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Today, a brand isn’t just visual. It includes perceptions (feelings) consumers experience when they see, hear or think of your company – the mental picture of who you seem to be, and what you as a company represent to them and other consumers.  

Being “realistic” describes someone with a good grip on a particular situation; who clearly understands what can or can’t be done. For instance, a person who after trying and trying can’t even carry a tune, must sooner or later acknowledge he or she is not going to be a virtuoso tenor or soprano (but can still shrill out a shower-time aria anytime he or she feels artistically inclined). That to me is being really “realistic.”

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Commercial real estate remains on stable footing for the remainder of 2017 according to recent surveys by the National Association of REALTORS® and other forecasters.

Since posting his website in July 1995, Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, has grown his once money-losing online book shop into one of Earth’s most powerful enterprises.

Annual income and number of sales transactions of NAR commercial real estate members decreased slightly as the number of new commercial members increased significantly in 2015, according to the 2016 NAR Commercial Member Profile.

Real estate veterans love cap rates, that intense but tenuous numerical relationship between a property’s net operating income (NOI) and proposed building value. Remember the IRV formula? Divide income by a suitable cap rate, and wall-ah, there’s your price tag!

When did we stop being a “salesperson” and became a doorman, Uber driver, or worse, real estate “facilitator” – great at paperwork, scurrying through traffic, and unkeying lock boxes … but devoid of persuasive skills?