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Allison James Estates & Homes Proudly Offers New Agent Websites How to Lose All Your Facebook Friends... Brokers: Think twice before blaming agents THE NATIONAL INTERNET BASED REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE ISSUE 42 | DECEMBER 2012 5 8 10 Read Inside WOLFconnect & globalWOLF Training
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Allison James Estates & Homes Proudly Offers New Agent Websites

How to Lose All Your Facebook Friends...

Brokers: Think twice before blaming agents

THE NATIONAL INTERNET BASED REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE ISSUE 42 | DECEMBER 2012

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Read InsideWOLFconnect & globalWOLFTraining

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Index

ALLISON JAMES ESTATES & HOMES®

Address:309 Tamiami TrailPunta Gorda, FL 33950

Phone:866-463-5780

Website:www.allisonjamesinc.com

Index

Letter from the CEO

Allison James Estates & Homes Proudly Offers New Agent Web-sites

Communication Corner: How to Lose All Your Facebook Friends: Your Long-Tail Marketing Debut

Technology Topic: Time to Trim Your Tree and Your Inbox

WOLFconnect Training

globalWOLF training

‘Twas the Night Before Christ-mas

Survey Shows People Becoming More Likely to Participate in the Housing Market

Brokers: Think twice before blaming agents

Meet Our Agents

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ABOUT US

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Another great year at NAR… Realtors from near and far!!

Matthew R. CrumbaughCEO, Allison James Estates & Homes

We had another exciting education-al and fun year at NAR. This was my first year attending the show with my new Baby boy and fian-

cée. The car was packed tight as I took the family and headed across the State to Orlando, Florida.

As this was my first trip/business trip with a young baby, as a proud new father I should have known it would not be as easy as I thought, to manage a family and the long hours at the show.

Starting out the morning, so worried about getting on the road in time, making sure the fam-ily had all of the essentials to survive in a hotel room for 5 days, I forgot to take care of myself and left all of my suit jackets at home, which would not have been a big deal, other than the first night we had the Power Broker Dinner which Margaret Kelly and all of the top executives in the business and those attending were definitely dressed to impress!! Now wait, it got worse be-fore it got better, but I will leave the part of the story out where Jessica went out to buy me a suit for the Power Broker Dinner, and came home 20 minutes before the dinner with an untailored suit, size 44 pants, when I wear a size 34.

All, that aside the first night of the show was amazing. We had one of the best locations in the show and unlike the prior couple years there was actually an invigorating excitement and buzz in the air, as Realtors shared that they are starting to make money again and are pumped to still be in the industry. Almost everyone I talked to said they were super busy and were excited for a new

year in real estate. I highly recommend that if you can, you

should attend NAR every year and make the most of your time there. When I go to NAR, I try to book as many meetings as possible with everyone from vendors to CEO’s of the biggest companies in the industry. I want to educate my-self on every business model, every tool and all of the technology, so I can continue help keep Allison James and our Realtors at the forefront of the industry.

It does not matter if you are new to the busi-ness or have been in it 30 years you to should be attending events like NAR to network with as many people as possible and to continue to edu-cate yourself. NAR has the top trainers, coaches and the best of the best doing their seminars every year. You should also sit down with as many vendors as possible and take advantage of them sitting down with you, one on one, walking through their products.

On top of all the great meetings and all the new tools and technology, I learned about I have to say the best part of NAR this year for me was spending time with some of our Brokers and get-ting to know them more on a personal level. We had a lot of fun and I would like to thank you for coming to help us continue to be one of the fast-est growing companies in the industry.

From the Corporate office of Allison James Es-tates and Homes I would like to wish all of our amazing Realtors and Brokers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Lone Wolf’s globalWOLF websites offer professionally designed, user-friendly website layouts with functionality to attract buyers and sellers, and build traffic

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Agent website features include: A website that will showcase your value to consumers

Powerful listing enhancement tools

Edit your own content through the simple Web Manager tools

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Listing search functions and robust open houses

Web traffic reports

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Allison James Estates and Homes is proud to offer its agents, websites offering state of art enhancement tools, mapping, lead management and distribution, SEO management at the agent level, as well as cor-

porate level. Simple to set up and manage at your finger tips through the new WOLFconnect system that will be rolled out at the end of this month.

