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Five Ways to Kickstart your Business

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Real Estate Agent with Remax First Realty II 0790808

Feeling the post-summer blues?

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Wandering around aimlessly, wishing you could go back to the beach? Mother And Baby On Summer Holiday

Here’s the solution for you!!

In one day, you can get your business back on track, just by following this 5 step plan:

Woman Talking On Phone1.  Call 5 people from your sphere of influence and shoot the breeze. Ask how they enjoyed their summer, tell them a little about yours. Then ask who they know that’s moving next.

2. Follow up. Call or shoot emails to the people your sphere recommended. Tell them who told you they were thinking of buying or selling and that you’d like to help. Make appointments to go for coffee and discuss what you can do for them.

3. Take a walk around your neighborhood. Stop in the convenience stores and barber shops and hand your business card out to everyone you meet. Shake their hand, make eye contact, and tell them you’re glad to meet them. Don’t go home until you’ve handed out 20 cards.

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4. By now, you’ve probably spent a few hours working and I bet it feels good, too. Reward yourself by having dinner in a restaurant in your neighborhood. Take photos. Chat with the owner or manager or wait staff. Ask them about the restaurant.

5. Write about the restaurant in your Active Rain blog.


Congratulations! You're back in the swing of things!

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~ Wayne & Jean 

Union County, NJ - a great place to live and work!

If you're looking to buy or sell a property in Union County, call us at 908-917-4189 or email TeamZuhl@gmail.com.

 

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Wallace S. Gibson, CPM
Gibson Management Group, Ltd. - Charlottesville, VA
LandlordWhisperer

This time of the year, I would walk neighborhoods for LOCAL candidates and work the polls for your party in November...let people see you and know you are involved.

Sep 09, 2012 08:44 PM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

Good morning, Wayne and Jean Marie..... it's time to get motivated and back in the swing of things....good list to help with that...

Sep 09, 2012 09:55 PM
Diane Beck
Vibrant Interiors - Pittsburgh, PA
Greater Pittsburgh's Award Winning Home Stager

Thanks for the tips.  It's usually that first action that will get me motivated to do more for business.  It feels great at the end of the day to know I have done everything I can to promote myself and get acquainted with local merchants too.

Sep 09, 2012 11:52 PM
Kim Skumanick
Keller Williams Real Estate - Tunkhannock, PA
Great ideas Wayne and Jean! These are wonderful tips for new and seasoned agents alike.
Sep 10, 2012 12:09 AM
Andrea Bedard
Thompson Company, REALTORS® 240.593.2860 - Silver Spring, MD
Fluent in Real Estate & German, M.A. ABR ASP CIPS

Hi Team Zuhl, thanks for the pep talk - I needed that! I know I miss opportunities daily to hand out my card .. I gotta jump over my shadow!

Sep 11, 2012 12:11 PM
Cherry Wings Realty
Cherry Wings Realty - Traverse City, MI
Your Traverse City Michigan Realtor

Great tips, getting back to the basics.  We tend to forget about them....

Sep 13, 2012 06:13 AM
Susan Emo
Sotheby's International Realty Canada - Brokerage - Kingston, ON
Kingston and the 1000 Islands Area

I`m still a big kid at heart:  I LOVE this time of year and always get hit with that `back to school`feeling!   I get armed with new pens and pencils, notebooks (even tho I have every techy product on the planet) and it feels more like New Years than New Years.  

It is fun to get back into the business swing of things instead of listening to people moan and groan over the heat, the humidity, the bugs, the drought . . .   

Up here, we`re falling forward to success!

Sep 14, 2012 01:44 AM
Beth and Richard Witt
New York, NY
The best Retired Brokers !!!!

Very good advise my friends...

Sep 18, 2012 06:58 AM