YOUR VOICE MAIL!!
Seriously, people call you and you have 15-30 seconds to say something cool. Credit to Jeffrey Gitomer who first put this thought in my head. ” I am on my phone or away from my desk…” Says nothing, shows nothing but it does waste the time of the person that called. Help them smile, maybe even laugh. Why not?
Woke up early and was immediately thinking about one of my last conversations yesterday. Let’s start with some math;
If you spend $1000 and in return I lower the cost of something by about $3000 what could you consider your return on investment(roi)? $2000 not bad. Not bad at all.
So in the first year of this new product you saved $2000 by spending $1000. Now in the second year(assuming current numbers stay the same) you actually save $3000 since you do not spend the $1000 again. So you have now made $5000 by investing $1000. 500% return.
How many people do you spend money with that spend money with you?
How often do you CHOOSE to spend locally when an Internet or national chain option are available?
Now I am by no means perfect but I take the fact that I am a local business very seriously. I have a massive amount of gratitude for those people that choose to spend money with me and therefore enhance the lives of my family. So what else can I do? Well for me it comes down to a couple of basic things;
Random thoughts that are resulting from watching a friend try and sell her home.
Started off good, Realtor helped them buy this home around 8 years ago and kept in touch. Then, when approached gave some solid ideas on little things to improve the home. So you have a homeowner doing the right things and now the house is on the market. Now you also have 5 houses for sale in your neighborhood and yours only shows up when specifically searching for your address.
So your first listing that shows up only has one bad photo, FIX THIS.