Photo Credit: Ulay with Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present (2010) Can I have your attention please? This isn’t a question you should be asking. This is a question you should be responding to, even if your clients haven’t asked it yet. Unfortunately, in today’s tech-driven, high-speed world, it can sometimes be hard to focus on […]
Continue reading >>“You like me! You really like me!” Sally Field famously said during her acceptance speech for her second Oscar in 1985 for Places in the Heart. What viewers didn’t see was the work that went into her Oscar-winning campaign. Yes, it takes more than impeccable acting skills to win an Academy Award. You have to […]
Continue reading >>Ask most real estate agents what they wish they could be doing better, and their answers probably have something to do with follow-up. Are you nodding in agreement? We all know that staying in touch with your database can lead to some pretty amazing results. The challenge is how to do it most effectively while […]
Continue reading >>Liv Real Estate is a brokerage in Edmonton, Alberta whose #1 priority is amazing customer service, and they only bring agents onto their team who value the same thing. Their brokerage is in fact pretty special. Sheldon and Sara have created a system where they provide ALL of the business and leads for their agents…and […]
Continue reading >>Happy Grasshopper isn’t your ordinary email service. It’s a Keep In Touch Service. And it works. Keeping in touch with customers and potential contacts is one of the simplest and most effective means of building businesses. Staying in the tops of your friends’ and customers’ minds is what assures you that it’ll be YOU that […]
Continue reading >>You may or may not know this, but e-mail marketing has a problem. Lots of them, actually. But the biggest one is this: NO ONE READS IT. Do you want to know why? Because for years, we’ve all been listening to the same load of hooey about how to use it. We’ve all been trained […]
Continue reading >>At Happy Grasshopper, we love things that are fun, friendly, conversational, and altogether non-douchey. But that’s not ALL we’re about. We are fun, yes, but we are deadly serious about the products we deliver. Our messaging may seem simple, but it’s pretty darned powerful. Just how powerful? Well, we aim to show you. And one […]
Continue reading >>Somewhere between the East Coast and the West Coast, Wendy Forsythe found her soul. She’s come a long way in the time since she left her position at Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate to take on a new role with Carrington Real Estate and on that path, she’s discovered a whole new way of […]
Continue reading >>Mike Simonsen is a data head. No question about it. This is a guy who gets excited by numbers, finds a thrill in a good algorithm, and who sees the elegance in accurate analysis. Yes, the CEO of Altos Research is a geek of the highest order, indeed, but he’s much, much more than that. […]
Continue reading >>Did you know that people actually are more creative when they “think outside the box”? I know it sounds cliche, but it’s true. Psychological Science conducted a study where participants were seated–literally–either inside or outside of a cardboard box and then asked to complete a simple experiment meant to test their creativity. The results showed plainly that […]
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