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The Wall of Money Pouring into U.S. Real Estate – Is It Slowing or Growing?
Almost every day – or at least every month or so – another country’s leadership announces restrictions on money getting out of that country. There can be various reasons for this. Sometimes it is just that they don’t want capital flight – and other times it can be that the leadership needs the money of… Read more
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7 Tips On How Lawyers Can Get Over The Greatest Fear of All — Public Speaking
For many people, getting up in front of a group of people to speak triggers a body response that is similar to being thrown in a cage with a wild animal. Indeed, there is that joke that most people would rather be in the casket at the funeral rather than delivering the eulogy. While many… Read more
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Anatomy Of An Associate Marketing Competition
Here is something interesting we have done to help associates learn to market at my law firm, Duval & Stachenfeld LLP. Among other things, we have an associate-led Associate Marketers Group that meets monthly to teach, learn, and share various marketing skills and strategies. This year, by way of example, the group read an impressive… Read more
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Platforms – The Flavor of the Month In Real Estate Investing
In the old days a sponsor found a deal to buy a real estate asset and called up a financial party (either a fund or other institution). They would form a joint venture and purchase the asset and that would be that. Of course those – relatively simple – deals continue today; however, more and… Read more
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Power Niche Marketing: Some Advice On Pitching You Might Not Have Thought Of
So you have a pitch set up. Now what? Who should go? Who should speak? Who should do what? How did you get the pitch? What is the prospective client expecting to hear? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the people doing the pitch? What is the one question you really hope the team… Read more
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Power Niche Marketing: Turning Your Niche Into A Power Niche — Augmenting Your Power
As you follow the steps to create a Power Niche, your ownership of your niche starts to grow in strength. Even with just reading a few articles on Google, you are growing little bits of “power” after just a few hours of work. And, after several weeks, well you are becoming a know-it-all! Now let’s… Read more
Bruce Stachenfeld 