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!  When real estate broker Terrence Murphy was an athlete in high school and college and it came time for him to decide which coach to work with, one main question was: Who stayed in touch the most? “That was a basic principle that I took from recruiting being an athlete to being in business and being a Realtor,” Murphy, broker and founder of TM5 Properties in Texas, told attendees at Inman’s Connect Now conference on Thursday. “The statistic is 87 percent of Realtors don’t stay in touch with their clients after the transaction.” Murphy, who played in the National Football League...

Most people are terrible to talk to over the phone. If nothing else, we've learned that much over this unholy year. Kelly Ripa, who Zooms under the unassuming handle “Kelly’s iPad,” is the rare exception. The moment I enter the chat, she launches into a story. “I had to go to a specialist to have this root canal, and he said to me, ‘Who’s tall in your family?’ Which is a very strange thing for an oral surgeon to say,” she begins. “And I said, ‘Oh, my mother’s tall. Wait, why would you ask that?’ And he said, ‘Oh, you have tall teeth.’” She pauses just long enough...

Harold Stephens has Died Twenty-two years ago, in the summer of 1999, I came across a copy of Blue magazine in a Boston bookstore. What drew me to purchase it, I don’t recall: I certainly wasn’t in the “adventure lifestyle” demographic it catered to. Inside that issue was a review of the book Who Needs a Road?, originally published in the late 1960s and re-issued in 1999: I was intrigued, so I ordered a copy of the book and voraciously wolfed it down when it arrived. The book chronicles the around-the-world trip, in a Toyota Land Cruiser, of aut...

How Google’s funding for journalism could threaten media pluralism Big Tech has become a powerful patron to European journalism. But the millions of euros in financial support for media companies come with a catch. Published on 1 February 2021 at 10:00 Over the past seven years, Google has spent more than 200 million euro to support European journalism. Its lavish funding has helped to boost innovation in publishing houses and Google also picks up the bill for conferences, fellowships, trainings and academic journalism research. This has made the tech giant popular among publishers. Google�...

Seiko started out as a small business in late 19th-century Tokyo. Now, it is a global phenomenon. From affordable Seiko 5s to high-end Grand Seikos to rarefied Credors, its range is able to tap into every tier of watch buyer – and Seiko boutiques have spread across the world. But there are some things that Seiko likes to keep for its local customers. For those in the know, the letters “JDM” (Japanese Domestic Market) open up a treasure trove of models and designs that the rest of us rarely get to buy. Some of these are simply alternative colourways of well-known models, others are more ...