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43 Comments on The Champion Within
Hi Gary, Wonderful advise and boy I sure appreciate about now.
Gary, Thank you so much for your very kind sentiments for my loss of my little one, I so appreciate it.
William: No problem. We had three dogs die over a five year period (two within months of each other) and they are such a part of your family. It is very hard. You did a great tribute post.
Gary-Oh my, this is a really good blog and so true. Your clients do deserve to have the best you can possibly give them. It makes you feel really good when someone you sold a home to calls you up several months later just to check on you. I have a special lady who I sold a home to and she will either call me or come by to see me ever so often. She will start out by saying, "honey, I just wanted to see how you were doing". We will talk a few minutes and she will tell me she will call me back soon just to check on me. She has also sent me referrals.
Thanks for refreshing my mind to what is important in a buyer/Realtor relationship..
True to form...you churn these out like theres no tomorrow - when are you going to come out with an anthology? Can I get an autographed copy? :-)
You got my attention with the breezing photo! I'm panicked this morning about ML... I may get to live my dream in an Airstream SOON! You know I'm trying to figure out where my 'champion' efforts belong!
Gary - if we don't believe in ourselves, who will? We need to present confidence to those we want to trust us with their home sale.
Laura: That's a great client you have there. You must have made a great impression. Normally, you hear that where the Realtor is doing the great followup.
Liz: If the book comes out you definitely get an autographed copy ; )
Susie: Keep thinking about what it is you want the most and go that way. It is never easy figuring out the money angle though to go with the passions.
Mike: Be confident ALWAYS. It is a must to succeed.
Gary-She really is a good client. I stop by to see her sometimes and I always leave feeling better than when I first got there. I also make sure a card finds its way to her occassionally. Her situation was one of great need and she was scared to death staying where she was before she purchased a home. I was able to get her a nice home, in a nice area with assistance in paying the house payment and also her taxes. I have been blessed many times over since meeting this wonderful lady.
Wow Laura: This is one of those angel stories where you went above and beyond for her. The universe is paying you back in kind. I'm glad you send a card now and then. I do that too, and it just seems to be a lost caring form with email these days. Her attention back to you shows how much YOU are a blessing to her as well. I'm glad you have each other.
Gary-Thank you and you are right she brightens my day. I wish all my clients could have the same sweet attitude she does...
Gary: I am such a believer in "Fake it till you make it". I participated in every water cooler conversation I could with more experienced agents. I would be out with my buyers and they would ask questions about a particular neighborhood we were looking at, and sales there. I would immediately start recounting a story I'd heard from one of our grizzled vets, never attributing it, and never saying the clients weren't mine. The assumption was--Hey..Chris Ann sure has got a lot of experience. However, when asked how many years, or transactions, I had completed, I never lied. I found the fake till you make it game like trying to keep a ball from touching the ground. Keep relating real estate stories I'd heard, giving them the impression I was experienced, and they never asked those direct questions.
Gary - Yes, good analogy. Buying a house is much like a race. ....and what about that Big Brown - fron NY!
Laura: What a terrific relationship you've got there.
Hello Chris Ann: A great recount how you promoted yourself putting your best foot forward.You are knowledgeable Chris Ann, even if you didn't sell every house in every neighborhood. Many people are more interested in someone working with THEM and not always the large teams.
Hi Carol: Big Brown is a great horse and wish he could have one the Triple Crown. It just wasn't his day.
Liz in my office is always saying fake it till you make it!! When I was new in the business and people asked me how long I've been selling, I was taught to say, just under a year. When I was in my second year, just under two years, etc. People wanted an experienced agent. Now that I can say I've been doing this for 23 years, it's not such an issue.
Howdy Susan: I love your descriptions!! Now do you ride around with your buyer clients and just tell them they are dealing with a grizzled veteran?
I like all the different qualities you describe..perhaps I will just print out this post and carry it with me!
Michael: The soft skills many people overlook in developing themselves.
You're dead on. Fake it til you make it. lol. People who don't believe in themselves are not going to convince anyone in their abilities.
Hi Trunda: Just be confident. It isn't that hard. We all come from different perspectives and backgrounds in life but all that's ok. Just be you.
Gary, I'm not sure how a post this old came to my attention. A great example of your writing that is very motivational. At this second, I feel like I am in the underdog in a horse race ....quietly gaining ground. That said, I am confident all that I have heard and seen in this last year or so is going to benefit my client base.