The best thing we can do for our businesses and for each other is to be honest about the services we provide, how we work and even how the industry itself works. We need to promote our services without suggesting that the competition is greedy, incompetent or unethical.
Source: Inman News
Your listing presentation makes me look bad. Stop shading your competition
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