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Savvy Marketing: Are You Focusing or Rubbernecking?

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Napa Consultants DRE00893924

Seizing control of what you focus your attention upon, as a luxury  or any other real estate marketing professional, is   critical in any economy. Your personal success is actually the result of where you place and hold your attention. 

 

Those who seek out and consistently focus on the positive opportunities of their marketplace experience an entirely different set of financial results compared to those who “rubberneck”, i.e., continuously fixate on what is going wrong, or what someone else is doing.  

 

What is exciting to know about focus is that you actually have the power to choose where you place your attention.  However, if you do not exercise this power the results, by default, will be detrimental to your practice. 

 

Rubbernecking is the sure way to bring your luxury or any other real estate marketing practice to a screeching halt. Have you ever driven in the furthest left lane of a freeway in bumper-to-bumper traffic and wondered what was the cause?

 

You notice up ahead that there are flashing lights of an ambulance and fire trucks on the opposite side of the freeway in the lane closest to you?  

 

Why did your side of the freeway come to a complete stop when the accident happened on the other side of the freeway?  The people directly in front of you were rubbernecking.  There was no traffic jam on your side.

 

Practicing the art of staying focused leads to success and your positive outcomes.  If you find yourself rubbernecking, be sure not to reprimand yourself because that prolongs the fixation on the negative. 

 

Just do your very best to gently redirect your attention back on track.  After consistent deliberate practice without self condemnation, your attention will shift right back to where you want to focus. 

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Comments (42)

Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Bill Salvatore - YVP Blog I hope you focused on you no doubt extra delicious tacos today.  Focus and mindfulness go together. A

Aug 03, 2021 01:50 PM
Bill Salvatore - East Valley

Aug 03, 2021 02:11 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Brian England I so agree with you.  Every city has trained pros who know what to do and how to handle it.  A

Aug 03, 2021 01:52 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Carol,

Exactly and thank you for your perfect comment.  We did not sell residential except in the case of our home and family.  All else was referred to pros.   A

Aug 03, 2021 01:55 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Michael Jacobs I think that "pointless peeping" fits the vocabulary bill.  We have trained ourselves not to look, and always say that the pros are there to handle it.  And we are thankful for them and their expertise.  A

Aug 03, 2021 01:57 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Wayne Martin great analogy with horses and blinders.  I think this is a good one for people also.  Races Runners have mental blinders, they know that to look back, they worsen their time.  A

Aug 03, 2021 01:59 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Roy Kelley thank you for your good wishes and wish you a wonderful evening also. A

Aug 03, 2021 02:00 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Nina Hollander, Broker I have heard many people say that, and I have read it as many times.  And if you focus from a happy state of mind, things will come your way, and from a negative state, the negative stufff will follow also.  A

Aug 03, 2021 02:01 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Grant Schneider I am sure you encounter this in your practice.  Distractions abound and focusing is the key to success. A

Aug 03, 2021 02:02 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Hi Ron and Alexandra- well said. our focus needs to be on what it is we do...it's what we can control. 

Aug 03, 2021 04:53 PM
Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP
DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX
Selling Homes Changing Lives

Ron and Alexandra Seigel - when it comes to focus, always stay in the success lane and achieve your goal without worrying about what others aren't doing or what you think they should be doing. Nice post and congratulations on another Feature!

Aug 03, 2021 05:43 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Kathy Streib exactly, and the more we focus on that, the more we find other things that we can focus on.  A

Aug 03, 2021 08:58 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Patricia,

Another wonderful and thoughtful comment from you perfectly said.  I have a theory that if we all stopped worrying about what others think of us because of who we are or how we do what we do...we would discover so much more and be more joyous, and laugh a lot more...A

Aug 03, 2021 09:01 PM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Morning Alexandra.

I refuse to let almost anything keep me from my goal. When I'm in that mode, I block everything else out and move forward.  

Aug 04, 2021 12:20 AM
Debb Janes
Nature As Neighbors - Camas, WA
Put My Love of Nature At Work for You

Good one and so true.  Enjoyed reading all the comments too. And yes, rubber neckers were always a pet peeve for dad. He always said they slowed down the ability to clear the roads again, plus they were potentially dangerous. 

Aug 04, 2021 08:02 AM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Debb Janes EcoBroker and Bernie Stea JD great fathers, great minds as my father felt the same way.  Competitive runners in sport never look back to see how the competition is doing, they just keep moving.  A

Aug 04, 2021 09:21 AM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

James Dray yes, we do that also, just keep moving in the direction we are wanting to be in.  A

Aug 04, 2021 09:22 AM
Margaret Goss
@Properties - Winnetka, IL
Chicago's North Shore & Winnetka Real Estate

What's that old saying, something about "keeping your nose to the grindstone." The machinery may have changed but the sentiment is timeless. Work hard on what you have, not what someone else has.

Aug 05, 2021 02:26 PM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Well said! Excellent advice!

Just do your very best to gently redirect your attention back on track. 

Aug 06, 2021 02:20 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Margaret Goss love that included your dog in the comment, and well said as to the nose to the grindstone.  A

Aug 06, 2021 02:49 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Sharon Tara I am fond of the word "gently".  Many beat themselves up, instead.  And that is the wort thing someone can do. A

Aug 06, 2021 02:50 PM