Effortless E-Nurturing
Our professionals write and send timely, engaging, relationships building email messages to your database. You simply edit and approve them! No more forgetting to keep in touch or struggling with what to say. Get Your First 30 Days for $5 - Get Started Today >>
Active Rain
-
Quick Tour
Connect. Share. Learn.Welcome to ActiveRain, the #1 social community for real estate professionals.- Explore the world's largest storehouse of real estate knowledge
- Access free training on ActiveRain University
- Share the experience of life in the real estate industry
- Grow your business through real estate blogging
- Blogs
-
Resources
Product Reviews Curious as to what others in your profession think about a certain product or tool? AR's community takes the time to leave honest and transparent reviews of their experiences so you can be a bit wiser about your purchase.
- Broken down by categories and subcategories for easy finds
- Get an unfiltered look at what real users are saying
- Leave a review yourself for others to benefit from
- Add new products as you use them and gain points for doing so
|
;)
;)
;)
Find FL real estate agents and Tampa real estate on ActiveRain.
Disclaimer: ActiveRain Corp. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them make an informed decision when buying or selling a house. ActiveRain Corp. takes no responsibility for the content in these profiles, that are written by the members of this community.
© 2013 ActiveRain Corp. All Rights Reserved
27 Comments on Are You Cultivating Your Relationships or Just Hoarding Them?
Great and timely post. I really need to do exactly what you recommend. Good tips for sure.
Great post Celeste, I've recommended this as a concept and topic for the television series "Hoarders" :-)
You are so right. This is just a critical aspect for future business. Great post
Oh My God...I know so many people
Have you been looking at my shoe boxes? hahaha Okay, actually it is more like the top of my desk and my cup runneth over, haha. Definitely need to be more organized with my incoming business cards.
I actually do a very good job of staying in touch with people. I don't see past clients or potential clients as leads or "contacts" I see them as friends. I do send emails regularly. I have a day where I spend a few hours doing this once a week. They are personal. I ask about their family by name, their job, what's recent with them. Is it difficult to do this for a couple hundred people... yes it is, but it is also worth the relationships I build.
I'm going to check this out as I do have stacks of cards that I haven't looked at in ages.
Happy subscriber to Happy Grasshopper here! We had doubts about the value of it when we first started, but saying we're pleasantly surprised is an understatement! Kudos to you, Dan, and the whole HG crew!
My frequent complaint is that I meet a lot of neat people and don't manage to stay in touch with all of them. I need to make more time for this, for my personal pleasure as well as for my business.
Good post. For me Facebook is like an address book of old friends so I know where to find them.
Celeste,
Wise grasshopper; honestly…hmmmm…. Yes I am guilty. I mean to call them, or drive by and say hi, and go to lunch, and; just get busy or more accurately put it off. Good post.
Quality vs. quantity.
Celeste, great reminder! I've had this on my "round tuit" list for a while, but after watching Debe Maxwell at Raincamp and reading this post, I just moved it to the top. Thanks to both!
Celeste:
I collect those business cards by the droves. I do call a few that seem to be ready to buy or sell. But i rarely call to develop a relationship.
Guilty. Not really with hoarding, I'm just not cultivating correctly ......
Great advice! I keep a business card file right by my monitor... hmmm... when was the last time I looked at it?
Thanks Celeste, what a timely reminder, I have a lot of catching up with my network to do this fall and happy grasshopper has been on my list of things to check out.
Hi Celeste, we agree! Everyone in our database goes on an action plan.
Hi Celeste: Good reminder about business cards and use or not I've always enjoyed Realtor cards with photos which helps me remember their faces. The other tip which works for me when I remember is to write on the back of the card where I met them and the date and location of the event.
Celeste, I cam over from Winston's re-blog. Very true about those Facebook friends. I am working this year to be more connected.