Photos from Joshua Jarvis
Trilogy Park is in Gwinnett County, in the city of Hoschton.
Courtesy of the Jarvis TeamLocated in: Trilogy Park (Hoschton, GA)
6:00 AM - Playing golf didn't help the cold, no working out today. It's raining and miserable outside.
8:00 AM - Trying to start today, 154 E-mails. Always odd how Thursdays are slow in Real Estate for me.
8:45 AM - Cleaned up e-mails. With the weather and my cold, I have some reduced goals today.
9:15 AM - Oooh breakfast...
10:27 AM - I'm thinking of getting rid of my errands first so I can gather energy up for later in the day to make the calls.
After Lunch
2:14 PM - Really dragging today. Luckily I did most of the important "A" items. I'm going to finish up my calls then do some low level admin (should be relaxing) then if time permits I'll blog, but otherwise, I'm going to rest.
3:00 PM - A bit disapointed that this week I am sick, so doing this isn't quite the "inspiration" that I thought it would be for agents.
4:15 PM - Oh well, I made a few phone calls, I'm just going to wrap it up and face a huge call list on Monday. At this point you can't really even tell what I am saying on the phone... so..
Awful cold...
7 AM - Preparing for BNI Meeting: Chateau Elan Networking Elites - A network meeting where people pass referrals to one another.
Mainly my goals today are to make all my meetings be productive. I'm going to monitor my e-mail but my call list doesn't have anyone on it.
8:00 AM - Leaving for the meeting, I have a new 60 second presentation utilizing the letter "M"
8:15 AM - I'm there with about 10 others getting ready to start.
8:30 AM - People are sitting, it's not netSIT so I am getting them up to WORK.
8:45 AM - Kicking the meeting off! About 45 people here. I'm sick and I notice that people notice, gotta bring more energy! Good morning Sales Team!!!!
9:35 AM - Tony Erwin gives us 10 minutes of what he does... very cool guy.
10:05 AM - Meeting over a little bit late but it's always good.
10:40 AM - Meeting with a printer to talk about some big marketing plans. Very productive meeting, some creative ideas passed that actually improve the product and save money!
1:00 PM - Meeting with Doug Duffee, Sugarhill Collision, Paint and Body shop - Very interesting person, has made millions and lost millions. Runs an interesting shop. We'll be networking. Who knows the possibilities, unless you explore them.
2:15 PM - Rushing home to call an executive at a well known company.
3:00 PM - On the phone with someone with "executive power" as he put it.
3:30 PM - Very good phone call, he helped point me in the right directions, "You need a more concise sales pitch." I love being critiqued! It helps me improve.
4:00 PM - Off to play golf! HR Director, Staffing Agent are part of the foursome, we're walking 9.
My score was so bad I won't post it here. I did par a hole though!
Well if you are following these "Chronicles" then you must be wondering where the next update is. Well, Life happens.
(Note: Post is in Hoschton, GA today since I will be working from home today)
4:00 AM - Up with baby.
Around 5 AM - Done, tag the wife (the baby won't sleep without Mommy apparently), a few minutes of sleep needed....
after a few minutes
8:00 AM - Start of my day, rushing around to get started.
8:54 AM - Car with mechanic, 71 New E-mails, Had someone leave me a voice mail message last night asking why I called, my website was so good, I should never have to call her....gotta love the internet. Up to 28 followers on Twitter.
9:21 AM -Seriously considering the change of all my links to BUDURLs to track usage, need to read up on the SEO of the link though. Goals for the day is:
10:32 AM - Email is cleared out, wrote a long blog post entitled, "What I believe" then realized it might offend everyone and even be seen as unprofessional.... we'll see. Follow up on a great project I'm working on. One SOI call, and a brief Pop-by was done - My mechanic is in my SOI and forgot to mention that!
On with the calls!
11:00 AM - Calls, right? Talked to loan officer may have a great "connection" for me. Talked with a buyer who is back in the market.
11:30 AM - Buyer appointment scheduled for today. Messes up my plans, but I'm happy to have it.
12:21 - Getting ready for buyer appointment, trying to squeeze in a few phone calls from my list of calls to do.
1:00 PM - Buyer needs to be pre-qualled at least (I thought I had already "walked them through the steps" but I hadn't). They decide to wait, considering all of the homes would require them to close this year.
1:30 PM - Back to phone calls - Talked to one person for 30 Minutes. Something really big for me coming up, potentially.
2:00 PM Back to phones - Talking with 2 buyers that will be looking next week.
3:00 PM OK, really, back to phones - 10 Calls
3:45 PM Call from a usability contractor for MyDealBook.com. He wonders why I'm not clicking on things I need to click on. This was a time sink, but I do enjoy these types of conversations. So technically it was goofing off, but I might have made a connection for someone else and I might have helped him, so it was worth it.
4:30 PM Gotta finish up my calls. All my interenet leads are called and a few more follow ups.
5:35 PM going over to finish up the calls.
Done.
4:45 AM EST - Caleb is up, makes me want to sleep in. Snooze.
