The Best Advice to Get More Business

The best advice to get more business:

When you first start your business you make personal sacrafices to get your business going. You get the support of your spouse, your kids, your siblings or your significant other. They are all behind you! They want you to succeed.

Then your efforts start to pay off big time, you paid your dues and now you are a top producer cashing in. But the problem becomes: there is only one of you. Then your family wants you back.

So there are three things that you have to do:

Work more on your business than you do in your business.

Delegate, delegate, delegate

And then the most important thing you can do is to: Take one day off each week.

If you are a Christian the day off needs to be Sunday. If you are Jewish then the day needs to be Saturday. If you are Muslim, then the day needs to be Friday. Keeping the Sabbath day holy will pay you back tenfold. The Lord promises you that if you rest on the Sabbath day and use that day to honor your callings- your church or temple attendance, helping the sick and the homeless, etc that your business and relationships will be blessed and you will be prosperous.

If you are not a Christian then choose another day of the week where you can spend time in reflection, contemplation, helping those around you and so on.

I coach brokers and agents who are at this junction in their real estate journey. They are on the brink of burnout. Without a day off, I promise the burnout will happen!

The best compliments I get are those from the spouses of the agents and brokers I have the blessing to coach. “Thank you for coaching my wife to take Sunday off, to go to church with us as a family on Sunday. Your coaching fee was worth every penny for this one requirement!”

It works, I promise you it works! Make a committment today, this Sunday, that you will take this day off of work each week or whatever other day you need to set aside.

And then be ready for blessings to be poured out on you!

What is the Object of Your Listing Presentation?

What is the object of your listing presentation? I hope you say, “to get the listing”. 

But most listing presentations that I have seen are full of what looks like to me as tooting your company horn. Nestor has this great saying: “It is not the real estate company that you select but rather the agent you choose that makes the difference.”   

An agent who just hired us to coach her came from a team where she was the buyer's agent on the team. She recently changed companies and wants to get listings. She understands the power of the listing. So she hired me as her private coach to help her develop her listing presentation and marketing packaging on and off-line. 

After three weeks of working on her listing presentation she got her first listing appointment. She was so excited! 

She knocked it out of the park!!! 

We received an email from her after her appointment: ” WOW!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!”. 

Not only did she get the listing but the sellers referred her to their best friend who needs to sell and also wants to build a house and needs representation for that as well. They did not even question her higher than average commission rate. She is going to get at least 2 listings and 1 sale from this one listing appointment. 

Her listing presentation is unlike ANY other agent in her market. She is setting herself apart from the status quo of listing agents. She gets it! Her presentation is about solving the sellers' problem- getting their house sold! Her listing presentation is about thinking outside the box and getting the sellers involved in the process. It is about connecting the right dots. 

I love to see the agents that we coach succeed! The leaps and bounds they make when being accountable and elevating their intentions ignite success that is measurable and amazing! 

Another agent that I coach was making only $28,000 a year and was about to quit real estate because after all working 70 hours a week for that kind of pay- well, you might as well go get a job at a fast food restaurant. Well, she took a leap of faith and did private coaching. In her first month coaching, she made $28,000 in ONE MONTH! Not one year! Last year she was well into the 6 figures of gross commissions to her. So from almost quitting to becoming one of the top 10 agents in her company in less than a year is AWESOME!!! 

We have opened up 3 more private coaching spots on my calendar. Please contact me privately if you want to get into private coaching and watch your business take off to the next level! 

authored by Katerina Gasset 

What is the Object of Your Listing Presentation?

What is the object of your listing presentation? I hope you say, “to get the listing”. 

But most listing presentations that I have seen are full of what looks like to me as tooting your company horn. Nestor has this great saying: “It is not the real estate company that you select but rather the agent you choose that makes the difference.”   

An agent who just hired us to coach her came from a team where she was the buyer's agent on the team. She recently changed companies and wants to get listings. She understands the power of the listing. So she hired me as her private coach to help her develop her listing presentation and marketing packaging on and off-line. 

