Expect Success!
You are Cordially Invited to attend an EXTRAORDINARY event. Connect has partnered with Steve Thornton of Expect Success Coaching and Training for a powerful 3-Day training event in Sacramento, CA on September 15th, 16th, and 17th.
Here you will learn how to achieve a new level of success!
At this 3-day event, you can expect to roll up your sleeves and get right into the core training that will literally explode your Real Estate business. These strategies have been proven to be highly effective in helping agents just like you increase almost every aspect of their business when implemented. This is your chance to learn the exact steps to take in order to find the true success you are looking for.
Here are just a few things you will learn at this powerful 3-day event:
- How to Network Yourself for Maximum Growth
- 3 Great Referral Sources
- How to Rapidly Build Your Sphere of Influence
- Setting Successful Visions, Goals, and Expectations
- How to Face Your Fears and Break-through Roadblocks
- Powerful Recruiting and Team Building Strategies
- And so much more…
This is just a small sampling of the strategies, techniques, and skills you will take home with you.
Seating is limited, and THIS EVENT WILL FILL UP FAST!!! So don’t wait.
1. Due to Connect Realty’s sponsorship, you are able to save $636 dollars off the standard cost to attend this event.
2. The first 25 people to register for this powerful program will receive the brand new program “40 Days to Prosperity”, absolutely FREE! ($425 value)
3. The first 50 people to register will be entered into a drawing to receive one month of Private Business Coaching FREE of charge. ($495 value. 2 Sessions of One-on-One Coaching. 1 winner chosen.)
4. The first 50 people to register will be entered into a drawing and 5 will be chosen to receive three months of Connect Realty’s technology fee waived. ($119.85 value per person. 5 winners chosen).
CLICK HERE to register!
SEE YOU THERE!
Motivated?
Are you motivated? Too frequently, we place importance on material possessions – money or the items it buys us – as the origin of our motivations. Instead, our focus should be on the accomplishment, objective, personal satisfaction to generate motivation.
“Motivation” means different things to different individuals. One thing is certain, you can’t walk into a grocery store and purchase a jar of motivation. It has to develop from within yourself. Your brain needs continuous motivational input and support just as muscles need exercise and protein, engines need gasoline and regular maintenance, and plants need sunlight and water.
People are the product of their thoughts and the purpose of motivational material is to develop the quality of your thoughts. Motivation is nothing more than encouragement.
“We become what we think about all day long.”
- Emerson
“Most people think only what everybody else is doing.”
- Earl Nightingale
The highway to achievement is created with a goal. Embed that goal in your mind and meditate about it throughout the day. Take small steps in the direction of your goal each day, instead of occasional bursts of activity.
The chief difference between an average person and one who is highly successful is the degree of their personal motivation. Motivation is the hidden power in the successful person’s arsenal and is a key ingredient for their success. Most are motivated or have the potential if they are attracted to and interested in the activity.
Powerful motivation also stems from a deep rooted belief in what you are trying to do. It is strongest when it comes from your inner values. This creates a emotion of ENTHUSIASM which is essential in order to remain focused.
Think about this, what comes first? The chicken or the egg? Motivation or action? The answer surprisingly is Action. First, we have to ‘prime the pump’ and the way is through action. People who tend to procrastinate confuse motivation and action.
Staging… 7 Camera Tips to Capture a Room’s Size
Prospective buyers want a spacious home. The easiest way for buyers to browse is by viewing online property photos. Squeezing square footage into a camera shot isn’t easy, in fact it can be a painful process. Even certain furniture arrangements or floor coverings can actually do a disservice to the way your listing is presented online or in marketing photos.
1. Remove rugs – Area rugs break up the streamlined look of a floor which makes the room look smaller than it actually is.
2. Wide-angle camera – A wide angle lens camera is ideal for interior photographs since it expands the distance between objects and displays the room’s depth. However, beware of fisheye lenses or ultra wide-angle lenses, which are more likely to make rooms look wider but can mislead buyers into believing there’s more room than there is.
