12 Guidelines For Success
Here are 12 guidelines for success that will help you achieve your desired outcomes, regardless of what your business is.Like all success tips, these guidelines represent quick and easy starting points for making the necessary changes to achieve better results.
1. Align Your Personal and Business Goals
Aligned goals means that achieving your business goals will lead to the achievement of your personal goals easily and effortlessly.Aligned goals
- double your rewards: you achieve your desired personal and business outcomes
- produce a single focus
- reduce time and energy wasting diversions
To learn more about aligning your personal and business goals, see Chapter One of the ebook, How To Achieve Better Marketing Results...Sooner.
2.Plan to Succeed--Work Smart Not Just Hard
Success in any field requires a huge time commitment.Ensure that you can commit the necessary time.
In order to succeed, it it is better to work smarter and not harder.
The best way to work smarter and not harder is to set and work to achieve S.M.A.R.T. goals.
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3. Use More Resources Better
In one way or another, all 12 guidelines for success will help you make better use of your existing resources.Few resources offer more potential for making better use of your resources, than the Internet.
Among its other benefits, the Internet provides the opportunity to effectively communicate with people you know and people you don’t know, regardless of where they live.
It allows you to effectively communicate and keep in touch with prospects, clients and contacts.
At the very least, you will need your own unique website for attracting...and satisfying...the best clients.
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4.Do What You Do Best, Delegate The Rest
Most people will try to help if they can.If people like you they might help; if they don’t like you they won’t help you.
To help others help you:
- ask them for help
- be specific
- listen to their response
- acknowledge their response
Of the 12 Guidelines For Success, guidelines 1-4 apply to personal considerations...factors that focus in you and who you are all about.
Guidelines 5-8 of the 12 Guidelines For Success apply to actions that focus on factors other than specific client interactions.
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5.
Define And Work
Your Market Niche
Successful
niche
marketing depends upon going narrow, going deep and helping
your
prospects select you instead of the competition.
To succeed in a niche market includes learning everything there is to know about your niche markets.
Helping prospects select you means offer them a compelling reason for choosing you instead of the competition.
To learn more about offering prospects a compelling reason for choosing you, see Chapter Eight of the ebook, How To Achieve Better Marketing Results...Sooner.
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6. Learn Everything You Can About Your Clients
All clients- will benefit from your service
- have personal goals hopes and dreams
- demand and are entitled to receive your best
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7. Overcome The Challenges That Face You
All successful people share three characteristics:- commitment
- tenacity
- willingness to learn from others
- a competitive marketplace
- educated clients
- information explosion
- difficulty entering a new market niche
- negative perception of real estate agents
- prospects don’t know you
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8. Continue To Do What You Well...But Do It Better
To survive in today's competitive marketplace, you must have some level of competence in many areas.However, success requires more than mere competence. To thrive over the long term, you must continue to get better at everything that you do.
Guidelines 9-12 of the 12 guidelines for success apply to specific client interactions.
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9. Communicate
to
Attract Prospects
Attract more and better prospects by offering them a compelling reason for choosing you.
Help them understand what distinguishes you from the competition and the benefits that they will enjoy from hiring you.
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10. Communicate to Convert Leads Into Clients
New clients- replace clients whose transactions have closed
- have a lifetime value that represents the revenue that you will receive during the time when these clients continue to select you as their agent
- are the first stage of the client pipeline that results in the referral of pre-qualified leads.
To ensure that you follow up consistently and effectively, develop and a good follow-up system.
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11. Communicate to Satisfy Clients—Understand And Meet Their Needs
Clients demand quality service.It is the quality of your service that most distinguishes you from the competition.
By monitoring client satisfaction you can improve the overall quality of your service.
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12. Communicate To Help Your Clients And Contacts Make More Referrals To You
Referrals
are the
largest single source of new clients.
The best way to generate referrals is by developing and following your own referral system.
Clients, family members, friends, referral partners and network contacts can and will make referrals to you.
You do however have to ask for referrals and make it easy for people to make referrals to you.
To ensure an ongoing flow of referrals, keep in touch with your contacts regularly.
To learn more about these 12 guidelines for success together with other principles that will help you succeed in your business, see 10 principles of success.
These 12 guidelines for success will also help you achieve greater success beyond work.
Ultimately you will want success in both your work and your personal lives.
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How To Apply These Guidelines
If you are not sure how to apply these guidelines ... there is no need to be concerned.There is lots of help available.
For example, success guidance will help you if you prefer working independently.
Unfortunately, many people are deterred from taking action because of the risks associated with taking action.
The good news is that you can now start to take the necessary actions to succeed...totally risk-free.
To learn more about taking risk free action to succeed, see Astute Marketing: How to Succeed In Real Estate Marketing.
This risk-free approach to successful real estate marketing will help you attract more prospects and generate new business.
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