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Happy Selling!
Looking to improve your business? It’s easy, improve your attitude. Don’t overlook the importance of being positive as a key to your success. When you are just starting out you might be lacking experience or certain skills but you can still stand out from your competition by being a positive person. Real Estate is a [...]
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Video Blog Post: Take a Walk in Their Shoes
If you design or facilitate training sessions, I’m going to guess that you don’t get a chance to participate in training yourself very often. That’s a lament I frequently hear from trainers. They are so busy designing and facilitating that they rarely get to take courses themselves. Watch a short video blog post about [...]
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Joining the Conversation at PAC 2013
OREA will welcome REALTORS® and delegates from across the province to Toronto November 26-28 for the annual Political Affairs Conference (PAC). Whether you will be attending the event in person, or following the conversation through social media, the agenda is packed with great panels and speakers sure to inform. You can join the conversation during [...]
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A Dialectical Depiction
Metaphorically, education should offer everything from soup to nuts. There should be classroom instruction for students desiring guidance, discussion, and debate that only a live audience with an expert facilitator can provide. There should be online education for students whose independence and computer literacy permit fast-tracking and self-pacing. And, there should be a correspondence option [...]
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Highlights and Lowlights: Beware this business causes gray hair
Being just four months shy of celebrating my 25th anniversary in the real estate business, I thought it was a good time to share some recollections that I still carry with me. As I was completing my licensing course in March 1989, my teacher explained hot sheets to us. He talked about new listings, conditional [...]
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Excited to Welcome REALTOR® Delegates and Speakers at this year’s Conference
OREA’s 2013 Political Affairs Conference is less than two weeks away! REALTORS® from across Ontario will descend on our provincial capital to enrich their understanding of provincial politics, nurture their relationships with their MPPs, and gather new knowledge to help them be better advocates at their local boards. Every year OREA invites high profile speakers [...]
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Our Graduates Speak For Themselves: Balwinder Chouhan
How does one go from the dental profession to the real estate profession? They enrol in OREA Real Estate College, which is what Balwinder Chouhan did in 2005 when she began her first course – Real Estate as a Professional Career. The reason for the career switch was an interest in owning her own business. [...]
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Making a business plan
As we near the end of the 2013, (I cannot believe how fast this year has went!), we should all be looking to set out our goals and objectives for the year ahead. Looking ahead gives us goals to aspire to and benchmarks to judge our performance against. Each and every one of us, (“us” [...]
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Giving OREA dues their due
Your membership dues notice arrives, you pay the bill and you’re in good standing as an OREA member for another year. But do you ever wonder what that $110 you pay to OREA gets used for? Many things. Practical things like Standard Forms – something you use daily — or free webinars about how to [...]
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Doug Keeley: Five Level Leadership
I recently had the privilege to interview Doug Keeley. He’s an accomplished musician but that not what he’s known for. He is the CEO and Chief Story Teller at Mark of a Leader and his title is very telling about what his company is all about. Doug is a born storyteller and he tells some [...]
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