Collection: PRO TIPS by Hue Chen

The tips are divided into the following categories:

• LinkedIn Tips
• Commercial Real Estate Tips
• Miscellaneous Pro-Tips

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• Pro-Tip: Update your LinkedIn banner to something more useful than a skyline (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: You can schedule-out your LinkedIn posts into the future (2024): [Link Here]

• Pro-Tip: You can save LinkedIn Posts and Articles to your "My Items" and retrieve them later (2024): [Link Here]

• Pro-Tip: Update your LinkedIn profile picture every 3 years (2023): [Link Here]

• Pro-Tip: LinkedIn's Hiring and Open to Work badges (2021): [Link Here]

• Pro-Tip: You won't lose your way, if you don't lose your "WHY". What is your the reason that gets you up in the morning? [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Reasons why a recent grad would want to get into Retail Commercial Real Estate, as opposed to another type of CRE (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Florida passed the Live Local Act in 2023 to give developers a fast-track to building mixed use developments (2024): [Link Here]
• The State of our insurance industry 2024 Aon Symposium: [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Get someone to respond by sending a gift-box with a message that shows you did your homework (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Sending a gift-box to a new client's office is an excellent small- gesture (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Make sure you're compliance with the new Corporate Transparency Act (2023): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Efficient Scheduling for ICSC Vegas Appointments (2023): [Link Here]

• Pro-Tip: Use Opportunity Zones to defer/eliminate capital gains taxes (2023): [Link Here]

• Pro-Tip: If you want to stay up to date on the latest in commercial real estate technology, go to RealComm Conference in Las Vegas (2023): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: If you are looking for data on foot-traffic using cell phone tracking, Placer AI is the best (2022): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: If you want a very versatile but easy to use CRM, use LACRM. I created a CRE template for it (2022): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: If you are using a CRM, make sure that the data is CLEAN. Meaning all of the contacts are up to date (2022): [Link Here]

• Pro-Tip: If you ever wanted to really go through the entire bible, try Bible in a Year podcast with Fr Mike Schmitz. (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Use credit card reward points for $10,000's of travel. (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: When you're ready to scale your business, hire an executive coach (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Buy annual travel insurance if you're on the road often (2024): [Link Here]
• Take-aways from Harvard Business School 1-day event (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Bank Local for a higher level of customer service (2024): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Use Microsoft One Note or Apples Notes for efficient note-taking (2023): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Use Trainual (or Confluence) to document your standard operating procedures in a way to easily find it later (2023): [Link Here]
• Pro-Tip: Harbour Isles is the best neighborhood in Ft Lauderdale to live :) (2022): [Link Here]

When you're done with this Article, please visit my other Articles:

1. Time Capsule
2. CRE Technology Reference Guide
3. Retail leasing associate Test

Written by Hue Chen (Retail CRE)

Hue Chen, President

Saglo Companies