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Have you ever called a prospect a number of times, but they haven't yet responded back to you, and so you find yourself wondering, "How many times should I keep calling this person?" This is a fairly normal question that brokers oftentimes ask themselves, and in keeping this in mind, here's a solution that I've come up with that has worked very successfully for the brokers who I've had implement it...
How much prospecting should you now be doing, to close the number of transactions that you need to, in order to achieve your desired income goal for the year?
Recently I had a call with a coaching client, who told me there was a man she wanted to set an initial appointment with, who was very busy, very successful, and he owned 25 shopping centers. So she asked me for some ideas on how to approach him for an appointment, to maximize the probability that he would accept her invitation...
If you've been struggling to get your prospecting done, here's a simple tip to help make sure that you're making more calls...
When you're talking with a prospect during a prospecting call, and you've determined that you would like to meet with them personally for the very first time, how you go about asking them for that appointment will have a lot to do with whether or not they'll say "Yes" to you. So when you're moving along within the conversation, getting closer towards the end of it, I recommend that you say something similar to the following to them...
Hopefully you're experiencing a good year in your business right now, and if I were to suggest one activity to accomplish that will greatly help to ensure your success, it would be to...
In addition, a good approach to ask people for their E-mail address can be by saying something similar to the following...
Sometimes once you've identified a prospect, you may have concerns about whether the person you're talking to is really the ultimate commercial real estate decision maker, or whether you need to really be talking to someone else instead. This can become a sensitive situation, as you don't want to insult the person you're already talking to, but at the same time, you really want to be talking to the ultimate person who will have the final say so on all commercial real estate decisions. Keeping this in mind, a question you can utilize in this situation, when you're talking to the person who you believe may not be the ultimate decision maker, is...
One of the biggest mistakes that commercial real estate brokers make is dropping out all communication with their past clients once they've closed a transaction with them. Keeping this in mind, when you've been in the business for years, and you've closed a good number of transactions during that time, you may find that there are...