success tips: Which Tribe Are You IN? Do you lead, follow or get in the way?
- 10/27/08 06:05 AM
by KEN BRAND on OCTOBER 28, 2008 I want to recommend Seth Godin’s new book Tribes. Here’s my book report. It’s a quick easy to read read. Seth talks about how our personal worlds are networked in “Tribes”. Tribes at work, at play, at worship, Tribes, Tribes, everywhere Tribes. Tribes need leaders. Seth encourages us to lead our Tribes. As a real estate agent, one of your Tribes would be anyone who might employ or recommend your services. (example: personal network/past clients/current clients/friends/ neighbors/suspects and prospects) A few snippets from Seth’s Book plus my three cents: Seth Godin, “Managers make widgets, leaders make change.(pg. 14)” Ken Brand, “If … (4 comments)
success tips: Realtors + Action + The Butterfly Effect + Serendipity + Cascade Effect + 100th Monkey Effect + Tipping Point = Richeous Possibilities
- 10/23/08 06:22 AM
Realtors + Action + The Butterfly Effect + Serendipity + Cascade Effect + 100th Monkey Effect + Tipping Point = Richeous Possibilities by KEN BRAND on OCTOBER 24, 2008 Life, vibe, energy, momentum, surprise and delight or decay, atrophy and irrelevance? As a career minded real estate agent, you know you gotta unfurl your wings and fly. It’s easy to be sucked into a vortex of inaction, take a nap, check out and fret out. My friends, don’t let the gravitational pull and the gusting winds of common and ordinary turn you into the Tin Man. You gotta create motion to make things … (1 comments)
success tips: Novice - Expert - Pretender - Contender - Champion
- 05/30/08 03:39 AM
I struggle, I'm challenged, I have hopes, dreams, wishes and aspirations. Unfortunately, as Fred has shared, HOPE is not a strategy. Smart action is. (Personally, for me...surrounding myself with Realtor Icons works like the sun rises.) Good News and Bad News. In pursuits professional and personal, to grow requires more...doing what the average, ordinary and amateur won't. Most won't pay the price. For those who do - Expertise. Katy Sierra has an eye opening, spark your brain, blue print for what does work. Check it OUT - CLICK HERE Here's a snippet: Most of us want to practice the things … (4 comments)
success tips: WTF - Words That Fail - Lose'em
- 05/09/08 03:58 AM
What business are you really in? Sure, you help people buy and sell real estate, if all goes well, in the end there's a "closing". But, how does it all begin? I believe it begins with a conversation, which leads to connection, then discovery, then you provide solutions/services, your solutions/services lead to getting hired and or referred. Does that sound right to you? If you believe it all starts with conversation (presentation?, perception? communication?) then the words you choose to use and the words you choose to lose will destroy, poison and neuter or build,enrich and create relationships cozy with … (1 comments)
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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