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I think it's true for many folks that being pressured by a sales person, regardless of industry, is not something they find useful, appealing or pleasant. Indeed, for many it has the opposite effect - to annoy and irritate them, and drive them away rather than result in a sale. Yet is still seems to happen so often.

The mentality and attitude that you cannot let that customer who walks in your store, or onto the car sales lot, or who tours your time share, leave without purchasing still seems to be flourishing.

• Telemarketers, too, seem to know this well, droning on and on despite protests of not being interested. Hanging up the phone may be the only way to shut them up

 

• Overcoming objections is clearly part of many companies' training programs (and of course it is part of our business as well).

 

• And no doubt there are folks in sales whose own attitude, belief and personality is such that not making a sale is just not acceptable to them. 

I was at a Broker Open house for a high end ocean view home the other day. I was interested to see this property for some clients I have been working with, although because of location I suspected the home would have some issues that my buyers would not be able to overcome at any price.

To my dismay, I encountered not one but two agents who, in my mind at least, epitomized the obnoxious, pushy, won't-take-no-for-an-answer-and-I-need-to-show-you-everything-there-is-to-see-in-the-house-and-convince-you-to-bring-your-buyers approach to real estate. I couldn't turn a corner or explore the property on my own without one of them offering up yet another reason why this was THE home to buy. There was a feeling of desperation in their approach as they followed me around or appeared out of thin air when I thought I had escaped into another room.

That's not to say I don't appreciate hearing about unusual features, or of things that are not obvious. But I was not there to buy, and at one point I almost said..."I don't want to be sold, I don't need to be sold, so please stop it!" It made me very uncomfortable and I couldn't wait to sneak out.  I can imagine how some buyers must feel when visiting an open house.

It made me wonder how often some agents may come across that way with their clients, or prospects. 

How do you come across to other agents, and your buyers and sellers?

And how do you deal with that agent who simply does not know when to be quiet and stop pushing?

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Ever since we started using ActiveRain, I have been waiting for this feature to be available and finally, there is now an easy way to add social bookmarking and sharing to your ActiveRain blog. Even better, once you set this up, it is applies to all of your previous post at once and all future articles. Scroll down to the bottom of this post to see it in action.

Before I get into the steps to accomplish this for your own blog, let me emphasize that implementing this is a  huge opportunity and there is no downside whatsoever, so do not just bookmark this post and come back later, but do it now, while reading this post :) It is a one-time setup option and only takes a few minutes to complete. Once done, your readers (and you) can easily tweet your post, share it on Facebook, email it to their friends and in general, generate more traffic with minimum effort on your side.

What you need:

1. An ActiveRain blog - obviously
2. A free AddThis.com account 

Step 1 - Getting your AddThis social bookmark code

I suggest to create a free AddThis account so that you can track sharing statistics later, but you should be able to do this without even registering with them. It takes only a few seconds to set up your AddThis account and the stats they provide for registered members are very valuable. Once you have the account, click "Get Your Button" on the top and select the preferred button style. I selected the one highlighted with the arrow on the screenshot. I like that the most because it shows the Facebook and Twitter icons inline while providing quick access to other social sharing services. Select the one that you prefer.

Once you clicked the "Get the Code" button, you'll see the AddThis code. Copy that to your clipboard. You will have to add it to the new AR Signature field as explained below in Step 2.

Step 2 - Adding the button to your ActiveRain settings

Adding the AddThis social bookmaring button to your ActiveRain settings is pretty straightforward. There is only one trick to know about. So here we go:

• Go to your ActiveRain settings page
• Find the new "Signature" text box
• Important and not obvious: Click the "HTML" icon on the editor bar as highlighted on the screenshot below
• Paste the AddThis code that you copied in Step 1 into this code window, rather than the WYSWYG default editor
• Once you submit it, do not mind that the WYSWYG editor does not show the correctly rendered social bookmark button. It will work on your blog posts anyways.
• Click "Update" below the form to finalize the changes.

If you already had the custom signature set up, be careful when you add the AddThis code in the HTML view. I suggest to add it to the very bottom of your post, so make sure you place the cursor at the location where you actually want the button to appear at.

You can see it in action on all of our ActiveRain blog posts. I hope you found this tutorial useful. There are many other contents you could add to your signature like a call for action for your visitor to subscribe to your RSS feed via FeedBurner or a TweetMeme button to encourage retweeting your post. I have not tested those yet, but once we have them added, I will let you know and I will write another tutorial.

 

-- Zoltan 
RealBird.com

 

 

 

White mountain commute to pick up a few items from the hardware store. With my ever present camera I decided to shoot a couple of pictures of my route through Franconia Notch State park.

When You live in the country it's a 20 minute trip to a chain-hardware store. There is a premium given to good planning. If you get home and have forgotten the most mundane item the project comes to a halt till another day. Entering Franconia Notch heading towards Littleton NH.

The Cannon Cliffs are about half way to my destination. I have my list, and don't want to have to come back through this mountain pass again today.

Almost out of the notch...what else was I supposed to get at home depot.

The site of the former old man of the mountain...Just about to the store I know there was something I needed for the Pergola I'm building.

Yeah I forgot something...oh well I do have my clubs in the car, I could go play golf, and work on that project some other day.

Just another day in the White Mountains, everywhere you go the view is incredible- even on your way to home depot for forgotten parts.

Commuting to and from the office can mean a lot of time spent in your car.  Traffic and rude drivers can be frustrating, but as tempting as it may be to react to these stressful situations, resist the urge to make a bad situation worse with these driver safety rules:

• Follow the rules of the raod.  Avoid such dangerous behaviors as speeding, tailgating & erratic lane changes.
• Plan ahead.  Give yourself plenty of time for delays.
• Don't tap your brakes when someone is tailgating you.  You might simply be trying to give another driver a friendly reminder not to follow too closely, but it may cause an accident or be interpreted as a hostile act.
• Don't respond to aggression and don't make eye contact.  Although you may want to tell other drivers how you feel about their driving, there is no way to know another person's frame of mind, & you don't want to risk escalating the situation.
• Never get out of your car.  A verbal confrontation is not worth the risk of violence.  If another driver approaches you, lock your doors & close your windows.  If you can drive away, do so.  If you have a cell phone call the police.

Brian Ripp, CRS, GRI, Broker - your Bay Area Realtor

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