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Best Practices: Christy Lewis
I reach out to a new prospect on all levels, including phone, email, Linked In, etc. Understanding that everyone works differently and has different preferences of how they like to communicate is key. This ensures a higher response rate based on the fact that they will most likely respond to one method and then you also become aware of their preferred method of contact.
Christy Lewis, Director of Business Development, Doran Companies
(952) 288-2037 | christy@dorancompanies.com
Best Practices: Arvid Povilaitis
I have a number of direct reports throughout the country. Everyone is busy with their day-to-day activities managing issues as they arise. In an effort to stay focused on our goals and strategic in our thinking, I have a permanent time slot set aside with each person each week that is “sacred.” It sets aside a time to discuss anything we need to, as well as to catch up on the status of ongoing projects. These meetings are sometimes very brief, and sometimes quite lengthy, as warranted.
Inform your supervisor what you’re planning to do, when you’re going to get it done and then do it. No surprises.
Arvid Povilaitis, COO, Meritex Enterprises, Inc.
(651) 855-9708 | apovilaitis@meritex.com
What’s a QR Code?
QR (Quick Response) Codes, you’ve seen them in stores, magazines, they’re everywhere!
What’s a QR Code?
QR codes are bar codes, often shaped as a square, and can be created by anyone by using one of many free websites. It takes seconds to create. QR Codes share information such as a website link or business card. You use your mobile phone to scan it.
How do I scan a QR code?
You’ll need to download an app from your app store. Here’s a list of the most popular free QR Code Readers:
- Redlaser (iPhone and Android)
- NeoReader (most platforms)
- QR Code Scanner Pro – Free (Blackberry)
- QR deCODEr (Palm)
Once you download the app, the app will do all the work. Just launch the app and point your camera at the code and it’ll automatically load the information.
What’s the Point?
The possibilities are endless. For a real estate agent, rather than posting your phone number on a billboard, a QR code can automatically dial your number or load information about your property on the potential client’s phone. Or the next time you go shopping, save money by using your QR code reader to scan regular bar codes on the product packaging and it’ll tell you the pricing online or at another retailer.
NAIOP Golf Event – Live Scores from the Course!
At the upcoming golf event, we’ll have live scoring and a leaderboard on the Pulse so you can keep track of the other groups. On your cart, you’ll have a QR code to scan; which will take your mobile phone’s web browser to the leaderboard.
Random Rants: Are you a foodie?
Are you a foodie? Let’s hope not.
Turn on the TV, flip through a magazine or go online and you will blaze past channel and page of chefs chopping away. There are angry chefs, scientific ones, wanna-be angry chefs, people cooking outside, people cooking in a ship’s galley, people obsessing over trace ingredients and arcane methods by which to assemble a meal.
Show after show, and with piles of pages there is a furious competition going on for our attention. It all involves food. Food, food, food – foodie food. (more…)
Exclusive video from Dan Spiller program
We asked and he answered…
Watch the video below for Dan Spiller’s take on what part of the economy concerns him most and key take-aways for the commercial real estate community.
Spiller is a senior vice president in U.S. Bancorp’s corporate treasury department. Thank you to NAIOP members Ben Krsnak of Hempel Properties and Whitney Peyton of CB Richard Ellis for sharing their impressions with us.
The Stadium Debate: Is our love of major sports teams helping or hurting the Minnesota economy?
By: Lindsey Reese, Liberty Property Trust
It can be said that Minnesotans love their sports almost as much as they love their three months of summer, but has our love affair blinded us to practicality? A general assumption is that taxpayers in every city across the country tend to pay for their professional sports teams either through special taxes or proceeds from state lotteries, etc. Given the size of Minneapolis, as compared with L.A., Chicago and New York, the fact that we support four major sports teams seems to place a big cost on smaller market. The Metropolitan Council put the Minneapolis population at 2.87 million at the end of 2008, while cities like LA, New York and Chicago all boasted populations of 16, 21 and 9 million respectively in a 2000 demographic census. When you look at these three cities, they also support at least four major sports teams, if not more. So what do our sports teams offer us in exchange? In a word: Identity. (more…)
Mark Nordland named one of Business Journals’ 2010 40 Under Forty
NAIOP member Mark Nordland, vice president of development at Ryan Companies US, Inc. was named one of the Business Journals’ 2010 40 Under Forty honorees. Congratulations Mark!
NAIOP Member Noel Labine to perform in Minneapolis on September 12th
Noel LaBine will join other storytellers on September 12th as part of the Cheap Theater’s “Imitation” evening. Following the theme, participants will be telling tales resembling imitation. In other words, they will be spinning a yarn with a spin on imitation. Other performers include Nanci Olsen, Wonder Dave, Erica Christ, Richard Rousseau and Tom Cassidy.
Noel promises to tell a tale of a man nicknamed “Buffalo Bill,” who may have looked like the original character of Wild West fame, but who had an entirely different story.
Noel Labine is Executive Director of the Wright County Economic Development Partnership and has been an active member of NAIOP Minnesota since 2004.
Event details:
September 12, 7:00 pm
Cheap Theater Storytelling Evening
Black Forest Inn’s Festsaal Banquet Space
9 East 26th St., Minneapolis, MN 55404
Contact Erica Christa at 612-870-6583 for more information or to make reservations.
Weathering the Storm
Submitted by NAIOP Minnesota President Lisa Dongoske, Northmarq
What are people doing during these tough times to keep their skills sharp and their morale up?