The agent websites will be afforded the benefit of live IDX feeds (from most of the MLS associations, new associations be-ing added regularly). In addition, agents will have multiple levels of support through Agent Relations, AJI IT Support Division and LoneWOLF Real Estate Technologies. GlobalWOLF manages the design, customization, support and maintenance components. Additional features include: Bing Mapping, Listing Enhancements,

Lead Management, Home Hunter personal property search, ro-bust Open House and Listing Search Functions, and Web Traffic Reports just to name a few.

Whether you have an existing website or starting a new one, GlobalWOLF offers the ability to redirect your existing site, start you from scratch or assist in customization.

For a low monthly fee of $69.95 $59.95 (for the first 100 agents!) and as few as 8 easy steps, you could have a website that will showcase your value to consumers in a matter of minutes.

If you are interested in additional information on these new websites, please contact Jill Lemons, Agent Relations Coordinator at [email protected] or 866-463-5780, option 2.

Jill Lemons, Agent Relations Coordinatorat Allison James Estates & Homes

Allison James Estates & Homes Proudly Offers New Agent Websites

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FIT TOGETHER • WORK TOGETHER • GROW TOGETHER

Our Complete Enterprise Solution integrates your back office, front office, web solutions & more.

GET STARTED TODAY! www.lwolf.com or 1.866.CRY.WOLF(279.9653)

[email protected]

Your ONLINE presence to the GLOBAL Real Estate MARKET!

Lone Wolf’s globalWOLF websites offer professionally designed, user-friendly website layouts with functionality to attract buyers and sellers, and build traffic

to your site using our simple suite of customizable tools.

For more information visit us at www.seriousagenttools.com

Agent website features include: A website that will showcase your value to consumers

Powerful listing enhancement tools

Edit your own content through the simple Web Manager tools

Superior Microsoft Virtual Earth® mapping

Lead management and distribution

Home Hunter personal property search

Listing search functions and robust open houses

Web traffic reports

Social media features

SEO tools

Mobile websites

Dynamic templates

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First, to answer the title question, you could shake off ALL your Facebook friends by:

• posting your new listings to your profile week after week

• asking Facebook friends to use you because you are the best

• failing to read and LIKE the status updates of your Facebook friends

• failing to post or repost anything interesting, funny or newsworthy

• keeping the same old stuffy business photo up as your Facebook profile month after month.

But take heart, comrades, as I am not only going to tell you how to lose friends, but also how to gain friends.

Facebook is a long-tail marketing strategy. It differs from mass marketing such as email campaigns in that an email campaign is a push technology where you broadcast your news blindly. With long-tail strategies, you engage smaller groups of people in meaningful discourse, building relationships with real one-on-one interaction. The long tail involves joining or creating cir-cles where the participants share common interests. The way in which long tail social media strategies resemble long tail keyword search strategies is that long tail keywords attract a very specific clientele who searched for a specific longer keyword phrase, and this often results in the more meaningful interaction and, ulti-mately, more lucrative click-throughs to your site. The same is true of long tail marketing in social media.

Well…that is if you’re doing it right! If you are reading this, you might be wondering why you are not growing your sphere of in-fluence or why your “friends” are not engaging you on your Busi-ness Page (formerly called Fan Page). That’s your FIRST mistake! A personal profile should always be set up before a business page.

As a Realtor, your business page only has a “place” once you have built your sphere of influence with a personal page. This is not necessarily true of other business users.

Here is the grumbling I can hear as you read this: “I don’t want people knowing my personal life,” “My kids write some pretty sensitive stuff about their friends on my wall,” “No one looks at my listings there anyway,” “There are so many silly games, “ or “I have a business to run and I really just don’t have time for all the reading and posting,” and I have answers for these!

As for not wanting folks to know ANYTHING about your per-sonal life, first, consider why you are a Realtor in the first place. Your whole life is building relationships. What are you hiding? In 2005, you would not have hesitated to smear your campaign across the print pages of a magazine with a circulation of a few hundred thousand or more alongside your dog or a photo of your home or standing around a golf course. Treat Facebook the same way – include photos and comments about your interests or newsworthy items you could discuss including market trends that are important in your circles.

Don’t post when you are going to the grocery store or that you are making a trip to Nana’s house. If you must share your travel and visiting plans with family, remember safety first - you don’t

want your extended connections or near strangers to know the house is empty. Posting what you are having for dinner is only relevant if you are reviewing a great restaurant for your Facebook friends! Posting pictures of your kids every week is just…tiring and not likely to make you many friends.

