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As a real estate mom, juggling goals between work and kids can be difficult on its own. Fitting in some all important time for dad can often seem overwhelming, and can easily get lost in the shuffle. With today’s hectic lifestyles of combining careers with family, it may seem impossible to pencil in those additional precious minutes necessary for dad. With some forethought, not only can it be done, but in doing so, you will strengthen the bonds that make up your family. Below, you will find five easy to plan steps to add dad to your schedule:

1. Get up early! Maybe the last thing you want to hear, but a couple of mornings per week try to carve out an extra thirty minutes to share breakfast with your honey. The house will be quiet for you and dad to share coffee and converse.

2. Combine errands! Meet dad at the grocery store to do the weekly shopping. Sound mundane to you? It doesn’t have to be - without the kids along, it can be a way to get a necessary job completed, and still spend time with dad.

3. Meet for Lunch! You know how to make lunch appointments - so schedule one with dad. It will almost feel like a date with no kids in tow. You can even attach a “no work, no kids” discussion rule over these lunches, if you want. It’s personal, so keep it that way!

4. Plan a Date Night! Whether once a week, once every two weeks, or even once a month - plan one night that is for you and dad to go out. It can be for a movie, for dinner, or even an outside evening picnic. Once you make the dates, don’t break them!

5. Plan Stay at Home Dates! Once a week, plan a night for you and dad at home. Cook dinner together, rent a movie, curl up on the couch, play a game - whatever you want! You can start the evening with family time to include the kids, but once they’re in bed, spend the remainder of the evening with each other.

The End Result

As a real estate mom, you completely understand how important communication is within your business. Don’t forget it is as important in your personal relationships. Keeping the channels of communication open with dad is one of the first, and possibly most vital, steps in assuring the backbone of your family remains strong.

Yes, focusing on your business is necessary to the growth of your career, but you don’t need to take anything away from that to also focus on your family, including dad. Making the effort to find spaces of time to devote to this relationship will assist in keeping every part of your family strong. Also, don’t forget that these little moments will serve to recharge your own batteries, so you can keep forging ahead in your career.

Busy people, especially real-estate moms, often set their own personal needs aside to fulfill everyone else’s. This can only lead to energy burn-out. Finding the proper balance in all areas of your life - from yourself, to dad, to your kids, and to your business will result in the perfect blend of success.

Real Estate and Life Coach Cheri Alguire has partnered with hundreds of Real Estate Professionals to help them become more successful in business and in life. Coach Cheri offers Group Coaching for Moms, Working Mothers and Pregnant Women in Real Estate, on how to balance careers with family responsibility. Learn more at www.realestatemoms.com, and visit Coach Cheri’s Real Estate Moms blog at www.realestatemoms.com/blog.

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Palm Springs is situated at the western edge of the Coachella Valley in central Riverside County. With its well-established neighborhoods, Palm Springs covers a geographical area of ninety-six square miles. In the past few years, the year round good weather, abundant nature and close proximity to Los Angeles have made Palm Springs a popular destination for tourists of all ages.

Palm Springs is described as a small city with many parks and recreational facilities. Palm Springs is also popular for its world-famous Hollywood-connection. For many years, movie and music stars have visited Palm Springs for relaxation and rejuvenation. With more that 100 golf courses, it is also known as the golf capital of the world. Palm Springs has the greatest collection of mid-century modern architecture in the world. It can be seen through the designs of banks, restaurants, apartment buildings, single-family homes, gas stations, post offices and libraries.

With some 350 days of sunshine, Palm Springs attracts many tourists. Approximately one million tourists visit Palm Springs every year. Palm Springs is enriched with culture, history and its beautiful landscape. The cultural amenities, the shopping, entertainment, dining and recreational facilities are world-class. The vibrant desert settings of Mt. San Jacinto, Palm Canyon Drive and the blue skies and open tranquil spaces attract nature lovers from around the world. With antique shops, mid-century modern architecture, buildings with a mix of eclectic design styles, art galleries, boutiques, golf courses, tennis courts, restaurants and night clubs, Palm Springs truly has something for everyone.

Really Palm Springs is the place to enjoy life.

Palm Springs provides detailed information on Palm Springs, Palm Springs Real Estate, Palm Springs Vacation Rentals, Palm Springs Resorts and more. Palm Springs is affiliated with Boutique Hotels in Palm Springs.

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Do you buy real estate leads from the internet?

If so, you are probably one of the many real estate professionals I consult with who AREN’T happy with the results.

Of course there are some out there who live by buying internet leads. That’s fine. Good for them.

But I am talking to the rest of you. The ones who have not yet started buying internet real estate leads or have bought them but are disappointed with the results.

And I KNOW there are a lot of you out there…

Here are a few quick facts from the 2005 REALTOR(r) Technology Efficiency Survey, Co-Sponsored by the Center for REALTOR(r) Technology and the National Association of REALTORS(r).

Talking about buying real estate leads:

So that’s 3 out of 386 that are satisfied - less than 1%.

In a nutshell, the quality of the “leads” stinks. They are unqualified and many of them are of no more use to you than the other “leads” that you can find in your local phonebook or by standing and yelling on the corner of a busy street.

When you buy real estate leads, you often don’t know if the lead, Mr. John Doe, responded to an ad for a particular property or simply requested information on how to make money buying foreclosures or refinance his mortgage.

What’s even more startling is that with the low levels of satisfaction with buying internet real estate leads, only 12% of those who responded to the survey use any other service beyond third party lead generation programs to qualify their Internet leads.

There clearly is a problem here… but where there is a problem, there is always an opportunity.

So let’s stop dwelling on the negative already - that doesn’t really help you after a certain point, does it?

So what’s the answer?

Don’t buy leads, create your own…

And I don’t mean filling up your appointment books with cold calling, door knocking or all of those networking meetings that have a knack for attracting some of the neediest business people on the planet.

It’s not that there is anything wrong with doing the stuff above, I just know for a fact that there are better, more effective and efficient ways to generate business.

The smartest real estate businesses don’t go out and GET business, they figure out a system that brings the business to them.

What you need is to create a system that accomplishes the following things for your business:

1. Keep a large group of folks aware of you and what you do.

2. Help filter out the people who will soon be in the market to buy or sell and get them to raise their hands.

3. Give those filtered prospects an extremely compelling (and unique) reason to call you, right now and make it easy for them to do it.

4. Leverage the value of your happy clients by having them bring you business through referrals.

That’s a sales system… Something you create once and have running 24 hours a day. As time passes, you test response and tweak your system. And you keep testing and keep tweaking until the “leads” start flowing. If you do it right, they WILL start flowing… more than you can handle by yourself.

Once you get your system in place, then use technology to automate it and monitor the results it creates.

Jason Leister, the Real Estate Technology and Marketing Guru ™, is owner of Computer Super Guy, LLC, a technology and marketing firm that helps real estate professionals profit with technology.

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