Hey everyone, this is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is, what would you do with $10,000 for home improvements? If you won the prize tomorrow and you had extra $10,000 in your account, what would you change about your house? Post that as a question on your social media. See how people reply. Some people will be …

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is the Starbucks open house. So, let's say that you don't have a listing right now that you wanna hold open or can't hold open and you need to be able to get clients. Go to a Starbucks or a local diner or anywhere you like to go hang out for a couple hours. Hav…

Hey, everyone, it's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea is taxes and shredding. So it's tax season, you know, obviously it's not due until April, but a lot of people do them early. Don't know why. Anyway, so talk about the fact that record retention is something they have to do. I think it's four years worth of records you ha…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is a pet photo contest. So, let's say you go out on your Instagram or your Facebook and you come up with a hashtag like, "#bobspetcontest." And you ask people to post the best pet pictures they have of their pets. Whoever wins gets a Starbucks card, gets whatev…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is ask for the business. How many times do you see salespeople out there and they're promoting themselves and they're doing things but they never come around to, "I'm ready, are you ready to buy and sell? I'd like to be your agent." Ask for the business. Go ou…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is "Best real estate apps." So, we all have our favorites and I'm not gonna go into them here, but we all know which app we like better. Maybe it's your personal app, maybe it's realtors, Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, whoever it is. Tell your sphere what to use, prom…

Hey, everyone, Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is winter pool and pond maintenance. Yes, it's winter. Nobody should be getting in the pool, maybe the hot tub, but not the pool. But what do you have to do to maintain your pool and your pond in the winter? So I know if you have a pond, you have to keep the fish w…

Hey everyone, this is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is the value of land versus the value of the improvement on the land which is the house. Bad drawing. Anyway. So in parts of the country the land is worth more than the improvement that's upon the land. In the Texas area the improvement on the land is worth m…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is find the people in your neighborhood who have kids who are college bound. Find the kids in your neighborhood who are taking their SATs or ACTs or do they still not even take those? I don't even know because it's been so long. It's been a long time. But, fin…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is snow removal tips. So we don't get a lot of snow here in Texas, but when we do, we don't know what to do with it. We don't have the plows, we don't... We're not built for this. But back East, they're built for four feet of snow all the time and they still go…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is best schools. Please ignore the horrible apple I tried to draw on this, it's not worth your time. Anyway, the best schools in your area. People are moving into town and they want to know where is the best place to put our kids in school? And best can be mul…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is, "Best value neighborhoods." So, what defines best value? You do. So, best value could be where you're going to get the lowest price house. Best value could be where you're going to get the most appreciation. Maybe the best value is the largest house for the…

Hey, this is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And it's time to talk about garage doors. Have you ever backed into one? Have you ever accidentally forgotten to raise it, or had the lock thrown on it when the garage door was trying to open it, or whatever, or had the springs break? Let's talk about how garage doors function. Let's talk about com…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is heating and furnaces. So, we are in the dead of winter right now in Texas. And January and February are our coldest months and we're already using our heaters and our furnaces like crazy but not nearly as much as our friends up in the north. So, what is it t…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is to ask the question, "Is this the year you buy yourself a house?" Ask your sphere, is this the year that they want to buy or sell a home, "And if so, give me a call," insert your name, insert your company. So just asking people the idea and putting in their…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is to talk about, sorry, kids, it's time to go back to school. So, school is gonna be starting back up from winter break, people are gonna be forgetful, they're gonna drive out early in the morning and not realize there are kids out there. Let's do the same war…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is storage ideas. So we all just took down our holiday decorations, we're trying to put them in our shed, or in our attic, or in a closet somewhere. What do you know about storage? What do you know about asking people maybe, "Hey, do you need a home with more …

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is to ask your sphere what are the projects they wanna do around their home in 2019. So, the beginning of the year is a good time to be thinking about, "Hey, new start, fresh ideas, what can we do? Do we need to do exterior paint? Do we need to do interior? Do …

Everyone is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty idea of the day is one that I did a couple of days ago and it seems to be really paying off in a lot of directions. So what I did was I made a post that says "I'm testing the Facebook algorithm comment if you can see this post". It's gone crazy. So in Facebook world you have your to 3…

Hey everyone, it's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is, ask for business. So, I'm gonna put out on my social media my Christmas wish list. And my Christmas wish list is to get a referral from everyone in my sphere of influence. I know that a lot of people have family and friends moving into town and all I want f…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and if you watch my broadcasts at all, you'll know that one of my realty ideas per day that I repeat a lot is fire safety. So, holiday fire safety is important. A lot of people have live trees, they forget to water them. There are some videos out there, you don't even have to make the content…

Hey everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is Get Your Newsletter Out. If I time this right, this is the first of the month and we need to get your newsletter out to people. I am very much about diversity, and I like to celebrate all holidays. So in my newsletter, I'm gonna put in there different days of…

2018_12_01 NewslettersRENAMEAudio Player00:0001:02Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Text Size Copy To Clipboard Print Rate This Job Download Media Download TranscriptionHey everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is Get Your Newsletter Out. If I time this right, this is the first of t…

Hey everyone, this is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is holiday card requests. I do this one every year when I send out my Christmas Cards, I ask people "Hey, do you want to be on my Christmas Card list, private message me your address and your information." I add more people to my sphere of influence each year…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your Realty Idea of the Day is review your goals with your sphere. We're coming to the end of the year. We're probably in business planning for next year. Now is a great time to be talking to people about what your goals were for 2018, how close you are coming to making those goals, how …