After three weeks of working on her listing presentation she got her first listing appointment. She was so excited! 

She knocked it out of the park!!! 

We received an email from her after her appointment: ” WOW!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!”. 

Not only did she get the listing but the sellers referred her to their best friend who needs to sell and also wants to build a house and needs representation for that as well. They did not even question her higher than average commission rate. She is going to get at least 2 listings and 1 sale from this one listing appointment. 

Her listing presentation is unlike ANY other agent in her market. She is setting herself apart from the status quo of listing agents. She gets it! Her presentation is about solving the sellers' problem- getting their house sold! Her listing presentation is about thinking outside the box and getting the sellers involved in the process. It is about connecting the right dots. 

I love to see the agents that we coach succeed! The leaps and bounds they make when being accountable and elevating their intentions ignite success that is measurable and amazing! 

Another agent that I coach was making only $28,000 a year and was about to quit real estate because after all working 70 hours a week for that kind of pay- well, you might as well go get a job at a fast food restaurant. Well, she took a leap of faith and did private coaching. In her first month coaching, she made $28,000 in ONE MONTH! Not one year! Last year she was well into the 6 figures of gross commissions to her. So from almost quitting to becoming one of the top 10 agents in her company in less than a year is AWESOME!!! 

We have opened up 3 more private coaching spots on my calendar. Please contact me privately if you want to get into private coaching and watch your business take off to the next level! 

authored by Katerina Gasset 

How to Blog Faster with Scribefire in Google Chrome | Video Tutorial

How to Blog Faster with Scribefire in Google Chrome | Video Tutorial 

You can download Scribefire in Google Chrome as an extension from the free Google Chrome Webstore. After that you can import all of your blogs into the Scribefire dashboard. Scribefire will pull in all your pages and posts from each wordpress website too! It will also post to Tumblr, Blogger and WordPress.com. 

For ActiveRain you can not post directly but you can simply copy and drag your post over to a new window where you have ActiveRain opened up in if you have a Mac. If you have a PC you can copy and paste from Scribefire to ActiveRain. 

For all your wordpress websites and blogs you can also set up auto posting for different dates and times of publishing. You can also spin your content easily this way. 

This is a super fast way to manage your wordpress.org sites and other blog sites because you don't have to log into your site's dashboard each time you want to add content or even make one simple change. Just open up Scribefire and make a quick change, update and you are done. 

The best part of ScribeFire that I like is that you easily post colored text like this red color right in the dashboard. You can add images and videos too. You also can change the size of the fonts easily and not have to worry about your WP dashboard forcing your font back to the teeny tiny size 10 that no one can read. 

Here is the YouTube video tutorial that I created for you to learn how to use ScribeFire: 

Technology for the non-techies- installing and using ScribeFire on Google Chrome for blogging. 

authored by Katerina Gasset 

How’s Your Website Working For You?

There are all different kinds of websites. Sometimes we start to fall in love with a certain way a website we see online looks. Sometimes we start a lot of different styles of websites but never really finish any of them all the way. I am certainly guilty of that:) 

We can dance around the best look and feel, the best IDX functions, the best gadgets and shiny objects… but at the end of the day none of that matters. It really does not matter. 

The only thing that really matters is: is your website connecting with your ideal client or customer? 

Is your website in tune with what your audience is searching for, needing, wanting, got to have? Tune in to your ideal customer's radio frequency: WIIFM ( What's in it for Me?). 

Conversions are what counts. Conversions are what matters. 

What good does it do you if you have the nicest design on the planet but no one ever sees your website? What good it is if you get a ton of traffic but not one person ever calls you to hire you to sell their home or find a home for them? It is of no use. 

You may be in the market for a total website makeover or you may just need to tweak your message! 

Learn more about websites makeovers with Coach Katerina:  how to design your website, finding a niche that is a good fit for you, developing your message and branding for your audience, how to optimize online for best positioning in SEO and video branding and much, much more…. 

Go here now: Is Your Website Making You Money? Sign up for the 3 part video series. 

