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Seth Godin: 3 tips to overcome the fear of failure
Have you ever felt paralysed by the fear of failure? You're not alone.
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Nicola Parreira: risking everything on a dream
When Nicola Parreia was given the opportunity to have her own office, she put almost every red cent her family had into the venture.
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The technology helping deliver the finest real estate experience
The Harcourts' vision is simple - the brand wants to be known for delivering the finest experience in real estate.
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The Bachelors’ Alesia Delaney returns to real estate in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs
If you walk into a cafe in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and spot the familiar face of The Bachelors' star Alesia Delaney, she won’t be there with her boyfriend from the reality TV show, but she will likely be meeting with a real estate client.
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The deal: Marty Fox on work ethic, success and building a brand
Marty Fox’s advice on how to succeed in real estate is as poignant as it is simple - “do the frigging work”.
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Why do-it-yourself outsourcing could be a waste of your money
Property managers are facing a staffing crisis but PMVA’s Tiffany Bowtell, a leader in the use and development of offshore virtual assistants for the real estate industry, says beware of the hidden costs of DIY outsourcing.
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Manos Findikakis: why the best in real estate are obsessed
A question that’s often asked in real estate is what does it take to be the best?
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Back on track: 30 minutes with John Minns
John Minns is a man on a mission. The NSW Property Services Commissioner wants to foster an empowered, accountable and trusted real estate sector.
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Why buying a rent roll takes a lot longer than buying a house
Just as a real estate agent might wander through a prospective seller’s home, offering a few tips ahead of sale – perhaps a fresh coat of paint, some new carpet – as a business owner, you’ll need to go through a similar process when it comes time to sell your rent roll.
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The nature of work is changing, are you ready to adapt?
Last week speaking at WIRE, one of my final slides said, “AQ is the new EQ”.
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Interest rate hold looks increasingly likely
There are four ways to predict interest rate changes.
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Mark McLeod: Why volume, not GCI, is the important KPI right now
Real estate moves through phases. Each phase, even the boom, provides challenges for some, but in the current phase it often provides challenges for many.
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Cybercrime key risk for real estate agencies
Cybersecurity, data, and privacy are a key concern for real estate agencies, according to a recent REIA report, prompting calls for business owners to consider their cybersecurity and cyber response plans.
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Manos Findikakis: the pursuit of happiness is all about chasing the ‘right’ things
Whether it’s that next listing, the next step in your career or a better balance between life and work, at any given moment there’s a lot to strive for in what can feel like a busy and chaotic world.
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Claudio Encina: the listing presentation mistake you don’t want to make
Listing is the heartbeat of any agent’s business. Without listings and sales in exchange for value, the business dies. If you want business certainty, you must have listing certainty.
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The 5 minimum daily activities you need to do to generate income
In the hectic life of a real estate agent, it's easy to get distracted and focus your time on activities that are never going to generate income.
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Developing industry-ready virtual assistants
After working with dozens of virtual assistants during her 15-year career in real estate, Louise Schofield understands the value good outsourcing can provide to a business.
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Brisbane Bayside specialist notches 1000 sale
Brisbane Bayside real estate specialist Nyree Ewings has etched her name amongst an elite group, selling her 1000 home this week.
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Nick Brown: creating success from the inside out
We’ve all heard the saying ‘happy wife, happy life’, but Nick Brown also lives by ‘happy team, happy life’. The Edge Property Agents founder examines the benefits of fostering a team that feels supported, trusted and valued, as well as how you can attain the same in your business. Recently I was asked what my brand stands for in a…
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Plenty of method behind ice bath madness
First there was the hot tub trend, then the pizza oven phenomenon, and now ice baths are popping up in backyards across the country.
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Teza Fruzande: From refugee to Chairman’s Elite
When Teza Fruzande arrived in Australia in 2010 as an illegal refugee, unable to speak English and living in a detention centre he never expected he would go on to achieve Chairman’s Elite and become one of the top agents in the country.
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Nerida Conisbee: Is corporate ownership the answer to Australia’s rental crisis?
In the US, large companies currently own five per cent of rental properties.
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Women changing the face of PropTech in Australia
The PropTech industry in Australia is undergoing a fundamental change with the number of women launching startups on the rise.
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How honesty in advertising is paying off for one Melbourne real estate agency
Forget “This house has good bones”, the signboard out the front of a MATTHEWS. listing is much more likely to say “Makeover or bulldozer? This one’s a real 50-50”.
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Samantha McLean: How to build your personal empire without hiring a single human
AI has been transforming many aspects of our work and life, and we can expect this trend to accelerate in the future.
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Harcourts Signature opens office number five
Harcourts Signature has become synonymous within Tasmania as one of the most trusted brands in real estate. Now, this success is set to continue with the opening of office number five: Harcourts Signature New Norfolk.
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Sustainable and cost-effective autumn styling
As we head into the cooler months, it’s time to spend more time indoors. To kick off autumn, leading property stylist Justine Wilson provides her sustainable and cost-effective ways to refresh interior spaces to ensure they are both cosy and inviting.
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Jimmy Burgess: why comfort is a killer
Comfort is the enemy of growth according to top US real estate agent and coach Jimmy Burgess.
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Bianca Denham: why agent energy matters more than ever
What I have loved about this industry since the first moment I learned about it, is that success is attainable.
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Perfecting your prompt writing for ChatGPT, Midjourney and other AI generators
Generative AI is having a moment. ChatGPT and art generators such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have proven their potential, and now millions are wracking their brains over how to get their outputs to look something like the vision in their head. This is the goal of prompt engineering: the skill of crafting an input to deliver a…
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Caroline Bolderston: three steps to clearer thinking
Every day I see the impact thoughts have on agents, and as a coach it’s often the place I spend the most time supporting, guiding and strengthening. And the most amazing thing about thoughts? We have 100 per cent control over them. Everything starts with thoughts. You know what it’s like when you wake up…
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Ready for take-off: how Zali Reynold’s marketed a property with a plane on the roof
Some agents might be hesitant to know how to market a family home with a crashed plane sitting on the roof of its detached studio, but not Zali Reynolds. The Shelter Real Estate leader knew exactly what to do when she listed the quirky, five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in the Melbourne suburb of Ashburton. “We got ourselves organised pretty far in…
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Lisa Pennell: Uprooting unconscious bias and providing opportunity
As we celebrate International Women’s Week it’s a timely reminder for us all to keep an open mind and consider how unconscious bias affects women in the real estate industry.
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The simple fixes clients can make to help their listing stand out
It's an age old problem: You want your sellers to do everything they can to make their property stand out, but you don't want them to overcapitalise and risk losing money. Getting the answer right is even more important in a slowing market.
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Manos Findikakis: what gets measured gets done
Right from the day we’re born, we give meaning to measurements, keeping track of pretty much everything we do and achieve.
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