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prudential gary greene realtors: She's Broke In Bank And Spirit. Share The Jesse James Solution To Resurrecting Success In 30 Days. Boom Goes The Dynamite, If You'll Light The Fuse. - 04/05/10 09:19 AM
If ever there was a time to rise-up and light-up. This is it. I wrote this for AgentGenius. com. You can read the whole story HERE . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Problem. You're sipping tall, Iced Cinnamon Dolce Lattes. Chit-chatting. Your girlfriend shares, " I need to make a sale in the next 37 days or I have to quit the business." She confesses. I don't have a single active listing or any qualified buyers. She's dead in the water. She's broke in bank and spirit. She's drowning and frowning. She pleads for your advice, "What should I do to make a sale? Now!" … (3 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Are You Bright, Focused and Distinctive, or Just Delusional? Take The Scrape-The-Label Test and Find Out. - 03/22/10 01:21 PM
This is my Monday Morning post for AgentGenius.com. If you like the idea, click here to read the rest of the article. Here's a taste.
Are You B. F. D. or Delusional? Take The Scrape The Label Test. By Ken Brand on March 22, 2010 | Edit | 4 Responses
21♻ G-Tweet It’s importantEVERYTHING… How people perceive us…
Are we trusted?
Are we interesting?
Are we competent?
Are we attractive?
Are we memorable?
Are we referable?
Will we attract and hold attention?
Are we worth our price?
We’re in the business of being chosen. Chosen to manage the successful sale or purchase of real estate and the everything in-between details. In … (1 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: How To Price Your Listing Correctly. The Why's and What's A Valuable CMA (Competitive Market Analysis) Should Include. - 03/18/10 12:32 PM
’m sharing the why’s and what’s and how’s of creating a useful CMA (Competitive Market Analysis) for pricing your property. The goal is to sell it for the highest possible price, in your desired time frame. Experience has shown that Qualified Home Buyers comparison shop. Typically, they will define a price range and an area or areas that they are interested in, the style and design, desired amenities, etc., and they go shopping, looking at pre-owned homes and New Homes. After viewing all of the available homes that meet their criteria, a buyer will narrow their choices down to a short … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: 6 Simple Fix It or Fire It Steps To Success. - 02/08/10 06:46 AM
Success Simplified – The FIX or Fire It Method By Ken Brand on February 8, 2010 | Edit | Comment
2♻ G-Tweet Wise Words “What ever is happening to YOU now, YOU either created it, YOU allow it or YOU promote it.” ~Unknown
Reread that. It’s stark truth and reality for 97% of what is going on with our real estate careers. Success and challenges alike.
Setting things right is simple…take personal responsibility and embrace The Fix It or Fire It Method.
Fix It or Fire It Current Listing Inventory Not Selling? Fix It or Fire It?
Fix how the property shows compared to the competition. Sellers won’t help themselves? … (3 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Good News! Your Raise Is Effective As Soon As YOU Are. 15 Simple Steps To Claim It. - 02/01/10 06:51 AM
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Good News! Your Raise Is Effective As Soon As YOU Are. No Brown-Nosing, glass ceilings, boot licking, politics, nepotism, seniority, annual performance reviews or begging for a raise.
In our real estate world, YOU are your own boss. That’s good news for hard persistent faithful smart committedmotivated workers, bad news for slackers.
Why?
Because the real estate business is pure pay-for-performance. Want a raise?
“Your raise is effective as soon as you are.” Marilyn Eiland
3 Questions You Have To Ask Yourself:
When do you want it? What do you need to do differently? Doing nothing is not an option. When will you start? Today? … (1 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: The Future of Your Future Is Psychographic. Why and How? - 12/29/09 09:19 AM
I write a weekly article for AgentGenius.com, a blog for things real estate related. Here's this monday's post. Has this ever happened to YOU? Weeks of involvement drag by. You're not having fun. Pouring yourself into it, people don't seem to appreciate you. You're likable. But, you're not connecting. Relationships aren't blooming. What's wrong? This misfit story unfolds when the decision to join a group/organization/tribe/niche, is based on demographics, or worse, random happenstance. What's wrong? Your Psychographic proclivities are not in alignment with the group you've selected -- these people aren't your kind-of-people, you know it and they know it. Ergo, … (33 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Seasonal Comfort and Invisibility or 13 Simple Steps To Omnipresence and 2010 Success? - 10/05/09 07:00 AM
2009 Completely Sucked. It’s Not OVER. Don’t Fret. Did your business grow up or shrivel in 2009? Did you earn more or less? Were sales easier to close or harder? Were people stressed or blissful?
You made it this far anyway, right? Congrats! You made it through the first 9 months of the worst year EVER.
You and I are apparently survivors – Yea!