Do be careful with your personal profile page -- you can and should block the posts of family and friends who regularly share their woes or sensitive information, and you can do this without hurt feelings; you can block ALL of those silly games; and you can also block anyone from tagging you in a photo and showing it to the world unless you first approve it – yes, even certain Facebook ads using your face can be blocked using your account and pri-vacy settings. Call Meg at 919-795-5973 for a consult on those techniques, too much to include here.

Here are more tips for making friends that directly counter the first paragraph (a) through (e) for losing friends:

Do NOT Post Listings to Your Profile Page – Again, Facebook is for sharing common interests, to earn trust and lead more visi-tors to your regular website. If your friends want your listings, they should have easy access to your url. If you list your url first in the Where You Work section of your Update Info tab, the url will show up under your face whenever someone finds you. You CAN post listings on your Facebook Business Page.

Do NOT Beg for Business on Your Profile Page – The place to talk shop and to say, “We appreciate your referrals” is a Facebook Business page which people will NOT be driven to unless you have earned their friendship using your Profile Page. Some very wise marketing gurus claim you never get the business unless you ask for it, and, while that is true, a Facebook profile is neither the time nor place. See another article as to how Facebook integrates organically with Facebook Business Pages as well as with Linked In – other social media are more appropriate for “asking” for the business.

Do LIKE the Posts and Photos of Others Every Few Days – I arise at 5 and start to catch up on things my friends have posted last night, and find the early risers especially engaging! Facebook gets an hour of my time, and that’s it for the morning! Of course there are many other things I post to Facebook in absentia all day long, and other things I post with trusty smartphone camera in hand, but they allow me to be on the road and thus don’t inter-fere with regular business.

Do Post Interesting Items, Photos and Videos - Both Real Es-

How to Lose All Your Facebook Friends: Your Long-Tail Marketing Debut

COMMUNICATION CORNER

There are currently one billion Facebook users, 552 million of which are daily active users.

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7tate and Non-Real Estate Related – Your friends will appreciate a gorgeous sunrise shot from your home, or a shot of a developer breaking ground in a new neighborhood. Your friends will also like “occasional” funny photos of you, your kids and your pets, a photo of a new restaurant opening up in town, or even an inspira-tional quote for the morning. How about a Jeopardy Wednesday where you ask them to guess the advertiser from a few lines and photo of a commercial? What about quoting a famous celebrity flub and asking them to guess who it was? Tip: If I wanted to run a contest where the prize is a gift card, I would use my profile page to drive them to my Facebook Business Page for their entries.

If humor and quizzes are not your strong suit, post some mar-ket news but comment on how it’s affecting local neighborhoods. Post something about climate change if you are a Green Broker. Post something on new home buyer financing if you specialize in first time homebuyers. Do a poll as to whether your friends pre-fer a pool or hot tub, granite or quartz, cherry cabinets or light, painted, antique-glazed cabinets. Share (re-post) someone else’s photo or newsworthy story and it appears on your profile page (whereas a LIKE doesn’t repost it to your page). Use a YouTube account to post videos of new neighborhoods or area attractions and link to it from Facebook – that’s a great way to drive Face-book friends to your YouTube account, the subject of another post! Ask your friends for a gift idea for your newest client. CRE-ATE your own Facebook group and add your existing friends to it – one of the most powerful things you can do on

Facebook! Pick a common interest -- pets, climate change, golf, hiking, football, hockey, novels, food -- and CREATE a group that posts to it sharing real time experiences with photos and comments from their phones. Remember that 600 million Face-book users are mobile users! My group is a Restaurant Review group – the members are VERY active and it’s nice to be getting to know them better! Let your personality shine through your Profile page. The idea is to get your connections to actually LIKE YOU, and not just your professional persona, while at the same time positioning yourself as the Friend who is their trusted real estate guru.

Facebook is like joining a number of Meetup groups or face to face networking groups, local church or community clubs but multiplied by ten as you cast a much broader net well beyond your region if you create these common interest groups without requiring face time. However, I do encourage that you arrange some face time with the local members – plan a holiday party or meeting at a restaurant to strengthen connections.

