To people of integrity, their word is their bond. They do what they say, when they said they’d do it, how they said they’d do it. People of integrity realise that those who promise are in debt.
When I say that our word should be our bond, I mean in matters large and small.
If we say we . . . more →
Some people say you must love your work. I agree that this is desirable, but it’s not always realistic. Pursuing this ideal could cost you a great career.
Author Larry Winget says you don’t have to love what you do, but if you accept payment to do a job, whether you love it or not, you have . . . more →
Some years ago, I presented a Field Challenges workshop in Perth. Participants submitted for discussion challenges they were facing in the field. A few topics were offered and dispatched quickly as the solutions were obvious.
I then read to the audience a field challenge submitted by email and asked the audience if that challenge affected anybody. . . . more →
Salespeople spend a lot of time trying to convince sellers how good they are. They talk about the advertising they do, the awards they’ve won, the results they’ve had. The trouble is, too many salespeople make the presentation all about themselves.
Whether your clients are buyers, sellers, landlords or tenants, they are all out to look . . . more →
Any person who wants to succeed in their career must study their craft.
Self-improvement isn’t a luxury. Winners realise that every dollar they invest in themselves has the potential to boost their income and job satisfaction.
But there is another benefit to studying that often gets ignored – the improvement to your marketability.
Everybody wants to be a better closer. Of all the skills salespeople say they want to improve, it’s closing. But there is more to a GOOD sale than just closing.
What is a good sale? It’s one where all parties – clients, salespeople and the agency – are satisfied with the transaction.
To make every sale a good sale, there are . . . more →
Relentless – I like that word. It means “unceasingly intense”.
I also like the word Persistent, which means “able to bounce, withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions”. And “continuing firmly or obstinately in an opinion or course of action despite difficulty of opposition”. These are good attributes for salespeople.
Sales is not for everybody, especially those . . . more →
There can be many barriers to success, but one of the greatest challenges for some people is perfectionism.
Perfectionism is the enemy of success. People who suffer from it will not ‘launch’ until everything is ‘just so’. Most often, they fail to launch at all.
I find myself wondering if the problem really is perfectionism and not . . . more →
Here we are at the beginning of a new year. But before we get too far into this new year, how were your results last year? Were you happy with what you achieved? If not, why not?
Far too many business people drift from year to year, without ever setting goals, determining the targets necessary to achieve . . . more →
Show me an industry where you can earn six-figure incomes without knowing what you are doing. I’ll bet that you cannot name one. Yet this is what many real estate people – salespeople and leaders – seem to think. Many believe that they can earn high incomes without learning, study and practice.
The real estate industry . . . more →
Good salespeople are always on the lookout for new lines and for new ways to deliver their messages, but there is one word that many should consider using more often. That word is ‘No’.
People-pleasing salespeople are too quick to say ‘yes’, and doing so causes them to agree to actions that are, or should be, . . . more →
An age-old question for presenters is, “Should I use visual aids?”.
While I agree that people can become overly reliant on visual aids, resulting in a boring presentation, I believe that good presenters use every tool at their disposal to foster understanding with their audiences. Visual aids do just that: they aid understanding.They don’t say, “A picture . . . more →
We often hear about disruptive change. Uber for taxis, Amazon for book stores… Now people are saying that a new player in the Australian market, Purplebricks, could be real estate’s ‘Uber Moment’. I have to say I’m a little over ‘Uber Moments’!
Whether Purplebricks is going to cause disruptive change in the real estate market remains . . . more →
The real estate agent’s prayer goes like this: “God grant me another boom and I promise I won’t stuff it up this time”. Such is the prayer of the mediocre salesperson.
Some salespeople are what I call ‘Market Victims’. When the market is booming, they do well, but when the market is falling, so too do . . . more →
As a presenter, I often see attendees furiously taking notes, which may be flattering, but often leaves me wondering what they do with those notes. I think most of them are useless.
For more than 30 years I have been taking notes, but never on loose sheets of paper; I always take notes in journals. I . . . more →
Meet Brendan and Adam, chefs and proprietors of a new restaurant called 34bia in Redfern in Sydney.
Before this venture, Brendan and Adam owned a smaller café near my home which had a chequered history of success and failure before Brendan and Adam bought it.
The café was part of a block of serviced apartments so its . . . more →
We are fast approaching the halfway mark of 2017. Now is a good time to reflect on your results so far. If correction is needed, the sooner you begin the better.
Are you happy with your present results and income?
If not, what will you do differently from this point onwards?
If you keep doing what you have . . . more →
If you aren’t studying your profession, it is only a matter of time before your competitors overtake you. A rusty salesperson is a broke salesperson.
What are you studying now? And how do you study?
Mix it up
There are mountains of good study material and my advice is to mix it up so we stay interested. The . . . more →
David Farrugia, from Macquarie Real Estate in Casula NSW, spoke at Pittard’s Real Estate Agents’ Convention in Brisbane, November 2016. He made many interesting points, including explaining how he plans his training. David trains ‘on purpose’.
Each month, David selects a topic and studies that topic only for the coming month.
For example, if he . . . more →
We hear much about Time Management, but can we really manage time? Every one of us has the same 1,440 minutes each day. Why, then, do some people do more with their time than others?
The answer is that those people manage themselves and not time: They manage themselves within the time they have available.
The basic . . . more →
You don’t hear about manners much these days, but in addition to other benefits, good manners are a great selling tool. And they are a selling tool that cost nothing. They don’t say ‘mind your manners’ for nothing!
Don’t Get It
If you are a member of an online chat group, it won’t take long before bad . . . more →
