Have you heard about working smarter versus working harder?
Over the past 2 years, your real estate market has probably gone through many changes...falling prices, many foreclosures and short sales, most zero down loans disappeared, financing industry going through major changes. The question is have you adapted to the changes or just put your head in the sand?
It seems like there's something new to learn almost every day in the real estate industry and it's important to make sure that you keep up with those changes or over time you'll be left behind.
I've taken 16 hours of continuing education courses over the past 2 weeks. Many strategies learned have been refreshers from the past and there have also been new ones to test out.
What I've discovered is you can never stop learning. I spend at least 30 minutes each day (often times more) reading articles that interest me to improve my real estate business.
One of the great learning resources that's only been around for the past several years is ActiveRain. If you haven't heard of ActiveRain, here's the essence of its purpose:
- it's a great real estate forum and resource center
- you can read posts from agents and others from around North America
- there are 100's of groups that talk about niches, like Facebook Tips, etc
- your posts can be picked up in the search engines (Google loves ActiveRain)
- you can gain points by posting, commenting on posts and inviting others
- you can post articles for consumers to read (localism.com)
- you can send and receive referrals from agents and other professionals
- consumers can find you, follow you and, if interested, contact you to help them
- there are optional fee services, like advertising and getting an outside AR blog
I'd recommend just checking it out. It's free!
To join, click on this link: ActiveRainRegistration
To your success,
Dan
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