Each generation is unique – they react differently to and change what previous generations have done over time. With this understanding in mind, I find it valuable to not only appreciate where our own generation, and those generations before us, has come from, but also what to expect and how to work with the coming generations. Each generation approaches challenges differently and as a result, solutions are obtained differently. That is not to say that one solution is better than another, it is just to make note that if a …

The new business fable Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business & Life is the foundation of a new fascinating 90-minute talk titled “Safari of Self Discovery.”
A distracted couple embarks on a three-day visit to Africa. While the husband bemoans the lack of cell phone coverage and is consumed with worry about his business thousands of miles away, his wife becomes immediately immersed in life in the East African plains. Slowly they gain wisdom from the wild animals they encounter and they find themselves revisiting many perspectives they …

As a Real Estate Virtual Assistant, I am often asked about using video to market real estate listings, to show neighborhoods and just for general marketing purposes…I always like to stay “in the know” on topics of interest to real estate agents, so I recently attended SMM Camp #7 – which focused 3 hours of intense training on video marketing (I had 7 pages of notes!). I condensed some of the most important tidbits and general information into this brief video.

Yesterday we launched the Serengeti Book Channel on You Tube. Here is the first video announcing my new business book that will be on shelves at Borders, Barnes & Nobel and Books-A-Million on 3.1.2011.
It’s only 90 second long so please watch it, subscribe and “Like” it and then let me know what you think. I am really very anxious to get your feedback!
Thanks and happy holidays!
Stefan
Business Book by Stefan Swanepoel. Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Succeed in Business & Life

In many instances this parody hits so close to real life that it’s funny and painful at the same time. I think you will enjoy the humor. (Go to this actual blog post to view the video on RealBlogging).

If you can’t view the above video in the blog post follow the link at the bottom of the blog post to view it on YouTube : Stop Using Social Media Mom

Episode# 75: Shannon W. King shares a novel way to use video to generate more sales and repeat customers.

Over the past few years Video has been used with great success by Internet marketers to create trust, engaging content and ultimately to sell their products.
Well with the explosion of cheap video camers, relatively easy to use editing software and Word Press , video has now finally made it into the way some top real estate professionals are doing their business.
Enter NAR’s Top 30 Under 30 Shannon W. King; co-founder of a …

For my final installment in this 20-part series, I’d like to leave you with one guiding principle that will make you more money, or save you more money, than all the rest. (Isn’t saving money the same as making it? My wife tells me it is when she gets back from the mall.) Anyway, here it is: Lose the overhead.
What do I mean? Think about it: If you want to increase your bottom line, there are really only …