How Fierce Is The Competition Within Your Office??

Mark....I blog the B'Jesus out of our inventory.....my blogging directs traffic to our new construction open house events....it does the same to resale open house events....it makes the phone ring now with buyer calls from out of the area....it brings in business....and the more business I see happening from it, the more I blog....I have to improve my localism blogging....I did one on the meat market that I use and will be doing the local Farmers Market....but I need to do more of that....it seems that I spend extra time doing posts like this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark....bigger is not necessarily better....ask "Jenny Craig"..... if I were the only one in the office, I would be competing with myself.....it's a state of mind....it's an attitude....it's healthy and productive and you could create a very nice environment within your office....if you are competitive, the others will probably follow suit unless they are lazy....then I'd say, find another office.

Judi....most people would not mind you stopping to ask that question....most people will be very honest with you....I think if you read enough blogs on activerain about listing presentations, you'll learn why one office gets them and another loses them....I could write a book about it....if you are not a member of ActiveRain, join....my email address is btodaro@juno.com

give me your email address and I'll send you a link to join....there is a free version....you won't get Google juice but you'll get educated...maybe you'll join after you read some of the posts and start networking.

Rose....we don't see it as stabbing because we don't use weapons....we just do our business....we can speak openly....we each have out own business and just as you wouldn't go into detail with an agent from another office about your future listing appointment neither would you go into detail with agents within your own office.....again, sometimes we are up against each other....we are #1 in the town and that works positively for all of our agents....anyone could be called....two or three could be called...and we all have different presentations and market differently....I'm the only one who blogs every day all day....others don't have the time....I have all the time in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marte....I agree....it's not like that at all at our office.....

Martin....there is never any embarrassing moments when agents from the same office are called in for a listing presentation....first of all, we all work independently....we each have our own systems for brochures and marketing materials....we are not a conventional office where we work for the master and he provides us with our tools...we each use a variety of software for our presentations....I use e neighborhood and toolkit cma program along with a variety of other inserts.....

there have been several listing presentations where one member of my team would have an appointment and one member of the kelley/colombo team would have an appointment.....we're fairly equal on who walks away with the listing...we each do our own thing and do our usual presentation.....there is nothing embarrassing....actually, we lost the last one because the female homeowner was not computer literate and was not impressed with blogging or internet marketing.....she wanted print advertising and the kelley team does some of that.....I will not....no problem.......we all have plenty of business....and it doesn't happen very often!!!

Rose....no one at my office bleeds.....nor will they ever.....we don't stab each other....we actually have the most stable office in the town....very, very little turn over....actually, none....other agents come to our office after they have had enough of corporate rules and regulations....we are totally independent....if we don't want to charge a commission, we don't have to ..... we can call the shots...we all work very well together...no one closes their door during the work day .... we talk openly....however, we are not a knitting circle....we focus and we produce.....everyone works....we may all be divas!!!

Gary....I agree....healthy competition is good....no one bleeds....no one gets hurt....we are all competitive and we all make money.....

Joel....competition is a healthy thing to have in an office.....not cut throat, just healthy clean competition.

Matt....every office needs to have some type of internal competition.....it keeps everyone sharp to compete in the jungle....