My goal is to always provide superior service. We are salesman if we believe we recognize opportunities for our clients and interpret their signals of wanting to buy and provide the guidance through the process for a seamless transaction.

I'm both at the end of the day... a salesperson who provides 5-star service. (I'm also a consultant.)

I'm an entrepreneur- a salesman serving others. There's no separation of the two; sales is serving others. Sales is the art of skillfully connecting people with what they want or need, when they lack the ability to do so on their own. We are the bridge from fantasy to reality.

Its only people that view sales from the position of a bad sales experience that feel they need to separate the two. But, sales done well, is serving others and they are intertwined. Furthermore, if you know your value and can convey it to your prospects, then they see the two as one, too!

Just like a bartender we have to listen abd then provide an outcome.

Donna Foerster We provide a service to our clients, but the bottom line is we don't get paid until we make a sale.

Both.  I provide amazing service and that means I have to sell things.

I'm very proud to be a salesperson.  It is a highly skilled profession and one in which I do very well.

More of the former than the latter, but acually more of a facilitator

I would have to say both.

Buyers make the decision to buy. I am only a guide to the possibilities. So, service provider is more apt!

BOTH, I am selling service and homes

I see and market myself as a service provider.

Service provider mostly.

I think I'm both but lean more towards service provider.

Service provider for sure

The focus is on service to the client, not selling to them

Oh gosh, I know I'll get slammed for this but, service provider!  Yes, I do sell homes but, I feel like that is such a small part of the process.

We're both - we provide unique and valued services to our customers who help us to afford to offer our services by paying us when a sale is made

Customer service all the way with a warning that I speak persuasively

Donna,

I think that Dorie Dillard said it beautifully and it applies to every profession.  A

Several excellent answers from AR members who arrived here before me.

I've always been a listing agent and I've always considered myself a "marketing agent"....that's what listing agent do....they market.

Door #1

Both.

Neither. I consider myself to be a real estate professional.

I believe that Service is what the S in WMS stands for, but I am a good salesperson too, and most of my clients appreciate this.

Definitely a service provider and more of customer service.   Cannot sell a home to someone who doesn't want to buy.    

Both. Excellent question.

sales person,consultant, psychologist, psychiatrist, marriage counselor, new best friend, decorator, peer, parenting advisor, grandmother, team leader, service provider, coach, and that is just tonight!

An extra service provider.

Definately a service provider.

Service Provider

I consider myself some of both and think my sales skills are very sharp and persuasive. I want my clients to make their own decisions but I present a very good argument in the direction I think is best for them.

I help people buy great houses that are prefect for them.

Technically both, though my first thought is Service Provider, because that is what I offer, a service Donna Foerster. 

I help other people. I'm not necessarily a salesperson, but I do have to sell myself to get some of my business. 

Salesperson because at the end of the day, if I don't make sales, I make no money.  That doesn't mean I employ a hard sales approach.  I use a consultative sales approach.  However, to consider myself a service person, in my mind, is to devalue what I actually do.  Service folks are people that check you out at a store, or help you in a store. 

Just consider if this makes sense.  How many services did you make last year, last month?  To take the world sales out of sales is not accomplishing anything.

First and foremost would be a real estate consultant.  I want to interview them as much as they want to know more of me.  It may or may not be the right fit or the right time to buy or sell. 

I think you need to be able to sell your services first. That is the tough part of real estate - you have to sell yourself before you can get to your great services.

Sevice profividing sales person, chief chef and bottle washer as well

Michael Setunsky has a nice grip on the reality of this question.   

I like to think as a s a friend helping others buy a home.

Both.

Definitely a service provider.

Yes!

Problem solver

Both. Providing excellent service is how eventually we can make more sales. 

Donna Foerster - Salesperson's job - CEO is to generate leads - is 5 times more important than my other hat - COO - servicing  the clients. (Now that's from Peak Producers training that I am teaching some agents at my office.)

Put down that coffee, coffee is for closers! I'm a red, white and blue salesman that knows how to close and THAT is my service!

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