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#1: COACHES FOCUS ON SOLUTIONS.
 
Many times when people engage a coach it is because they are facing a challenge or have an opportunity that is unique to their experience. When people are facing challenges, they have a tendency to focus on the problem, not on the solution.

I started writing this article a couple days ago when I was on a tangent regarding the blatant, in-office solicitation of our agents (and myself) to join network marketing companies. I decided to sit on it to see if my feelings simmered... they haven't and since today is the day we launch our 2009 Business Planning Coaching Course, I feel it is a very good time to let everyone know just what business we are in.

Together with so many of you I’m stressed beyond stressed.  At times over the past couple of weeks I’ve felt paralyzed.  This putrid economy and a particularly nerve-racking time in my personal life had me eager to get to my new job yesterday. 

My main website is built on a TypePad blog, so I receive their newsletter.  Today they had a great post about how to come up with new blog topics.  I often sit here, staring blankly at my computer screen, willing my fingers to type...I'm sure that lots of you do as well.  If you blog on a regular basis, give yourself a pat on the back...you deserve it!  

If you need some help to replenish your blog topic repitoire, read on...you're like the rest of us :-)

I have just listed their 10 Ways below briefly; however, you really should read the entire article for all the details.

Darryl entered the real estate profession at the ripe young age of 19.

After almost a year working “part-time” he realized that the only way to become successful in real estate is to focus on building your business base, promoting yourself effectively, providing superior, quality service and remembering to follow up with past clients and customers.

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Well it’s official! While Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions (FNRES) is still “taking care of business” until everything is transitioned over, as of October 29th, Emphasys Software is now at the helm of Agent Office! Emphasys is a Real Estate management, financial and compliance software solutions company. It offers a long list of Real Estate related software solutions.

Many of you are a lot like me.  Entrepreneurial.  We’re constantly looking for opportunity, and when we see it, we often just naturally go for it.  Some of us more than others, depending on our place in life, our risk tolerance, financial ability, and the other things on our plate, but all of us, to some degree, learn to spot opportunity and react.  Such is the life of an entrepreneur.

"Ask for the business."

That sounds familiar, doesn't it?  It's a well-known mantra in the real estate business. 

You can deliver a stellar listing presentation or buyer consultation that goes so far as to convince your customer that she/he would do well to sign on as your client.  But, how many times has your broker told you that if you fail to go that one teeny-tiny-last-little-bitty step by asking them to be your client, you sometimes end up losing 'em after they've rationalized some other gap-filler like, "okay, sounds great.  I'll call you tomorrow."

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"...What matters is where are the real relationships?...Networking is always important when it's real.  And it's always a useless distraction when it's fake.  What the internet has allowed is an enormous amount of fake netowrking to take place.  And it's so easy to be seduced by it because there's a dashboard and a socreboard...And it's nonsense... It's like measuring 'hits' to your web site, it doesn't translate.  What translates is (the question), 'Are there people out there who I would go out of my way for, and who would go out of their way for me?'  That's what you need to keep track of.  And the way you get there is by going out of your way for them.  And by earning the privelege of one day having that connection be worthwhile."