Thoughts & Insights

Question: What is the one thing you cannot create more of?Answer: Time. Time is one of your most leveraged assets. So how are you managing your time? If you lead others, your time is in demand. Having strong time management skills critical to increasing your influence within your team. If you don’t manage your time,

Delegation Delegation is simple in nature but hard to execute. As a young leader, I find delegation both incredibly rewarding and time-intensive. Below are my thoughts and experiences with delegation. As my leadership responsibilities have grown, I have become more aware of my weaknesses. When you start leading vs managing you will quickly uncover the

2021 is going to be a big year for me. In the past, I have set personal goals but this will be the first year I publish a personal growth plan to go along with my goals. To me having a plan is much more than setting some goals. I learned this from my time

The “Rule of Three” is the name given to that magical law of nature whereby things that come in threes appear to be just right. In ancient times, the Romans understood this rule and referred to it with the Latin maxim “omne trium perfectum” which means “everything that comes in threes is perfect”. There is

A large portion of my job involves creating, updating, and analyzing spreadsheets. I am the weird portion of the population who actually enjoys spreadsheets. I was surfing the web Friday night and saw a conversation on Twitter about marketing attribution and tracking. 💡 – Lightbulb moment. I should create a real estate marketing scorecard template

Need To Save Time With Playbooks? The 4R template and many more are available at saasoperations.com 👈 Use coupon code “free” for free access to all playbooks The 4R document is one of the most powerful assets you can create for your business. You already know It’s critical to have intention with your hiring. Giving

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun If you have done any amount of reading on my blog then you know I am very goal-oriented. I make goals every year and now every month to keep me focused and to remind me of what I want to

Below is a collection of project management insights I have gained from my time with Carrot. Project Management Is Hard A lot of work goes into completing a successful project. You have to negotiate priorities, align resources, and get buy-in from team members. Estimating Project Completion Dates Is Tricky No matter hard you try, something will come

Full disclosure. I work for Carrot (some still call in Investor Carrot). But I also use the product. This is my Carrot Website Review from my experiences and what I know to be true. At its core, Carrot is a lead gen and marketing product. But Carrot (carrot.com) offers much more than just a website.

You want to get into real estate investing and you know that you need a website. So who has the best real estate investing websites? Full disclaimer: I work for Carrot and will of course recommend them in this article. I wrote an extensive review of Carrot websites. It can be overwhelming with how many

Keywords are the lifeblood of any real estate investors online marketing strategy. SEO keywords are the highest performing and highest ROI marketing strategy an investor can have. If you dominate your market’s SEO keywords for phrases like “We buy houses Vancouver” then you can bet that you are going to generate leads online with very

Want the quick rundown of 4 of my favorite Carrot features? Auto Complete Address Field SMS text notifications Campaign tracking links Featured blog post images For those unaware, I work for Carrot. I help out with the and day to day operations. I have the pleasure of interacting with a lot of members in support,

WithCoach rebranded to Podia. Building an online course with Coach is really easy. I wanted to give this podia review more stars. Maybe I will update the review in the future as more features roll out. This review is going to focus more on the tools and service itself (what you can and can’t do in

I was tired of the boring looking confirm info box in my rails app. A quick Google search and I found Sweet Alerts. I struggled to get this to work in my Ruby on Rails project for a couple reasons. First, if you wanted to download the source files of Sweet Alerts and include them

Do you have a life list? If not, you should. A life list (sometimes called a bucket list) is a great way to instantly inject purpose and meaning into your life. If you are honest with yourself, then you can think back to the last time you were in a rut. Feeling stuck in life

I have always enjoyed reading, I have just never been disciplined. When you attend college you are assigned a lot of reading. To be honest, there is no way someone could read all of that. Much less retain it and store it in their long-term memory. College learning is like learning in a bubble. You

Team Treehouse is an online education subscription that teaches a wide variety of web related skills and technologies. Treehouse courses cover everything from front end development, back end development, design, and even starting your own business. I have tried many other code schools but I am a big fan of Treehouse for a couple reasons:

To keep your head on straight you need to use some tools when working on SEO. One of the hardest parts of SEO is finding which tools work. There are some big players in the game like: Ahrefs Moz SEMrush We have used all of these tools and honestly, they all work great. It really

Before/After If you are using WooThemes’ WooComerce plugin to create an ecommerce site then chances are you need to align the bottoms to make the columns look a little better. Unfortunately there is not a one size fits all solution. There are a couple variables that could cause this solution not to work for your theme. However,

For the longest time I have struggled with getting my Foundation top-bar to overlay a full width image, think hero image. The biggest problem is making it work on the home page and then have different styles on the inner pages. The results The problem If you have a transparent background and your <body> is

If you blog there is a good chance you use featured images. Especially if you blog with WordPress. The benefits of having a blog featured image are they make your article look nice, and they give the search engines more information about your article. Google has made it clear that user experience is becoming a