The National Association of Realtors changed home buying rules and they’ve been in effect about a month. Home buyers will now have a new conversation with their realtor when they go to buy a home. The realtor will need to negotiate a fee with the buyer. Previously it was in the background as the deal went forward with a typical 6% commission split between buyer’s agent and seller’s agent. Now, that’s all changed and is highly negotiable. Angelo DePaola has seen this coming. It’s no surprise. He thinks it will make the best realtors stand out even more and the… Read More
Categories: LibsynOn Keeping It Real this week, Cam reacts to Tuesday’s presidential debate and shares something he’s learned about himself in the recent years. —– Trump got waxed Tuesday night. Wow, did he get waxed. I watched the debate not knowing what to expect but man, to me, he got crushed. Trump later proclaimed it his best debate performance ever. He was outgunned. In hindsight, he never stood a chance. The pundits downplayed his shellacking. They emphasized some of the points he made but largely overlooked how badly he performed. Fox News was doing cartwheels to find something to like about… Read More
Categories: Libsyn2Want to disrupt an industry? Most would lean on new technology. But that’s not the only way to do it. How about a radically unique customer experience? That’s exactly what Ron Holt has done to do something most wouldn’t have thought possible – make moving fun. Holt founded Birmingham-based Pink Zebra Moving after his mother-in-law had a terrible experience with another moving company. Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” he’d already had one entrepreneurial success, the residential cleaning company Two Maids & A Mop, which experienced rapid growth after utilizing a unique compensation model… Read More
Categories: Blog, Entrepreneurship, What's Working with Cam MarstonTelling people things allows them to disagree with you. Asking them questions allows you to understand their perspective and allows you to align with their ideas before directing them. Bob Tiede is an author of the book Leading with Questions. He and I discuss the power of questions as a leadership tool. Show Sponsors: E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Allison Horner – State Farm Agent Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty Persons Services Corp Seth Cherniak – Jeffrey Matthews Financial Bill-E’s Bacon Roosters Restaurant in Downtown Mobile, Alabama Bay Business News CR Mitigation Find Cam Marston’s… Read More
Categories: LibsynCam’s back from his one month sabbatical and creating commentaries again. This one he simply calls Gettin’ Lucky. —– Dr Suchan Shenoy is one of the regulars at Restaurant Five in Tuscaloosa on Saturday mornings. I join the regulars when I’m in town visiting my son who is a sophomore at the University. Dr Shenoy is an OBGYN at the DCH Hospital there. He and I sat together and we made some small talk. I don’t know any of the regulars well, but I enjoy their company when I’m in town. Dr Shenoy could relate to my situation. I was… Read More
Categories: Libsyn2The business of moving and movers. Pretty tried and true. Very little room for disruption, right? Wrong. Ron Holt has upended tradtional businesses before and is doing it again. His first was Two Maids where he based the payment of the service providers on the evaluations of the customers. The result? Huge efforts from the cleaners to please the customer and treat them well. He’s taking this same non-tradtional thinking to Pink Zebra moving. The movers play music. They buy the homeowner dinner. They have a great time. It’s about reimagining the stale and throwing some energy and ideas into… Read More
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