personal promotion: Successful Blogging For Real Estate Professionals - 11/21/17 08:52 AM
Successful Blogging For Real Estate Professionals  
 “One of the rungs of successful blogging for a real estate
professional . . . .  Is to blog with a purpose . . . .  do it
consistency . . . . and to stick with it . . . . to create
successful results.”
Lou Ludwig Sales and Management Consultant,
Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author
 
 
 
As I see it . . . . . . .
Successful blogging for real estate professionals
 
Blogging is a low cost . . . . potentially a high return activity for real estate professionals. Your blogging will supplement your personal promotions . … (9 comments)

personal promotion: Communications Skills Are Acquired - 10/19/14 01:37 PM
Communications Skills Are Acquired   
“Communications is a skill that you can learn.  It’s like riding
a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you
can rapidly improve the quality of every
part of your life.”
Brian Tracy, Motivational Author and Speaker
 
As I see it . . . . . . .
Communications skills are acquired
 
Communications is a success skill . . . . and as a business professional effective communications is required at every level of your business.
 
You are communicating through an array of formats, one … (11 comments)

personal promotion: Position Yourself to Standout - 04/24/14 02:03 PM
 
Position Yourself to Standout
“The great creators – the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the
inventors – stood alone against the men of their time.”
Ayn Rand 1905 - 1982, American Novelist
 
As I see it . . . . . . .
 
Position yourself to standout
 
Differentiate yourself in your market niche . . . . position yourself . . . . your business model . . . . your personal promotion . . . . marketing . . . . and your customer service to standout.
 
Your value to your customers is … (17 comments)

personal promotion: Things Don’t Just Happen - 10/19/13 11:43 PM
 
Things Don’t Just Happen
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”  
John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963, 35th President
or the United States
 
As I see it . . . . . . .
 
Things don’t just happen
 
Listings don’t just happen . . . . there a results of your personal efforts . . . .  your personal promotion and your market knowledge.
 
Sales don’t just happen . . . . They’re the result of your marketing and your expertise . . . . also in your ability to successfully build business … (4 comments)

personal promotion: LINKEDIN MAKES ME MONEY EVERYDAY - 07/10/12 06:10 AM
Take a few moments to read an outstanding post by Joe Petrowsky, he shares some great tips on using Linkedin and making money and there nothing wrong with that.
Good luck and success.
Lou Ludwig
“LinkedIn Makes Me Money Everyday”
 
I have nearly 2,000 connections, over 100 recommendation and have learned how valuable this tool is to my business.
 
It didn’t take me long to figure out how valuable this tool was and how to maximize its use. For me, it was all about the recommendation. When I ask someone to check me out on LinkedIn, I almost always get … (2 comments)

personal promotion: William Bernbach, Ad Executive - 01/25/12 12:34 PM
    
Motivational Power Quote
 
Personal Promotion Sets The Expectations
“The most powerful element in advertising
is to tell the truth.”
William Bernbach, Ad Executive        
 
As I see it . . . . . . .
Personal promotion sets the expectations
 
Your personal promotion sets the expectations . . . .  for the your target audience. From your personal promotion your audience will form a perception of what they should expect from you as a professional and if your services will fit their needs.
 
There is a fine line of what you communicate in your message to … (7 comments)

personal promotion: Marketing Drives Your Business - 12/27/11 12:29 AM
  
Motivational Power Quote
 
Marketing Drives Your Business   
“A business like an automobile has to be driven
in order to get results.”
B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes Magazine     
 
 
As I see it . . . . . . .
 
Marketing drives your business
 
Successful businesses do not operate in neutral they have to be put into gear and driven.
 
A business won’t make progress sitting in neutral and idling. As a business sits there’s and idles it loses traction, market awareness and the world passes it by.
 
To succeed a business has to … (6 comments)

personal promotion: Your Service is Your Product - 11/24/11 01:00 PM
   
Motivational Power Quote
 
Your Service is Your Product
“We’ve come around to say that Nike is a
marketing oriented company,
and the product is our most important marketing tool”
Phil Knight, co-founder and former CEO of Nike   
 
As I see it . . . . . . .
 
Your service is your product
 
Companies like Nike effectively market their product and as a result their product has instant brand recognition.
 
As a sales professional your product is your services.
 
You will be judged based on the quality of the services that you … (3 comments)

personal promotion: EXAMPLES OF SALES MADE AS A RESULT OF MARKETING A LISTING. - 06/15/10 08:11 AM
This is an excellent post. Please take a minute to review the information.
Good luck and success.
Lou Ludwig

EXAMPLES OF SALES MADE AS A RESULT OF MARKETING A LISTING.
Barry Owen ponders the matter of "marketing a listing".   To market or not to market.  Of course, the ultimoate marketing activity is listing the home for sale in the MLS. 
However, if there is any question about whether or not additional marketing activities or investments help sell homes, my experience is "YES, they do".
1.  IDX.  My personal condo listed in the MLS (by me) and included in the … (2 comments)

personal promotion: Persistence and1400 Active Rain Posts - 05/24/10 01:50 AM
  
Motivational Power Quote
 
Persistence and1400 Active Rain Posts
"Effort is a commitment to seeing a task through
to the end not just until you get tired of it."
Author unknown
  
As I see it. . . . . . . .
Persistence and 1400 Active Rain posts   
We can do what we believe in; Active Rain is an outstanding person promotion and business resource for real estate professionals.  
When we believe in ourselves great things can happen; no one starts out as a great blogger it takes persistence and a willingness to get started. It … (11 comments)

personal promotion: Inspiration and Passion WHATS iS Important? - 06/03/09 08:29 AM
This is an excellent Seth Godin video on this book tribes.
I would highly reconman both.
Lou Ludwig
Seth Godin explains in his interview about Tribes.Small groups of committed people.Everyone can be a leader if you care enough about something ..if you have that deep passion..that strong desire ,that belief inside that you can convey to others..that passionate inspiration so that person A will tell person B and person C and the networking begins and you have not spent a dime just time..Be the best in the world at what you do.We are the best in our world. Pick your own thing. … (2 comments)

personal promotion: Power Networking: Low Coast Prospecting and Lead Generation-Education Opportunity - 04/13/09 07:16 AM
Power Networking-Low Cost Prospecting and Lead Generation

Education Opportunity Friday April 16, 2009
 
REAL ESTATE MASTERY SERIES 
Learn Peak Performance strategies and techniques to develop and maintain a continued
pipe line of high quality prospects. You will discover how to network to prospects by using low cost-
high return methods.
 
Instructor
Lou Ludwig, GRI Instructor, NAHB Instructor,
CRB, CRS, GRI, CIPS, e-PRO, SRES, TRC, CMP, MCSP, CSP
2007 Realtor® of the Year
www.louludwig.com 
For questions, contact Danielle Boutin at dboutin@rapb.com or call at 561-997-8266.
Refunds will be given if written cancellation is received at least five (5) days … (4 comments)

personal promotion: The Price of Greatness - 12/30/08 11:12 AM
 
Inspirational Power Quote
 
The Price of Greatness
 
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
 Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
  
As I see it. . . . . . . .
When we accept the fact that we are personally responsible for our lives and our results it changes our thinking and our actions. We are then able to open the doors to unlimited success, achievement and opportunities.
(3 comments)

personal promotion: Tips and Tools to Increase Your Income! - 11/25/08 07:05 AM
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Thanks
Lou Ludwig

Tips and Tools you can immediately implement into your business to increase your income
Instructed by Lou Ludwig, National Trainer and Active Member of the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches and the Gold Coast Builders Association.


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