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And welcome back to Real Estate Coaching Radio, and I would like to welcome my very special co-host today, Mr. Mark McLaughlin. Mark, welcome to the call.

Thank you. Good morning. We're good afternoon.

Or who knows where they're listening, right, in what time zone. We have actually listeners in all different parts of the world now, which is interesting.

So Mark's bio, a visionary leader in real estate industry for more than 20 years,

Mark A. McLaughlin, is chief executive officer of Pacific Union International, the leading

luxury real estate brand in Northern California. Since acquiring Pacific Union in 2009,

McLaughlin grew the company from $2.2 billion in sales volume to over $5 billion in 2013.

And, you know, Mark, what's especially impressive about that is you were able to, you know,

basically double the sales volume during what had to be one of the most challenging times

and probably our lifetimes in the real estate industry.

So for that, you know, halfs off.

That's pretty impressive.

Thank you, Tim.

So I asked Mark to be my co-host today because he's got a very interesting perspective on this Zillow-Truly a merger.

And, of course, everyone's talking about this.

It's one of the probably the most popular topics because there's so many agents out there.

And by the way, guys, if you want to put numbers to it, just between Zillow and Trulia,

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