Ask An Ambassador: Spinning Your Wheel?

Liz and Bill Spear Your key takeaway to me was "what you don't do" - your choice! And honestly stating that certain things are not "your thing"!! Good advice, in work and life.

Liz and Bill Spear  I receive those calls and emails galore . I do have Facebook page Google business and the like I like doing my own content whether these people like my content or not is unimportant to me .

Liz and Bill,

Like everyone else, we get these call.  The latest are people who want to write blog posts for us for a fee, of course...or they want to contribute a blog post which has no value to us.  Then they get mad at us, and tell us that we are missing on a great opportunity...so it goes. LOL A

This is really good advice. Do what works best for you, what fits your style and personality. If more agents would follow your advice they'd be much better off and a whole lot happier doing what works and what they enjoy doing.

As for calls, I've been able to drastically cut down the number that come in by silencing all numbers that aren't in my data base. And I am so SO happy about this shift as I was being unindated with massive amounts of calls every single day.  I have my life back!  My folks know to text me or leave a voice mail if they need me.  And those spammers....they get blocked from getting through at all.

We all should do what works for us, our life and for our business.

And by the way, the calls I've been getting daily now? Tons of them about an application I supposedly filled out for health insurance (I did not) and just a few that start "I'm looking at your FB Business page, are you managing it yourself?" Argh.

You have a great system of knowing the source of your clients. And this is an important statement.

"For me, what I don't do is just as critical as what I do." 

Bill:

Yep, get plenty of those calls, and I do not answer. But I answer other calls, even those names I do not know...good thing as I got another referral today when a name popped up that I did not know from out of the area.

I track all my transactions and know where they came from. I didn't always do that but the valueof doing so became obvious. It sure helps to know what's working and what is not.

Jeff

I always like to try to know what I'm getting into before I start spinning my wheels—especially to not go the route of  roulette.

Hello Bill(and Liz too) - many people(could it be that real estate agents are an especially vulnerable segment of the population?) are attempting to win while playing the Wheel of Fortune.   Finding what works best for you is the real prize.  

I love that calls are now labeled as potential spam and I NEVER answer those calls, haha.  I figure if they are legit they will leave a message.

Super helpful, thank you for making us think about that.

I like this post because it is not really about "spinning the wheel of success" to see if you get lucky. It is what I say all the time to people who ask me to do something out of my niche or line of expertise, which I got from my old boss who would say "don't spin your wheels!" or in other words go with what you know. Otherwise you become mired in an activity that uses up your time but produces no actual income or takes to long to accomplish that there is no money in it to be made.

My business does come from my sphere and the bankruptcy lawyers  that send me their short sale clients

Fundamentals (answer the phone, respond to emails)

Thank you very much for sharing your experience and your advice. 

I am one of those who has made many prospecting errors.

Happy Halloween!