Here’s An Opportunity This Market Now Presents for Residential Real Estate Agents
Commercial real estate has been my area of expertise for more than 40 years now, but if you have a spouse, a relative, or a friend who is a residential real estate agent, I have an idea that may now be helpful to them…
read moreHow To Appropriately Market Yourself and Your Firm During a Global Crisis
Everything is different right now because of what has been happening around the coronavirus, and with this in mind, this now requires you to approach your clients and prospects in a completely different manner…
read moreTop Commercial Real Estate Industry Leaders Speak Out About the Impact of the Coronavirus
I was invited to participate in a high-level industry teleconference, where leaders from the ownership, lending, and legal specialties within our industry were giving their experiences, observations, and recommendations around the impact that the coronavirus has been having on our industry.
These participants asked that their names not be disclosed to anyone outside of the live teleconference, and here is a summary of the major points that they discussed during the teleconference:
read moreWhat the Coronavirus Now Means to Your Commercial Real Estate Market
The impact of the threat of the coronavirus has set a tone and a feeling within our nation that’s been unprecedented since 9/11. However, right after 9/11 we were still free to walk around, go to events, visit shopping malls, and go to restaurants. So in my opinion, the ongoing fear, and the restrictions now set upon us, along with our ongoing concerns around the coronavirus are impacting us even more severely…
read moreHow to Become the True Champion for Your Commercial Real Estate Clients
We’re living in a highly politically-charged environment right now, and this can create tremendous opportunity for you. There are politicians who will propose things that can be very irritating to commercial real estate property owners, and you can become their champion by keeping these people informed, and fighting for their cause…
read moreHow to Get to the Real Commercial Real Estate Decision Maker
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…
read moreHere’s a Source of New Business That Many Commercial Real Estate Agents Overlook
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…
read moreHere’s the One Main Commercial Real Estate Activity to Make Sure You’re Getting Done in 2020
Hopefully you’ve already set your goals for 2020 and have designed the game plan you’ll follow to achieve your success, but if I were to suggest one activity to accomplish that will greatly help to ensure your success, it would be to…
read moreHere’s the Funniest Commercial Real Estate Video I’ve Ever Seen!
Check out this 13-minute video takeoff of the TV show “The Bachelor” that was filmed by Andrew Cheney, SIOR, CCIM, for the annual NAIOP Conference. But instead, in this version we see commercial real estate building owners all wooing a prospective tenant, trying to get the tenant to move into their own building. The owners get emotional, they hug it out, and they get excited whenever they are given a rose by the prospective tenant, indicating that their building has now moved onto the next stage of site selection. I’ve seen this 13-minute video several times now, and I laugh every time! Make sure you stick around for the great plot twist that we can all relate to right at the end!...
read moreHow Commercial Real Estate Coaching Will Help You Explode Your Business
During this two-minute video, I’ll tell you how you and I can begin working together so that you’ll begin making a ton of money.
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