By Gino Blefari
This week my travels find me in San Diego to attend Tom Ferry’s Success Summit. The theme for Summit 2015 is “unstoppable,” a powerful word with many applications in life and business. In a recent blog post, Tom detailed five easy steps to achieve an unstoppable mindset and I’d like to highlight them now:
By Victor Quiroz
After a long day of showing homes with your pre-approved buyers, they have finally decided to write an offer on the perfect house! The buyers are now looking to you for a suggested price they might offer and relying on your expertise to help them win the bid. What is a real estate agent to do? Advise offering the listing price? Advise the buyers to underbid and try to get a “deal”? Advise your clients to overbid and blow all other offers out of the water?
Here are some tips to help you write the winning offer:
By Gino Blefari
This week I was in San Francisco at Inman Connect, an annual real estate technology conference that provides the ideal setting for forward-thinking leaders to discuss the technology transforming our industry today … and tomorrow. As I share highlights from Inman Connect, you’ll notice that each of these memorable experiences has something very specific in common (but more about that later). For now, here are some of my favorite moments from the event:
Featuring the elite listings of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Luxury Collection
We all know and covet them … those grand, elegant, timeless properties around the world, but what makes a property undoubtedly magical, awe-inspiring, and sets it apart from all others? Most of us would agree a truly unique luxury property is determined by the setting, the endless possibilities, and the day-to-day lifestyle that the property affords.
By Gino Blefari
This week my travels found me in Chattanooga, TN, for a visit with Vanessa Mercer and Ben, Karen and Byron Kelly, along with their entire Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Realty Center team. I had a fantastic time speaking to these professionals and left Tennessee invigorated by their energy and enthusiasm.
From my brief visit, I can tell you the people in Chattanooga are wonderful and just as charming as the location itself: Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee, a place where countryside meets commerce in green, rolling hilltops and high rises set among the broad bends of the Tennessee River.
By Gino Blefari
From every angle, millennials are shaping the future of real estate, whether they’re potential first-time buyers embracing homeownership or recent college graduates joining a brokerage, eager to launch real estate careers. For any business leader asking what the future looks like, the answer comes wrapped in a millennial bow. And even if this certainty is understood, how to reach the millennial is still muddled by a haze of social media, mobile marketing and other millennial-focused trends.
By Melissa Kandel
Each year, REALTOR® Magazine names 30 of America’s brightest and boldest real estate superstars to its latest class of 30 Under 30. This year, the publication selected Amanda Allen-Jorgensen of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Utah Properties in Salt Lake City. In honor of this prestigious distinction, I asked Amanda 30 questions about real estate, career motivation and everything in between.
Featuring the elite listings of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Luxury Collection
By Gino Blefari
The packed crowd at London’s Wimbledon Stadium erupted into thunderous applause on Saturday as Serena Williams defeated Garbiñe Muguruza to win her sixth Wimbledon title (and 21st major championship). Serena’s game was slightly shaky, her serves at times meandering just outside the line, her groundstrokes less than certain. But Williams is a master at mastering adversity, and delivered enough winners and aces to claim the coveted Venus Rosewater Dish, Wimbledon’s time-honored trophy. Her resilience is admirable, and a quality any inspired business leader must strive to achieve. What else can we glean from Serena’s success? In a recent article, famed speaker and motivator Tony Robbins outlined four lessons to be learned from the tennis superstar:
By Gino Blefari
When Barbara Wakefield received the call she’d won $50,000 in the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices $50,000 Sweepstakes—held in conjunction with HGTV and Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines—she thought the whole thing was a hoax. “It was too fantastic for words,” she told me over the phone today. “I just thought, ‘How could this happen? There’s only one winner and how could that winner be me?’”
Thoughts on Leadership 