Posts Tagged ‘Service’
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…
Read MoreRules for CORE Agents #20: If a Client Calls You With a Question, You've Probably Already Failed
Your phone rings. It’s a seller whose home you’ve listed, and they want to know if that buyer over the weekend had any feedback. Or it’s a buyer you’re working with, wondering if anything new came on the market this week. Guess what? You just failed. Why? Because they felt that they had to call…
Read MoreRules for CORE Agents #19: Never Argue With a Client, Or, Really, Anyone.
I deal with angry clients all the time. I’m the lawyer for my company, and if I’m talking to a real estate client, it’s usually because they’re so unhappy that they want to break a contract or sue me or something. I don’t get to talk to the happy clients. So I talk to these…
Read MoreRules for CORE Agents #17: Never Tell Anyone You're ALWAYS Available For Them, Because You're Not
So you’re sitting down with a client for the first time, and you’re trying to impress upon them your dedication to a great service experience. You take them through your value presentation, answer all their questions, and you can tell that you’re thisclose to locking them in. It’s all going so well, so you decide…
Read MoreRules for CORE Agents #15: Great Service is in the Eye of the Beholder
Let’s say you’re shopping for a new jacket, and you pop into a clothing store. Immediately, a salesperson comes up to assist you, asking if you need any help and what you’re looking for. Usually, that’s a great thing, so much better than those times you go into a store and you can’t find anyone…
Read MoreRules for CORE Agents #14: Happy Clients Are Better Than Any Marketing Program Ever Invented
Real estate agents are always coming up with creative places to put their faces. It used to be that you’d see real estate agent faces just in the pages of newspapers and magazines, but now you see them on park benches, billboards, shopping carts – really, anywhere there’s a flat surface and someone willing to…
Read MoreRules 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. …
Read MoreWho 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…
Read MoreAre 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,…
Read MoreBook 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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