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Marketing Budget Out of Control?

May 10, 2011 By Michelle Spalding Leave a Comment

Feel like you are you spending too much on marketing? In many a real estate business the largest part of the budget is allocated to lead generation whether by design or by accident. This comes in various forms, websites, print media, paid advertising online and offline as well as direct mailings and social media, to [...]

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Luck, just another 4 letter word?

March 7, 2011 By Michelle Spalding Leave a Comment

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the team at Transaction Management Consultants. Today, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, and me being Irish, I thought it would be fun to explore the word LUCK Truth be told, I think we give luck way to much credit for peoples successes and failures. According to Dictionary.com it’s [...]

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The Silent Scream, “I Am Not A Taxi” – by David Fletcher

October 1, 2010 By Michelle Spalding Leave a Comment

Have you seen the television commercial featuring the first time home buyer who is bragging that their agent showed them more than 20 homes, and the agent is bragging that it was more like 30? This is obviously not a recruiting commercial for buyer’s agents. The commercial implies that this national franchise is an agent [...]

Filed Under: Featured, Inspiration, Real Estate Tagged With: Bet, Changing Careers, Clue, Control, David Fletcher, First Time Home, First Time Home Buyer, Franchise Show, Good Time, Liars, National Franchise, Recruiting, Silent Scream, Taxi, Television Commercial, Three Months, Time Home Buyer, Two Messages

Just ask – that’s all it takes

March 25, 2010 By Michelle Spalding Leave a Comment

I’m a firm believer in the Law of Attraction and knowing that I control my destiny. That everything I need and want will be provided to me if I focus on it, believe in it and be thankful for it even before it comes. So recently I had a little car issue – I couldn’t [...]

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Are you making the right first impression?

May 25, 2007 By Michelle Spalding Leave a Comment

We are all too familiar with the saying "you only have one chance to make a good first impression". It's known that a person judges us and makes a decision about us the first few seconds that we meet and we do the same likewise.&nbs…