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is local Giving Trees. So, Giving Trees are obviously where kids can post on a little piece of paper what they want for Christmas. And you go grab that sheet of paper off the tree, you go shop, you find it, and you bring it back and put it under the tree, and t…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie, with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is table suggestions for Thanksgiving.So, let's talk about place settings. Let's talk about glassware, let's talk about silverware, what order do they go in. Let's talk about decor that you can put on the table inexpensively. Let's talk about how many people …

Hey everyone, it's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is Christmas Stamps. So each year when I was a kid I would love to see my moms mail come in because we would get these really cool Christmas Letters and Cards, but the stamps the stamps are what I really loved. I loved to look at the different designs. Every yea…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And this one may be a little late for Thanksgiving, but it's still pertinent for Christmas. Holiday travel tips. Oh, my gosh. Whether you're taking the train, taking the car, taking the airplane to grandma's house, whatever you're doing, there are tips on how to make it better. Like arriving…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty.And your realty idea of the day is one I think we kinda touched on a few days ago, but let's get really into it, food drives. Food drives and food pantries in your area.So I know at my local grocery store if I go shopping there, they have these pre-made bags of groceries 10 bucks added to you…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty.And your realty idea of the day is spotlighting local businesses.So this is something we should be doing more and more. Gary Vaynerchuk talks about how we should be the "Electronic mayor of our town." So you wanna go out and do some video. You wanna take some still pictures. You wanna upload …

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCraine, with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is Veterans Day.So, 11/11 is the armistice of World War I. It was officially declared Veterans Day, and we need to show how thankful we are for veterans. So go out on your social media, each one of them, and post something about Veterans Day, the five branche…

Hey, everyone. Bob McCranie, with Texas Pride Realty.Your realty idea of the day is dining room choices.So we're coming to the time of the year the probably one or two times of the year where you will use your dining room. If you're having people over to eat you will have a need for, you know, 4 to 6 to 20 people to sit around your dining room tabl…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is market trends. We are now well into the fourth quarter of 2018, and it would be a great time for you to bring everybody up to speed on how homes are moving in the end of the season. So, I don't know about your market, but in my market, we need about 30 days…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is protecting pets in the cold. So we are about to get, in Texas we're told we're going to get a wetter, colder winter, which only happens apparently when we try to host a Super Bowl, which we apparently tried six or eight years ago and got iced over for four …

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And if I time this right, it should be Election Day. Go out encourage everybody to vote, try not to take a side, I know it's super hard, we all have our opinions. I certainly have mine, I've taken all my political opinions that I can keep out of the way and I put them into a private group. S…

Hey everyone, it's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is winterizing your home. Now I live in Texas, so we go through summer, summer, half a day of fall, and right into winter. So depending on your part of the country, you may need to have your furnace checked. You may need to have oil put into the reservoir for t…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is one that I see a lot of people do right now. It's the 22 days or 24 days of thankfulness. Okay? So, there's 22 days to Thanksgiving, and they post something every day that they're thankful for. So, you can make it about anything you want to. You can do it i…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is Thanksgiving recipes and Thanksgiving cooking.So what we want to do right now is we want to go out on social media and we want to ask the question, "What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish? What's maybe a family recipe that you've had? What's some food that y…

Hey, everyone. Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and we're gonna continue a blog from a couple days ago. A couple days ago, we told people, "Hey, on Halloween, send us your best costumes that you see and there'll be a contest." Today is contest day.So what we wanna do is we wanna post the best pictures we got, put them into an email, send them o…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is time change, obviously, we're gonna send that out, everybody remembers to send that out, but also, time to change the battery in your smoke detector.So I'm huge about fire safety. If you watch me, I talk about fire safety at least two, three times a month if…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is Halloween through history.So, you know, we don't want to get into anything too controversial about the roots of Halloween and where it came from historically, but maybe you can go into what Halloween meant to you as a kid. Maybe you can talk about some of yo…

​​​Now is a great time to remind people that small kids will be out in big costumes focused on candy. They won't be looking both ways and drivers need to be more alert.

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your Realty Idea of the Day is Best Chili Recipes.Now, this is one that you can ask people to contribute pictures or text recipes, however, they want to do it. I love watching the little video recipes. I don't cook, I watch how they make stuff, anyway. So the best chili recipe, which one…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and if you're like most people who are real estate agents, social media is something you put up with, and it's not really what you love. Unlike me, I love it. So my challenge to you today is let's add a new social media to your group. So one thing you could do is go on the social media that …

Hey, everyone. Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea today is leasing homes. Now, we all know that buying a home is your best investment because you're going to be building equity versus paying for somebody else's equity in their lease home. But sometimes you just have to. Sometimes you either don't have the down payment or you'…

This is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is candy corn. Now, I never realized what a national crisis would ensue when I let people know that I love candy corn because apparently, some people just can't stand it. Candy corn is amazing, I love it but... So put it out to your group and your sphere on Facebook or on …

Hey everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and if I timed this right, today's the first day of October.So the question I have for you today and you can ask your sphere of influences, do you do scary Halloween spooky? Or do you do fun Halloween? I like to do fun Halloween, I don't like to be scared. So I don't get all the scary movies …

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is, is it too late to sell? Oh, my gosh. We're at the end of September? Did I miss the whole thing? So, I don't think it's too late to sell personally, ever. I mean, during the holiday months, there are still people out there buying and selling a home. Lots of…

Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is shrubs and trees. So, it's going into the colder season, and I know in Texas, this is the time that people really prune back their Crape Myrtles almost too much, and they consider pruning back the trees. I would talk to an arborist in your area since there …