What’s 2010 Next? If you’ve been around awhile, you know seasonality in the real estate business will shrink the opportunity pie through January 2010. Doesn’t mean there’s NO business for you and I, just a smaller … (1 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Do You Know Someone Who Feels Their Sales Couldn't Feed A Flea? Help'm Out. Send Them This. - 09/21/09 07:26 AM
The Only 3 Reasons Sales Sag and What You Can DO About It. 21sep 2009 by: Ken Brand on September 21, 2009 Flea Food A Short Story – By Simpleton Ken Brand
Shoulders Slumped, Blue Eyes Castdown, She Leaned In, Whispering… “My sales couldn’t feed a flea.”
I Thought… Ugggg. Man, this business can be brutal.
Steven Rand’s words flit by, ”You’re doing all the business you’ll ever do based on the people who are aware of you now.”, trailed by Marilyn Eiland’s, “It takes contacts to make contracts.” and “You’re raise is effective as soon as you are.”
It’s fixable.
I think in quotes an cliché’. Sigh.
I said… … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Is Facebook a Toad? - 08/20/09 07:59 PM
Is Facebook A Toad? from Ken Brand on Vimeo.
Is Facebook A Toad Or A Prince?Everywhere I go, I hear earfuls of Facebook yadder. It’s a time suck. It’s a tool. It’s the future. It’s a fad. I don’t get it. Who cares. Get a life. I’m an addict. Don’t you work? Etc. You hear it too, right?Here’s the deal.In 2010 and beyond, Facebook will be the most important conversation channel, persona differentiator and relationship builder in the history of humans.Facebook will also render the unimaginative as irrelevant and invisible.I could be wrong, but I believe Facebook is…The Most Important Tool Of … (1 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Strategy Spits In The Left-Eye of Superstition. 11 Times. - 07/20/09 07:39 AM
This is my Monday morning blog post for AgentGenius.com. To read the whole thing - CLICK HERE
Superstition It has it’s place. It’s a comfort and a crutch.
Superstitions can twist entire careers into endless loops of Friday the 13th’s.
I’m not talking about the good ones, like burying St Joseph.
I’m talking about the Black Cat Bad ones.
Here’s how Wikipedia.org defines it:
Superstition (Latin superstitio, literally “standing over”; derived perhaps from standing in awe;[1] used in Latin as an unreasonable or excessive belief in fear or magic, especially foreign or fantastical ideas, and thus came to mean a “cult” in the Roman empire)[2][3] is a belief or notion, not based … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: The Woodlands TX - May 2009 / Written Sales and Listing Inventory Report = What's UP With Home Prices? - 06/02/09 10:55 AM
REal Estate Sales Report / Monday Morning, June 2nd - The Woodlands TX from Ken Brand on Vimeo.
What's happening with Real Estate Activity in The Woodlands, TX? According to MLS statistics*, in May 2009, there were 224 Listing Pended (under contract). In May 2008 there were 273. Listing Pended were down 17.94%. The next logical question, are Sales Prices falling. Short answer - Nope. The Average Sold Price for May 2009 was $354,439, in May 2008 it was $353,439. While the pace of sales is slower, prices remain stable. The MLS Average List Price To Sales Price % for properties Sold … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Are There Any Scream'n Steal Style Foreclosure Deals in The Woodlands TX? - 05/13/09 01:37 PM
Everybody loves a deal. We’d be fools to overpay for anything when it feels like everything is on sale. If you’re in the market to buy real estate, naturally you’re compelled to at least attempt to buy a property that is a screaming deal. The last thing you want is find out you were the rube who overpaid.
So. about those foreclosure steals in The Woodlands TX. Yes, there are fantastic properties at fair prices, but don’t pimp-slap the messenger, there are very few foreclosures. At 7:27 a.m. I ran a report using our Houston Association of Realtors Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Our MLS system allows us … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: The Woodlands TX Real Estate Market Report - April / May 2009 - 05/05/09 02:22 PM
The Woodlands Real Estate Market Report - April/May 2009 by KEN BRAND on MAY 6, 2009
Flea-sized mortgage rates have super sized buying power. Stock market rebound, thickened consumer confidence, positive TV reports are shoving activity forward.
We expect a strong summer. Here’s some factoid support.
The Median Sold Price for April 2009 was $251,000. In April of 2007 it was $235,000. The Median Sold Price is up 6.8%. Do you think it will go down? I don’t. Buy now.
