Let’s face it, the commercial real estate market needs to be fixed and moved into the twenty-first century. Is the old way of prospecting a thing of the past? After all, your prospects and potential clients are being bombarded by well over 5,000 marketing messages a day – they’re everywhere. And what if what I […]
“Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.” -Jim Rohn- What if you graduated college, entered the workforce, and never learned anything new? Would this affect the amount of money you earn? Of course! And yet, most commercial real estate professionals plow through their days, weeks, months and even years […]
Let’s face it – it’s rough out there! Currently, our industry is riddled with commercial real estate professionals who are very unsure of themselves, their business and what the next year or two will bring. Consumer confidence fell to an all-time low, as worries about jobs, the stock market, home foreclosures and the lack of […]
Let’s face it; commercial real estate professionals need every advantage they can get today! I spend considerable time and effort researching and learning what’s new in the marketplace so I can pass the information along to you. I recently came across a couple of tools that may appeal to you and clearly can help accelerate […]
I recently read this in Dan Kennedy’s NOBS Marketing Newsletter and I thought it was worth repeating: “It’s Happy New Year and GOOD NEWS – here’s a partial list of store closings or occurring or scheduled to occur shortly: ANN TAYLOR, 117 stores; CACHE, 20 stores; LANE BRYANT and FASHION BUG, 150 stores; HOME DEPOT […]
The people you hire are the ‘make or break’ for most companies and yet most business owners spend little or no time with this. The cost of a miss-hire is 23 x the hire’s annual salary. So for example, say you wanted a new admin to work 15 hours a week at $12 per hour; […]
“A high-quality life has a lot more to do with what you remove from your life than what you add to it.” -Cheryl Richardson- If you’ve ever dreamed of finishing your work and walking away stress free, you can. The key strategy is to do less in order to accomplish more. Sound impossible? It’s not […]
It’s 2009 and “It’s business as usual but doing business differently”. You’re probably asking yourself what in the heck am I talking about? And since I know that you read the paper at least now and then and I’ll bet catch an occasional 10:00 PM newscast, you obviously know commercial real estate is suffering. Now, […]
What you focus on expands, so to be prosperous, focus on what you DO want in life and business. People who are able to manifest great things quickly, do so because they have laser beam focus. They direct intense energy towards goals, as opposed to people who don’t make much progress because of shotgun-type focus. […]
I decided to humor myself this week and draft what might be your top eleven New Years resolutions for 2009. They are: I promise to actually market in 2009 — beyond just sticking a sign in the ground. I am committed to creating and sticking with a “2009 Marketing Schedule”. I will return every single […]
