Veteran broker joins team at Grand Valley real estate firm

Becky Quinn has joined Coldwell Banker Home Owners Realty in Grand Junction as a broker. Quinn has worked in real estate for 23 years. She’s a member of the Grand Junction Area Realtors Association, Colorado Association of Realtors and National Association of Realtors and has earned designation as a Certified Real Estate Negotiator. Coldwell Banker […]

Arms race heats up with warmer weather on the way

It’s that time again when we start packing up the winter coats and pulling out the summer wear. It’s always a little scary putting on those shorts or tank tops for the first time. How did your body fare through the winter? Last month, I focused on abdominal muscles, what makes up the ab region […]

Prepare yourself to make the most of networking events

Networking events are of little value if you’re not prepared. Here are five things to keep you on task at any business networking event — as adapted from “The Ten Commandments of any Business Networking Mixer” in “The World’s Best Known Marketing Secret” by Ivan Misner. Make your badge count. A large part of your […]

Are you teaching your team members to think?

Your business is only as strong as the individual team members operating within it. For your company to operate at the highest levels, your team members must be taught, and then continually encouraged, to think for themselves rather than relying on you or others for answers or even guessing at a solution. A client of […]

Is the “new normal” actually that normal?

Someone asked me the other day if I’m still in the “double-dip” (recession) camp. That led to an embarrassing confession that while I once believed higher interest rates would choke off the nascent recovery, the current recovery has lasted long enough and remained strong enough that I think those of us who were double-dippers ought […]