Real Estate jobs and work................. - 11/30/07 12:31 AM
Today we got an email from our broker that included the quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson which says, "That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our power to do is increased."
I think that is … (8 comments)
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Family.... - 11/28/07 03:42 AM
I am sitting here way early in the morning thinking about family. I and Darcy have been married 10 years, and while we have had our share of rough spots, but for the most part it has been wonderful. I hate to think where I would be without her in my life!!!!!We … (1 comments)
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Just a Reminder - 11/27/07 12:36 PM
On the local news last night there was an interesting story. It orginated in Salt Lake City, but this particular station, like many others has a "fix it" reporter. He is the guy that puts pressure on companies or government to make things right, and he does a good job. He … (2 comments)
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Contact Management Systems - 11/26/07 04:23 PM
We have contemplated purchasing a contact management system, and upgrading from our own data base that we have used. Price is definately an issue for now, I guess that I am full of questions today. What system do you use? Have any of you used more than one of the systems. … (4 comments)
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Question: Training vs Splits? - 11/26/07 01:54 PM
Which is more important, especially to a new or newer agent, a brokerage that offers the best split or one that offers the most training?
This is the question of the ages in Real Estate. We work for a broker that offers fair splits but has great training. What say ye? … (8 comments)
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More Football Musings - 11/25/07 06:09 AM
Another weekend, another incredible round of upsets in college football. Doesn't anyone want to win the National Championship? This week it was #1 ranked LSU, followed by undefeated Kansas, and so on an so forth. I wonder sometimes if we aren't more afraid to succeed than we are to fail. I … (4 comments)
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Leadership - 11/23/07 08:26 PM
During the down time from working yesterday, I picked up a book that I had purchased some time ago. It is entitled the Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior, by Richard Marcinko. It is not a very lenghty read, but a highly interesting one. Using his experience as a leader in … (6 comments)
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Perspectives - 11/22/07 06:40 AM
It was 20 years ago today that I lost my father. As I remember him, the thoughts of the time come back to me. Where we lived, you couldn't hardly give a house away then. The ensuing years have seen my little hometown go through at least 2 really nice growth … (4 comments)
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Sellers expectations - 11/21/07 04:20 AM
I finally have time to blog on my listing appointment from yesterday. We had a referral from a relocation company. We were competing with another agent to get the listing. We still do not know which agent, nor which company we were competing against. Using the numbers generated from the local Board of … (7 comments)
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Thanksgiving - 11/17/07 01:16 AM
I can hardly believe that it is almost Thanksgiving! The weather has yet to really turn cold, which in unusual, although Walmart has had Christmas music and decorations out since the 4th of July (just kidding, sort of). I have much to be thankful for. My health is good, I haven't … (1 comments)
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Civility - 11/16/07 02:35 AM
We also blog on another site quite often and I was a little (very much) surprised at the tone of the comments received to a blog that was posted. I am quite happy with the feedback that the AR subscribers posts, even if someone disagrees they do so with civility. In … (9 comments)
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Another Book With Interesting Ideas - 11/16/07 01:16 AM
I just finished reading an extremely interesting book, Succeed in Real Estate Without Cold Calling by Phil Gerisilio and Rob Lebow. I found it to be a very good read. He has some very interesting ideas about success in Real Estate and the methods of achieving it.
