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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: […]

My Father’s Day Wish

June 18, 2011 By Jeff Turner 7 Comments

For a long time, I’ve tried hard to make Sundays an internet-free day. In truth, I have no idea how long it’s been since my wife, Rocky, first asked if I’d turn off the internet and social media access and disconnect from the online world to use Sunday as a day to focus on the […]

The Elephant In The Social Media Marketing For Real Estate Room

March 22, 2011 By Jeff Turner 29 Comments

“When you avoid talking about what isn’t working, you’re also avoiding what will fix it.” via Time to Kill the Elephants by Tamsen McMahon I like Mike Ferry right now. Yes, I’m aware that some are bashing Mike Ferry for his comments during the smackdown debate between Ferry and Matthew Ferrara at the Coldwell Banker Generation Blue […]

Values Are The Dark Matter Of Human Relationships

March 16, 2011 By Jeff Turner 15 Comments

We can learn a lot about life from science. I have what I would call a “casual interest” in science, especially quantum physics and chaos theory. I’m not even close to be conversant with anyone that’s really studying these topics, but I enjoy them. So I dabble. A little over a year ago, I was […]