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As a real estate professional, finding key leverage points within your business is important to effecting positive change. As the industry continues to evolve, so must our skills and sales strategy. Identifying and capitalizing on those areas where a small tweak or addition to strategy can make a big difference will accelerate and support sustainable [...]

It could have been a disaster. For Brad Whitehouse, Mike Burns and Alan Smith, pooling their resources to purchase RE/MAX Professionals in the Denver Metro area seemed like a no-brainer in 2006. They were experienced. They were well-prepared. They were filled with ideas and optimism. How were they to know the industry was headed for [...]

New agents building their practice may spend every weekend sitting open houses. Likely, they are dialing up everyone they know and they might even go door to door to acquire new prospects. These are honorable and productive business techniques. Once an agent starts building their career, however, they get busy and often prefer to use [...]

Realogy Holdings Corp., a global leader in real estate franchising and provider of real estate brokerage, relocation and settlement services, recently announced the appointments of Jessica M. Bibliowicz and Fiona P. Dias to its Board of Directors. Bibliowicz is a veteran financial services executive and served as Chief Executive Officer of National Financial Partners Corp., [...]

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® has named imageSurge as a preferred provider through its Solutions Group program, introducing imageSurge’s Interactive Real Estate Storefront™ to the network’s 500+ real estate firms worldwide. imageSurge’s Interactive Real Estate Storefront™ transforms ordinary real estate office windows into powerful marketing platforms. Real estate companies can publish content and [...]

Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate recently announced the addition of Waco, Texas-based brokerage Edwards & Thomas Real Estate to its franchise network. The company, now operating as Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Edwards & Associates, is led by Leslie and Thom Edwards. The brokerage will continue to serve the greater Waco area, including [...]

A Spartanburg woman said an unknown black male exposed himself outside of a business earlier this month.

A traffic stop on Howard Street led to the arrest of a Spartanburg man after police found cocaine on the driver

Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending June 28.

There was a time when no one would have known what "N-word" meant.

The Battle of Gettysburg swung on the firing of a single bullet by a sleepy sentry.

Johnny Mann, Jack McIntosh will be at Love Your Indie Author event at Fiction Addiction July 6.

Area family's book explores S.C. Native Americans.

We live in a very unhealthy society, and it is sad that the very same people who sometimes preach health are the same ones who force others to live unhealthy.

Working in the garden will become a solace during period of grief.

What do recent rulings tell us about the Supreme Court and the near-future of Supreme Court jurisprudence?

Broom handles and fishing nets worked fine.

Carroll Rushing was not made to slow down, says his wife, Billie Cleveland. A self-made success, Rushing has built many businesses and funded quite a few start-ups over the past decades. At 76, Rushing says the tolerance he had for risk years ago 'unfortunately might be the same' today. Rushing is president and chief executive officer of Shasta Enterprises LLC, a holding company in Greer that has funded several start-up ventures including Indusa Global, an off-shore software developer that does contract programming in India and Jamaica for English-speaking companies, and Interface LLC, which manages chemical inventories, purchasing and required governmental reporting.

Steve and Celena Bryant of Anderson are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Leigh to Christopher William Rogers, son of Terry and Pam Rogers of Belton

Ashley Michelle Moore and Vann Fraylick Jordan were married on Saturday, June 15, 2013, at the Millstone at Adams Pond in Columbia