Another fabulous successful woman from our Ladies who Launch Series, bringing her expertise around marketing to the real estate industry! What a pleasure to sit down with Melissa Turqman, Senior Vice President of Digital for Modern Luxury, the preeminent luxury lifestyle publisher, with eighty-three titles across twenty-three major markets, including Hamptons Magazine. The topic? New opportunities for direct digital marketing to active leads in real estate and, of course, the debate around whether or not print is dead for real estate agents. Here’s a preview. It’s not dead at all but it has to change in a number of ways to make it through the changes in the way people take in information. Take some time to listen to this informative and entertaining podcast. And, thank you to First Family Funding and Melissa Cohn’s Private Client Group for sponsoring this podcast.

Meet Louise Lloyd OTA (online travel agency) & AirBNB guru. Are you running the marketing for a hotel and trying to figure out the ins and outs of how to make the most of things like Travelocity and AirBNB? Louise has doubled the business of the Sandcastle Resort in Provincetown on Cape Cod, and she talks all about it in this week’s Ladies Who Launch Podcast sponsored by Melissa Cohn, from Family First Funding.

Christine Merser of Blue Shoe Strategies talks with Melissa Cohn about A Home of Her Own, a new not-for-profit, where we seek to have more than 1,000 people in the real estate industry - across this vast country of ours - join together with a goal of providing housing for those on their way out of situations that, but-for-the-grace-of-God, could be our own.

The Iconic Modern Home approach to staging is to bring in furnishing of equal value to the listing itself, and then can sold as part of the listing itself. Who wants to spend six months furnishing a $7 million plus home when you can walk in, add you personal touches and live your life? Sarah Minardi, from Saunders Real Estate, in The Hamptons interviews Geoff about staging tips and his philosophy around furnishing a home. Brought to you by Melissa Cohn from the private banking division of Family First Funding, providing excellence in the mortgage market in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

Melissa Cohn interviews Harold Kobner, broker extraordinaire from Argo Real Estate. Harold hails from Seventh Avenue fashion and his answers to Melissa's pointed questions about the biz are filled with the honest vulnerability that makes Mr. Kobner one of the most successful brokers in New York City.

Melissa Cohn interviews Debra Halpert, Publisher from Greengale Media, who publishes Hamptons Magazine and who has made a success of lifestyle magazines filled with editorial and advertising that mirrors the content inside the magazine. She talks about real estate ads today and the movement to advertising the broker rather than the property.

The Millennials are buying real estate. Took them long enough! Melissa Cohn interviews Christine Merser, from Blue Shoe Strategy, about how to market to those joining the real estate market for their first home purchases.

Melissa interviews Elizabeth Ann Stribling-Kivlan on all things around life in New York City, real estate, what she is reading, what reality TV she is watching and more. Elizabeth Ann is thought-provoking, brilliant, clever and managing the largest boutique real estate firm in New York City. She's a lady who launches, friend of Melissa's, and an efluential in the world of real estate. Don't miss it.

Melissa interviews Neil Garfinkel, renowned Mortgage Legal Counsel, from Abrams Garfinkel in New York City, who talks about mortgages, what to expect in 2016, TRID, and of course, The Big Short.

Melissa Cohn's take on the Fed interest rate hike and what it will mean to the real estate market.