5:40 AM EST - I'm up.. OK. Twitter myself in... Getting ready to work out.
7:49 AM EST - Worked out, was "OK." Notice that the election is up in the air as usual. Scary stuff on the TVs, such as the Fairness Doctrine.
186 E-mails. Time to clean it up.
8:00 AM - Getting sidetracked, writing a semi-journal blog post about Richard Branson.
9:00 AM - Showered Up, Email Cleaned Out and Time to call.
Goals for today are 50 phone calls, trying to create 5 more mets (had 2 yesterday) and make at least 5 connections (3 yesterday). I'm also going to talk to some vendors about lowering their fees or losing my business.
10:00 AM EST - Yikes only 4 phone calls - all good though! Result: 1 Pending Listing Appointment, 1 "1 on 1" Scheduled, an updated file and one SOI call.
10:21 AM EST - Call reluctance is seemingly gone when I'm forcing myself to blog about it. So far about 15 calls made, no connections. One interesting note:
Name - Notes: Was rude last time I called. - Action Taken - Delete Contact.
I'm really not wanting to work with those who don't want me to help them. It's paying off!
10:38 AM EST - 6 more phone calls, 1 connection = one pending buyer appointment.
11:28 AM EST - Updated E-mail drip campaigns to include Brutal Honesty Blog and social media links. Scheduled another 1 on 1. Getting ready for a meeting with a past client for lunch!
2:28 PM EST - Lunch was good, great to see an old client. 1 Referral passed! A great idea also was created. We'll see if it materializes. Could be large.
2:43 PM EST - Caught up on all my calls, but need to call some extra people for "50." Got sidetracked.
3:29 PM EST - Sphere Calls, BNI Reports Prepped and "POW" Opportunity strikes!..... and so does Life. Need to watch the kids for a few hours...likely into "quitting time."
If you're a friend on Facebook then you know I have a little bit of a cold. I'm not really sure why it's the worst in the mornings and nights but it is. So instead of posting at 5AM EST and letting everyone know I'm off to work out to keep my girlish figure, I'm here at 6:39 AM EST checking my e-mail and trying to do a few things to get a head start.
6:39 AM EST Checking E-mail, Posting On Active Rain - 166 New Messages.
7:04 AM EST - Cleared out the e-mail. Mostly just assigned the internet leads to myself to follow up with. Got sidetracked on the Shift Tour then downloaded more business building tools and hints. Only $6K off where I was last year, which was my best year ever, so I'm happy and disapointed at the same time.
Goals for the week.
7:07 AM EST - Prepping for listing appointment later today. Wondering why our MLS is not compatible with anything other than IE.
7:43 AM EST
- Listings are all good till at least 2009. I had at least one showing that I know of over the weekend. Woot!
- Got side tracked on wondering why my blackberry needs to be constantly reset if I don't turn it on. Found a great forum post about lithium ion batteries.
- Doing CMA for appointment. Didn't think I would complete it but what the heck. Being sick is clouding my thoughts.
Some Goals for the week
8:18 AM
- Yikes! In Taylor Elementary school in Lawrenceville, GA, there are 112 Active Homes for sale!
- Tax records are not helping in this analysis. So many of the properties are sold back in Spring. Wondering if I should account for depreciation?
- CMA finally done.
- Time for breakfast - gotta get ready.
9:00 AM EST - Let the calls commence.
9:41 - Feedback on showing was great on this lawrenceville home! Had to call the seller.
10:00 AM - 13 Calls in, 1 Connection - Will be buying in Summer 2009.
10:33 AM EST - 26 Calls, 1 Connection, 1 "1 on 1" scheduled. Total.
11:03 AM EST - 37 Calls, 2 Connections (Summer 09 Buyer, another one) 2 People that said, "we'll call you."
- Took some dayquil.
11:20 AM EST - 9 More Calls No new connections.
11:45 AM EST - Confirmed appointment, ready files, getting directions.
Spent rest of the day in appointments - but here goes:
11:45 AM to 1:00 PM - Headed to Lunch with new "Met"
- Called 3 SOI people while on the way.
1:00 to 2:30PM - Lunch with the most networked HR Recruiter in Atlanta, Jenny
2:30 to 3:15 - En Route to BNI Roundtable Meeting. Had a conversation with SOI and 1031 Exchanges. Big Plans!
3:15 to 4:30 PM - BNI Roundtable - Goals Setting for our chapter. Great ideas. Using money as a motivator, now there's a novel idea.
4:30 PM - Meet with member of concierge team to put an ozonator in a listing.
5:00 PM - Listing Appoinment
6:00 PM - Asked to stay for tea. Chai tea, homemade! Yum!
7:00 PM - Ozonator installed in home
7:30 PM - Home!
Missed one listing opportunity via e-mail due to battery failure. Possible referral opportunity for Rancho Cucumuna?
Thoughts
It's unrealistic to think I could do this for more than a week or two maximum. Tweeting the updates makes sense but I don't want to spam people either. It's good, but today was too easy, I knew what I had to do today. It'll be interesting to see if on Wednesday when Life interferes with my schedule if I'm as focused.
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