Social Media Planning - Try a Daily Schedule

 Spending time on social media is a must within our business. But what is the best way to get the most in return for your efforts without taking time away from other business-building activities?

On Thursday February 16^th, Better Homes and Gardens^® Real Estate was proud to be the only real estate company to host an event at Social Media Week in New York. The event, titled “From House to Home: Social Media’s Impact on Buying, Designing and Selling a Home,” included Kim-Marie Mullen, social media expert and Business Development Manager at Better Homes and Gardens^® Real Estate Rand Realty.

We sat down with Kim-Marie after Social Media Week and asked her to share a few tips and tricks to managing social media as well as her favorite tools.

Does a Bad Pickup Line Still Work Today

"Hey Baby, what's your sign?"

I think most of us can picture this classic - if comically out dated - scenario...




The year - 1978. The place - a crowded disco on a Saturday night. Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band's "A Fifth of Beethoven" is thumping, perspiring couples clad in their best polyester are crowding the dance floor doing the Hustle and the mirror ball is slowly turning overhead.

Staging Your Home - Step 1

Does your home have Curb Appeal?

One of the most effective and inexpensive tools in today’s Real Estate market is "staging" your house.  It doesn’t matter how hard your sales agent works to bring buyers to your home, if your house does not look like the dream home they imagined, they simply won’t buy it.

Another Sheriff in Town

  Signature Service Real Estate is pleased to announce Ashley Schmaltz as the new Sales Office Manager for Signature Service Real Estate Medicine Hat.  Jointly with Glen Chapman, licensed since 1982 and the highly respected Managing Broker of the Medicine Hat office since 1996, Schmaltz will guide, train, and manage the daily operations of the Signature Service Real Estate Office.

It's Easy Being Green

Yesterday everyone was decked out in green for Saint Patrick’s day, but we don’t have to only be green one day a year. Many people are turning to ‘green’ solutions to help our environment.


It’s amazing to me how much waste can come from owning a home. In my house, if we kept all the cardboard and plastic that we go through in a year, we could probably fill up one of our bedrooms and all the chemicals we use for washing dishes, clothes and the floors would certainly fill up a small pool.


But what can we do about it?

Wandering Blind

Grab a friend and get a blindfold. Now, go find yourself a large empty field. Blindfold your friend and have them walk in a straight line to the far side of the field. What you’ll find is that they will start to drift to one side or the other until they are literally walking in circles.

Don't Let it Go to the Dogs!

I have two dogs- two very well behaved large dogs.  One is an eleven year-old border collie and the second is a 15 month old Catahoula leopard & lab mix.  The city of Medicine Hat is a dog owner’s heaven. With the parks and the off-leash areas, any dog owner would be thrilled to live here.