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Matt Jones is Head of Country for eXp Realty in New Zealand and the founder of Independent Agent. He writes most weeks about building a real estate business worth owning.
The way we spend our days is how we spend our lives…. What a thought. I came across this quote while mindlessly scrolling facebook (there is an irony there…) and it gave me a bit of a jolt. How do I spend my days, and if I add them all up, is this how I… Read more »
This came from the mouth of my 14-year-old over the weekend (who in my opinion needs to spend more time thinking about some of the advice he dishes out….). These words have been a guiding light for me this week, and the statement has gone up on my office whiteboard. I love the expansiveness of… Read more »
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time… right now. Be it investing, exercise… prospecting, the best time to start, or restart, was in some time in the past. For some people, the weight of lost opportunity from times past prevents them from getting started now. My creative… Read more »
I hear this statement every now and again. What is there to love about real estate? Dirt…? Concrete and steel, wood? Mortgages, contracts? Complaints? Signs, conferences, marketing? Online marketing platforms and TikTok videos? How about doing deals, eating what you kill. Proving to yourself that you can do it. And of course, the people. I… Read more »
Remote work takes some getting used to – and one of the challenging elements is not getting to know your colleagues quite as well as you could in person. Last week, a large contingent of the eXp New Zealand team (along with a few Aussies), met in Christchurch for our inaugural winter event – we… Read more »
Michael Jackson. He was The King of Pop. Being school holidays, I took a couple of hours out this week with the family to go watch a movie. Being in a house full of musicians and an ex-DJ, ‘Michael’ seemed like it might be something we could all enjoy – seems it is possible to… Read more »
We live in a really noisy world, and a very noisy industry, so I wanted to quickly jot down a few ideas around ‘silence’ that might spark some thoughts. Creative Ideas…Ideas will turn up in all kinds of places. One of the places they will surface is in quiet. Be it a walk, a rest,… Read more »
This post is about you, not me… But it’s going to start with a little bit about me. I made a call at the end of last year which had a profound and unexpected impact on my identity. I made a decision to give up a bit of this and take on a bit of… Read more »
On Monday I built an app. In the space in my life that was a public holiday, combined with weather forcing me inside, I had the space and time to have a bit of a mess around with AI and start building an app that will be really useful for me on Lovable. This is… Read more »
