What Does Nancy Pelosi and Real Estate Sales Professionals Have in Common?

Today I was working in my office with the television on in the background to follow the bank bailout and the pending vote.

Being involved in both the real estate and new home sales industry I was listening with great interest regarding the outcome for the country's financial heath.

From every indication it appeared that the bill to bailout the banks would be approved today.

Just before the vote Nancy Pelosi make a speech that may have contributed to the bill being not passed.

Did Nancy Pelosi Talk Herself Out of the Sale?  

As we see so often sales professionals talk themselves out of the sale after it's made, and that may be what happened today. Nancy Pelosi had the bill sold to both parties before the vote and her speech.

What happened today can be a learning experience for real estate sales professionals.

Follow the professional selling process. Make your case for the property, sell the benefits, confirm that the prospect wants the property, close the sale, and make the customer feel good about buying the property.

Proactive listening is a key attribute in the selling process. Follow the 80-20 rule of listening 80% of the time in order to understand and know your customer.

Do you feel that Nancy Pelosi made her customers on both side of the aisle feel good about buying the product (voting for the bill)?

Politics is Selling

I sensed that what I was watching today was not in the best interest of the country, but what occurred was the selling of a political position above the country's interest.

It's time to speak out on your position to your elected representatives to get the job done and done right.    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 
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16 Comments on What Does Nancy Pelosi and Real Estate Sales Professionals Have In Common?

SEP
29
2008

I for one am so sick of these politicians putting a spin on everything.  We should vote all the incumbents out and start over.  I wonder what the vote would have been like if it wasn't an election year?
8:24pm • #1
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Hi Jerry

I feel that they think that it all about them. If it wasn't a election year there would have been a vote passed today.

Thanks for your comment.

Lou Ludwig
8:32pm • #2
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30
2008
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Lou,

I love the analogy you painted. She did indeed talk past the sale, talk many of the suppoters of the bill out of the sale, and may even have made people not want to do business with her in the future. Are they accepting applications for a new salesperson? :)

Steve
9:20am • #3
OCT
01
2008

Made me wonder just how much these folks understand about the real issues involved or whether they just have powerful friends on Wall Street.
9:55pm • #4
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Steve

It's very easy to talk pass the sale, we have to stop, listen and close the sale.

Thanks for your comment

Lou
11:13pm • #5
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Rick

It would appear that they have very little insight of the real issues.

Thanks for your comments.

Lou Ludwig
11:15pm • #6
OCT
02
2008
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During my years in real estate I have seen more agents unsell the sale they had just made and then scratch their head and wondered what happened.   
6:16am • #7
OCT
04
2008

Lou:  I wish that I had read your post before writing & posting mine today.  I guess that great minds think alike ;)  Very well said.
10:28pm • #8
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My thoughts exactly when listening to her rave about the causes of the financial issues we face.
11:20pm • #9
OCT
07
2008
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Trey

The America public seems to really relate to her.

Thank you for your comments

Lou Ludwig
4:31pm • #10
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Maxine

I guess your right great minds do think alike. Alway room for your comments on active rain.

Thank you for your comments

Lou Ludwig
4:33pm • #11
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Maxine

I guess your right great minds do think alike. Alway room for your comments on active rain.

Thank you for your comments

Lou Ludwig
4:33pm • #12
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Maxine

I guess your right great minds do think alike. Alway room for your comments on active rain.

Thank you for your comments

Lou Ludwig
4:33pm • #13
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Sam

There should be a pill for real estate profeeiosnal to take to stop them from selling pass the sale.

Thank you for your comments.

Lou Ludwig
4:35pm • #14
OCT
15
2008

  So often people talk to make themselves sound important or that they are trying to prove they understand the subject when in reality we often learn so much more by just listening.
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There's a quote that I seem to remember on why God gave us two ears and one mouth: so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Guess that doesn't apply to many politicians. And realtors.

 
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