Have you Had Success Sitting Desk Duty??

Hi Stacy,

Doing OP Time is a drag, the phones are dead. I do home it turn around very soon.

Hey Stacy,

 

I have recently come across a great way for those of us in the real estate industry to get great exposure for ourselves.  These new technologies have been available for a while but I see no one in our industry actually taking advantage of them.

If you would like to find out more please view the video included in this blog and once finished give me a call to see how this can work for you.

Give it a moment to load. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzbeZO1Qbww

Watch the whole video I talk about floor duty in it.  It will open your EYES.

 

 

Joseph Ignat, P.A.

813-990-0718

Signature Realty Associates

I have had some success in the office, but this is due to the tourist town I sell RE in.  We get more walk in's than traditional offices. 

Stacy

It depends on your definition of success.

I have worked for a company that required it and now work for one that doesn't. When I was doing it I did sell quite a few houses, but discovered that there were many better uses of my time, so now I don't do it.

If you sell 3 houses in a year but have to sit for 800 hours waiting for the phone to ring is that a success? Or would 800 hours of prospecting produce more than 3 sales....you decide.

Hi Stacy - YES! My first 2 or 3 closed sales were from Desk Duty. I took all the desk time I could -- sometimes every day and it worked for me. I also DID engage 2 walk-in clients...One was an Investor who I showed several properties to, and I ended up firing him. The other was a woman crying and I listened for awhile. She never bought but has referred me to friends who have bought and sold with me.

OTOH, I have never successfully closed an Open House walk-in. Nope, never. Some folks are better at some things, some at others. Find what works best for you.

I've never done a minute of floor time in my career, so I wouldn't know the difference.  Using a common sense approach, why would someone go into a real estate office, when they can get the information online?

Now, I am a mortgage broker.  So, I have never ever sat a desk like what you are talking about, but I do have some ideas for you and this is what I would do.

You returned 5 voicemails in hopes to get a lead off of them.  Have you ever thought of sending them post card or a letter of introduction, buying their brain cells.  Wait, Dave you tell me all I have is there name and number.  Well, that is all you need to a google search for the number or name in your town or in the phone book. 

On the walk-ins, do not let them leave with getting them pre-app'd with a lender or at least an appointment scheduled with one.  Get all of the information, not only what they are looking for but why.  This is very personal and something that you can use in the future if they get upset in looking and not finding. 

 I hope this helps

Dave Woodson

While your sitting on Floor Time, prospect in other ways, use the time to cold call, write letters, ect. Send out Post Cards, clean up files...If your doing other things and someone calls or walks in, thats a plus, if not you have kept yourself busy doing other things anyway.

NO!  Actually, I haven't taken enough floor duty to find out if it works or not!  However, when I first started in the biz 3 years ago, I took a long look at the top producers in my office (which I am one of now) and noticed that NONE of them does much floor duty, if any at ALL!  I guess it depends on your office, but in ours if you are a listing agent and want all of your call-in leads forwarded directly to your cell phone, you can do it and the duty agent doesn't get them!  So, if you list, you last!

I want to have a try, I'm working with qr code, and have to receive the calls from customers who want to buy our barcode contorls everyday, it's every busy, hope our company can get such a device for us.