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| Tom Ferry Real Estate Coaching |
It took me a couple of years after becoming a real estate agent to see the value of a coach. I guess I just wasn't ready to swim yet! Here is my story on finally making the jump into having a real estate coach, and never looking back.
A Newbie Real Estate Agent
When I started as a real estate agent, I joined an agency that gave very little training. As a result, I would seek out good training wherever I could. During the first two years I thought about getting a real estate coach, but never thought I could afford it. Instead, I would hunt down any free training I could find.
It was about that time that I was invited to a FREE three day real estate seminar put on by real estate coach, Tom Ferry. Those three days were incredible. I could not believe all of the great material that we were getting. Three days of ideas, action plans, and a way to jump start my real estate career. After spending three days with Tom Ferry, I was one motivated dude.
At the end of that event, he asked us all if we would like to sign up for his coaching program at $495 / month. The thing about me is that I am very cheap and I just couldn't see spending that much - so I didn't. I am also stubborn and thought I could do everything myself. In this case, I told myself that I would use the techniques that he taught us and just do it without a coach. I figured, why do I need a coach if I already have the tools that I need? So, I gave myself six months and planned on re-evaluating at that point.
Plans Change
However, my plan didn't quite work out the way that I thought they would. I didn't do anything in those six months. In fact, I didn't do anything for a year. It was at that point that I woke up one day and realized that I was no better off then I was a year ago. In fact, I was actually worse off. I was making less money and had more debt! I was also scared because I only had about $1000 left on my credit card and no business was lined up. Something had to be done.
Call me crazy, but I called up Tom Ferry's office and just decided that I needed coaching right then. I figured that I had enough credit on my credit cards to pay for 2 months of coaching. That would give me time to turn things around and start making money. I don't know how this happened, but by the end of that call, not only had I signed up for coaching for a year, but I signed up on the upgraded ELITE program which was $995/month.
What was I thinking? I only had about $1000 left on a credit card and still I signed up for a year program that could wipe me in less then two months!
Call it fate, call it good luck, call it having an angel on my shoulder - whatever it was, I knew that I would make this work out and it did. I started the coaching program and everything just changed. I had new escrows right away and my pipeline began to fill up. In less then 15 days, my money problems were slowly fading away.
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