If you're just tuning in, this week's challenge is all about SYSTEMS -
- Submit your Seller & Buyer Systems to Rich Jacobson in a single attachment Word Document or similar format. Any and all entries may be published on the official Makeover2Takeover Blog.
- Be very thorough and detailed in creating your systems. Remember that you will be incorporating these into your own business for all future transactions.
- Entries will be judged on format, completeness, and creativity.
This was a week of real collaboration for the Jedi Team, and we're going to take it a step farther. Margaret is posting the following excerpts from the opening of our entry, and Karen is posting the wrap-up when she gets a chance.
Enjoy!
MERGER OF SYSTEMS - Hi-Tech and Hi-Touch
by the Jedi Team, Margaret Woda (Mentor) and Karen Luke (Apprentice)
You know exactly what to expect when you load your dishes in the dishwasher and push the "start" button. You just walk away and forget about it for an hour because you know that water will fill the machine, a wash cycle will run to dispense the soap and water over and around the contents, dirty water will empty out, clean rinse water will fill the machine...
And that's how I want my real estate systems to work for me. I want them to be "automatic" like my dishwasher! Margaret achieves this through the automated Action Plans of Top Producer.
As much as I would like to have and use the tools my mentor relies upon, my contact management database is MS Outlook, at least for now. My Action Plans are not automated.
Think "Dentist Appointment". When you go to the dentist for your periodic hygienist appointment, you know exactly what to expect. That's because the hygienist performs the same steps in the same order for every person who sits in her chair, day in and day out, week after week, month after month. By the time you walk out the door, you know your teeth and smile will sparkle. THAT better describes how my follow-up systems work!
Just like the dental hygienist, I know what has to be done and I do it, albeit the old-fashioned way - one task at a time. It's my "hi-touch" system.
Yet, just because my mentor and I use different delivery methods for our systems doesn't mean I can't benefit from her experience and adapt her systems to my delivery method.
That is OUR challenge within Challenge 5 this week - to merge Margaret's Hi-Tech Systems
and my Hi-Touch Systems to optimize my time and efforts -
and restore balance to my life.
Now you've seen the opening, check back to see Karen's wrap-up - coming soon. And check out The Six Colors of My Day, which is related to this challenge.
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Hi Margaret and Karen, Congratulations for another week under our belts! I'm so looking forward to sleeping tomorrow. I'll take a nap after I get up, after I get dressed, after I eat, after I take a nap. Wow. sounds like I won't be up much! Have a restful day!
Later in the rain~Deb