Barry Owen's Blog
Tips and commentary For Home Buyers & Sellers and REALTORS with primary focus on LIVE - Work - Play - Life Rhythm - Life Performance Oriented thinking for regular folks
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2008
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Here's something I learned this morning - The 8th day of our SPRINT calls:The past week, I have been REALLy hitting my folks hard to encourage them to show up each morning for these SPRINT calling periods. I have been emailing a script every afternoon to be used the following morning and have a g...
03/12/2008
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Yup - I learned a lot from my Mother. She could find ways to guilt me into doing most anything she knew I needed to do. Without question - My Mother was my compulsory "Promise keeper". If she knew of promises I made or obligations I had, she would always hold my feet to the fire.There were times ...
03/10/2008
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I just finished up a tremendous "Broker Issue" and just have to get this off my chest.Do you expect your Broker to take over your tough deals and do it for you?Or Do you value your Broker for the guidance you need to get'r done yourself? My advice?DO NOT LET YOUR BROKER TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR TRANS...
03/07/2008
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I had a comment to yesterday's post asking for an up-date as to how things are going with all of this coaching, training and sprinting in our office . . . I promised a re-cap of the week.The Sprinting program is yeilding stellar results. Sure, we have had a few blips. It took me a little while to...
03/06/2008
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It would be most appropriate on the day that I led a 3 hour session about "The Power of ONE" in the 36:12:3 class, that one of the participants in the class would have a MAJOR and potentially life changing AHA!This associate has been in business with another associate in the office, and they had ...
03/06/2008
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WOW!Odds are good that you have already seen this article - I think I have received it 3 different ways in the past 3 days. Time Magazine published an article which we could ALL use to develop our scripts and dialogues about the shifting/shifted real estate markets. This is good stuff . . . Read...
03/05/2008
Isn't it frustrating when you "hire" a vendor to do a job for you and/or your clients and things don't go as you expect? Often this occurs because the vendor fails to communicate up front, so the delivery cannot possibly match your expectations. After all, we usually hire vendors to "come in and ...
03/04/2008
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Today, we launched the Lead Generation SPRINTS. I arrived at the office at the usual time (@ 8:15) and made a few pots of coffee thinking that would be the necessary fuel for a group of agents coming in to do some highly effective Lead Generation.We began with a very low key/Low energy session du...
03/03/2008
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Without question, we REALTORS must be good problem solvers and "light on our feet" as emergent issues pop in front of us when least expected as we wander through the day. As with anything - If we are operating with a SYSTEM and working from a tried a true model, ANY pursuit that matters becomes e...
03/02/2008
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Beautiful blue skies with puffy white clouds and a balmy 70 degrees here in Nashville . . . A welcome change considering the fact that we have had weeks of dismal clouds and cold, clammy rain . . . even enough snow on Wednesday night to close schools on Thursday.Today feels like Spring!We unleash...
03/01/2008
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Stream of consciousness commentary on the real estate industry from the perspective of a Principal Real Estate Broker and Founder of Pareto REalty, LLC in Middlle Tennessee - Also a Career Development Coach with vast Organizational Development/Transformation training and experience - in the industry since 1993