I must admit something to everybody out there. Here I consider myself a systems and technology guy and I have been the one who “dropped the ball” lately. I am speaking about my Contact Management System (CMS). It’s been exactly one year since I started to develop what is now known as www.eBrokerHouse.com full time. Along the way last I must have spoken to over different 500 individuals on the phone, over 2,500 emails, and many Tweets of course. All of these communications were primarily topics of this new virtual office I was creating.
About 3 months ago I stopped entering every single person that I came across into my CMS. I am currently using Google Apps but before that I was extremely into MS Outlook. I really like the Google Apps because it is 100% web based and I don’t ever have to worry about backing up the data myself. We all know that we never are diligent enough on backups and will always eventually get burned. But I am not here to write about the details and my thoughts on which CMS is best or easiest to use. etc
Here is the trick in whatever system you use, BE CONSISTENT. It may sound easy but it is not if you don’t train yourself to do it every single time. I fell victim as I neared the end of my project and was obviously overwhelmed. I thought I could remember everybody by situation and was not entering names, phone #’s, emails into my CMS for three months!! I just started to notice over this last week how crippling that was to my operations. Had I been too engulfed in my project that I forgot to do the little things? NO!! I was being lazy and not tracking every single lead that came my way. I am revamping my systems and getting things back on track. EBrokerHouse is now launched and ready to make the changes that our Beta Testers suggested. I will now have time to reorganize and rebuild my CMS into a masterpiece that is updated consistently and accurately.
To anybody who may have noticed this and maybe felt like I was being a little distant, I am sorry and it was nothing personal. I challenge everybody out there to contact me!! Let me prove my systems are back functioning. We are only as strong as our weakest link and I plan to fix mine!! Get out there and hustle and there will be plenty of good things to come your way.
Thomas Moore
702-580-0125 cell
Thomasgmoore222@gmail.com
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