Failure not an Option – How to Raise the Bar


We are committed to becoming the best brokerage on the planet. This mission causes us to ask questions and challenge our assumptions. for example: Would the best brokerage have any agents that are not succeeding? if so what would action should the brokerage take to assist in the agent b...  Read More

5 Things You Must Implement…


...To Stand A Chance in the Search Engine Rankings. As a Realtor we're constantly being told that we need a website because 99.9% (or whatever the current stat is) of consumers start their home search online. The thing is, most of us have no idea what to do once we get our websites in ...  Read More

Return on Engagement in Social Media for Real Estate


A couple days ago we did a quick video to answer the question of how to determine if there is ROI in social media for Real Estate agents.  Today, Garron decided he wanted to respond to one of the comments I received on Facebook when I posted the previous video. The commenter stated "yo...  Read More

ROI in Social Media?


Tired of everyone asking the question "what's the return on investment of your social media campaigns?" and not having a real answer? Well, here's how we at M Realty measure the ROI of our campaigns. Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below:...  Read More

RSVP to Participate in our Evil Scheme*


(* actual scheme not really Evil) Hey Friends, I don't want to try to "sell" you on coming to our next event. Instead, I will simply tell you what it's about, who it's for... and who it's NOT for. Here's what it's all about In the middle of last year, we decided it was time to...  Read More

High Touch or High Tech: Why not a Little of Both?


Hey, I'm Jeff Bernheisel from M Realty... Fairly often the response I get to this greeting from other local Portland Real Estate agents is something along the lines of "oh yeah, you guys are that "high tech" company doing all that "internet stuff", right?" It's funny how that works I...  Read More

Technology: Friend or Foe?


Isn't all this technology great?  These days, you can't go 10 feet without seeing increasingly affordable laptops, iPads and smart phones, all with many times the memory and processing power of the first space shuttle. So, shouldn’t your business be going through the roof?  If youâ...  Read More

The Real Estate Marketing Lab: Clicks 2 Closings


Join us on April 5th for M Realty's "Real Estate Marketing Lab: Clicks 2 Closings - Online Lead Generation and Sphere Marketing". Hot off the heels of our first event, which was a great success, this will be more of a presentation style event where we'll share some new ideas on how to ...  Read More

93 Days to Overnight Success with your Real Estate Website


It's a Typical Thursday We had a local Re/Max agent visit our office last week for our Thursday Training Open House. It was a typical day, just like any other Thursday at M Realty.  There were a dozen or so M agents in attendance ready to share their thoughts and ideas, and Garron and ...  Read More

Numbers Tracking = Epic win


If you track the important activities of your practice...you will do better than if you do not track them. I can't imagine many agent would argue with this point yet most agents do not consistently track their numbers. Why? well for starters it can be a pain...so we solved that part by bui...  Read More