Change Your Profile Photo – Don’t be that stuffy Realtor. Each time I go to the beach, I take a photo in a funny floppy hat or in one of those funny photo booths and leave it up as my profile for a few weeks. I have also been known to post myself in a Santa hat or Halloween costume. Sometimes I post a group photo that in-cludes my “kids” - my two canine rescues. Each time you change your profile photo your friends are alerted that you did so. So mix it up and have some fun with your profile photo. You can always switch back! All of your profile photos are saved in one folder on Facebook.

Well, there you go, comrades-- the very basics on using a Fa-cebook profile. In another column, I will examine some advanced strategies including how to use Facebook search widgets, how to auto-post some GREAT news to keep your feed active and engag-ing when you are away, and, finally, how to actually FIND more friends. Stay tuned and, meanwhile, connect with GreenBroker-Meg on Facebook!

Meg Russell, Regional Managing Brokerfor the Triangle, North Carolina and Certified EPRO

Time to Trim YourTree and Your Inbox

technology topics

It’s a message we’ve all seen before… “Your message cannot be delivered because the recipient’s mailbox is full.” In the modern age of email users are seeing un-precedented amounts of daily traffic, with many expe-

riencing dozens or hundreds of emails per day. While the average size of your email box is growing as well, supply often time has a hard time keeping up with demand. Espe-cially since email is no longer limited to just text but now includes your Allison James documents, the occasional audio file, and the pictures Aunt Sally just sent you of her newest cat.

So what does one do in a world of seemingly endless email and a limited space to store it all? I hate to say it, but it’s time to break out that delete button! Just sending items to the trash, or “Archiving” as some email services call it, do take messages out of your Inbox, but often times they are still left taking up valuable space somewhere else on your account. You’re only getting space back when the message is gone for good.

So check out the Recycle Bin, Trash, Spam, and all of the other mail folders you swore you’d delete since 2007, and start off the new year with plenty of space—just in time for all the New Year’s sale advertisements.

Fully delete your messages, and don’t be afraid to save the pictures of Aunt Sally’s cat to your computer and free up the precious space in your mailbox!

John Joyce, CEO of Republic Technologies Corporation, leading the IT Support efforts for

Allison James Estates & Homes

COMMUNICATION CORNER

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globalWOLF Training

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now has a FREE live trial website. Join Lone Wolf as they train on the Web Manager tools that you have access to manage, maintain and enhance your online marketing strategies.

Don’t have time to learn about a new web-site? Attend the sessions anyway to learn what the websites can offer and also hear about ser-vices available from Lone Wolf for those of you who would rather be out buying and selling homes than spend all day on your computer.

Training will cover customizing the look of your website, content creation; lead genera-tion and bringing it full circle with automated email marketing campaigns are specific as you want to get with the vast range of clients you service. To find out more information on the website tools before the sessions please visit www.SeriousAgentTools.com

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Exciting changes are coming to Allison James Estates & Homes and your individual businesses!

Join our partner in technology, Lone Wolf Real Estate Tech-nologies as they take you through our NEW Company provided

extranet system, WOLFconnect! WOLFconnect is a powerful online portal that will allow you to streamline aspects of your business and keep more of your daily activities in one safe and secure system.

Training will cover program features such as: Maintaining your indi-vidual profiles, sending and receiving communication from the system, contact management, email marketing. Investing your time to learn this new system will ensure you always know what is going on with WIGO; yet another aspect of the WOLFconnect system. To find out more infor-mation on WOLFconnect before the meetings please visit www.KeyToY-ourOffice.com and make sure you SAVE THE DATE and register for one of the 3 sessions.

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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the landNot a buyer was stirring: no woman, no man.

The signs were all hung in the yards with great care,In hopes that the rebound soon would be there.

The Realtors were nestled all snug in their beds,With visions of 30 day sales in their heads.

There’s ma in her Snuggie, and dad in his cap,Both settled in for a winter night’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,That the Realtors jumped up to see what was the matter.

Away to the window they flew like a flash,Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the newly mown lawn,Gave the manicured landscape a look of pre-dawn.

When what to our Realtor’s weary eyes should appear,But a Bricks & Mortar Broker, just shedding a tear.

The sad little broker, bent over and slow, said“Our model is broken, we know that it’s so!

We have no web presence, no tech staff to speak ofJust overhead, overhead, it’s what we all reek of.”

His red face got redder, as bright as a beet.“The bills we must pay! Payroll we must meet!”

