Sales Person, Real Estate Agent, Janitor, Cashier, Doctor, Race Car Driver, Attorney, or whatever your career choice….you are the greatest! Or you at least need to think you are!
Daily affirmations to empower your mind in a positive direction will ultimately provide regular successes to build additional confidence for bigger challenges and in turn greater success. Your daily affirmations need to fall in line with your personal and business goals so that you go into each day with the proper mindset. If you are generally negative make it a point to look at the good side of everything, realize that every difficulty is actually opportunity and then hold yourself accountable that your mindset controls your outcome.
Try these general affirmations every morning in front of the mirror and regularly throughout your day as needed:
1. I will be successful!
2. I will NOT allow Negativity to control my destiny!
3. Only I Can Make It Happen!
Good luck with being the Greatest….after all if you do not believe it, nobody else will!!
Steve, Rory, and I were awarded for having one of the fastest-growing companies in the country (GetMyHomesValue) by Inc. Magazine last weekend. The Inc. 500 conference was amazing and we fortunately got to share a lot of it with our wives. I think one of the things that was most exciting about it was the solidification of our position as a leading Internet marketing service for real estate agents. We were able to grow our firm more than 780% in four years by offering real estate agents an incredible package that helps them to take their businesses to the next level. Here are some pictures of the event. Enjoy.
In this declining market of mortgage interest rates, it is very important to keep a close eye on where the markets are heading. Interest rates change daily and lately they have been changing multiple times per day. The national average for mortgage rates are below 6%. This is awesome! Whether you are that buyer who is sitting on the fence waiting (which I don’t recommend) or looking to refinance, now may be the time. How can you fathom that there will be a better time in the future to buy a home? The markets can only go up and many of them already are. Agents, if you have clients on the fence, now is the time to hit them with the facts and the possibilities.
We have hit rock bottom a while ago in my opinion. If you take out Florida, Nevada, and California out of the picture, the real estate market really never really looked that bad. I am seriously thinking about refinancing some of my property and I am currently keeping a close eye on mortgage rates. I use bankrate.com to track interest rates. Click here to use a great tool by Bankrate to check rates anywhere in the country.
The coolest feature allows you to set up an email alert when the rates hit your target level. This means that you do not have to worry about looking on the internet everyday trying to track rates. This site seems to have the rates from the largest of lenders. This is a great tool for agents who (1) want an excuse to contact some leads that have been on the fence and (2) to have great info to provide in emails, calls and mailings to current leads in your pipeline.
I will let you know how I make out in my quest to lower the amount of interest that I am paying.
Just heard Alex Bogusky chat about some things. He is the creator of the new Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfield Microsoft ads, The Anti-Cigarette Truth Campaign, and a new campaign that’s running for Burger King (http://www.whopperfreakout.com).
He was absolutely brilliant.
Following Alex was Paul Bennet, of Ideo… Freaking Hillarious!
In the pictures… Alex Bogusky is above and Paul is below:
I am currently hanging out with Bob Pearson from Dell talk about how to leverage new media to your advantage. Here are a couple of points…
Need to thank your customers on a regular basis. Create a campaign that thanks our customers.
Create an area where customer can review your products/services
Need to constantly know what’s being said online about your brand and choose where to break in and say something.
By being where your customers search for major terms online you can determine who is creating the conversation on the internet about your industry… you need to become “friends” with those people… or be there yourself.
Bob’s talk was very interesting and informative. It is really fascinating to see how such a large company is using such a micro marketing channel effectively.
As Dave mentioned in the previous post we are down in DC at the Inc. 500 Conference and it has been awesome. As I am writing this post I am watching Seth Godin and Tom Peters on stage answering entrepreneurial questions and openly offering their like and different opinions. They are further discussing the importance of having a blog and the real time current issues that most privately held companies face week in and week out.
What strikes me is that the room is filled with people that for the most part “Get It” which as we watch and ask Seth and Tom questions we all get it, however, we are here because we want to “Get It” even better than what we do currently. The point being that your Success is dependent upon surrounding yourself with more and more people that “Get It” or who are truly able to get it by your Coaching and Training. You must get rid of dead weight that will never “Get It”. Always remember that Success Breeds Success!
So Rory and Steve came down last night so that they could play in the golf tournament that is taking place at the conference. I drove down this morning.
We are staying at the Gaylord Resort, which is also where the conference is.
The drive down was ok until I got completely lost (with a GPS Garmin AND My phone GPS AND A print out from Google Maps).
The resort is really beautiful… it’s actually like 43 acres or something crazy and it’s super easy to get lost.
So anyway, I’m going to be heading downstairs to some of the sessions… I think there’s like 4 of them at 4… The one I am most excited about is Alfred Spector’s. He works at Google and will be talking about how Google inspires innovation. Should be fun.
Oh, and I got completely attacked by this American Express lady after I registered. It was rediculous. I kept politely trying to get away from her and she kept asking me extremely irritating questions. AND WE’RE ALREADY CUSTOMERS and she knew it… anyway.
The pics are of the hotel.
Oh! I am twitting throughout the time while we’re down here, so feel free to follow me at:
The mortgage markets have gone through some very interesting times lately. Have we seen the worst of it, yet? I guess that is to be determined. The involvement of the government to step in and bailout mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has gotten us one step closer to getting things back to normal. But we’ve only gone through the first wave of mortgage market fallout. There are tons of adjustable rate mortgages that are yet to reset. This mortgage fallout will likely spill over to other consumer debts, such as car loans and credit cards. Those who lost their homes, I would assume also maxed out their credit cards and lost their cars during that same process of losing their home. American Express has been put on a “watch list”. Some of these larger mortgage holders also have large credit card portfolios that will be at risk.
I think that the government’s bailout was the right thing to do. It gets everyone in the right mindset to work on repairing the mess that has been created. As long as the government allows the private sector to retain ultimate control, it will get us back to a sense of normalcy. The government’s involvement has helped lower mortgage rates and it will help keep mortgage rates down as the upswing continues in the real estate markets. We have seen some positive data come out of the real estate industry lately, helping to make us all feel good about the investments that we have made in real estate. For me, I can’t wait to see the consistent price increases month over month.
So Rory and Steve came down last night so that they could play in the golf tournament that is taking place at the conference. I drove down this morning.
The pics are of the hotel.