It is not a tremendously … (2 comments)
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Life is Worth Living - 11/14/07 05:58 AM
The other night, as I worked my other job as an emergency dispatcher we had a tragic accident here in the Cedar City area. A young mother was tragically killed in a traffic accident. Worse yet she is the sister-in-law to a Realtor that works in our office. She was 35 … (5 comments)
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Frustrated!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 11/13/07 10:29 AM
Has anyone of you out there prospected an expired listing. We talked to this one by phone (the owner is an out of town owner), mailed her a thank you card and some other marketing literature. Each piece of mail had a business card with it. So when she got ready … (7 comments)
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Books........ - 11/12/07 05:27 PM
I just began to reread one of the best books on customer service that I have ever read. It is Customer Satisfaction is Worthless; Customer Loyalty is Priceless by Jeffrey Gitomer. It should be everyone's blue print for your customer service model. I highly recommend it! It is written in an … (4 comments)
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NAR Convention - 11/12/07 01:50 PM
Hi everyone, I am somewhat jealous as I and Darcy are not in Las Vegas at the convention. A teenager in school and a slow year have conspired to keep us away from the convention. It is too bad because it would have been a lot of fun, and we would … (1 comments)
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Some Peoples Children..................... - 11/10/07 12:02 AM
Darcy had an interesting day today. As a favor to a friend we listed a house in a city that we don't generally work in. In fact, it is a different local board Realtors than ours. We had it co-listed with a local agent for awhile, but the market kind of … (2 comments)
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Things May Be Looking Up.............. - 11/09/07 12:17 AM
I had floor time today, which usually means I work on marketing while sitting at a desk at the office. Which I did, trying to get our newsletters addressed and stamped. I actually got an agent referral from an agent in Las Vegas. It was a listing referral on some inexpensive … (5 comments)
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Cold Calling - 11/08/07 02:21 AM
I was just glancing through the news online and notice where the FTC had levied huge fines against 3 companies for violation of the Do Not Call list. With that in mind, I was wondering how people were dealing with that complication and doing any cold calling.
Currently, we don't cold … (10 comments)
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Christmas or Seasons Greeting Cards - 11/08/07 01:04 AM
We were wondering, as this is our first year of sending out newsletters to our circle of influence on a monthly basis, if other agents do this, but more importantly do you also send out a card to commemorate the Season? We were just wondering, this is our first year of … (5 comments)
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Free Stuff.......... - 11/07/07 04:41 PM
At the tip of my broker, I started playing around on the internet looking at some of the Real Estate Coaching sites. My broker had put a report by Mike Ferry on the 11 Reasons to List During the Holidays, he had said that it was a free download so I … (3 comments)
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Floor Time............ - 11/07/07 04:37 AM
I know that everyone says that you should not write more than one blog entry per day. I just have had a couple of questions on my mind. The first I covered in another blog. The next is how do other offices around the country treat floor time?
In our office … (8 comments)
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Showing Appointments - 11/07/07 04:25 AM
Another web site had a good blog on what can be done to make sure that when a property that you have listed is shown, how do you make sure the lights are off and the doors and windows are locked. I hope that we haven't been doing something that is … (2 comments)
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Paid Referrals - 11/06/07 06:01 PM
Darcy got a call from a referral company out of Montana that had a blistering hot referral for us. It was a cash buyer with a short close, looking to relocate to our area as soon as possible. It sounded great, then the kicker, they only wanted $495 to pass along … (9 comments)
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Any Ideas.............. - 11/05/07 08:07 AM
Does anyone out there have any ideas on how to turn "Looky Lou's" into buyers? I mean beyond the obvious arguments or reasoning that there is a great inventory, and houses are priced lower now than the have been in over a year. I don't want to become one of those … (9 comments)
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Side jobs............ - 11/04/07 01:06 AM
Like many Realtors in this market we have had to take on side jobs to buy groceries and make the house payment, things like that. Darcy does the books for several companies here in town. I dispatch for the emergency services, fire, police and ems. We also shoot photographs for Circlepix … (1 comments)
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Another Great Weekend - 11/03/07 05:05 AM
Well it is shaping up to be another great weekend here. The temperatures have been nice, mostly in the upper 60s to low 70s. If the weatherpeople are right there should be a lot of sunshine. The nights are crisp and cool. We still have a some of the fall foliage, … (3 comments)
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Fridays Ramblings - 11/02/07 01:17 PM
It's been a couple of days since I last wrote anything. I think that mentally, I am still on vacation. I have been reading the blogs and learning a great deal from them. I had some thoughts that needed to be expressed by myself on the wildfires in California. What a … (3 comments)
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