Authored by Katerina Gasset 

March is For Four Leaf Clovers and Leprechauns!

March is such a fun month! It is the month of four leaf clovers and leprechauns, sunshine and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. 

March is the start of Spring youth Little League baseball and there is nothing more fun than to watch our son up on the pitchers mound throwing March is such a fun month!

Spice up your marketing with some fun St Patrick's Day themed clipart.

We use iClipart.com because for a low annual fee you get permission to use the clipart in your business for commercial use. Most free clipart services do not allow you to use their clipart for profit businesses.

Create your postcards for March with a touch of Irish fun and send them to your farm. Add some fun leprechauns to your monthly newsletters and to your blog posts and websites. 

Some other fun ideas for March fun in your marketing: 

Create a month long theme of different fun facts about St Patricks Day or from other Irish folklore. Add those fun facts to a set up emails to send out to your sphere of influence throughout the month of March. 

Change out your social media profile photos to St Patrick's day clipart for the month of March. Change other items on your social media to green. 

 List reasons why you feel lucky and share those on your Facebook wall, Google +, Pinterest and Twitter.  Share one reason per day why you feel lucky. 

Share links to Irish recipes. Create a Pinterest board for St Patricks Day and pin recipes and your feeling luckies. 

Print up Irish Blessings and pass them out to your buyers. Post them on Facebook. 

Send out Irish Blessings in thank you cards during the month of March. Send thank you cards to your past buyers and sellers, your agents and friends. 

Brainstorm for more ideas, share them here in the comment stream. 

March is For Four Leaf Clovers and Leprechauns!

March is such a fun month! It is the month of four leaf clovers and leprechauns, sunshine and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. 

March is the start of Spring youth Little League baseball and there is nothing more fun than to watch our son up on the pitchers mound throwing March is such a fun month!

Spice up your marketing with some fun St Patrick's Day themed clipart.

We use iClipart.com because for a low annual fee you get permission to use the clipart in your business for commercial use. Most free clipart services do not allow you to use their clipart for profit businesses.

Create your postcards for March with a touch of Irish fun and send them to your farm. Add some fun leprechauns to your monthly newsletters and to your blog posts and websites. 

Some other fun ideas for March fun in your marketing: 

Create a month long theme of different fun facts about St Patricks Day or from other Irish folklore. Add those fun facts to a set up emails to send out to your sphere of influence throughout the month of March. 

Change out your social media profile photos to St Patrick's day clipart for the month of March. Change other items on your social media to green. 

 List reasons why you feel lucky and share those on your Facebook wall, Google +, Pinterest and Twitter.  Share one reason per day why you feel lucky. 

Share links to Irish recipes. Create a Pinterest board for St Patricks Day and pin recipes and your feeling luckies. 

Print up Irish Blessings and pass them out to your buyers. Post them on Facebook. 

Send out Irish Blessings in thank you cards during the month of March. Send thank you cards to your past buyers and sellers, your agents and friends. 

Brainstorm for more ideas, share them here in the comment stream. 

March is For Four Leaf Clovers and Leprechauns!

March is such a fun month! It is the month of four leaf clovers and leprechauns, sunshine and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. 

March is the start of Spring youth Little League baseball and there is nothing more fun than to watch our son up on the pitchers mound throwing March is such a fun month!

Spice up your marketing with some fun St Patrick's Day themed clipart.

We use iClipart.com because for a low annual fee you get permission to use the clipart in your business for commercial use. Most free clipart services do not allow you to use their clipart for profit businesses.

Create your postcards for March with a touch of Irish fun and send them to your farm. Add some fun leprechauns to your monthly newsletters and to your blog posts and websites. 

Some other fun ideas for March fun in your marketing: 

Create a month long theme of different fun facts about St Patricks Day or from other Irish folklore. Add those fun facts to a set up emails to send out to your sphere of influence throughout the month of March. 

Change out your social media profile photos to St Patrick's day clipart for the month of March. Change other items on your social media to green. 

 List reasons why you feel lucky and share those on your Facebook wall, Google +, Pinterest and Twitter.  Share one reason per day why you feel lucky. 

