by REM Editorial Team | Feb 3, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Recently 99designs, which calls itself the world’s largest online marketplace for crowdsourcing graphic design services, launched in Canada. It provides small businesses with a resource to source professional logos, web and other graphic design work. The website has...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 1, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Featured
By Toby Welch Are you making the most of your past and present clients to get referral business? The dream of a phone ringing relentlessly with nonstop referrals can be a reality if you implement an effective referral strategy. The 2010 Realtor Technology Survey...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 30, 2012 | Featured, Profiles
By Connie Adair “I’m going to write a novel,” she said, matter-of-factly. Her daughter Jade rolled her grey eyes the way a 22-year-old can but she should have known not to take her mother’s words lightly. Around Easter 2009, Peggy Blair wrote the first draft of her...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 20, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Featured
By Peter D. Wilton I joined the line of shuffling would-be real estate representatives on a mid-April morning in 2011 and slowly made my way towards the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) information desk and a new beginning. I took note of my line mates. Most...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 18, 2012 | Featured, News
By Danny Kucharsky If you’ve been using For Sale signs in Quebec sporting photos of yourself that were taken when Milli Vanilli was big, you have to remove them immediately. That’s because it’s no longer possible for brokers to have 20-year-old plus photos of...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 16, 2012 | Boards & Associations, Featured
Of the more than 120,000 Ontarians who used a Realtor to buy or sell a home last year, many did so without fully understanding the expertise and skills Realtors provide, says a new Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) survey. Conducted by Leger Marketing, the survey...