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Realtors – How and Why You Should Build a Commercial Property Management Portfolio

It’s in markets like this that a commercial real estate management portfolio is of prime importance in the function of the real estate business. The management portfolio allows the agent to have a supply of properties for sales or lease in the future, as well as management fees from the portfolio in the meantime. In effect, the management portfolio is a source of controlled stock for the agent to sell or lease in the future.

Property Agents Building the Portfolio?

So how do you build a commercial property management portfolio? The simple answer is that you build it from the sales and leases that you do in the current market. The landlord is most receptive to the change of property manager when they are purchasing the property or when they are undertaking a new lease.

Referral business from other property owners and business leaders is also a way to get in touch with the landlords that may own property and want to outsource property management services. In saying that, a real estate agent is always far better positioned to capture local market intelligence and enquiry that can shorten a vacancy period for a tenancy in a landlords property.

Agents Should Protect Their Property Management Portfolio

It should be said that a property management portfolio should be protected and serviced well by the managing agent. Commercial and retail property is not like residential property; you need knowledge and the right people to do the management process well.

Costly mistakes can be made if the property manager does not understand the property type or local area. Landlords will happily move to another agent if too many mistakes are made.

Here is why:

The tenants in the property should be optimised in a tenant mix plan. This says that the tenants require strategy and placement into the property. When you have multiple tenants in a property, this becomes even more important.
The income for the landlord comes from the leases that should be optimised and managed for critical dates
The expenditure in the asset will need controls and budgets to ensure that cost standards are maintained and do not blow out beyond the standards in the local area.
Every lease should be managed so the vacancy factors in all properties are minimised.
When a vacancy occurs the property manager should proactively market the vacant space to the right target market to attract property enquiry.
The maintenance processes in a commercial or retail building today require expertise and understanding especially when it comes to essential services and satisfying the codes that apply to building operation and function. In many cases you will need the assistance of a building engineer to oversee matters of compliance today.
Build the right management portfolio and then protect it with good service and good people. Landlords and tenants will appreciate the care taken. Your agency business will grow around a sound and stable property management portfolio and client base.

Insurance Continuing Education – Options and Requirements

Insurance education available online provides you with courses in Life, Health, Property, Casualty and lot more. There are more than 350 courses available in the continuing insurance education program including specific programs for different states. You have the option of long term and short-term continuing insurance education programs too. Therefore, choose the programs depending on the time that you can dedicate and the State in which you are applying for the examination, you can choose courses of your specialization.

Insurance industry is regarded as the most competitive market wherein although the job opportunities are available in plenty the competition the competition is too high. To survive the stiff competition, you need to be not just highly talented and skilled but well qualified too. The continuing insurance education program gives this qualification. You can specialize on the subjects depending on your area of interest. Many reputed schools offer the continuing education course however opting for the online program is the best possible option. You don’t have to dedicate any extra time going to a college or take a break from your existing personal or professional commitments. Therefore, this affordable, flexible, convenient method of education forms an important part in availing some of the best job opportunities. Take a break from the conventional classroom studies and opt for the online continuing insurance education program. The number of credit hours varies from each state.

You can avail the pre-licensing training program online sitting comfortably at your home. The module is mailed to you once you select the course that you want to undergo. All kinds of debit and credit cards are accepted and you receive an acknowledgment mail along with a password once your payment transaction is done successfully. Availing the certification makes you a licensed insurance agent. These online continuing insurance education programs are highly preferred by many insurance companies while hiring.

Education programs in Life and Fire Casualty or Property and casualty are important courses as they are related to the daily lives of people. You can find people looking for these kinds of insurance policies and as the demand is high in this genre, you have the chances of capturing this potential area and earn a decent amount of money.

Opt for the continuing insurance education certification and bring a difference in your life with better employment opportunities. Pursue this program online and get certified immediately. You do not have wait long for results. You will receive the certification if you are qualified (i.e. if you achieve more than 70%) through e-mail and this certification comes with a license number which acts as an identification too. Go online to find out more details about the education program and be enrolled for a bright career in the insurance industry. There is no dearth of employment opportunities in the highly competitive insurance sector. However, with skill, talent and qualification you can definitely earn loads of money.

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Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

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