Selling Soulfully with Jennifer Allan-Hagedorn
My thoughts and ramblings on the real estate industry and how we've gotten into the pickle of being among the nation's most UNtrusted professions!
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2008
Email can be veddy, veddy efficient. Yet... email can also be veddy, veddy inefficient. I've been trying to get together with a old friend for two weeks now. We have a very close, loving email relationship - but we've rarely talked on the phone ‘cause neither of us seems to be much good at it. We...
04/13/2008
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I was approached a few weeks ago by an agent asking my opinion on starting up a "green" real estate company - that is - a company that uses recycled products, provides information on environmentally-friendly alternatives and knows where the Built Green properties are in his marketplace. Hmmmmm. O...
04/09/2008
Last night, I went to 24-Hour Fitness to meet a girlfriend of mine for Power Yoga. I don't belong to 24-Hour Fitness, but she assured me I could get a 24-day free membership. Cool.Well, of course, in order to get my free membership card, I had to sit through a sales pitch. I HATED it and y'know w...
04/05/2008
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It's amazing how different our markets are... For example, in your market, do you...... have a showing service or does the listing agent set his/her own showings?... as a listing agent, attend showings?... preview listings (that is, set appts to look at listed homes without a buyer)?... use elect...
04/04/2008
We're having a lively discussion over on my private SOI Blog Forum about the "best" way to do a listing presentation. The reason it's up for discussion is that many of us work primarily with people we already know (our SOI's), and feel kind of silly doing a formal sales presentation for them. Wel...
04/03/2008
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Jennifer Allan-Hagedorn
Author of Sell with Soul