If you've been in real estate for more than a day, you'll find common elements with every other agent:
1. Time just might be your most valuable (and scarcest) commodity
2. There's always someone with a bright shiny promising to save you time and send avalanches of new clients your way
3. You'll need an entire closet full of hats for all the different roles you'll have
But you should also find that there a lot of fundamentals to this business, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel.
How to blog? There are many different ways to blog successfully and you have to identify what works best for you and your market. While niche blogging about Cincinnati patio homes works for me, it's not going to fly so well in downtown Manhattan, or for that matter in sparsely populated areas! Maybe the right path for you is more social than business blogging. In any case, there are members in the Rain making many different approaches work for them.
Want to save time? Ask the key questions of prospects up front. Using your preferred question set, determine if they already have an agent. They do? And I'm not the listing agent? Nice to know that my IDX pages work, but (waves hand), "this is not the client I am looking for".
Got a major life change? I'm not the first to find out that a job change/retirement is coming a bit earlier than expected. My Rain friends and engineering co-workers have provided plenty of solid advice in the last week. I don't need to start planning in a vacuum, the wheels have already put some deep ruts in the road to provide some guidelines.
Pick a topic, chances are someone in the Rain has already blogged a tutorial, a market review, how to build a team, choose a broker, fire a client, how to exit the business, etc. There's a blog post or two or 20 out there to help you evaluate your next steps.
And you can always post in the Q&A section and let the answers come to you.
No need to reinvent the wheel.
Until next Tuesday, just Ask An Ambassador if you need help,
Bill & Liz aka BLiz
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