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Change your Business, your Life, your World! Huge San Diego Event!

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Come See Mark Victor Hansen – Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, and many many more exhilarating speakers, including Windermere’s President Steve Rodgers


www.baforce4good.com


Event Dates:   July 29-31, 2010


Pay only $25


The lineup includes….

Check out the Speakers

Successful Leaders come together – One place.

This time – For YOU!

Grow your business!  Enrich your life!  Get the results you want!

Mastermind and strategize with thought leaders,

innovators, pioneers

and visionaries to propel your dreams and purpose.


click here for the schedule

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Location:  The Westin Gaslamp Hotel

910 Broadway Circle San Diego, CA 92101

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Choose to think like a Winner

Change Your Life

Change Your World

Destiny is Within Reach

The Time is Now!

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Text WIN to 59559 for Instant Property Information on ANY Rental or Home For Sale!

Do you love to text? Use our SMS texting feature to help you get information on ANY property ANY time!

kwkly textText WIN to 59559 from any mobile phone on ANY active property listing hosted on MLSListings (San Diego County, CA region). Receive back a text with basic property information – bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, lot size, and asking price OR simply text the street address to 59559 for the same results.
Do you have a GPS enabled phone? Have properties for sale find you!
With any GPS enabled phone find basic property information on the five nearest properties for sale, hosted on MLSListings (San Diego County, CA region) to you and your phone. Move down the street, refresh your phone and find five new properties, it’s that easy!

Do this by texting WIN to 59559 for a quick link to this feature, OR go to www.windermeresandiego.com for more information.

Related Posts: Buyers, Technology

The Latest Windermere Visit to BizFit 1700 | real estate and business talk

The Windermere team joined Biz Fit 1700 AM this Monday to discuss San Diego real estate. The business talk show is hosted by Kory Kavanewsky, who interviews local and national real estate and business professionals on his live radio show.

In this show, Windermere President Steve Rodgers shared local market reports and news on housing prices.  Then Kory and cohost Alex asked the team about the big changes technology and social media are having on the real estate industry.  Rich Johnson (Director of Business Development) and Erica Vautier (Director of Marketing) talked about how mobile technology and text messages allow buyers to get instant property details for any house on the market.

Give it a try.  Text WIN to 59559.

You can ask for info on any property by address or street name.  If you have an iPhone or Droid – you’re phone can geo-locate you and give details on all properties for sale in your area.

Other topics the Windermere team touched on with BizFit:

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In this photo: Kory Kavanewsky, Erica Vautier, Alex Martinez, Steve Rodgers and Rich Johnson.

TUNE IN!

The show airs live every Monday from 12-1PM on San Diego 1700 AM.

Archived and live shows can be found at bizfit1700.com

Related Posts: Activities & Events, Area Statistics, Market Trends, Marketing, Technology, Windermere Managers

Rich Johnson and Windermere Agents on KOGO!

On December 20, 2009, Windermere Branch Manager and director of Business Development Rich Johnson pumped up the buzz for Windermere on AM 600 KOGO radio.  With the opportunity to share all the excellent technological initiatives going on with our company (as well as brag about all of our Facebook fans,) Rich conveyed the excitement felt among all agents and staff at Windermere.

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“Whats going on at Windermere?”
is a question that has been rising up all over North San Diego County.  The Windermere Brand is becoming more established and recognized as the eighth office opened in December- and there is more growth ahead.  Our company stands out and ahead by staying on the cutting edge of technology, and the use of social media, web marketing- and extensive education and training in both- has contributed to Windermere’s continued growth and success.  Rich gave updates on the latest real estate market trends, and then Rancho Bernardo Agents Cay and Carly Bohnsack were invited to comment as well on the market and their team.

Tune in HERE

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Windermere President, Steve Rodgers Featured in the San Diego Business Journal

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REAL ESTATE: Windermere’s Approach Attracts Sales Agents

By NED RANDOLPH,  San Diego Business Journal Staff

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Steve Rodgers
Windermere Exclusive Properties President Steve Rodgers has built a reputation on finding opportunities in tough times.

The former CEO of Carmel Valley-based Prudential California Realty, San Diego’s largest residential real estate agency, has found a new home at Windermere Exclusive Properties, one of the two Windermere real estate franchises in the local market (the other being Windermere Pacific Coast Properties owned by Brian Arrington).

2009-07-13-Windermere-Steve Rodgers.IMG_2165F-BJRodgers, who was laid off a week before Christmas after cutting $25 million from operations and downsizing 250 employees, says he was considering starting up his own company. But when he was approached by Windermere Exclusive partners Mark Loscher and Jim Browne in February, he discovered a boutique culture he liked.

“People are getting a little leery of big, huge corporations with all the bailouts and everything. My perspective is that people are looking for something a little more locally run and operated — something family-operated and less about corporate profits,” he said. “Windermere seemed to have that feel.”

Rapid Growth

While Windermere is based in Seattle and has 8,000 agents, it is family-owned and allows franchises to operate independently, he says. It’s also growing quickly as agents leave other brokerages to follow Rodgers.

In the past 12 weeks, 175 agents have joined Windermere Exclusive Properties, which now has 350 agents and 50 more in discussions to join, says Rodgers.

“Sometimes the tools that a company offers is what makes an agent go there,” said Erik Weichelt, president of the San Diego Association of Realtors and CEO of Weichert Realty.

As part of the arrangement with Loscher and Browne, Rodgers acquired franchise rights to open offices in Del Mar and Fairbanks Ranch. And the group acquired two offices from McMillin Realty in Rancho Bernardo and Carlsbad, bringing the number of offices under the Windermere Exclusive Properties umbrella to seven, with Del Mar opening next month and at least one more opening planned by the end of the year, Rodgers says.

Windermere Exclusive reported $260 million in sales volume and 570 transactions in 2008 and says it expects $400 million in sales and 800 transactions in 2009.

Seeking Support

Rodgers says in the toughest market in 25 years, agents want more support for the commissions they share.

“If they pay a company 20-25 percent of the transaction, they get to use the name but beyond that they want to know: ‘How are you going to support me in my business? Are you teaching me to use the Internet better? How can I do more business in this market when prices are falling dramatically?’ ”

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