Mariana Wagner

Mariana is a real estate agent and co-owner of the Wagner iTeam with her husband, Derek. She maintains the Colorado Springs Real Estate Connection Blog and is also a real estate technology trainer and coach. Mariana really enjoys helping real estate agents boost their businesses and increase their productivity through effective use of technology. Outside of real estate, blogging and training, she loves spending time with her husband and 2 sons, reading, re-watching Sci-Fi movies and … long walks on the beach?

The internet and blogging are just tools … not the answers

By Mariana Wagner on August 25, 2010 | 35 Responses

Thanks to each of you (both Agent Genius contributors and readers) who have made this point before… the internet and blogging are just TOOLS, not the answers to all things real estate.
How True! I bring this up because I had this conversation (among many…

Posted in Real Estate | 35 Responses

You Know You’re a Real Estate Agent If… Top 40 Ways

By Mariana Wagner on October 26, 2009 | 105 Responses

Originally published November 28, 2007:
You know you are a Real Estate Agent if …

Your car (or mode of transportation) has as many filing cabinets (or places that files can be stuffed) as your office
Your monthly cell phone minutes are almost in the…

Posted in Marketing, Opinions | Tagged humor | 105 Responses

Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#10]

By Mariana Wagner on May 21, 2009 | 7 Responses

Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#10] – SEO
SEO = Search Engine Optimization, not Sour Evolution of Optimists (as some still believe).
There are a million different blog posts out there (and books, too) that explain why blogs are…

Posted in Coaching, SEO, Wordpress | Tagged blogging, Real Estate, SEO, Wordpress | 7 Responses

Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#9]

By Mariana Wagner on May 15, 2009 | 9 Responses

Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate – Promote Your Team and Your Real Estate Business
Blogging can be a great facet to your business. (As we have all come to learn over the past few years …) One way that you…

Posted in Real Estate | 9 Responses

Finding a New Home … For Our Team

By Mariana Wagner on March 13, 2009 | 10 Responses

We did it.
We left our Keller Williams office.
Now, we stayed with Keller Williams (the company), but switched offices. We needed to find new leadership, new culture and an overall new atmosphere that better “fit” who we are as a team.
We had…

Posted in Real Estate | Tagged real estate brokerage | 10 Responses

The Best Canceled Listing Agreement EVER

By Mariana Wagner on March 6, 2009 | 89 Responses

Our team has been averaging about 10 new listings a month. Because of our Certified Distressed Property Expert designation, about 1/3 of them are short sales or pre-foreclosures of some sort.
Talk about being waist-deep in the personal lives of our Sellers… Job losses…

Posted in Highlights, Mortgage, Mortgage, Point & Purpose, RE Moments, Real Estate | Tagged foreclosure | 89 Responses

34 Reasons Why I Love Real Estate

By Mariana Wagner on February 6, 2009 | 13 Responses

This current real estate market is _________________. But, regardless of how you finished that sentence I still love being a real estate agent. Here are 34 reasons WHY.

I love waking up each morning knowing that no matter HOW much planning I do, my…

Posted in Coaching, Real Estate | Tagged Real Estate | 13 Responses

Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Real Estate

By Mariana Wagner on January 9, 2009 | 12 Responses

I have been watching the History Channel’s series on the 7 Deadly Sins, and it got me to thinking about real estate. (I am pretty good at linking just about anything to real estate…) I realized that there are many ways that these 7…

Posted in Highlights, Point & Purpose, RE Moments | Tagged Brokerage, Real Estate | 12 Responses