Are you willing to fight this year? Are you willing to do whatever is necessary to win? I know this is about football but I think it can be applied to many things in life.

I think that in this tough economy people will need to fight to survive and those that fight the hardest will not only survive but succeed. You will need to give everything you have and when you want to quit and give up, you will need to give a little more. You don’t need to be the best but you need to be better than the next best guy. Since you probably don’t know who that is, the best insurance is to be the best.

I think that if you don’t view this economic downturn as a opportunity to remake yourself and your business your in trouble. Take 30 minutes out of your day and WATCH THIS. If you don’t have time bookmark it and watch it later.

My one take away from this is to stop making excuses that you don’t have time to do it. We all have the same amount of time yet others seems to be able to MAKE TIME to do it. This makes you look at the ways you spend your time and decide if you are allocating that time in the right places.

Chris Johnston

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I posted this over on my Active Rain blog awhile back. I still have yet to see the majority of agents giving address data for their listings in print media. I’m not sure if this is due to the agents or to the publisher not giving that option when the advertising is placed. Either way those agents that choose to not release this data will see their business suffer.

This is the kind of thing I have been hoping for for years. The real test of its usefulness is the databases that the listings are pulled from.
I’m not sure where Google is getting this data, but I would love to know. They certainly could afford to pay for API access to virtually all MLS systems but I think many will not allow it.

Another issue for agents is, what control do you as an agent have over what info is in that listing. If you can control what shows there keep this in mind: this information should be to help people determine if this home meets their search criteria, not to create a lead for you. If this takes off Google will be much more efficient at helping them find a list of homes than you ever will. Your job is to handle what Google can’t, which is guiding them through the home sale/purchase process.