3. Get creative – Make certain furniture isn’t blocking views or walkways so you expose as much of the floor as possible. If there’s too much furniture crowding a room or the furniture is too bulky, it will decrease the look of space available within the room. In a heavily congested room, try eliminating a few pieces of furniture or substituting in smaller pieces. Dining rooms (or kitchenettes) may be perceived as larger if extra leafs are removed from the table. Use furnishings to create innovative spaces in larger rooms that actually show off the square footage. For example, you could add a reading corner in a master bedroom to demonstrate that more than just a bed could fit.
4. Use mirrors to your advantage – The reflection in a mirror can expose more of a room when you aren’t able to fit everything into your photo. This is a great technique especially when photographing bathrooms, just remember to shoot the photos at an angle so you don’t capture your own reflection.
5. Lighten up – In photos, brighter rooms characteristically come across as more ‘open and welcoming’, whereas dark rooms can look ‘small and dingy’. Be aware of the source of light in the room to get a brighter shot. Turn on all of the lights and open the curtains to let in natural light. Remember not to shoot directly into a light source as it will darken a room.
6. Shoot at an angle – A diagonal line is the longest visual line in a room. Shoot from the corner, backing up as far as you can before you take the photograph. Don’t limit yourself- take shots from a few different angles to allow yourself plenty of options.
7. Remove clutter – Clutter makes a room look overcrowded and robs attention from a room’s intended focal points.
Do your best to ensure changes you make to a room’s layout for the purpose of photos remain in place for showings. You will generate a detachment if the house looks great only in the online photos. If a buyer feels let down, it may persuade them to not purchase the house.
The Connect Realty Business Opportunity
Connect Realty is positioned to ignite a revolution in how real estate thrives in the Internet age. Join us to learn about the company and why the current downturn in the industry has created the “Perfect Storm” for Connect Realty. Connect has created the industry’s leading technology platform and brought serious passive income to the real estate professional!
Connect Realty is the most powerful opportunity in Professional Real Estate Today!
Our Saturday webinar series is hosted by Steve Hillier, Connect Realty’s top producing agent, team leader and recruiter along with John Olson, President, Virtual Tours Inc., also a team leader with Connect.
Register for a session now by clicking the link to the right : Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
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New Partnership Announced
Connect Realty is excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Buyers Protection Group “BPG”. BPG is a recognized leader in home warranty service since 1987.
Connect Realty has partnered with BPG to provide our clients with one of the best home warranties in the business.
You will see a new tab on the blue navigation pane called “Homeowner Services”. You can now click on the BPG Home Warranty link, where you can find updated material and information about BPG and how to obtain policy quotes under the “BPG Home Warranty” section.
Click here to log into the virtual office and watch the video of the new Partnership Announcement.
3 Practical Tips On How To Compose A Realtor Bio When You Have No Direct Experience (yet)
I know you are thinking to yourself. “How do I write a Realtor Bio if I don’t yet have experience??” Don’t worry !
A Realtor bio isn’t ONLY about your industry experience.
What entices clientele more than anything, is to know that you :
1) are familiar with the local market;
2) care about the client’s needs; and
3) will give them 100%.
You can fulfill each of these criteria even if you are brand new to the real estate business. We can use each of the client concerns to build your professional bio.
1. Familiarize yourself with the local market.
Perhaps you don’t have decades of Real Estate experience in your community, but you LIVE there, right? So, discuss what associations you have in your community. List any groups, volunteer work, or networks you belong to.
Where an experienced realtor could write about their twenty years skilled as a real estate agent, a brand new realtor can testify:
Andy has resided in Mayberry for X years and absolutely loves it. He is familiar with all of the neighborhoods inside-out, and has the ability to assist you in selecting the best one for your family’s needs.
OR
As a lifelong resident of Mayberry, Andy can put his insider knowledge to work to find a special property in your neighborhood of choice.
By doing this, you are able to demonstrate that you are notably familiar with local market, and the client won’t worry how many years of experience you have.
2. Care about the client’s needs.
What does your client desire when they are purchasing or selling real estate? They want an agent who will help them meet their needs. These ‘needs’ might consist of understanding precisely what they have in mind by “cozy home”, having a specific type of business style, or using the most up-to-date marketing tools.
