business practices: Saturday: What I Did To Improve My Business
- 05/16/10 04:54 PM
Last Sunday I posted a blog about doing one thing to improve your and my business each day for a week. This is actually something I do every day every week, but this week I challenged you to join me. Here is what I did to fulfill Saturday's part of this week's commitment. Create A New Marketing Template Saturday I had a long day of office and model home duty. I made good use of the time, doing some marketing template work that I have been kicking around in the back of my mind for months. I created a template that … (6 comments)
business practices: Thursday: What I Did To Improve My Business
- 05/13/10 01:48 PM
Sunday I posted a blog about doing one thing to improve your and my business each day for a week. This is actually something I do every day every week, but this week I challenged you to join me. Here is what I did to fulfill Thursday's part of this week's commitment. Establish Electronic Archiving After reading Organized Crime? Nope, Just an Organized Office in 6 Steps! by Jamie Carroll Wednesday, I took action and outlined a process for archiving documents. My process includes redundancy in location of electronic storage and in storage media. It also includes quality control to assure completeness and … (3 comments)
business practices: Wednesday: What I Did To Improve My Business
- 05/13/10 01:13 PM
Sunday I posted a blog about doing one thing to improve your and my business each day for a week. This is actually something I do every day every week, but this week I challenged you to join me. Here is what I did to fulfill Wednesday's part of this week's commitment. Design New Open House Survey Wednesday I designed a new open house survey to collect information about what open house visitors are looking for, and how closely what they are looking for matches up with the property where they have visited the open house. I modeled the survey roughly … (0 comments)
business practices: Tuesday: What I Did To Improve My Business
- 05/11/10 12:54 PM
Sunday I posted a blog about doing one thing to improve your and my business each day for a week. This is actually something I do every day every week, but this week I challenged you to join me. Here is what I did to fulfill Tuesday's part of this week's commitment. Refine Reference Receiving Process Tuesday I took a fresh look at my process for collecting reference material from clients. By far the most important part of this process for me is to provide exceptional service to my clients. Once service has been provided, the clients' accounts of the service I … (1 comments)
business practices: Monday: What I Did To Improve My Business
- 05/10/10 06:43 PM
Sunday I posted a blog about doing one thing to improve your and my business each day for a week. This is actually something I do every day every week, but this week I challenged you to join me. Here is what I did to fulfill Monday's part of this week's commitment. Integrate Social Media Into Contact Management Last week one of my lasting improvements to my business was fairly major. I migrated to a new contact management system to support the continuing growth of my business. Monday I enabled, configured and began using the social media connection functionality in my … (8 comments)
business practices: Don't Step On Your Garden Weasel®!
- 05/04/10 04:46 PM
Part of today was my time to spend tilling some nice rich two year old compost into a 1200 square foot section of my garden. This is the prime section that gets the most sun, the most sprinkling when it needs it, and the best soil care. This is where I will be growing tomatoes and sweet corn this year. The sun was shining this afternoon and the temperature was cool enough that I only worked up a modest sweat. Everything was going along just great until three quarters of my work was done. That's when I made a turn with … (3 comments)
business practices: Hoeing The Real Estate Garden
- 05/03/10 06:52 PM
It's a good business practice to take a look from time to time at things in our businesses that we've grown attached to but aren't helping us best serve our clients and achieve our business goals. We need to replace those things with things that nurture and propel our businesses, instead of robbing our business vitality. Whether it is a contact management system that has been outgrown, a habit that's become comfortable despite being non-productive, a vendor that hasn't kept up with the ways our mutual clients expect to be served, or any number of other auld attachments we've accumulated, there is … (3 comments)
business practices: The Intuitively Backward 80-20 Rule
- 03/31/10 04:52 AM
We all know the 80 - 20 rule. "20% of __________ account for 80% of __________." Well here's a backward twist that will expedite the growth and value of your business. Most of us want to get better at what we do. To do this we work on our weaknesses. We get training to gain knowledge that we lack. We practice or roleplay to build skills that we don't have. We make resolutions to do the things we'd prefer not to have to do. All of these are necessary parts of improving ourselves and our businesses, and we need to be … (0 comments)
business practices: More Streams Of Business
- 03/26/10 01:35 PM
I occasionally take a few minutes to do a year-over-year comparison of my streams of business. Today was my day to do this. When is your day? My approach to growth is to start things that are long-term sustainable, and add new ones as I have available resources AFTER whatever necessary resources are spentd to keep the already running machine, running smoothly and producing business. What I look at first is whether or not I've lost any streams of business. In the last year I have not. There wasn't any type of fruitful advertising that I stopped doing, there weren't any … (1 comments)
business practices: Help The Competition
- 03/25/10 07:19 PM
To some degree our colleagues in our respective local markets are our competitors. But don't lose sight of the fact that they can also be our team. Some of the best streams of business we can build, grow out of teaming with our local competitors, whether they are within our brokerage or competing brokerages. Might we help them compete better against us? Sure. And vice versa. But if we help each other become more competitive with each other, we're also helping each other become more competitive against all of the other competitors we have. That's a pretty attractive proposition, if you ask me. … (2 comments)
business practices: One Thing To Improve Your Business
- 03/25/10 07:36 AM
Today, and today only, you have an opportunity and an obligation to yourself to improve your business. You can't wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow brings a new opportunity and obligation. Today, use it or lose it. Real estate businesses like all businesses grow one piece at a time, gaining momentum and size the more regularly the pieces are put in place and the more lasting each piece will be. If your business hasn't been growing lately, then you probably aren't putting new little pieces in place every day, day after day. Every day before I leave the office or stop working, … (3 comments)
Last Sunday I posted a blog about doing one thing to improve your and my business each day for a week. This is actually something I do every day every week, but this week I challenged you to join me. Here is what I did to fulfill Saturday's part of this week's commitment.
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