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Personal-Professional Balance Check-Up

I would like to take you back to December 31, 2015. You might have been with friends celebrating the new year, traveling with family, or perhaps curled up with a cup of hot cocoa next to the fire, but wherever you were and whatever you were doing, you had probably been giving some thought to […]

Ask Denise: Finding the Right Agent to Cover My Vacation

Denise Lones

Q: “Denise, I want to take some time off this summer. I am in a new office and haven’t had a chance to connect with all the agents yet so I don’t know who I would want to have cover my business while I am out of town. Any suggestions?”

“To Do” Overload

If you made a list of “to do” items right now in your business, how would you feel? Confident that you had a handle on most of them? Completely overwhelmed by the deficiencies in your business? Or completely indifferent because you weren’t planning on tackling them anyway?

Ask Denise: Compensating a Back-Up Agent

Denise Lones

Q: Denise, I like your idea of looking at transaction categories and applicable commission for agents covering for agents on vacation, but I am just going to be gone for one week over 4th of July and two more weekends. It seems the percentages of commission for those covering for me would be so small […]

Rethinking Vacation Coverage

With the summer months almost upon us, I hope you have planned some time off to have fun in the sun. However, with vacation and time off comes the worry about what will happen with your business while you are away. Or perhaps you wind up promising to give away half your commission for the […]

Ask Denise: Quality of Life

Denise Lones

Q:  Denise, I want to have quality of life. I want to spend more time with my kids, but every time we have a “date” to do something, I get a call with a client emergency. How do I stop this cycle which is leaving me wiped out and my kids constantly disappointed? A:  By […]

Let Quality of Life Be Your Guide in 2013 … and Beyond

A Family sledding in the snow

Anyone who knows me knows that I have a long-held belief that the first, and the most important thing in your business, is creating “quality of life”. As we wind down 2012 and head in to 2013 I want to encourage all of you to think about your quality of life. What do I mean […]

Five Questions to Ask Yourself About Time Off

Family Vacation

It’s that time of year. School’s out, the weather is getting warmer, and many real estate agents start dreaming about… vacation! Unfortunately, for many of them it’s just that – a dream. I’m a huge believer in the concept of “quality of life,” or “work | life balance.” Because of that I believe regular time off […]

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