Real Estate Blog

Do you love the photo-focused platform Instagram offers but are frustrated with swapping out links in your Profile constantly so you can direct your audience where you want them to go? We love Instagram too, but seriously the link swapping has to go. If you are ready to get more out of your Instagram marketing, […]

Another year (and decade) has come and gone. With the start of 2020, it is a great time to reflect on your past successes and failures and prepare yourself and your business for the new year. How many times have you been guilty of continuing to do the same thing over and over just because […]

Have you ever Googled yourself to see what you can find? While you may have done this early in your career, it is easy to get busy and not think about it again. You may have put a lot of time into your Internet image early in your career but things change as time passes […]

With listing inventory levels dramatically low in most parts of the country, it may be more important than ever to aggressively go after every listing you can. While you likely have multiple sources for your listing leads, expired listings can be another major source of potential new business that you may or may not have […]

Real estate is all about relationships and if you have recently started in the business, it should be easy to keep up with all of your past clients but as your clients grow and you get busier, it becomes harder to maintain these relationships. Before you get to the point where you can’t keep up […]

I am just loving this spring weather.  I also have just listed my home and while I was preparing to put it on the market I was organizing closets, removing things from the home, cleaning and so much more I thought about what we should be doing to cleanup our business drivers, systems, programs and […]

When you go on listing appointments, it is very likely you will encounter sellers that really don’t know what it takes to sell a home. From the pre-listing phase, the listing term to closing and everything in between, sellers need your guidance. Face it, you are selling your service as an agent and most sellers […]

At the end of every day when you sit down to think about what you accomplished (and what you may need to move to the next day’s to do list), do you wonder if you will ever get it all done? For most of us, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish […]

Do you get that warm fuzzy feeling when you have an executed contract in hand and ready to go into the closing phase? Or, do you get a little excited then panic because you are now responsible for managing the contract? Let me share a little story with you on how we helped an agent […]

As the new year approaches and you are setting goals and trying to ensure you have the perfect systems in place to reach those goals, have you begun to identify areas that still need work or that you don’t have time to handle? Don’t let that stress you out. Kim Hughes and Company has an […]

It can be hard to be really productive in real estate on many days because so often your schedule is dictated by the needs of your clients. While you must allow this to some disagree if you want to be successful, you must figure out a way to be productive and still be responsive to […]