Jason Edwards

The first person to bring this on my plane...

...with your kids gets tackled!  (see video at 2 minutes 19 seconds)

 

 

I have free closing gifts to give away

I need a distraction from the crazy news coming out of my town today so let's do something fun and use an idea from yesterday's post.  Do you give your clients closing gifts?  They don't have to be extravagant to make a lasting impact and I have some fun gifts I purchased long ago left over in an account that I'd like to give away.  So here's what you do: 

• Click on this link and zoom in on the picture.  Are you in the mosaic of my students?
• If you found yourself, go to this pic on Facebook, log in and tag yourself.  (Facebook won't let you blow up the photo - that's why I sent you to the other link first)

That's it!  The first five people who tag themselves and are actually in the photo will get a free surprise closing gift to use for their next client.  Note: Pixable automatically arranged the mosaic out of 200 photos I uploaded so if you're not in the photo I didn't exclude you on purpose.  :-)

Some people call me a salesman. I call myself a salesfriend.

Salesman, salesfriend, consultant, whatever.  Call it what you want, just remember, we're all in sales so you are in fact a "salesperson".  Embrace it; be proud of it; and work to get better at your craft.  Now go close out the week strong graduates - and for the record, you can call me your salesfriend!  (PS.  If you're not watching Modern Family, you're totally missing out!)

Surprise New Take on Commission?

via www.psfk.com

Working at this cafe in Japan must be a blast every day.  It has one rule:  You get what the person in front of you ordered and the next person gets what you order, no exceptions.  Use the link just below the pic to read the story.  I would have to go at least once to experience it - would you go?  After reading the story I started thinking about real estate.  Every year that I've read NAR's survey of home buyers and sellers, they've reported the vast majority of sellers hire their agent either based on a referral or they rehire the agent they used before.  Yet in the daily world of an agent who's building a strong listing inventory, competition for the listing is common.  So think of this for a minute:  What if you got the commission that the agent who presented before you proposed?  In other words, the seller hears from all agents, then whomever they pic, the fee they charge is the same fee proposed by the agent that presented before them.  Would that affect what you charge or how you perform on the listing appointment?

Even better, what if your broker paid you the commission that closed immediately before yours?  Sometimes you'd get a really large commission, sometimes small, but mostly around the office average.  How would that affect teamwork?  Your standards?  Company production?  Awareness of how your actions effect the associate down the hall?  Just a fun little thought I was playing with this morning.  What's your reaction to/take on it?

Special thanks to Seth for sparking the thought! 

The king is gone but we still have the queen

Just a little bit of fun for a Thursday afternoon and a break from real estate thoughts.  Madonna is about to unleash a new song on us to promote her last greatest hits record she owes Warner Bros. before making a full switch to the new label.  As any true fan would, I found a high quality clip of it and as expected it's freakin' hot!  Enjoy!

HQ MP3:

Download Madonna - Celebrate(20 Second leak)

Why study Floyd when you can just do this

Maybe we should add this to session 7!  

Forget the stock market, my phone is going to space!

I'm in Phoenix this morning getting ready to teach Session 3 and came across this video that made me laugh!  When I was in Starbucks earlier I overheard someone talking about how the DOW was down over 300 points this morning; who knows where it will be by days end but I'm going to show this to the group to start class.  Should put things into perspective for you.  Enjoy!

PS.  Thanks to my Twitter friend @dphamilton for the original post.  Are you on Twitter?  Connect with me:  @agentjason

USOpen Triathlon-Pics +1st Update

Everything is set up and ready to go! A little bit ago at the mandatory race briefing I found out how serious this event really is. It's the championship at the end of a series and the pros stand to earn half a million dollars!

The swim course looked pretty tame but the bikes racked next to mine were $12,000 bikes...sheesh! But in the end it's not how nice your bike is, but what you can do with it that counts. Hay!

Going to have a nice clean dinner now and then to hotel to rest. Race is at 7 am so I'll start the updates early.

Stuff White People Like #106: Facebook

Well I do love Facebook, that's for sure!  I just ordered this book and the blog is hilarious!  Thanks to the #1 Realtor in Nashville (as voted by the Tennessean readers) and my graduate, Christopher Neel for posting this on his own Facebook profile so I'd bump into it.  What a great way to start the weekend...I love it when people can poke fun at themselves.  Hope you get a chuckle out of this.  :D

#106 Facebook « Stuff White People Like

You can add me as your Facebook friend by going here:  http://profile.to/agentjason/

Happy Madonna Day!

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