“Expenses go higher so you Realtors must shareThe high cost of business that we ALL must bear.”

“Our logo, our brand name, on that we have restedAnd, now by another approach, we’ve been bested!”

“Oh, we ALL heard them coming, we ALL know their name;The future of Real Estate: it’s Allison James!”

And then in a twinkling, from the canal in the rear,There rose a brand NEW sound, of joy and good cheer!

Not a quiet sound, oh no! Not a sound you could hideBut a triumphant roar, rolling in with the tide.

Santa AJ (Oh yes, it was Allison James)Was passing at full sail, calling out Realtor’s names.

From Florida, Texas, Virginia and CaliforniaNew Hampshire, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.

“The Virtual Culture”, came this new Santa’s cry,“Keeps expenses in check, and your income on high!”

“The beauty of virtual offices: No Rent!And commissions? No less than one hundred percent!”

“The ‘Walk-ins’ have walked out, the Web wins the dayAnd the days of just handling ‘Ups’ are passé!”

“The short sales are fading, foreclosures will too,Then what will the guys with the Big Brand Names do?

This market will turn, some say it has started,But old Bricks & Mortar will be left broken hearted.”

“But Realtors, take heart, all be of good cheer,For with Allison James, you’ll make this a GREAT Year!”

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

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Brokers sometimes wonder why their agents won’t come to weekly office meetings -- if they come to the office at all -- or don’t take advantage of the technology training that brokers offer.

If brokers stopped to consider their agents’ point of view, they might realize that the answers to these questions are staring them in the face.

Here’s a list of gripes you often hear from brokers, and some agent perspective on each.

1. My agents are not committed. They won’t take the time to come to the weekly office meeting.

Have you ever worked on a 100 percent commission basis? Most agents spend their time looking for clients and selling real estate if they have listings and buyers. Will attending the office meeting help them make money? Is it a worthwhile event or just a boring monologue and a reminder to replace the paper in the copy machine? Do you even know how to run a meeting?

If the meeting helps the agents in some way, they will come. Or is it just another uninspired office meeting, because you are supposed to have an office meeting? Having doughnuts helps, but it isn’t enough to get people to come to really boring meet-ings.

The broker-manager should be more concerned about the agents who DO show up to these meetings than those who miss them because they’re out looking for business or working with clients.

Brokers: Think twice before blaming agents

10Survey Shows People Becoming More Likely to Participate in the Housing Market

Americans are feeling less discouraged about the housing market, according to a new national survey by FindLaw.com.

The percentage of Americans who say they are sitting on the sidelines rather than consid-ering buying a house has dropped by more than half. In 2010, 63 percent of Americans said they were less likely to buy a house because of the state of the economy. Today, that number has fallen to 30 percent in the latest FindLaw.com survey.

Meanwhile, because of low housing prices and mortgage rates, the percentage of people who say that the current economic situation now makes them more likely to buy a house has risen from eight percent to 11 percent.

Forty-nine percent of people in the latest survey said the economy is making them neither more likely nor less likely to buy a house.

“Two years ago, the economic situation was driving a lot of potential homebuyers to the side-lines,” says Stephanie Rahlfs, an attorney and edi-tor with FindLaw.com. “But today we’re finding that the state of the economy is becoming less of a factor in keeping people out of the housing market. Many factors influence housing decisions, including income, housing prices, proximity to work, job re-locations, mortgage rates, ability to sell an existing home, schools, and so on. But it’s clear that peo-ple’s outlook on the economy is now becoming less of a drag on the housing market.

“In addition,” continues Rahlfs, “among middle and upper income levels, we’re seeing a significant rise in people saying the current economy is mak-ing them more likely to enter the housing market. This may be due to some combination of histori-cally low mortgage rates, housing prices that – al-though rebounding – are still relatively low, and people perhaps feeling more optimistic about the economy in general.”

For more information, visit www.findlaw.com.RISMedia

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2. I want to invest in new technology, but my agents won’t use it.

Is the technology something that will help agents make mon-ey? Does it work? Are your agents a tech-savvy, forward-thinking group of businesspeople who can use technology, or have you recruited agents based on their ability to fog a mirror?

If the answer to all three questions isn’t yes, then maybe it’s time to move on and let someone else manage the brokerage -- and hire someone who can do a better job explaining technology.

