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	<title>The Austin Silent Market Blog</title>
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	<description>The Austin Silent Market are Austin homes that are not officially on the market or MLS but are awaiting your offer.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mid-Year Retail Review: It’s Not All Bad!</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/08/13/mid-year-retail-review-it%e2%80%99s-not-all-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vacancy / Construction Statistics
Considering the current retail market conditions of increased store closings and bankruptcies and retailers pulling back on expansion plans, it is no surprise that the overall retail vacancy rate continues to rise; at the end of second quarter, it stood at 6.6 percent. However, it is also important to note the relative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permission to Reject</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/07/26/permission-to-reject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mrs. Johnson. Hi. My name is George McGee. And I&#8217;m one of those high pressure door-to-door salesmen, can you tell?&#8221; Dressed in shorts, tennis shoes, and a nice t-shirt, I looked anything but like a buttoned down high pressure professional salesman.

Mrs. Johnson would usually giggle which was my cue to resume.
“Seriously, I&#8217;m the one talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Territory Tight</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/07/25/working-territory-tight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;No, we don&#8217;t know them&#8221;.
 &#8220;No never heard of them&#8221;.
 &#8220;Nope, the Thompsons and Griswolds don&#8217;t sound familiar?&#8221; &#8220;Now, what are you selling?&#8221;
 “Oh My!”
 Names that had opened doors of families with kids at O&#8217; Henry Middle School, and Austin High no longer opened doors. And not only that, people weren&#8217;t as friendly, in fact,  they were down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is now a good time to buy or sell a home in Austin?</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/07/24/is-now-a-good-time-to-buy-or-sell-a-home-in-austin-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After thirty one years of full time Austin Real Estate brokerage, I can safely say I’ve seen my share of bull and bear residential markets in Austin since 1978. This loaded question is particularly difficult because different segments of our Real Estate market are behaving differently, or better values in some price ranges than in others, for example.
A simple rule [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Keep a Journal?</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/07/23/why-keep-a-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Why Keep a Journal?
Do you ever remember getting a letter or a note that made you feel so good you kept it?
As I wrote this on a beautiful sunny but cool afternoon in an outdoor Austin café, I asked my cute young waitress the same question.
&#8220;Two&#8221; she blurted out &#8220;and I keep both in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does this look like the 80&#8217;s Real Estate debacle in the early stages?</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/07/19/does-this-look-like-the-80s-real-estate-debacle-in-the-early-stages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like finance markets are in a bit of a state of free fall. Qualified prospects are having a hard time getting loans that were easy just three months ago. Does it matter if your home is well priced, if the buyer cannot get a loan to buy it?
Sort of like whether it matters what gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fail Forward</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/07/18/fail-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a quasi-autobiographical account of someone who’s been blessed with healthy success in sales and a well rounded life, I’d love to tell you it’s been all downhill. But it hasn’t. In the late 80’s, I decided to start investing in Real Estate instead of just acting as an agent.
Along with a few partners, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soft Sell (unedited excerpts from George McGee&#8217;s first book)</title>
		<link>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/06/25/soft-sell-unedited-excerpts-from-george-mcgees-first-book/</link>
		<comments>http://austinsilentmarket.com/blog/2008/06/25/soft-sell-unedited-excerpts-from-george-mcgees-first-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Table of Contents
 
 
 
100 Things to Do Before You Die. 3
By Referral Only. 5
Names, Names, Names. 8
Working Territory Tight 11
Permission to Reject 14
Be Funny, Make Money. 17
90 No Contest 19
The Common Denominator of Success. 21
Greatest Salesman in the World. 23
Question Authority. 25
Do it Differently. 27
How’s Business?. 29
Fail Forward. 32
Answering Objections, Not 34
Question behind [...]]]></description>
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