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Jim Fite is an accomplished entrepreneur, sales professional and business owner with decades of experience. His journey began when he started his first business at the young age of 18. Since then, Jim has created, led and participated in multiple organizations. These organizations include companies, boards and non-profits. Through his involvement in these ventures, Jim has gained a wealth of knowledge and expertise in business management, sales and entrepreneurship. Today, Jim is a sought-after speaker who has delivered inspiring talks to thousands of businesses and sales professionals across the United States. He is also a coach, mentor and consultant to many successful business owners, helping them achieve their goals and reach new heights of success. Jim's most significant achievement is his role in Judge Fite Company, which he purchased with his sister, Jan Fite Miller. What began as a small real estate company with eight people has since grown into…
Going into business of any kind always proves to be a complex endeavor, one that requires a balance of anticipation, communication, and perseverance to succeed. Unfortunately, many newer and more seasoned business owners have a fear of failure that inhibits them from finding or even continuing the success of their organization. As a business leader, the fear of failure is truly a debilitating experience, so much so that it can ultimately cause failure, believe it or not! Although the feeling of fear is a primordial human instinct for basic survival, allowing it to dictate your decision making in our contemporary business world leads to the fulfillment of that fear.
My goal throughout my career has been to help alleviate the fears that business leaders feel regularly. In doing so, I have formed an outline of the most common reasons that businesses fail. In doing so, business leaders can then develop an Anticipatory mindset that more easily overcomes what…
2020 and 2021 are over. Rates are no longer in the 2% range and property values are not climbing at 20%+ year over year. Loan opportunities are not falling from the sky, and sellers aren’t calling agents all day every day asking how much they could get for their house! Rents aren’t screaming higher faster than home prices, and all cash investors are picking up single family homes if the cash flow warrants the deal. Otherwise, if you want a deal, you must go out and get it because it won’t just come to you! The funny part is many lenders and agents think we are still in pandemic mode. Nobody wants to go to the office and work. Once popular meetings for agents by local real estate boards have been reduced or eliminated in many parts of the country, how many people get out and engage the public and…
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National Association of Realtors® Chief Economist Lawrence Yun presented an overview of U.S. commercial real estate Tuesday as part of the 2023 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings. Yun emphasized challenges facing the commercial real estate market brought on by tightening lending policies among many small and regional banks, which have been a key source of commercial loans. Still, due to continuing U.S. job gains, net absorption has been mostly positive nationwide, Yun said, with the apartment, industrial and retail sectors helping to keep the industry relatively stable. “The performance of commercial real estate markets will vary across the country,” Yun projected during Tuesday’s Commercial Economic Issues and Trends Forum. “Markets with strong job gains will naturally hold on much better, while those with weaker job conditions will struggle to raise net occupancy.” Yun said America’s apartment sector recorded 116,000 net positive absorptions in the past year, while the industrial and retail sectors added 361 million…
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The workforce of today is made up of a diverse mix of generations, each with their own unique skill set and work ethic that all build toward a greater goal — Unity. With Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z all working side by side, it is the role of business leaders and C-Suite executives to create a unified work environment, one that in turn fosters collaboration and teamwork across all of these dynamic age groups and furthers the greater good of the industry and the world. Simply letting each generation “stay in their lane” not only leads to missed opportunities evidenced in a lack of innovation, it furthers a generational war that actually breaks down the fabric of contemporary society in many ways. Simple misunderstandings between generations left unaddressed often open the door to volatile arguments and staunch opinions that one generation is superior or inferior to the other. {loadmoduleid…
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We are almost halfway through 2023 and given the regulatory landscape that I find myself working in, there are too many pressing issues and topics that I would like to write about, ranging from friendly tips to stern warnings. Due to the nature and volume of my compliance work at the moment, I have no choice but to put forth a hybrid piece which aims to check off both boxes. Lately, I have been thinking about when I first started my consulting business. Back in 2016, having formerly worked as a Special Investigator for the California Department of Real Estate (DRE), I knew I had something special to offer and that there was a compliance-minded audience out there who needed it. Admittedly though, when I first started working in this field, I sometimes felt like compliance was more an afterthought than an actual priority, or even a luxury item that…
In my 1993 book Technotrends, I said that trust is the glue that holds the net-enabled knowledge economy together. Admittedly, 1993 was prior to the real boom of the Internet. So why was I able to author a statement like that with such certainty back then? Simply because without a shred of doubt, it was and still is clear that us living in an increasingly digital and interconnected world is a Hard Trend. As the years started to pass since publishing Technotrends, the prediction became a reality as humankind began making nearly all purchases online and soon after started communicating, collaborating, sharing and reading news, working, and doing just about everything online more than ever.
Based on my Hard Trend Methodology, I knew even then that the only way to keep the integrity of any transaction online was with trust. But as the digital world accelerated far beyond the scope of what many…
Here we go again! As if we didn’t learn from past mistakes, with the stroke of a pen, a vast majority of people who have done things the right way will be forced to pay for those who have made specific choices that have put them in a poor position. Let’s be honest, nobody with below average credit doesn’t know why they do. It isn’t a surprise when they don’t pay back the money they owe or are late making payments. People have below average credit because of their actions. So why now is it the mortgage industry the ONLY industry that the government has chosen to reward bad behavior at the expense of those who have done as they were supposed to? Have we not seen this story before? Remember the “mortgage meltdown”? It wasn’t that long ago the entire world suffered because standards were relaxed and those who…
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