Often by the time a brokerage adapts technology it isn’t new anymore. Sometimes it’s more of an encumbrance than a useful tool. The best way to find out if the technology you are offering to your agents is useful is to ask them.

Much of the technology I have seen over the years in broker-ages isn’t nearly as good as what I use on my own. Often the managers do not understand or really embrace the idea of using technology in the real estate business.

I have never before worked in an industry where vendors de-cide what we need and then make it and try to sell it to us and generally ignore real needs.

3. Most of my agents are too lazy to get up in the morning and come into the office.

Does your office have as much to offer as an agent’s home office? Do agents have to pay for space that they can get for free at a coffee shop or for cheap at a collaborative? Do some agents come in and whine and act as demotivators? Is the environment conducive to working?

Are your agents out in the evening showing properties or meeting with home sellers? Are your agents likely to have more contact with current and future clients or be able to network with perspective clients by going into your office? Is being a real estate agent really a 9-to-5 office-type job?

Honestly, with the recession and the crash of the housing mar-ket and the price of gasoline and the damage our energy con-sumption habits are doing to the planet, agents should not have to drive to an office just to work.

We spend plenty of time in our cars meeting with clients and showing houses. Most professionals have phones and computers at home. Buyers find us on the Internet, not in our offices. We can work anywhere, and some agents just don’t see the benefits of working in an office with their closest competitors.

Managers and brokers who need to have contractors or em-ployees in physical proximity so they can manage should find a new line of work. By definition, independent contractors work without supervision and determine where and when they will work. Collaboration and communication of most any kind can oc-cur through one of the many electronic devices most of us look at all day. In fact, most people pay more attention to the screen on their phone than they do to the people they are with.

Agents who need structure and a traditional office environ-ment to sell real estate should consider a career in government, or get a job at a company where there is plenty of structure and maybe even a time clock to punch in and out of.

4. Why don’t more agents take advantage of the technology training we offer?

It has been a few years since I have attended a technology-type class at a brokerage, but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten what they were like.

Usually a vendor came in to show us a new product, and it was called technology training. I am inclined to avoid real estate industry-type technology training. It is often aimed at the agents who are still trying to master the basics.

Sometimes technical training is showing agents how to fill out forms for the brokerage. I don’t recall ever sitting through an en-tire “technology” class. Yet I seem to be able to stay current or even ahead.

If you are a broker or manager who says stuff like this, maybe it would be a good idea to stop and talk to your agents and ask them why they are the way they are. Talk to the 20 percent who are bringing in 80 percent of the sales.

Teresa Boardman, Inman News

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Blake HedhaugWashington

Referred by Doug Fischer

Michael WilliamsVirginia

Referred by Janet Holt

Raymond Ed EllisCalifornia Stockton

Referred by Laurel Ellis

Rick DudleyVirginia

Nelva CrawfordCalifornia Riverside

Robert SullivanMassachusetts / New Hampshire

Vicky DiSabatinoNew Hampshire

Referred by Gene Fennelly

Tatiana ChibanaCalifornia

Referred by Rodolfo Casillas

Eleanor Aylesworth-WarshCalifornia

Referred by April Alva

Margaret “Peggy” HobbsVirginia

Referred by Dottie Greco

Lori Ann IngramCalifornia Stockton

Marlene MinemierMassachusetts / New Hampshire

Steve HeardCalifornia Stockton

Referred by Teresa LaMaster

Jonathan ValdezCalifornia

Referred by Julie Beach

Denise GallowayFlorida

Referred by John Aldridge

Betsy DuncanCalifornia

Gordon PolkCalifornia Riverside

Bonnie KulkaCalifornia Riverside

Meet Our Agents

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THE NATIONAL INTERNET BASED REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE

I want to personally thank all who have helped grow Alli-son James Estates and Homes® to the successful, virtual real estate company it has become!

Jessica WithersVP of Agent Relations

941-677-2544

We, at Allison James Estates & Homes®, understand that our own agents are the Best Recruiters! Everyday we add new agents to the company that you, our realtors have referred.

Main NumberMain

Fax

Matthew CrumbaughPresident

Jessica WithersVP Agent Relations

Jill LemonsAgent Relations Coordinator

Recruiting

Accounting Department Berella Hall

Stacy Cropper

Processing DepartmentBrandy Peterson

IT Department

Corporate Phone List1-866-463-5780941-258-3326941-258-3664

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