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There is a big perception that if you dont actually see someone working, they arent working. People expect to see someone slaving away at their task and they expect to see measurable results from that work. If youre not hitting something with a hammer, youre not working.  Most of the time the work that is done is not something that the average person can measure and track, its a lot of investigation, phone calls, networking, and contracts.

A lot of people think real estate agents arent working hard to help them find that perfect deal, when in most cases the exact opposite is true. Its perception! There are of course, things real estate agents can do to counter that perception. Many times, its just about making a client feel comfortable, thats it. We want them to work with us, not be underfoot and constantly panicking, Im sure weve all had clients like that.

Here are some tips from Franklynews that may help put your clients at ease.

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Inman Real Estate Connect, San Francisco 2010; Mr. Guest on how technology has changed the face of the real estate work flow and experience. We need to get back to the business of actually showing properties and selling real estate.

Tom Guest: My thoughts are in the old days we used to have a real state book we would open up, we go and show properties and everybody were dependent on us. What I see now is that there is so much technology out there that I am just absolutely amazed its almost like you could do a full time job with just technology and do nothing else we wouldnt have time for real estate but you would have a lot of fun going through all these applications all these programs and all those research and you go through all these broker matrixes and you will not be an expert on everything real estate because you dont have the time. So my thought is, is that...

Mark Eibner: Get an assistant?

Tom Guest: You have to have an assistant but you have to take time to actually do the business of showing properties listing properties and going out there and doing the nuts and bolts and I guess you could supplement that with transaction broker have somebody be there for you getting assistant do that for you, you have somebody who is a lead assistant have somebody who does your Internet for you but there is so much more to doing nowadays that used to be really easy the old days where you would just go out so properties everybody was dependent upon but now they are not dependent on you so its a whole new world that I am just amazed not to be kept we could do it, we would have to do in the course of the day everyone in the US like with all the technology thats available

Mark Eibner: Absolutely great.

Tom Guest: Im amazed.

Mark Eibner: Thanks Tom. Tom Guest President Elect 2011 Metro Brokers, chow.

Tom Guest: Chow

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Inman Real Estate Connect, San Francisco 2010; Mr. Goodman has discussions with brokers of all sorts about websites, lead generation, and how they distribute leads to their agents; a new concept, an agent concierge lead management system.

Mark Eibner: How about you Mr. Goodman.

Ron Goodman: Great stuff, got to participate in a broker session this afternoon talking different brokers, large brokers, small brokers talking about websites lead generation how they parcel out leads to their agents and...

Mark Eibner: Tell us about that how do they parcel leads through their agents?

Ron Goodman: Well a couple of them had a real interesting idea they basically have two licensed agents that they pay a salary and they operate a concierges type lead management the concierges agents get all the leads and initially and they nurture and over the consumer is ready to do something and they are constantly asking those key questions you know are you ready to go, are you ready to go and once they are, they get assigned to the agents their closing rate they said is well into the double digits for their internet leads.

Mark Eibner: Awesome. Thanks Ron, Ron Goodman.

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An introduction and information from Judy Templeman

Judy Templeman: Hi I am Judy Templeman, I am the 2006 President of Metro Brokers, so I am now a past president and the name of my company is JT properties. My office is in Fort Collins and I am resident of Windsor, so I worked at Fort Collins, Windsor, Loveland markets and along the northern front range. You can reach me online at www.judy.templeman.com, thank you.

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How do you succeed? Well, we know we all have to try, and try hard. We need to push ourselves towards our goals, and try new and different strategies. One mile marker to success is failure. They say if you havent failed, you havent tried hard enough to succeed. Falling down is a part of life, and a part of life is finding out what works and what doesnt work. No matter what stage in your career youre in, we are all a work in progress.

Its up to us to succeed and to push ourselves out the door and try to make it all work. If you shoot for the stars, you may very well make it, and even if you dont, you may at least make to the mountain tops, much further than if you had never tried in the first place.

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