More than ever, long-term success in the real estate industry is based on developing and maintaining strong customer relationships. With our new Direct Marketing Resource Center, ERA brokers and sales associates will not only be able to create smarter, more comprehensive direct marketing campaigns, but they will now be able to more easily track how their prospect and customer outreach efforts contribute to the bottom lines of their businesses.

The International Business Conference is an event that offers value on many levels to our attendees. Through the conference, our affiliates can share best practices and take advantage of some unique learning opportunities. Attendees can also look forward to being inspired by amazing individuals who have met and overcome great life challenges, such as this year's keynote speaker, Lance Armstrong.

I'm delighted for him. He is a fantastic actor and he deserves all his success. It's great to see him doing so well. I see him as a rather dangerous Bond - he'll bring a dark menace to the role.

Success in life is impossible without relationships.

I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. For I will not turn tail and run the other way as he did, oh no. I will find you, and I will drag you to the altar on your back if need be, no matter how you might be screaming. No matter how scandalous it might be.

If there is one thing I can pass on from my humbling experiences in life, thus far, I will tell you this, the next time someone tells you "the absence of expectations is the absence of disappointment, do not listen. Have expectations. Keep them great. It'll be a very bumpy ride. You'll even get bruised, sometimes very badly. Sometimes, you'll come to an abrupt halt or even fall off your ride. But you'll grow. And if you do not grow, you do not live.