Gabriel Duque's Blog

Sometimes you feel that you have reached a plateau and could not achieve better results? You're not alone, many people sabotage their own success, many people question themselves: "Why can't I be more successful? Why do I stop myself?"

Success and stress is not the same thing. Even though in order to be successful you need to work hard that does not mean you have to burn yourself out. In reality you need to reprogram yur own belief and learn to worker smarter.

In our life training we are trained to fit and not bring too much attention to ourselves instead of being trained to be successful. Frequently when you were feeling really great about yourself you heard someone tell you: "Who do you think you are? This repeated pattern of verbal punishment made many of us assumed that thinking too great about ourselves will bring someone to bring us down.

To be successful you need a certain level of self-confidence. To be happy you need to feel good about yourself. So if you feel unworthy, you should start using the following list of beliefs recommended by Dr. Maya Bailey¹:

• I am more than worthy of prosperity
• I am highly deserving of an abundance of all good
• It is now okay for me to feel good about myself
• I give myself permission to feel pride in the work that I do
• As I share my expertise I am worthy of being amply rewarded

She recommends practicing these Empowered Beliefs frequently to raise your level of self esteem.

Of course you will need to leave the comfort zone if you ever want to become successful. Life requires for you to get risks. You can stay put and you will never be able to fulfill your potential, and you will stay at a low financial level, and never reaching a dream.

You are struggling between your desire to achieve more or just settle down for what you have. You need to break through and go for the best of yourself fight to obtain some time for self care, and self maintenance. You need to realize that by continuing doing what you have done until now "your comfort zone" is only keeping you from achieving your full potential

You need to rethink your strategies and create a plan that will allow you to differentiate yourself from the competition. This will require a higher presence in the Internet since right now 87% of the future buyers start their search on the Internet. Create a good follow up system that will allow you to respond as soon as possible to any request. Maintain drip information, since most of the possible prospects that contact you through the Internet are just seeking information and will not take an action until 3 to 12 months.

What about enticing sellers and customer by using virtual tours as part of the package you normally offer to your customers. Remember the realtor that has the greatest chance to sell is the one that has the listing.

Start thinking why it is unsafe to grow or expand? You need to balance your life.

Or simply relax, be healthy, and positive while creating the highest financial outcome possible with the least amount of stress.

 If you decide to use virtual tours in Miami Dade, or Broward Counties or in the Miami beach area remember that Virtual Florida Tours is your local provider of Real Tour Vision and you can contact us at (305) 331 8960 or through the Internet at http://www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

As a professional you do not have any tool more powerful that your mind. You need to think with clarity before acting, by doing this you will move upward and onward more rapidly in your career.

The best way is to think in your benefits as well as the benefits of the company of which you are part. To achieve this in a personal term is to increase your earning ability. In other words you need to apply the needed mental, emotional and physical energies toward getting the needed results for yourself and your company.

You should try to increase your overall effectiveness and contribution in all the areas of your life, especially and most important in your work.

Increase everything that you are doing that yield the maximum financial return. Also think in those activities that give you the greatest value and achieve the most satisfaction and increase them as much as possible.

As a realtor what are you doing to differentiate yourself from other professionals and make yourself more marketable. Are you using the Intenet in a valuable way? Are  you giving the seller/buyer a service that other professionals in your area are not providing?

Have your company stablished a plan of action that separates your's from other companies offering similar services? Do you offfer virtual tours that will allow possible buyers from other states or countries to "visit " your listing without the need of personally coming to see it? Do you have a stablished folow up plan that will allow you to give drip information to possible clients?

Rememeber you can always count on your virtual tour provider for advice in how to make your listings more effectively presented to your prospects. If you have any virtual tour need in Miami Beac, Miami Dade or Broward Counties? Please call Virtual Florida Tours at (305) 331 8960 or contact us through the Internet at http:www.virtualfloridarealtours.com and remember that we strive for excellence.

Reference: Tracy, Brian; "Strategic Thinking", Broker Agent News E-Letter     - Updated for Sept. 19, 2007

The first thing that a realtor needs to address is what will his niche will be, beachfront homes, condominiums or any other market in which to become the ultimate specialist.

After that you should set your goals: implement individual strategies and programs support the plan and by reaching its marketing objectives achieve her/his goals.

Then you need to address the organization of your work, you need to know what the market wants, what is needed, and how what you are providing will affect the outcome. What do you have that makes people buy from you instead of your competitors? What do you do better than others? What do you fall down at doing?

A question that comes to mind is how the advertisement return on investment is. Are you getting back what you expect from it? Is there a way to measure what is coming from this advertisement?

In today's market buyers are reportedly starting their searches in the Internet so what are you doing to capture this market? What are you doing to convince these sellers that if they do business with you they have better possibilities of selling their homes at the highest price? Are you going to settle for local buyers or would you like to increase your possibilities? If you want to address the International or out of the State market do you think they could come to visit houses as your local clients might do?

The only way to address the needs of the new expanding market is through a well ranked web page and intensive use of virtual tours that will allow your client to select their house with the least amount of inconvenience. On the other hand you will be saving money if you compare your costs of placing advertisements in news papers or magazines that could reach the same number of clients during a whole year?

Constantly hammer your future clients with adds that emphasize how you are special...you are the (what?) realtor

You need to device good tactics, by discovering those things that you can do that your competitor can't.  That will be your guerrilla tactic. Once you spot your potential guerrilla marketing tactics you will be able to corner your share of the market.

Evaluation of the outcome generally involves three parts...Definition of  the Standards - Measurement of the Performance against the standards, and Correcting any Deviations. In other words Return On Investments (ROI).

Once you do this come the feedback If the ROI is what you expected continue the good work, if it is less What has to be done in order to achieve the Goals.

Remember  whenever you need a virtual tour in Miami Beach, Miami Dade or Broward Counties Virtual Florida Tours is your local provider of Real Tour Vision, you can contact us at (305) 331 8960 or through the Internet at http:www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

Reference: Koelzer, Bill; "Ten Steps to a Solid Realtor®, Team, or Office Marketing Plan"Broker Agent News E-Letter - Updated for August 1, 2007