Share links to Irish recipes. Create a Pinterest board for St Patricks Day and pin recipes and your feeling luckies. 

Print up Irish Blessings and pass them out to your buyers. Post them on Facebook. 

Send out Irish Blessings in thank you cards during the month of March. Send thank you cards to your past buyers and sellers, your agents and friends. 

Brainstorm for more ideas, share them here in the comment stream. 

Get Healthy in the Rain Challenge Update for March 2013

Get Healthy in the Rain Challenge Update for March 2013 

Learning to listen to your body is the best way to get healthy. How's my juicing journey going? FANTASTIC!!!! 

Since January 5th when I started Juicing for health which turned into a weight loss adventure I have lost 25 pounds.

I lost 4.5 inches of belly fat ( abdomen), 2.5 inches from my waist and 1 inch from my hips. Those hips sure are stubborn! 

We juice for breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch and mid- afternoon snack. Then I most often have a small dinner of either veggies and rice, curry veggie soups, beans and rice or salmon and rice. Sometimes it will be a salad but I am spoiled from juicing now and making a salad takes too long! I'd rather juice my salad! 

I started my juicing journey because of my cancer scare which you can read about here. The side effect was that I started to lose weight. I am very overweight and still have a very long way to go before I am at a healthy weight again. This is the heaviest I have ever been in my life. I was never a fat person. No one in my family, my siblings, my parents, my cousins… not one person is fat except for me. And I did not get this fat until I started going through menopause. 

One of the goals I was trying to reach to was to do at least one full day of juice fasting and not have any meal. I was scared of doing that for a long time because I was afraid of being hungry. This is a very emotional part of the subconscience mind in regards to hunger pains. Maybe some day I will share that very personal story of why I have a fear of hunger. Today is not that day:). 

This past Sunday I chose to make it through the entire day just juicing! I did it! I made it through and the reward was waking up Monday morning having lost another 3.4  pounds!!! So Monday I juiced the entire day too. Tuesday my weight was the same. That is fine. You don't lose weight every day you are juicing. Each person is different. 

So I did a total juice fast on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesay of this week. Today I broke my juice fast with a large salad that had wonderful avocado on it. 

I am so used to juicing now that my daughter and I have no desire whatsoever to have anything for breakfast other than our freshly made juice. The same goes for lunch and snacks. I do like to eat avocados and fresh garden tomatoes. 

My first post about my juicing journey for the Get Healthy challenge is here. 

I only miss meat when I smell it. Other than that, Lenn Harley would be proud of me… I am not eating meat. Lenn Harley is a vegetarian in case you did not know that. She is one strong woman too! You would not want to target practice against her! She will beat you! She is a great shooter! 

But the best part about this entire juicing journey is that it has really tuned me into what my body needs nutritionwise. When I do try to eat something that is solid food, I listen to my body. I only eat one thing at a time. I listen and feel how my body reacts to each food. Since January 5th we have only had fast food three times. Two of those times I got a horrific headache. The headache was the worst from the McDonalds hamburger. We don't eat cheese in our home at all and we are totally dairy and casein free. I removed most of the bread from the hamburger, still got the headache. It was the chemicals I am sure. The same thing happened when I ate from Wendy's. 

The only place surprisingly that did not give me a headache or make me sick was Taco Bell even though they have all kinds of additives to their food. After a baseball game our little guy wanted to eat at Taco Bell. He wanted us to go as a family. I was hungry and did not bring enough juice with me that evening and my will power was not strong enough to not eat along side him. Interesting fact that I learned! I ordered a salad with some black beans and salsa which I had thought was a pretty good choice considering. But it only made me hungrier. I then ordered a soft taco and tore off half of the tortilla. When I went online to find the calories… OH MY!!! The salad had over 550 calories and the soft taco which was actually more filling only had 180 calories. Interesting how what we think might me low in calories is actually more! 