How would you articulate this in your realtor bio? You may perhaps state:
Andy also uses the newest Internet marketing tools to depict your property to the broadest possible range of qualified buyers.
3. Give them 100%.
Before writing your bio, keep in mind the bottom line for your clients is “Are you the perfect real estate agent for me?” This is often interpreted as “Do I like you?”
So don’t overlook the personal character traits that qualify you for the job. Clients who read your real estate bio will feel secure in knowing you are friendly, professional, diligent, enthusiastic and prepared.
Here’s one way to write this in your professional bio:
Why select Andy as your real estate agent? He genuinely listens to you and will work tirelessly on your behalf.
Believe me, it makes all the difference when trying to sell yourself to show who you are and why you are passionate about the topic.
A decade of experience and a wall of awards isn’t necessary in writing a successful real estate bio. Just show that you know the local market, understand the client’s needs, and are going to work hard for them. Then you’ll have a distinguished professional bio that will be a strong part of your marketing materials.
Great Life Skills for Real Estate Professionals
With the arrival of fresh marketing techniques (specifically social media), it appears fairly obvious that Real Estate professionals as a whole should immerse the life skills they were taught as children. Some of these skills were the building blocks of communication.
1. Integrity- Remain genuine. Be the same person you are online that you are offline. Replace selling what you do with sharing who you are and your daily experiences. When choosing an avatar or profile photo, be a ‘person’, not a ‘real estate logo’. Individuals connect with other individuals, not signs and buildings.
2. Active Listening- It is elemental to reveal your interests, it’s even more significant to pay attention to others. Gaining knowledge in what your network is passionate about will assist you to ask better questions, offer better resources, and grow to be a better advisor. Who’s Talkin? and SocialMention are 2 social search engines that make it simple to monitor certain people and topics you care about.
3. Effort- Recognize resources that may be beneficial to improving your day to day work. If you’re uncertain where to look for great resources, try a social bookmarking tool such as Delicious or Digg where others contribute their favorite articles. Monitor your own resources and share them frequently, providing your own approach and strategies for implementation.
4. Respect- Give and you shall receive! Respect others, even “the competition”. When trying to connect with new people on social networks like Facebook or Linkedin, convey a brief yet genuine message explaining why you’d like to connect or how you know them. Don’t inundate people with spam or sales messages.
5. Courage- Try something you’ve never done before! Have you ever created a video? Give it a try! Everything is a learning process, even failed attempts can be a great lesson learned.
One last reminder….measure what you make! Examining what your clients ‘do’ or ‘don’t react to’ can offer you with insight as to what kind of content or resources your network finds beneficial. In doing so, you have the ability to reach more individuals and keep the conversation flowing.
Connect Realty Welcomes a New State Broker for Idaho
Join us in welcoming our new state broker for Idaho, Vicki Carnes. We also would like to welcome members of her team that have joined Connect Realty with her. Vicki came to the Sun Valley (ID) area in 1974 after her college years in Southern California. After dabbling in Real Estate investment as a hobby, she acquired her Real Estate license in the year 2000 and did her “internship” in a cubby at a “Big Box” Real Estate Franchise in Ketchum, Idaho. Vicki received her Broker’s License in 2002 and opened her own Real Estate firm that same year. Always intrigued by advances in technology, her company began to incorporate the concept of a virtual office and eventually shed all the “Bricks and Mortar” components of a traditional office in favor of a completely virtual business platform. The search for the perfect operations partner lead her to ConnectRealty.com where she sees the Future of the Real Estate industry. Welcome aboard!
Back to school
With the kiddos heading back to school, it provides the perfect opportunity for you to take a few classes as well. Real Estate courses come in all forms, shapes and sizes. Discounts can usually be found a dime a dozen. It’s one of those painstaking tasks that needs to be completed upon renewing your license. So don’t procrastinate. Find courses nearby or online and get them knocked out before they are due.
Connect Realty recently featured in the August 2010 edition of the California Real Estate Magazine
See how eliminating ‘brick and mortar’ has created a more functional, profitable, and ideal work environment for Real Estate professionals. Read more…
