Thought Leaders

Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: 3 tips to improve your credit score for mortgages and more!

Whether you realize it or not, your credit score matters. I wish that just being someone who pays all your bills and carries no debt was enough, but it is not. Your credit score is how a myriad of companies determine if they will let you use their services and if they will require you to pay a deposit and how much! This is one of those topics that seems underestimated until you find yourself penalized for something you really had no control over obtaining. Unfortunately, by the time you’ve

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Employee Benefits

Free Access: Blindly paying CSRA business expenses!

Yours truly tried to guess who the video podcast guest was and it took me a while. Here is a hint, he played on the national stage before, and now he is part of different small business teams in the CSRA! See if you can guess who it is!

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Home Remodeling

Free Access: How do I make the right choice between contractors?

Sometimes, we have to hire a professional and it can be a daunting task. Even referrals are no guarantee that all will be well with your choice. The other day, a client was in my office sharing a negative experience with a local contractor. My client had gotten a referral from a neighbor. The experience the neighbor had, had been a good one. My client – not so good. When I asked what had happened, the client informed me that the job dragged on for months, the work wasn’t done

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Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: Three things every renter should know before moving in

Flexibility is key when searching for the perfect new home to rent. You may have your heart set on a location or some specific attributes of a house, but you may have to sacrifice some things. As someone who recently moved into their first rental home, I learned that flexibility and sacrifice are something anyone searching to rent will have to come to terms with. Nothing plays out exactly how you may have it mapped out in your mind and it’s important to accept this reality early on, so you

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Digital Marketing

Free Access: Web 3.0 is here, but what is it?

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, blockchain, Web 3.0, and Bored Apes are all the rage in the world of technology. So what really is Web 3.0? Web 3.0 is the future of the internet and promises to be even more convenient, efficient, and user-friendly than the current web version. What sets it apart from its predecessors? To understand that, we will look at the predecessors to Web 3.0 in this article and briefly touch on what Web 3.0 is. Web 1.0 (1991ish to 2004) This period of the web was primarily users being

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Office Support

Free Access: Increase engagement with customers through social media videos

One of the perks of digital marketing is its ease of being shared. Video is a powerful tool to see its shared content. Here are some benefits of having video in your Digital Marketing Strategy and what metrics brands are tracking. According to Hubspot, video boosts conversion rates. Including on a landing page, video can increase conversion by 80 percent. Search engines love video. They are searching for content that engages viewers. Nothing lures longer page views quite like a video. Video can help build trust among your customers. Sight

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Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: True happiness is homemade

Buyers will always have a list of things that they “want” in a home and I’ve found that buyers can have an equally long unwanted list. For decades, we were fortunate to have a marketplace filled with options where you could get most of what you wanted in your budget, so having a list really helped your agent find something that you would be happy buying. Today is a different story together. Today’s home search is all budget-driven. Interest rates are high and the market competition has nearly eliminated buyers

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Office Support

Free Access: Say your message loud with videos

Video engages social media viewers more than photos or text and garners more shares. Amy Richardson of Richardson Professional Solutions tells Neil Gordon what types of videos grab the most attention for your business and how her company can help.

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