My, my, my, oh my.

I posted to my blog (Developing your contact list), went to visit a past Client who is now a nursing mother, and came back to find sixty ActiveRain emails.

On a Sunday!

Must be a Featured Post.

Nope. (Drat! ☺)

Judging from the number of emails I got after my most recent post, seems I struck two nerves, a positive one with those who left comments, and a negative one with those who didn't leave comments but chose to email me instead.

Here are some of the comments I received by email:

1. "You're an idiot."—Short and sweet. Concise and to the point. 
2. I can't believe a marketing/business consultant is telling realtors [sic] to drive or walk around neighborhoods and then send postcards. dumb [sic].—The word Realtors is registered by the National Association of Realtors, and while they say that you don't have to use the ® symbol, you do have to capitalize the word.
3. I hope your list isn't in order cause #1 should be #100.—They are not in order, but it's amazing how many homes one can sell in one's neighborhood or farm when one takes the time to get out there and actually meet one's neighbors.
4. That's got to be the funniest post I've read in a long time.—Laughter is the best medicine, but a good marketing plan that one adheres to persistently and consistently is the best road to success.
5. Why are you at Active Rain if you're still propounding snail mail?—ActiveRain should be a part of your marketing plan, but not the only part. (I had to look up the definition of "propounding" even though I understood the context, just didn't know the word -- love learning new stuff.)

I always enjoy it when I get feedback to anything that I do, and I would remind you Realtors that you are in a personal relationship industry. Buyers and Sellers are asking you to trust them when it comes to making or spending tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars, either immediately or over the course of the next thirty years with a home mortgage.

Whatever you do, and I don't know of anything that's negative as long as what you do is legal, ethical, and moral -- and two of those three are up to you to decide -- make it personal, and do it persistently and consistently. If you do, you'll see long-term success.

I'll remind you of what Warren Buffet said in the Summer of 2008 about his greatest secret for becoming the world's richest person: "If everyone is doing something, do something else." For those who don't know about his biggest acquisition this past week, he bought himself an entire railroad, the BNSF Railway. We're in the Internet age and he's buying 19th Century technology?

Think about that, and then get busy. In my next post, I'll show you how to really make another piece of 19th Century technology, snail mail, work for YOU!

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