May. 30, 2006 - Plan Your Summer NOW!!!!!

Plan Your Summer NOW!!!!!

Some forethought now will maximize business, minimize crisis management and give you some opportunity to enjoy the summer.

Take these 5 Steps as you pull out your calendars for June, July and August:

1. Put in vacation and holiday time, family time and rejuvenation time, as well as any business travel. Whether you are going to take a two week (or month long) vacation or some long weekends, create some real fun and enjoyment.

2. Take a look at your business plan. What production is necessary to be on target come September 1? Break it down into the available weeks Know how many units you must list or sell to be on track. For the very left brained: how many people do you need to talk to or see each day/week?

3. Review your marketing calendar for these months (What? You don't have one? How could that be? :>) Ahem.....Plan your advertising, your mailings, your events, and your contacts for the entire next 90 days. This is a good time to do a review of what has been working this year so far and double your efforts with what is working best. Eliminate the low return mailings/ads.

4. Create a plan with an office mate or your team so that the days you will be away will be able to be worry-free. Choose someone to watch your business that will take care of your clients with the same high standards you have. This can even pertain to your weekly "day off" (you ARE taking one, aren't you?)

5. Reconnect this summer with one of your passions. What do you love doing? Gardening, reading, riding a bike or a Harley? What have you been putting off doing until you have the time? (for me, it is learning to weave). Find time this summer to nurture yourself by enjoying yourself. This is for the right-brained among you......when you are relaxing and having fun, you attract to you EXACTLY what you want, need and intend.

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Coming Attraction: More about this next week...stay tuned for a new eBook by my Fairy Blogmother (That actually isn't fair-because I am older than she, but she is a wiz in this department!).

REALTOR/Blogger Frances Flynn Thorsen's new eBook HUD Homes for Sale -- A Complete Buyer's Guide, is a comprehensive road map of the foreclosure market for HUD Homes.

HUD Homes for Sale -- A Complete Buyer's Guide, contains over 100 pages in an easy-to-follow manual designed to help owner occupants and real estate investors develop winning strategies to bid on HUD properties successfully.

If YOU LIVE IN MA: Don't miss this event:

There's No Excuse for Having No Leads!

Kelle Sparta, the author of The Consultative Real Estate Agent, sold 25 houses her first year in real estate – and she did it without a sphere of influence! Working from scratch, Kelle found enough leads to build a business where she regularly sold 25-30 houses per year with a minimal amount of effort. These are proven systems, taught by someone who used them!

Thursday, June 8, 2006 Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm Worcester, MA 01605
Complete details here

And, it's not too late to register for the June FSBO GAME!!!!
If you want to guarantee an increase in business in June and beyond-register to play with us today! Room for only 15 more!

Have an EXTRAOrdinary Week....it's up to you!

May. 23, 2006 - Best of NAR MidYear Meetings

May. 17, 2006 - 2006 Trip to Paris!

May. 16, 2006 - Opportunity or Distraction?

May. 15, 2006 - Charles Dickens and I agree!!!

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." 
  

May. 15, 2006 - New Real Estate Agent Training

Calling All New Agents!!!

Step To Success Coaching Program
I am excited to be partnering with Kelle Sparta to be offering

a Six Month Long Coaching Program

For agents who are not content to learn and grow slowly but who want it NOW!!!
You Can Get on the Fast Track

for only $99 per month!

...begins August 9th

May. 2, 2006 - Ah,Paris!

Gardens & flowers are all in bloom! We walked all morning through all the gold encrusted rooms at Versailles. Amazing opulence. After a wonderful seafood salad, we walls along the Seine! then meet Alain & Jeanine for tea at Angelina's

Walk along the jewelry & parfum street. Margaret samples The $585 per half ounce perfum which stinks!

At sunset, we visit Sacreur Couer and overlook the whole city:

Dinner overlooking the city in a cafe in Monmartre and then walked home

May. 2, 2006 - The Good Life

Day 3

Gorgeous, warm sunny day! We visit Versailles in the morning. Quelle Decadence!

then Champagne & chocolate with lunch

May. 1, 2006 - Paris in the Spring!

Monday was chilly (50) and rainy,but we toured on the bus rouge to the major sites. Since it was May Day, Most museums & stores were closed. We walked to the Opera, where a political rally Was being staged. Then saw the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elleyse the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Lunch of Champagne, Oysters & French onion soup was followed by a nap! oh, the decadence! Mais tres bon. Dinner with Danielle and her sons, Oliver & 9io and her sister, Michelle was wonderful Italian!