How To Produce Better Results on Social Media
Here's a free 16-minute podcast you can listen to where an expert will tell you how to produce better results on social media.
Here’s An Approach That Can Help You To Schedule More Appointments
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...
How to Make Sure That You’re Not Wasting Your Time Making Listing Presentations
One of the situations that you definitely want to avoid when making listing presentations, is making a presentation when you have zero or very little chance of landing the listing. This can happen when the decision maker has already determined who they'll be listing with, but they just want to receive some additional listing presentations for their own due diligence. In addition, within the corporate environment, the person may be told by their boss that they should receive 3-4 listing presentations in total along with the broker presentation packages, even though the broker who will get the listing has already been determined by the company.
So with this in mind, here is a question that I recommend you ask an owner whenever they're inviting you to make a listing presentation to them...
How to Make Sure That Your Email Gets Read
In today's world, with so many things constantly vying for our attention in our Inbox, it's important that your Email gets both noticed and opened...
How to Get Your Commercial Real Estate Clients and Prospects to Respond Back to You
Let's say you've got a situation where one of your commercial real estate clients or prospects has told you that they have a commercial real estate need, but they're not responding back to your messages when you're following-up with them. An owner, for example, may have told you that they want to sell their building, or a prospect may have told you that they're interested in buying a building and expanding their business into it.
So you've left voicemail messages for them and/or have sent them Emails in following up on this, and they still haven't been responding back to you.
So when this happens, you can then send them an Email saying something very similar to...
The Power of Utilizing Testimonials in Your Commercial Real Estate Agent Listing Presentation Packages
Something that’s important to understand when making listing presentations is that you’re constantly being compared to your competitors, so you need to clearly stand out as the best choice your owners could ever make in a commercial real estate agent...
Is It Time to Start Hosting Your Own Commercial Real Estate Podcast?
As a broker you ideally need to give your clients and prospects a compelling reason to choose you over your competitors, but with so many brokers looking similar to each other and making similar listing presentations, how do you differentiate yourself from all the rest of the pack? One way can be to host your own commercial real estate podcast, where you'll be giving your take on what's going on within your market, and creating a bond with your clients and prospects as being the one broker who's keeping them informed on important trends and subjects...
How to Beat Your Competitors to Get the Commercial Real Estate Listing
Scott LaMontagne of JLL has been a coaching client of mine, and he does a brilliant job of differentiating himself and standing out from all of the other brokers. While many brokers refuse to spend money on developing their own businesses, and continually refuse to do what will differentiate themselves and have them stand out from all of their competitors, Scott spends money, including having sent out more than 250,000 mailing pieces within a single year, and he knows how to make his entire team stand out from all of his competitors, too...
How and When to Ask for Your Prospect’s E-mail Address
In addition, a good approach to ask people for their E-mail address can be by saying something similar to the following...
How 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...