It sounds cliché, but cumulative training matters so much more than we realize in all areas of our lives. What we often forget is that training is not just for our bodies to perform, but also for our minds and careers to succeed. This concept was really brought back into my mind this past weekend while competing in the 24 hours of adrenalin mountain bike race and the Inman Connect the following week.
The point of writing blogs is to document an opinion or to answer questions that are most frequently asked and in this post I will be doing both as i discuss the Apps I use the most. For simplicity I will just document if they are iPad, iPhone, or both in discussing the Apps and how I use them. I will leave it up to you to find your own uses but trust me after cleaning up and organizing my iPad earlier today I have learned a lot via trial and error. I also have a lot of fun games tools that I will save for a future post and keep the focus for this blog on productivity.
I was recently asked to speak to the Association of Saskatchewan Realtors at their AGM on a panel discussing blogging as it relates to my business and my life. The interesting thing about speaking on a topic is that it really does force you to examine the important question of why you take time out of your busy day to share your life story with others. I really had not put that much thought into it until now, but after this presentation I have more clarity on the topic of personality branding, lifestyle branding and niche marketing. This blog is just the Coles Notes of my discussion on the primary message delivered on "personality branding.
A month or so ago I spent two days in meetings in Edmonton with 22 other individuals from the 11 other Real Estate Boards in Alberta followed up by an addtional meeting in Calgary. The goal of these meetings was to review and make recommendations to standardize the data feeds and harmonize rules that organized real estate operate under across the province. This initiative was set in motion several months ago by the Alberta Real Estate Association (AREA) and is one of the projects that I have been very fortunate to contribute to.
If you are in the real estate industry and have not heard of QR "Quick Response" codes in the past six to eight months, you have been doing a pretty good job of hiding from emerging technology. I have had a somewhat reserved opinion on the use of QR codes. In fact, it’s been so reserved that this is my first blog post discussing them. The reasoning behind my reserved opinion is that I really did not see any practical use in my real estate business at this time, being in a very small rural community. The second reason I have not posted on QR codes in Real Estate is that they already been written about extensively through numerous blogs and articles by many authorities in real estate marketing, so I did not feel further discussion was necessary.
