So you read my PARTICIPATE in your SUCCESS article, and your new year’s resolution is to participate in your industry, your career, and your success. Where to start? No better place than with a recommendation from your peers! Please leave a comment on where in the industry you are participating, and any comment you feel relevent. [...]
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How To Be Successful In The Apartment Industry: Participate, Participate, Participate!
I’ve had a LOT of conversations recently, and one topic has been a recurring theme: Success. Two recurring questions: 1.) How do we make our apartment communities more successful? 2.) How do we make OURSELVES more successful? As a consultant and a writer of a popular industry blog, I meet with A LOT of people. I [...]
TWEET TWEET: Twitter for Business Users and Apartment Marketers
I’ve been following the whole TWITTER phenomenon very closely. At first, I was VERY confused. Who would use twitter and why? More importantly, why would I use twitter, and what would I tweet? After months of following tweeters, tweeting, searching tweets, reading tweets, re-tweeting, something dawned on me: Not all twitter users are created equal! [...]
The SKY is FALLING! How to Deal With Dramatic/Difficult People
If you are in the multi-family industry,work at an apartment community, its a given: You WILL have to deal with difficult people. I’m not just talking about the person who might be unhappy about the color of the sky, I’m talking about the person who is IRRATE and thinks it’s YOUR fault ”the sky is falling!” How you can deal with THAT person [...]
How do you FEEL? Success – It's all in the details.
Consider these 2 statements: 1.) Things happen to me. 2.) I make things happen. A small change in a statement can make a STATEMENT! A very subtle change to the sentence, but the way you FEEL when you say sentence #1 vs sentence #2 makes a WORLD of difference. We are all so concentrated on the [...]
There's a MARKET for THAT!
More often than we’d like to admit, we don’t like who we are, we try to be more than what we are, and in the end, no one is happy. This is the way it is both personally & professionally. To top it off, in the professional circuits, they call THAT “marketing.” I call it [...]
My Charmed Life
I will be the first to admint – I live a CHARMED life. A wonderful, gorgeous, although somewhat nerdy boyfriend (but I SOOO have a thing for nerds!), beautiful kids, weekends spent with wonderful friends, shopping, SHOES, SHOES, and more SHOES, and JEWELRY JEWELRY JEWELRY! Charmed, and I LOVE my life. I have been lucky [...]