Summer Slump

The month of July has been fairly moderate as far as work is going.  Its not lively and a heavy turnaround, but we have been doing some work. The two of us in our department sat down with our boss a couple of days ago and we handed a number of projects for the company. I’m happy that these things are being moved on considering they were talked about a few months ago. It’ll be great for August. I believe last year was fairly slow so we’ll be looking to do more work.

We also talked about outsourcing our services to others as a means of bringing more income in. It would be helpful, but I’m not sure if we’re ready. It just feels like we still don’t have everything together for our own agents so how could we handle that as well? Well that’s just my musings anyways. I’ll keep it posted.

Multiple Downgrades

I must say, if you work in the real estate industry right now, good luck to you. Our office is experiencing another downgrade but luckily this time, no one will be let go (well for now). Most of the staff will now be in one sitting area, which isn’t too bad. We might feel like a can of sardines, but hey its a nice way to get to know each other. The other desginer and I are not sharing a desk and switching between working at the front of the office and where we currently are. Business is still going though so thats a good sign. We stay busy with promoting the listing sheets and website we’ve been building.

We have also been able to find a little bit of outside work. Here is a quick photo of a layout that we’re currently coding out. So far, it has only been designed using CSS and HTML coding with no image references as of yet.

We’re trying to work on more designs as well.  I’ll keep posting them as they come.  Until then!

Work!

Its been a bit crazy the past couple of weeks! Its very interesting to be in a place where your job relies on what the housing market is doing currently. There have been a couple weeks here and there where it would be crazy busy and then the next, very little work to do. Which isn’t to say that is a bad thing. We’ve been able to organize ourselves a little better by that as well.

We also recently started doing outside work from some of the agents in our office (Yay!). Although the transition was a little sooner than expected, I’m sure we can manage. Right now, I’m a little more focused on trying to make sure we have all of the proper contracts and systems for this. The thing that we have to be careful about is our time management. We need to be able to do these projects as well as produce for our regular agents/clients on top of this. I’m sure we’ll get it down. I was searching around for more information about Time Management and I fount an article on the Basics of Time and Stress Management. It had some interesting points. Check it out if you’re interested.