4 Buyer Incentives that Sell Homes
On today’s market, it’s pretty easy for a seller to find themselves in a serious state of stuck: home stuck on the market with no bites from buyers, and family stuck in the home until the home sells....
View Article5 Insider Secrets for Coming Up With Cash for Your Down Payment
Most home buyers’ biggest hurdle is coming up with the cash for a sensible down payment. Gone are the days of zero-down loans, so if that was your plan, you’re going to need a new one! Coming up with a...
View Article5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Home
In most parts of the country, the housing market is good (or great!) for buyers right now - interest rates are bizarrely low, lots of inventory means lots to choose from, and the cost of renting has...
View Article5 Ways to Course-Correct When Your House Hunt Takes Too Long
Some people have home-finding stories that are the real estate equivalent of the skywritten marriage proposal tales. They drove by their dream home, knocked on the front door and the elderly owner...
View Article14 Post-Recession Real Estate Terms, Translated
By now, you’ve probably heard the age-old rules of thumb about translating home listings from real estate lingo to plain English: ‘cozy’ = tiny, ‘needs TLC’ = needs massive repairs, and ‘all original...
View Article5 Things To Do NOW If You Want to Buy A Home In 2012
If you’re one of the millions who has an eye on 2012 as the year in which you’ll buy a home (first or not), here are five things you can do now to put yourself on the right path: 1. Check your...
View Article5 Things to Do Now to Get Your Home Sold in 2012
If selling your home is part of your resolution list for this year, there’s plenty of prep work you can do to set yourself up for home selling success.
View ArticleGrowing Pains: Why Change Hurts [Part I]
Fun fact about yours truly: I’m an amateur doctor. That just means that I’m somewhat - okay, very - obsessed with my health and wellness, and that of the willing amateur patients in my life. If WebMD...
View ArticleGrowing Pain Cures: 6 Ways to Deactivate What Derails You
No matter how great or necessary a particular change seems to be, some team member, internal voice or chime from the peanut gallery might beg to differ. In the face of Instagram's eye-popping $1...
View ArticleThe Upside of Imposter Syndrome: Lessons from Women in Tech
In Silicon Valley, there is a movement of genteel outrage and increasingly organized action growing around the issue of diversity in tech (or more accurately, the lack thereof).
View ArticleThe Transformational Consumer: The $300 Billion-plus Opportunity Most...
A Great American Rethink is well underway. The technological, informational and inspirational barriers to changing any and everything about our lives, our careers, our families and our businesses have...
View ArticleThe 4 Habits of Transformational Businesses (and Their Leaders)
I recently attended the LOHAS Forum in Boulder, Colorado. [Background: LOHAS stands for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability.] In addition to giving attendees a glimpse into the clean, green living...
View Article3 Multi-Sensory Marketing Musts: How to Have a Love Affair with Your Customers
As a marketer and entrepreneur, I’ve long been fascinated with the concept of a lovemark - a term created by Saatchi and Saatchi President Kevin Roberts to describe brands to which customers are loyal...
View ArticleChip Conley: Why The Best CEOs Are "Vulnerable Visionaries"
In 2008, by all accounts, Chip Conley was a bestselling author and the visionary pioneer of the boutique hotel industry, which he kick-started 25 years ago as the Founder of the Joie de Vivre Hotel...
View Article3 Ways to Become a Strategic Risk Taker
Some people are fundamentally risk-averse, by nature. Others seek risk out to the point of recklessness. Culturally, we tend to think of this first group as the wise ones, especially by contrast to the...
View ArticleLearning Annex Relaunches, Founder Declares The Era of the Micro-Consultant
There’s an old saying in business and in life that pioneers perish, while settlers prosper. In this respect, the Learning Annex seems to be an extreme exception to the rule. Thirty years before...
View Article4 Buyer Incentives that Sell Homes
On today’s market, it’s pretty easy for a seller to find themselves in a serious state of stuck: home stuck on the market with no bites from buyers, and family stuck in the home until the home sells....
View Article5 Insider Secrets for Coming Up With Cash for Your Down Payment
Most home buyers’ biggest hurdle is coming up with the cash for a sensible down payment. Gone are the days of zero-down loans, so if that was your plan, you’re going to need a new one! Coming up with a...
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