Posts Tagged ‘real estate’
World History Starts Here
Imagine you have a pushpin. It is sharp and magical. Imagine you can count on your memory of yesterday being the one true memory. Extend your crystal clear memory all the way back to the beginning of time so that your scroll of history is the one true and accurate depiction. Now call up the magic of your pushpin and succinctly prink the moment in history from which you want all land ownership to be determined. Start there.
That pushpin gave you a lot of power. Beware of
Read MoreFood For Thought: What Cannibals Teach Us About Sales
Plenty of friends in our animal kingdom eat their family members. Some cannibalism is ritualistic, strategic and customary like the black widow, praying mantis, and scorpion. Other cannibalism is opportunist, unexpected and occasional like some fish, birds, hamsters, bats, seals, otters, chimpanzees, and lions and tigers and bears. Oh my.
Sand tiger sharks are unique in their cannibalistic ritual in that they are the only species that starts the ritual in their mother-shark’s uterus. Sand tiger shark embryos develop sharp teeth and a mighty hunger…for their lesser embryotic siblings. The competition for survival starts before birth and it is fierce. By the time the mother sand tiger shark gives birth from both of her two uteruses, only the two strongest shark-pups emerge.
We all unwillingly practice small amounts of self-cannibalism every time our body consumes dead cells from our tongue and cheeks. Nail biting self-cannibals must find themselves’ even more irresistibly delicious.
Corporate or market cannibalism occurs when a new product or service consumes the sales and demand of an existing product or service. When you engage in cannibalism as a planned and ritualistic practice, it can be
Read MoreGrease the Skids…Or Get Left Under the Tire
Hearing something for a second time is not as exciting as hearing it for the first time. It’s also not as scary. It’s like porn–you get immune (or so I hear). That’s why in your business and in life it it so important to tell people what might happen, tell them how they might feel when it happens, and tell them what you’ll do to make them calm the hell down when they call you freaking out.
President Obama should have heeded this advice. Oh look at me, giving advice to Barry.
Read MoreFrom the Secret World of Auctions…To You
I spent my youth, dressed as a boy and being dragged to hundreds of industrial auction sites because my parents wanted me to learn the lost art of selling from the master persuader auctioneers. They hoped this dragged-in-drag experience would help me blend with the old-school auctioneer men, greasy machines and colorful language. They hoped it would provide me with rare, insiders’ access into a world that few others ever experience. It did.
Read MoreFREE Kindle Book Days are Upon Us
So, with a hint at some of the most powerfully persuasive words in captivity (see if you can spot them) I’m using this post to let you know of some exciting, news. Arousing the Buy Curious: Real Estate Pillow Talk for Patrons and Professionals, is a Kindle Select Book! Therefore, on October 14-15, you can instantly go right HERE and download the Kindle version…for FREE.
Read MoreArousing the Buy Curious. A Spicy & Instructive Real Estate Book.
Arousing the Buy Curious: Real Estate Pillow Talk for Patrons and Professionals, has finally hatched.
Here begins shameless book pimping. It’s a really good real estate book. Maybe the best one you’ll read today. Maybe the best one ever.
But before you
#AskObamaHousing and the Crowdfunding Dilemma
Hey, when the President asks for my opinion (and yours), he’s gonna get it! Check it #AskObamaHousing asked…and answered. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG72nt19PYI&fb_action_ids=10201176452385789&fb_action_types=yt-fb-app%3Aupload_ne&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210201176452385789%22%3A187616334742938%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210201176452385789%22%3A%22yt-fb-app%3Aupload_ne%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
Read MoreReal Estate, Zillow, Obama, and You!
If you are in any way involved in real estate, you have got to know this: Zillow just got the listing for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Not the National Association of Realtors. Not Trulia. Not Realtor.com. Not RedFin. Not you. But, if you scramble you can have a voice. If you don’t, expect your history to be written for you. Know this #AskObamaHousing. Follow this #AskObamaHousing. Post to this #AskObamaHousing. (Truth serum: the White House isn’t officially on the market)
Read MoreSafe Words That Bind
It’s amazing how we intensely we can hate certain words. Some of them, like goiter and panties, deserve that hatred because they brought it on themselves through the disgusting sounds they make. However, for some their meaning was given to them–like religion or bad grooming habits. It’s not their fault. What about those innocent words we hate intensely that stand cold, lonely and frightened by our hatred. What did moist ever do to you? Poor, old slacks just asked nicely to be ironed from time to time. What about the scary ones that we fear to type, let alone utter.
Read More