My juicing journey has become a lifestyle choice and decision. The energy is amazing! My mind is clear, my muscle pains are all almost gone! My body is feeling light. Exercising is easier. 

Everything in life happens for a reason. The cancer scare created the sense of urgency that I needed to go through a natural healing process and the benefit from that scare was a wonderful and empowering journey of juicing. 

I encourage you to start juicing if you have weight issues, poor immune system, digestive issues, depression or any nutritional deficiencies. 

Get Healthy in the Rain Challenge Update for March 2013

Get Healthy in the Rain Challenge Update for March 2013 

Learning to listen to your body is the best way to get healthy. How's my juicing journey going? FANTASTIC!!!! 

Since January 5th when I started Juicing for health which turned into a weight loss adventure I have lost 25 pounds.

I lost 4.5 inches of belly fat ( abdomen), 2.5 inches from my waist and 1 inch from my hips. Those hips sure are stubborn! 

We juice for breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch and mid- afternoon snack. Then I most often have a small dinner of either veggies and rice, curry veggie soups, beans and rice or salmon and rice. Sometimes it will be a salad but I am spoiled from juicing now and making a salad takes too long! I'd rather juice my salad! 

I started my juicing journey because of my cancer scare which you can read about here. The side effect was that I started to lose weight. I am very overweight and still have a very long way to go before I am at a healthy weight again. This is the heaviest I have ever been in my life. I was never a fat person. No one in my family, my siblings, my parents, my cousins… not one person is fat except for me. And I did not get this fat until I started going through menopause. 

One of the goals I was trying to reach to was to do at least one full day of juice fasting and not have any meal. I was scared of doing that for a long time because I was afraid of being hungry. This is a very emotional part of the subconscience mind in regards to hunger pains. Maybe some day I will share that very personal story of why I have a fear of hunger. Today is not that day:). 

This past Sunday I chose to make it through the entire day just juicing! I did it! I made it through and the reward was waking up Monday morning having lost another 3.4  pounds!!! So Monday I juiced the entire day too. Tuesday my weight was the same. That is fine. You don't lose weight every day you are juicing. Each person is different. 

So I did a total juice fast on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesay of this week. Today I broke my juice fast with a large salad that had wonderful avocado on it. 

I am so used to juicing now that my daughter and I have no desire whatsoever to have anything for breakfast other than our freshly made juice. The same goes for lunch and snacks. I do like to eat avocados and fresh garden tomatoes. 

My first post about my juicing journey for the Get Healthy challenge is here. 

I only miss meat when I smell it. Other than that, Lenn Harley would be proud of me… I am not eating meat. Lenn Harley is a vegetarian in case you did not know that. She is one strong woman too! You would not want to target practice against her! She will beat you! She is a great shooter! 

But the best part about this entire juicing journey is that it has really tuned me into what my body needs nutritionwise. When I do try to eat something that is solid food, I listen to my body. I only eat one thing at a time. I listen and feel how my body reacts to each food. Since January 5th we have only had fast food three times. Two of those times I got a horrific headache. The headache was the worst from the McDonalds hamburger. We don't eat cheese in our home at all and we are totally dairy and casein free. I removed most of the bread from the hamburger, still got the headache. It was the chemicals I am sure. The same thing happened when I ate from Wendy's. 

The only place surprisingly that did not give me a headache or make me sick was Taco Bell even though they have all kinds of additives to their food. After a baseball game our little guy wanted to eat at Taco Bell. He wanted us to go as a family. I was hungry and did not bring enough juice with me that evening and my will power was not strong enough to not eat along side him. Interesting fact that I learned! I ordered a salad with some black beans and salsa which I had thought was a pretty good choice considering. But it only made me hungrier. I then ordered a soft taco and tore off half of the tortilla. When I went online to find the calories… OH MY!!! The salad had over 550 calories and the soft taco which was actually more filling only had 180 calories. Interesting how what we think might me low in calories is actually more! 

My juicing journey has become a lifestyle choice and decision. The energy is amazing! My mind is clear, my muscle pains are all almost gone! My body is feeling light. Exercising is easier.