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It’s Your Reputation. Are You RealSatisfied?

December 12, 2011 By Jeff Turner Leave a Comment

Someone Is In Control Of Your Reputation. Is it You? I’ve not been shy about expressing my opinion that real estate brokers should be leading the charge to “raise the bar” in the real estate industry. The responsibility for managing brand and reputation falls squarely on their shoulders. And in the wake of continued talk […]

Behavior Is The Truest Form Of Communication

November 30, 2011 By Jeff Turner 18 Comments

Yesterday, Marc Davison asked a question in the form of a blog post. Who are you? It was a post about corporate values, a topic near to my heart and one I’ve been writing and speaking about for years. I encourage you to read the post. It’s a story about how he experienced corporate values in the behavior […]

Empire Avenue Was Never A Highway For Influencers

November 23, 2011 By Jeff Turner 4 Comments

Jeremiah Owyang – @jowyang Empire Avenue: Was once a highway for influencers, yet now an infrequently travelled back alley. What happened? I have a massive amount of respect for Jeremiah Owyang. So when I read this tweet, it struck me in an odd way. Perhaps he was just trying to create an interesting turn of […]

Why Do You Exist, Other Than To Make Money

November 23, 2011 By Jeff Turner 10 Comments

A few of my friends, Teri Conrad, Debra Trappen and Laura Monroe, had been talking about the #brandtribe chat stream on Twitter for a while, so I thought I’d follow along using Dashter to curate a bit of the discussion, and see what I could glean from it this morning. I was happy that the […]

Vision, Values And The Real Estate Industry – A Response From Julie Beall

November 19, 2011 By Jeff Turner 2 Comments

This is a guest post from Julie Beall. This is the first guest post ever here on my personal blog. I asked Julie if I could use this after she had a horrible time trying to post a comment and had sent this as a Word document. Julie does not have a blog, but I […]

Vision, Values, And The Real Estate Industry

November 18, 2011 By Jeff Turner 48 Comments

The Question from Michael McClure: “Here’s a topic I’ve enjoyed discussing many times with many people: is the “employee” brokerage model viable in real estate, and – on a related point – is there any correlation between the predominance of the independent contractor model and the overall level of professionalism in real estate?” My Response: […]