeMoney
If your looking for money making ideas and most of us are then this is like having an encyclopedia of ideas to pick and chosse from or maybe combine a few of them together.
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Do You Want To Be A Social Networking Guru
July 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I am always searching for ways to improve myself or my business.
There are lots of gurus out there selling big expensive packages. However, there are some really great inexpensive finds as well.
I had been struggling a bit with all the social media stuff that is going on.
I mean social media is where it’s at and how a tremendous amount of business worth billions of dollars will be generated on the internet in the coming years.
I found this little package LetsGetSocial which teaches you how to run a Social Media business. The great thing about that is you don’t have to want to run a social media business, but to do it you would have to become an expert on social media.
That’s exactly what this great little video course with supporting material teaches you to do.
I bought it for a family member and then decided to go through it for myself.
It cleared up tons of issues. Set me up with systems that I could run my social media for my business in minutes a day.
Frankly if I did want to run a social media business I now could.
Check it out, it could save you some time and effort as well. LetsGetSocial
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Building a Real Estate or Business Practice
January 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
To build a real estate practice first one needs to learn the basics.
At Keller Williams These basics are are taught in our two courses known as
1/Camp 443
2/ 36/12/3
Once you have completed these two courses the next best steps are
1/ decide which 2 or 3 items you will learn thoroughly inside out and backwards upside down and standing on their head.
2/ Choose ONE Mentor and contract with them to train you. Listen intently and follow thru with them completely on all that you are asked to do. If you don’t do not be surprised or upset when you don’t get the results you are hoping for.
When a person has become a Real Estate Millionaire such as myself there is a reason for it. If you do not have the same status there is a reason for that also. Don’t assume you know anything and don’t run around to everyone else trying to find out what everyone does to fix the first persons system. The system is not broken it takes time to work. This also shows extreme rudeness and lack of respect to your mentor. If you don’t respect this person and aren’t prepared to listen you shouldn’t have chosen them in the first place.
Learning to Listen and being Coachable is the key. If you do not make yourself Coachable eventually no one will be interested to Coach you.
You are not in a position to be creative when you are brand new, you have not achieved anything in this field of endeavor yet.
Every field has it’s basics and it’s ground rules. Learn them thoroughly. If you want to work with watercolors and paint, watercolors have their ground rules. They change entirely the day you decide you want to work with acrylics instead.
When you have made at least $100,000 in commissions with one system you will be in a position to start becoming creative. Often people do this and then the system starts to fail and now they say “ the system doesn’t work”. Some things are they way they are because they work.
Expect to walk thru all the steps with your mentor and do not expect them to repeat themselves dozens of times to you or to put up with you constantly if you don’t follow through, if you don’t show up for coaching sessions or constantly cancel with one story or another or don’t do your work. If this happens on a constant basis you will find yourself fired.
They are giving you a gift that can earn you millions of $ over a lifetime. Value it, treasure it. Revere what you do. If you don’t Revere your work you will fail. You are dealing with the average persons largest investment of a lifetime. Be respectful of your mentor, their space and their time. Do not expect them to be your best buddy or even your buddy. This is a business relationship. Listen, learn and grow. When you are in a position to be a potential partner they will definitely let you know it.
Remember that the way you treat your mentor is a model of your behavior. They are watching as they know that you are at your best at that moment. You will also treat their clients, that they put you with in the same manner. They know this. If your language, speech or actions are inappropriate, illegal, go against rule of their profession they will not want your working with their clients as this makes them look bad & can create fines and lawsuits.
This is the best way to learn any business.
Alternatively if a mentor is not available find a good real estate trainer or training system and buckle down and use it.
Do not run all over the place gathering up everyone’s version of a system or spend time gathering hundreds of bits of information from all over. Find one good coach or coaching system and listen. Do the system as the system says. Work it until it works. Do not cast your gaze everywhere else. Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus Focus.
Your goals need to be written out ( it is a kinesthetic action) this builds them deeper into your physical body. The need to be reviewed daily. A PDA is not the way to do it. A Goal journal or A 411 is good for this. I also have a yearly written business plan.
My Jan 2010 financial goal is $20,000. I wrote this goal mid December and started gearing myself to obtain it.
It is Jan the 5th 2010 in the last 4 days I Have written over $600,000 in business and earned almost $15,000. In commission. I have been completely focused as I probably have to fly out to Florida to inspect a home I am buying there and want to make my goal before I leave. This way my month will be made. Do you think I will make my goal? You bet. This is the kind of focus you cannot see when you talk to me on the phone . It is critical for business success.
