Featured Articles | Erion Shehaj

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Entrepreneurship, Featured Articles, Motivation on 02 12th, 2009 | No Comments

The feeling is all too familiar to us entrepreneur types. The debilitating paralysis that grips our business soul and temporarily evaporates every ounce of our self confidence. If you have ever owned a business, there has been a time when you invested all your creative energy on closing that deal or...

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Best Of, Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Articles on 01 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Bottle your “rockstar”...

When the news broke out yesterday, that Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple) was taking a leave of absence due to complications with cancer, the blogosphere (and Twittersphere) went into a frenzy. From straight reporting of the breaking story to dump-apple-stock urges to “you’re an idiot if you...

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Best Of, Featured Articles, Marketing, Real Estate, Social Media on 01 5th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Change your thinking – And flouris...

In real estate, there’s an age old axiom: Always Be Closing! Generations upon generations of agents have been trained to orient their mental compass – and therefore their actions – towards that closing North. Even, arguably the best book on residential real estate, The Millionaire Real...

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Featured Articles, Social Media on 01 3rd, 2009 | 2 Comments

“Shopping” for Twitter follo...

I’ll be the first to admit that in the beginning I was a Twitter superskeptic. On the surface it appeared to be a useless platform, a massive generator of unimportant noise and a timehog. Now, I was no complete stranger to social media: I had been using Facebook (among other sites) for the longest...

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Business, Featured Articles on 01 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Paperless in 2009...

I had been thinking about it for quite sometime and I just kept clinging to those yellow manila folders as a backup to my digital files on my computer. But who was I kidding? It would be easier for me to recreate a document from scratch rather than find it in that mountainous file terrain that is my...

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Economy, Featured Articles on 10 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments

The Obama campaign and lessons for devel...

Reading the title, you are probably expecting a liberal political piece about the greatness that is the Democratic candidate for president. You are mistaken. It is not Obama’s politics that interests me right now. It’s his campaign’s economics. I believe that developing countries could...

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Best Of, Business, Featured Articles, Marketing, Real Estate on 06 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment

Google and the rise of the little guy...

It was around the time when Google was going public that I asked myself for the first time: What is so special about this company that makes them so successful in business? I think yesterday I found the answer! I will grant you that Google is the number one search engine company in the world with a market...

Posted by Erion Shehaj in Featured Articles, Real Estate on 05 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

Why the classic real estate model is sti...

Now that the national housing market has hit a bit of slump, you don’t hear about them as much in media’s feature stories but I remember about six months ago when every other day CNN Money was covering some new concept real estate company that was slashing commission rates and how it all...

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I was born in Tirana, Albania back when leg warmers and Duran Duran were trendy – then experienced the fall of communism first hand in 1990. Came to the United States in 1999 a seventeen year old kid and graduated from the University of Houston with honors in Accounting and Finance. Looking for a career that would combine my affinity for numbers (fancy term for “geek”) and love of people, I chose real estate as the perfect medium to achieve that balance. These days, I run Houston’s feistiest and most innovative real estate company as its Real Estate Rainmaker, President and C.E.O. I am a perpetual student of good business and I write about marketing, technology and real estate.

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