objections: Take No Prisoners - 07/08/08 06:00 PM
As salespeople, we're competitive. We're tenacious. We're persistent. We hate to lose. So let's fight to save more sales.
We give in way too easy to the "home to sell," "can't get financing," "need to look more," "need to think it over" excuses. In most cases these are only smokescreens -
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objections: Best Scripts to Protect Your Commission... - 07/01/08 01:30 PM
My last blog was about the importance of protecting our commissions at the listing table http://www.activerain.com/blogsview/573421/Protecting-Your-Commission One of the comments it received was to share scripts... so here goes. Here are a few of mine - what do you use?
Will you lower your commission? I used to have to do that
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objections: Selling Strategies - Part 2, Handling Objections Like a Pro - 05/12/08 01:19 PM
Overcoming objections is far easier than you might imagine and I can boil down to 4 easy steps for you.
Hear the Objection
Repeat the objection back
Ask questions to get to the "Pain" of the objection.
Give solution to the pain.
Let me address each of these steps briefly:
Hear
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objections: Where is everyone - 03/26/08 12:15 PM
Has anyone noticed the modern Real Estate office has great desks, incredible computers, a fantastic lobby, but it is missing something,what could it be, of yeah...Realtors! Where have all the Realtors gone? The modern day office is like a doctor's office, eerily silent. You do not hear phones ringing, the chatter
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objections: If the Home Seller Says.... This is what they really Mean! - 03/25/08 10:01 PM
For all of us that are veterans in real estate we've heard every possible line a potential home seller can say while they try to negotiate in a position of strength! The problem is that most of them really don't know what they are saying and how it will most likely
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objections: Powerful Ways To Overcome Objections - 03/19/08 09:50 AM
Tired of answering the same old objections, over and over again? Folks don't argue with "policy" or the printed word. So pre-print your commisison and any other fees right in your listing paperwork. Print it, don't write it. In advance. Before the appointment. (Thanks, Ed Hatch) Then get your broker to write a
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objections: Great Comment on Objections - 02/13/08 08:06 PM
Post From The SalesAttitude.com Blog: Written by William Woodard · Filed Under Sales Professionals Paul posted a comment on a post "Scripts Love'em or Hate'em" and as I started to respond I realized his questions deserved a dedicated post. I would request if you have any thoughts on his points to post your idea under
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objections: If it’s meant to be… Objection? - 01/27/08 09:31 AM
A few weeks ago I got an e-mail from a sales person asking how to handle this common objection: Here is an objection I hear a lot, you close the person on urgency and they say"If it is here when I get back, I guess it was meant to be"Some of the most
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objections: Buyers are looking for deals. How can we build value? - 01/27/08 09:07 AM
I have a great friend named Jamin Bortz who sells new homes in Houston, TX. He is a really great sales person, and we talk often about new and better ways to be more successful. We had one of our brainstorming talks today, and the topic was all about how to do the
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objections: Strategy: How Many Leads Have You Generated By Playing Computer Solitaire? - 12/11/07 03:24 AM
Obviously the question in the title is rhetorical, but as a former computer support rep, I can't tell you how many times I called on agents to help them with their computers and discovered that they were playing solitaire.Last week, I posted step-by-step instructions for signing up at facebook.com. Who here
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objections: Getting past "I just want the address". - 12/11/07 12:55 AM
A colleague and I were having a conversation today about customers just wanting the address on an advertised property. This question/request for information from potential buyers is very frustrating and challenging. If we give them the address and they go by the home and hate it - they don't call us back.
