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Now is the Time to Get Back on Track with Doing Your Prospecting!

We're now getting into March, and if you haven't been getting your ideal amount of prospecting done so far this year in January and February, you're now risking not having the kind of year you really want to be having in your brokerage business. The amount of prospecting that you get done week-to-week will determine the amount of solid leads you'll be working on during the rest of the year, so if you haven't been getting your prospecting done, now is the time to get back on track!...

Jim Gillespie2019-03-04T21:07:35-08:00Prospecting|

Here’s a Phenomenal Book on How to Negotiate Powerfully

There's a book I've recently read that is a phenomenal book on learning how to negotiate more effectively. The book is titled, "Never Split the Difference", and it's written by Chris Voss, who was the FBI's #1 negotiator for Americans who had been taken hostage by terrorists.

In the book Chris does a great job of of showing how his hostage-negotiating philosophies can be applied effectively in business, too, and I must say that with all of my training in psychology and Neurolinguistic Programming, he's taken things to an entirely new level when it comes to persuasion.

One well-known Ivy League school invited him to negotiate along with their top experts, and he completely ate them for lunch, as he has a way of structuring questions when negotiating to get the other side to let go of their own position, and give in to what you want them to do. And it's all done in a very friendly, easygoing manner, too.

So if you'd like to take your negotiating skills up to the next level, I highly recommend that you read this book!

Jim Gillespie2019-02-26T18:13:49-08:00Presentation Skills|

Al Rose: The Passing of a Great Commercial Real Estate Broker

Al Rose, who’s been a very prominent figure in commercial real estate brokerage in Los Angeles since the 1950s, passed away on Thursday, February 14th, and for those of us who knew him well, we know that we will never again meet someone quite like him within our industry.

He combined wisdom, success, knowledge, expertise, even-mindedness, complete honesty, a great devotion to ethics, and a wonderful sense of humor, all in one man.

I had the great pleasure of working for Al and along with him for many years, and I’ve never met anyone else quite like him within our industry. In an industry where we’re constantly dealing with massive egos, both in the clients that we’re representing and with the brokers themselves, Al always had his way of projecting calmness, professionalism, and certainty towards people within his transactions, and this would then usually have people align with his opinion on how they should then be moving forward....