Filed under: victory journal | Tags: marketing, mortgage, success, victory, victory journal
Another small victory! I received 2 more calls on the sign I left for Lori’s listed home with which I helped her put on an Open House last Saturday. That’s two more people that were curious enough about the sale of the home to call and listen most of the way through my free recording to learn a bit about the home, about mortgage options, and to get contact information for Lori or both Lori and me. Still no messages left or phone calls. But people making the effort to listen and then self-filter is a good thing. (The goal is to find qualified Buyers without having to waste a lot of time, effort, and gas money working with people who have no chance of (or interest in) affording the home. And the free recording seems to be working GREAT!)
I’m looking forward to see what tomorrow holds in store. For now, I’m going to spend some time with my wife.
I also finished listening through a training CD on Synergistic Marketing. Most of it was old stuff, or just teasers. (One teaser: “You really should have an outgoing voicemail message that’s different from what everyone else has.” But the trainer never bothered to say how to effectively make it different in a way that’s going to be an improvement rather than just different.) But I did get a couple of unique ideas from it, so it was worth the time to listen.
One of those ideas, which at first just seemed nuts, is to talk with clients who are getting refinanced about who their Realtor was that sold them the house. Then call that Realtor to a) let them know you’re working with their former Client – and got the Client to remember the Realtor and b( let the Realtor know what’s happening with current home appraised values in that neighborhood. Realtors rely on people keeping them in front-of-mind position and they also should value accurate, current information about current home values in their respective neighborhoods.
I was just doing a little alert-review (I’ve set up some Google-Alerts to try to keep abreast of current stuff in my areas of interest) and saw a heading for someone’s blog that was “(a particular neighborhood) United For Change.”
What a cool thought – they want to collect a bunch of Change. I just wonder… are they more interested in dollars, quarters, dimes, nickles, or cents (we don’t really have pennies… despite what most people say… just look at the coins.)
Oh, that’s right, they don’t really care about uniting for Change, at least, not that kind of change. They really just want to replace George Bush, because they’ve been so fixated on hating him for the past 7 1/2 years that they can’t see any of the good things he has done, but instead blame him for virtually every single thing that has negatively impacted anyone anywhere in the world. So without paying any attention to hear any (much less demanding) policy proposals for change or looking at the record of accomplishments (or more appropriately – lack thereof), they’ll hold meetings to get hyped up about uniting for the meaningless concept of undefined “change.” They’re not so much trying to get people excited about voting FOR something as voting AGAINST something… and in favor of “anything but…”
I suggest the time would be better spent collecting all their nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollars, to give their change to those who really need it: people who are working yet still facing an income-crisis.