The Average Sold Price for April 2009 was $320,556. In April of 2007 it was $292,244. The Average Sold Price is up 9.7%. … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: You Should QUIT! I Should QUIT! We should all call Bull S&%t on Quitting! Quitting is for WINNERS. - 04/24/09 01:00 PM
A Case For Quitting - Ken Brand from Ken Brand on Vimeo.I call BS on the notion that quitting is for losers.It's a paradoxical example of Addition By Subtraction.You can read more about it on Monday, April 27th at http://agentgenius.com/Cheers-ClinkKen Brand
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prudential gary greene realtors: The Pinball Principle. - 04/22/09 10:15 PM
by KEN BRAND on APRIL 14, 2009 In A Hair-On-Fire Hurry? Read It Twitter Style.
Time For Details? Read ON.
Elton John Rocks The Pinball Wizard - CLICK to Play
Ever watch someone feed quarters to an electric Pin Ball Machine? Colored lights strobing, sheet glass gleaming, scoreboard screaming cheez, bumpers live-wired blinking. Step smiling forward, drop a quarter.
Spring loaded, rubber tipped release. Silver sphere spins sparking, arcing into action. Lights blare-blink strobing, heartbeats bongo, thumbs snag warm glass, index fingers slide twitchy, finding flipper button function.
Ever seen it? Ever done it?
How do you score points in … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: A Real Estate Love Story - On Line Dating, Attraction, Romance, Seduction and Satisfaction + 5 Tips To Sell Your House or Get Married. - 04/22/09 10:05 PM
by KEN BRAND on APRIL 23, 2009 A friend of mine, Charlie, owns a Houston based media company. He’s a cool guy and just so you know, I hear you whisper thinking, “So what?”, hang with me here. Charlie is working on producing a Radio Talk Show centered around the In’s & Out’s, Back & Forth’s and Behind The Scenes residential real estate sales stuff.
Charlie invited me to do a little 8 minute radio interview segment. The topic, “5 Things You Can Do To Sell Your House In A Soft Market, Without Reducing The Sales Price.”
Assuming the asking price is realistic … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: The Ferris Wheel of Time and Attention... - 09/30/08 09:09 PM
Ferris Wheels Of Time and Attention by KEN BRAND on OCTOBER 1, 2008
Post Ike, we’ve been busy pulling levers, cleaning up, pushing strings, repairing, herding cats, barreling monkeys, imagineering, emotioneering and futurescaping. Personally, I’m panting and optimistic. There is always opportunity when the average and ordinary freeze uncertain. Like I said, I’m optimistic, not hopeful. Hope is a crappy plan, so I hustle and rock on. How about you?
Want to impress and magnetize? Wednesday Morning, October 1st, 9:07AM, I’m going to lead a 67 minute Workshop. We’ll deconstruct our Listing Presentation Proposal. What we DO. Why we DO IT. How it WORKS. Why it WORKS. How to SHARE … (0 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: The Woodlands Real Estate Market - You Don't Need Tea Leaves To Tell You...... - 07/21/08 03:36 PM
Sales Down 26.24% and Listing Inventory UP 15.46%
Written Contracts for the month of July, based on current velocity, are projected to total 222 Listings Pended or Placed Under Contract. Last July (2007) there were 301 Listings Pended or Placed Under Contract. The difference is 26.24%. 26.24% fewer listing placed under contract than last year at the same time.
What else you should know. From here, sales will slow through February of 2009. Historically (see graph) the total number of contracts written per month begins to decline. School begins anew, the holiday season kicks off and seasonally there are simply fewer … (2 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Never Run Out Of Business Cards Again - MyDropCard to your Rescue - 2.0 Digerati Style - Woot! - 07/17/08 01:29 PM
Arrrrgggg!
You're networking and connecting like Tiger Woods golfs, like Brittney Spears breaks-down, like Einstein solves, like Gas Prices skyrocket. That is to say you're in the connectworking zone, making fast friends furiously, suddenly, the music stops, you run out of business cards. You don't want to run out of business cards do you?
What to do?
Panic? No
Smile, relax and diamond shine? Yes. Why? Because you're a tech savvy savant and you have DropCard.
What is DropCard?
My Über digerati friend, The Real Estate Zebra, describes it like this, "It allows you send your contact information (virtual … (38 comments)
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prudential gary greene realtors: Be The "Ball-Girl" - Put Some ZIPPITY in your Do-Daw-MonDay. - 07/14/08 09:51 AM
The Ball-Girl Did and so Can YOU.
It's IN her, it's in YOU, it's in Me, it's in Everyone!
What kills it? What kills the possible? What aborts the magical? What suffocates our spontaneity, creativity & potential?
Fear of course. Fear of failure. Fear of ridicule. Fear of rejection. Fear of looking foolish. Even fear of success. WOW!
You have it in you, we all have it in us. DON'T OVER-THINK! DO ACT:-)
Relax, breathe, smile, play, discover, engage, act....just for the FUN of it.
Today's YOUR day to be the Ball-Girl! Put some Zippity in Your Do-Daw-Day. … (1 comments)
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Ken Brand
The Woodlands,
TX
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