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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Creating A Successful Multifamily Recycling Program

Creating A Successful Multifamily Recycling Program
Getting buy-in from residents for a multifamily recycling program is a challenge for every property management company and private hauler. Greater individual success in these recycling efforts come from greater support and structure within the community encouraging such action. This week, Block Multifamily Group (BMG) VP of BMG, Justin Larson, presents at the Waste Expo Conference about how his team approach multifamily recycling programs. Here are some ingredients for Justin's recipe for a successful multifamily recycling program:

Thursday, April 17, 2014

How to Maintain a Fun Social Media Presence in Commercial Real Estate

Throw Back Thursday #TBTThe commercial real estate industry is all about building and maintaining relationships. Establishing an online presence, particularly in social media, allows for personal bonding with potential audiences.  However, finding unique ways to communicate your company's brand message can be a tough endeavor.  Block Real Estate Services (BRES) is proud to announce our recent social launch of Throwback Thursday (#TBT); a campaign established to share with audiences about what being on the BRES team means.  Below, we have collated three tricks to assist in creating fun, engaging, relationship building to maximize content for commercial real estate, such as BRES did with #TBT.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

How To Do An Internal Corporate Fundraising Campaign

How To Do An Internal Corporate Fundraising Campaign
It can be a challenge to get company employees fired up about an internal fundraising campaign - especially at the corporate level. How do you engage employees and get them excited to join in to help the cause? At Block Real Estate Services, (BRES), we have an annual fundraising effort we do for MS Society around March Madness. Here are some tactics we found that lend success to a corporate fundraising campaign:


Thursday, April 3, 2014

5 Tricks for CRE Professionals to Maximize Their Time

5 Tricks for CRE Professionals to Maximize Their Time

The phrase "time is money" often resonates more with the commercial real estate professional than your average person.  When making deals that have such long purchasing cycles, it's important to maximize every minute of every day and thus, consistently work towards contracts in the future. Below, we have compiled five tricks for CRE professionals to maximize their time that our brokers utilize in the Block Real Estate Services offices (BRES):