I don’t know if you are on Brian Tracy’s newsletter list, but if you’re not, you missed a great email today on how to “Create your Daily Personal Growth Schedule”. I believe the items on this list are so essential to your success that I wanted to share them (note: full credit goes to Brian [...]
Having a yearly marketing plan is a really important piece for you to have in place in order to be able to measure and grow your business. But you also need to look at the mindset you have about your business.
Your goals should be big enough to feel challenging (if they don’t, I think you [...]
Trust.
It’s an essential part of any business, but in an industry like real estate, which is so one on one and sometimes has the “sleazy” connotation, this has a huge impact on how you do business and how successful you’ll be.
My Recommended Reading for today is The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey, the [...]
Since we’ve been talking about knowing your target market, and communicating & connecting effectively online, I wanted to share a great book on this very subject.
Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business helps marketers and their companies understand how to engage customers, build customer communities, and maximize profits in a [...]
I’m finishing up Tribes by Seth Godin for probably the third time, and wanted to share it with you. It’s a fantastic book about the power of developing and leading a “Tribe”. In essence, that’s what Consistent Clients is all about. Developing your group of followers that trust you, want to hear from you, and [...]
Do you journal?
I'm a big fan of journaling, and of Jim Rohn, the internationally renown business speaker and leader. Jim was a big influence for me in beginning to journal, and I strongly recommend that this be a habit you start for 2009.
Journaling includes much of the goal setting that we've talked about in the last few months, but goes beyond that to include so much more. A journal lets you put in print your own personal story: your family and their challenges and victories, lessons learned, funny thoughts, your goals and dreams.
The last Top 10 list in my series before the New Year is my list of the Top 10 Business-Building Books I Recommend. I'm a big believer in reading to grow and learn from other successful people. I have learned so much about building my business, just from reading. Here are the Top 10 Books I Recommend to help you grow and build your business, too:
Next in our line-up of Top 10 lists are the top resource sites and blogs for great tech tips, marketing resources and new ideas. I recommend making a habit of stopping by these sites regularly – you never know what great info you’ll find.
1. My Tech Opinion
2. The Real Estate Tomato
3. RSS Pieces
4. Duct Tape [...]
One book I suggest you read as you are reviewing your business from the past year, and setting up goals and systems for the next is Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy. It goes over the critical habits and behaviors of people that are self-made successes.
* Set and achieve goals effectively
* Organize your life and manage your time for maximum productivity and performance
* Increase income, reduce expenses and achieve financial independence
Personal agent sites might be a very basic component of web 2.0, but I feel they still fit in because they're encouraging conversation with your clients. They're much more personal than just your bio on the big agency site, and let you provide the real estate information you feel is valuable to your readers.
There's a good post over at Geek Estate Blog that talks about the importance of having a personal agent site. I totally agree. I am partial to using a blog site as your personal site...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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