Resolutions For 2010
A Written Business Plan
A Daily Journal
Written Goals and a Daily Review of Your Goals.
Get a Beta Copy of My 45 Page Guide to Creating a Great Business Life At http://www.riseandshine.com/products-at-riseandshine/
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Closing A Florida Home
July 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
First bit of info is knowing about occupancy. If you are Canadian you can stay in your Florida home for up to and 1 day less than 6 months without incurring a need for permission from the U.S. authorities and without both tax and health care ramifications in Canada. One day more than 6 months and you could lose your OHIP benefit if it was discovered you were out of the country. Pretty easy to do when you know that your comings and goings are recorded at the border.
To purchase a Florida property you will need to write an offer and give your deposit money, called earnest money when you cross the border to an escrow agent (usually a lawyer)or a realtor. They have a legal obligation to hold your deposit until one of 2 things can happen 1/ the seller hands him or her a deed conveying title and a “GUARANTEE” that they in fact do own the property. 2/ The deal falls through, in which case your deposit money comes back to you.
If the lawyer determines you get what you are meant to get then there will be a closing where your money is exchanged for the title and you will get the keys to your property.
So who is making the “Guarantee”? In Florida as here in Canada now there are Title Insurance Companies. So your lawyer would supply you with a policy issued by a big well –known insurance companies that have been in business for decades and that are highly solvent. They do research to make sure the seller owns the property and to make sure there are no others claims or liens against the property.
If the title is clear then the lawyer will issue you an insurance policy. There is a clause in this policy that insures the insurance company will pay you the price you paid for the property in the rare occurrence that despite their research the seller did not own the property and that if he did and there was a lien that wasn’t found then the insurance company will pay off the lien. It’s a good system that works well.
If you have heard that property insurance and property taxes in Florida are higher than elsewhere then you are correct. They are higher than states that have income tax and death tax. However, there are ways to reduce some of these costs plus the savings on the purchase cost at the moment should substantially offset these costs, plus of course the lack of other taxes and the generally lower tax brackets that exist in Florida.
If the property insurance costs seem high it is quite simple buy something that was built after 1992 and that is not right on or next to the beach. Property insurance is much more reasonable for these properties as the building codes changed in 1992 and were much improved plus beach front is of course more subject to winds and hurricanes.
Properties built after 1992 perform much better in high winds and this is why they cost less to insure.
Currently as of today’s date property taxes are running about $1600.00 per year for every $100,000 of property value. Taxes are market value assessed yearly. So your taxes will be based initially on your purchase price. However depending on how you take title if you rent the property then it can be arranged so that your expenses including interest are deducted from your income on the property. That lower net figure will not be taxed by Florida (the state) only by the U.S. Federal government at rates much lower than in Canada.
So it may be time to grab your beach towel and sun block and check out living part of the year under the Florida Sun.
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A Place In The Florida Sun
July 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
You’ve probably been hearing all about the serious mess in the U.S. real estate market due to the sub prime mortgage debacle. Thousands and thousands of people are losing their homes. There are new home subdivisions sitting vacant completely built and ready to go.
If you have ever considered escaping Canadian winters and I am sure we all have especially after this past winter with it’s 5 months of snow; this may be your time to consider buying a Florida getaway.
Given a 10 year time frame from now to say 2018 this will most likely be your best price opportunity ever. If you can see yourself doing business on the patio in shorts and a polo shirt with a cool drink in your hand greeting your business associates or family and friends then it’s time to learn about Florida real estate.
What stops most people from making a move is not knowing about the buying and closing process and the tax implications. Buying, getting a mortgage, Income Tax, Death Tax, and Property Tax.
So here on these next few pages you will find most of the info you need to get started with real estate in Florida.
Always remember to get proper Legal Advise from lawyers who deal in cross border real estate and planning. Also a knowledgable tax advisor is appropriate. Do not construe the information here as legal or tax advise. Also Florida Laws and Revenue Canada can change their minds whenever it suits them so you should make sure you get current advise at the time of your real estate purchase, not relying on this.
We have simply put this together from workshops and information sessions we have attended with a view to simplifying the process for you and removing some of the fear of the unknown.
With Canadian real estate at an all time high it is hard for investors to make numbers work on properties here. So if you are an investor this may be a great opportunity for you to build up your portfolio as well.
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