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What Adoration Of Your Client Should And Shouldn't Look Like

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty 0575737

Do you believe in providing top notch customer service to your real estate clients? Do you achieve the highest levels of satisfaction from them if you survey them after the business transaction whether informally or formally?

Think aboout these two things:

                    What Adoration Of Your Client Should And Shouldn't Look Like.

I speak of "adoring" your customer because if they are to be delighted with your service they need to be viewed one way and not the other.

Eyes DollarFirst off what adoring your client SHOULD NOT look like. They always say get the dollar signs out of your eyes. It's a million dollar listing. Woo Hoo. We finally get to stop eating macaroni and cheese this month.

A client is not to be looked at as your meal ticket. Should you have focus in your business? Certainly.

But it doesn't mean you discriminate only on those sellers or buyers that you care to help. You can't help them all of course but when a person sits across the desk from you and you hear the word "rental", stop thinking of sneaking out the back door.

People are people and they all deserve our very best. We just have to match them up to the right resources to help them.

Likewise if it is a huge commission potential and the selller or buyer is listing or searching 60 miles away, maybe the pure hassle of the transaction may make it not worth our time despite the larger commission.

 

 

 

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Second, what adoring your client should look like.

ALL who come across your path with you taking your professional skills to help them (real estate, lending, appraising, inspecting, Staging, etc.) need for you to have love in you heart for them.

No, not lust or romantic involvement, but genuine caring for their best interest. Despite whatever the end result commission will be. People believe it or not are looking for this caring, for what is important to them, and many working professionals don't get this concept at all.

The right kind of adoration of your client looks like this little smiley here. Is the world full of roses and smileys in getting properties bought and sold and closed and funded and staged? Absolutely not. But those of us in a people business need to use our serving hearts to educate, nurture, and move people forward to meet their real estate goals.

They say the best salespeople love their clients. With compassion towards others needs you will never lack for people coming back to you.

Marilyn Katz
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties - Westport, CT
ABR, e-PRO - WestportCTProperties.com

Gary- Ironically, the smaller deals are often the most satisfying.  The young couple buying their first home, or the family that's finally saved enough to move up to a larger home, are usually genuinely appreciative of the time you spend with them, finding the right home that they can afford.

May 16, 2009 10:01 AM
Lynda Eisenmann
Preferred Home Brokers - Brea, CA
Broker Associate ,CRS,GRI,SRES, Brea,CA, Orange Co

Hi Gary,

Get the dollar signs out of your eyes? By all means. It's been said in my coaching group consumers can smell "comission breath" a mile away. I'm a fortunate one because I truly do love those I work with.  They are very considerate and value my time, and equally I do the same in return. It's a win-win for all of us.

May 16, 2009 10:11 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

That rental client today could be a million dollar home client 2 years down the road.  You never know!

May 16, 2009 10:12 AM
Ed Silva, 203-206-0754
Mapleridge Realty, CT 203-206-0754 - Waterbury, CT
Central CT Real Estate Broker Serving all equally

Well stated. For me, I know my job was done right when the clients, especially the buyers, turn to me at the transaction table and offer the invitation to the New House party, because after-all the whole family will be there. To be considered in the same breath as family says you did your job right.

May 16, 2009 10:22 AM
Jenny Kotulak
RE/MAX Real Estate Centre Inc., Brokerage - Oakville, ON
Broker - Oakville Ontario Real Estate

Well said Gary.  I think the highlight was (but you didn't bold it) "genuinely care for their best interest".

 

May 16, 2009 10:25 AM
Sandy Nelson
Riley Jackson Real Estate Inc. - Olympia, WA
your Olympia area Realtor

Good article Gary. I truly believe that to be good at this business, you have to love people. If you love money you should be a banker.

May 16, 2009 10:57 AM
Candice A. Donofrio
Next Wave RE Investments LLC Bullhead City AZ Commercial RE Broker - Fort Mohave, AZ
928-201-4BHC (4242) call/text

My first broker said "Give the EXACT same level of attention to a 2500 deal as to a 2.5M deal and you will be successful." Very wise words.

Of course, some deals will require more BST and often the lower dollar deals are the higher maintenance. But I see each deal as a chance to hone my skills. Bring it.  :)

Candice

May 16, 2009 10:59 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

I had a client suddenly leap out of his chair today and hug me. He was in my office with his wife, so it wasn't a romantic thing. He was so excited to be writing an offer. They aren't big buck buyers, either, but some people you just have to help because you really really like them. And they need the help.

sacramento agent

May 16, 2009 01:41 PM
Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - Wanda Can!
Red Rock Real Estate (435) 632-9374 - St. George, UT
St. George Utah Area Residential Sales Agent

Gary, I'd rather make a smaller commission and learn how to do my job better than to be an order taker or someone who only seeks monetary gain! It's all about the client and the journey taken... 

May 16, 2009 02:14 PM
Cathy Lee
CL Design Services Home Staging - Danville, CA
ASP, IAHSP, RESA Danville, CA

This reminded me Gary of a call I received a while back from a Realtor who asked me to quote a small condo for him in a town a little out of my area.  I did not know him and was hesitant but he said the owner was in a nursing home and the place really needed staging.  I decided to drive out to see it and give the quote.  The owner decided to stage with me and she was so grateful and it sold two weeks later.  The next job the Realtor called me for was a 3,000 sq ft home in my town....I was the grateful one this time!!   

May 16, 2009 02:48 PM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Hi Gary-This is a no-brainer again-The right kind of adoration of your client looks like this little smiley here. My biggest client is a person I simply adore. I work for her because I truly adore her and while the money is nice.  My number #1 reason isn't driven by money. It is driven by LOVE. <SMILE>

May 16, 2009 03:23 PM
Paula Swayne
Dunnigan, Realtors, Sacramento (916) 425-9715 - Sacramento, CA
Realtor-Land Park, East Sac & Curtis Park -Dunniga

Hi Gary!
This is a great post...and can be turned to agents as well.  Agents that go to work for a brokerage only because they offer the greatest bottom line are short sighted.  Find a broker who really cares and offers the kind of support an agent is looking.  This will result in a more confident Realtor and ultimately a more successful agent in every sense of the word.  Take care of your client (agent) and the money will come!

May 16, 2009 03:24 PM
Terry Chenier
Homelife Glenayre Realty - Mission, BC

Gary,

This was a well written post. What goes around comes around especially in this business.

May 17, 2009 02:33 PM
Virginia Hepp - Mesquite NV REALTOR
Desert Gold Realty - Mesquite NV Homes For Sale - Mesquite, NV
Mesquite NV Homes and Neighborhoods - Search MLS

I recently had a client ( who was almost my age ) put me on hold when I called to tell him his offer on a foreclosure was accepted.  When he came back on the phone, he said, 'sorry, I had to do a cartwheel across the warehouse.  My guys here think I am nuts.'

You gotta love a client like that.

May 17, 2009 06:23 PM
Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX
NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Gary,

I've learned through the years: if you love what you do and do things for the right reasons the money will always come.

May 18, 2009 03:02 PM
Carol Culkin
Diamond Partners Inc - Overland Park, KS
Overland Park Residential Real Estate

Gary - We must put our clients needs FIRST. I believe it's addressed in the COE?

May 18, 2009 04:02 PM