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objections: I'LL WAIT UNTIL SPRING TO SELL - 11/13/07 10:48 AM
Should I Wait Until Spring To Sell My House?I have heard this objection ("I think I'll wait until spring when the market picks up to sell" ) from expired sellers now for 16 years. It wasn't a very good idea then and it's an even worse idea now.In Macomb County Michigan,
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objections: Listing inspections - 10/24/07 11:24 AM
Like most home inspectors at this time, I am trying to increase my business through listing inspections. I understand some of the concerns people are having and I'm looking for more ways to overcome some of the objections. Here are two common ones I have heard:1) The sellers don't want to spend
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objections: 10 Commandments of Handling Objections. - 10/22/07 04:53 PM
Don't take objections personally. Easy to say hard to do. When so much of a Realtors ego gets involved. Just remember that no one can make you feel less unless you give them permission.Handling objections is simply changing their perceptions: Your vision and your prospect's vision of what's possible are what
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objections: Open Houses and gathering information - 10/21/07 10:02 PM
Hi all. I took a little hiatus from writing and now I'm back. I was afraid if I took too much time writing in my blog that Simon and Shuester would get too interested in me and get me distracted from my real estate career. ( I gotta take a poke
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objections: Feel, Felt, Found - 09/20/07 08:22 AM
When working through a client's objection try using the FEEL, FELT, FOUND sales skill. It can be used whenever a client objects to anything like higher than expected HOA or fear of "The Bubble". It goes like this..."I understand how you FEEL, other clients of mine FELT the same way. However
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objections: Objection Training 101 - 08/06/07 10:46 PM
I am in my first year as a real estate agent and I have made some observations about attitude when some agents are faced with objections. I have noticed how an objection raised in the sales process can make some agents get that deer in the headlight look: they get that
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objections: What We Really Want to Say Part #2 - 08/02/07 10:27 PM
"What do you charge for your service"What we say: "Well that really depends on what service you require, we have many different options, it all really depends."Whats wrong with this?1. Well (Means you are searching for the right thing to say)2. Depends (on what)3. many options (You need to lead)What we
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objections: What we really want to say! Part #1 - 08/02/07 01:13 AM
There are a so many different things you will come accross in this industry, there will be many objections, and times you will be put on the spot. The most important thing you have to remember is... and i was told this by a very good Agent in my office, Whom
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objections: Get Sellers to Understand Pricing (A Rookie's View) - 03/26/07 09:38 AM
Sometimes it is hard to actually get across to your sellers (potential at the time) what the appropriate price of their home should be. It seems that most people think that in their house they must have not skimped and surely the builder used the heavy duty nails. We come in
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objections: You Can't Hit What You Can't See...! - 02/12/07 06:12 PM
... or so said baseball Hall of Famer Walter "The Big Train" Johnson about hitters struggling when he pitched (he's in the Hall with 1st place all-time in shutout wins (110), 2nd place all-time in wins (417) and 9th all-time in strikeouts (3508). The same saying holds true for us when trying to handle an objection-- if you
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objections: Emotions and Principles...What are their roles in the real estate transaction? - 02/12/07 01:15 PM
"Shannon, we are not moving forward with this house. We know the value is there,it is the best house we have seen, it is in the right area and it is well within our price range. We just feel that the sellers are not negotiating enough....it is just the principle of the matter." Definitions of principle
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objections: Your Clients Have Never Said This To You, Have They? - 01/26/07 06:14 PM
It's too expensive! I don't like the way the dining room and the kitchen flow together. I've heard the school system isn't very good. There's not enough room in the kitchen. The house up the block is a rental... I don't want to be near rentals. I don't think we could qualify
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objections: Dr. Evil Asks: 'What Sales Objections Do You Hear Most Often?' - 01/05/07 02:09 PM
I feel like Dr. Evil: "Throw me a frickin' bone here... I'm the boss... I need the info!" Well, mercifully I don't have all those direct reports anymore, but I still need the info and you could help bring it! I blogged earlier about a training I am going to conduct for an associate's brokerage
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objections: Any Objections? - 12/28/06 12:08 PM
I was having a conversation with an associate a few days before the holiday and the subject of ‘old fashioned' sales training came up. He was lamenting how few of his agents could actually handle most sales objections when they heard them [his phrase was ‘if they even heard them at
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objections: GRI Graduate - 11/09/06 07:34 PM
I can't believe I did it. I was able to complete the course in just over one year and I really think it was money well spent I learned a great deal some was repitious but it helped to re affirm the message.. I really got a lot from Gene Lunstedt
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objections: overcome objections - 09/22/06 11:23 PM
! Overcoming The Smokescreen Objection! You know the drill, someone calls off one of your listings, you call back and answer their questions about whether it has 2 baths or 3, you try to carry the conversation further, try to get them to consider you as their agent and they say, “I
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objections: Real Estate Eduction-My Way, Step by Step! - 09/01/06 07:03 AM
Forget about getting training from a company or brand. Often, you just get the wrong training or bad information. Yes, they should teach you how to fill out a contract or use a lockbox, but after that, you're on your own. As a new agent, you enter this profession and operate in
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objections: Better than a pay check! - 07/21/06 06:55 PM
I received this letter today. My husband says I work for thank you notes and I have to agree. "Dear Margaret:We find it amazing that we never got around to thanking you for all of your effort in selling our home of over 41 years.Phyllis and I were talking about a range
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