Rules for CORE Agents #21: No News is Still News

You know what the weather is like right now in San Diego? It’s 85 degrees and sunny.  You know what it’s going to be like tomorrow?  85 degrees and sunny.  Next week?  85 degrees and sunny. The funny thing is, they still do the weather report every day.  Turn on the news, and at some…

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Rules for CORE Agents #13: Be Good at Your Job

Take a look at a list of the most successful agents in your market and try to figure out what they have in common.  How did they all become top agents? It’s not easy, because successful agents don’t conform to the superficial stereotypes that we all have of the dynamic “superstars” out of central casting. …

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Who are your clients? Ummm, your clients, dummy!

Whenever I am at an industry conference, I’ll hear a real estate broker make the observation that a broker’s real “client” is the “agent.”  That is, although individual real estate agents have buyers or sellers who are clients, a broker’s clients are actually the agents: the broker provides services to the agents, who then treat…

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Are Real Estate Agents Worth It? Yes!

NOTE: This is a reprint of a post I made in early February on the Market Intelligence blog that I write for my company in New York.  Since it has some universal application to the industry, I thought I would share it here.  The bottom line: good real estate agents are, and always have been,…

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Book Review: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right — Achieving Operational Excellence in the Real Estate Industry

Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto is a  powerful book, one of the best and simplest articulations of how to achieve operational excellence that I have ever read.  Gawande’s message is simple: the world has become increasingly complex, and we need to actively create systems and processes that will simplify the tasks that we have to…

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