Russell Shaw

Business Marketing

From the Department of Homeland Stupidity comes the newly formed Department of Bailouts.  Is there now a sufficient level of converting the United States...

Business Marketing

photo credit: www.rishimodi.com Management vs. Leadership Management is telling people what to do.  Leadership is teaching them how to think.  Opinion leaders tell people...

Business Marketing

Actual link to Google Maps Looking For Something New What you are looking at is an actual image from Google maps.  If you want...

G-Love

The hateful comment was to this post.

Public Relations

Just popped over to The San Diego Home Blog and found this.  Really nice.  I laughed out loud.  For those who didn’t already visit...

Residential

In my daily email from Realtor.org, I got a link to this.  It said, “Don’t be dorky”.  It is probably important to not be...

Awards

He Made History In the 112 years the Olympics have taken place, Michael Phelps was the first person to ever win 8 gold medals...

Housing News

  Thanks to Greg Swann for passing this along.  His email header was titled, “Why software should run the space program…”

How to

This was for new John Hall agents and the room was very hot, so I had two big fans going at the same time. ...

Economic News

The Homeowner Rescue Bill Rescues Fannie and Freddie Investors. I don’t see any other groups being rescued. Normally I don’t find it difficult to...

How to

Really Part 2 Okay, this is really, Enemy Line, part 2.  Part 1 was here.  The reason for the delay: I was in Orlando...

How to

The Right Kind of Thinking Achieving success is primarily a mental thing.  One can observe the physical actions and results but sitting behind those...

How to

For some reason I can not leave a comment in the comments section of this post.  So … I am making my response a...

How to

It probably depends on your point of view.  Are you looking for a quick nickel or a slow dollar?  Do you want a job...

Silly

1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.3. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.4....

How to

What is your time worth per hour?  Your fee structure would reflect that amount.  Just how does a working Realtor get their income up? ...

Business Marketing

Jonathan correctly pointed out that a third of of the members of NAR sold nothing last year.  Amazingly, that isn’t new – that has...

Business Marketing

“Miracles are great, but. they are so damned unpredictable.” – Peter Drucker The Sequence Quantity, then quality, then viability.  That is the correct sequence...

Silly

Business Marketing

  With this post, I am introducing the new iRuss.  Here is another email from Raymond: Hi Russell, I’m trying to get some realistic...

How to

I have seen the future and it is a lot like the past, only longer. There is a “trick” that time plays on people....

Coaching

Many years ago I was in a sales training class room and learned a simple and remarkable formula that I have never forgotten.  I...

Opinion Editorials

Pushing the River It is sometimes amazing how it lightens one’s load to find out that you weren’t alone in having a particular problem. ...

Business Marketing

I received the following email from Justin.   I have read The Millionaire Real Estate Agent it is fantastic.  I also have the Billionaire...

Business Marketing

An email I received last week:   Hi Russell, Good to hear about your new association with AgentGenius. We all need your stuff. We...