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Do you know what your company expects from you? If you don’t find out now! Why? You want to get the best from your company, and that means knowing what their expectations of you are. Sobering thought: If they don’t expect anything from you, how much effort will they put out to see you are [...]

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When you interviewed, I bet you asked your manager what that manager and company were going to do for you. Did you find out what the expectations were from you to the company? I’ll bet not. So, in these next two blogs, I’ll tell you what I think the agent should do for the company. [...]

In my last blog, I listed what I thought were 5 of the dumbest mistakes new agents make. Here’s the rest of the list of 10: 6. Starting the business part-time, with no ‘drop dead’ exit plan from your other work. I know. I started part-time, but, within three months, I realized that I could [...]

Tags: Carla Cross, coach newer agent, selling real estate, success, Up and Running

We all want success easily. We all want to ‘do it our way’. And, if we’re honest, in our quest for easy success, we’ll all done dumb things. That is, we realized they were dumb–after the fact. So, just because I’m picking on new agents here doesn’t mean I haven’t done many more than just [...]

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Did you think, when you went into real estate, that you’d sell a house the first month? Well, according to my survey in Become Tomorrow’s Mega Agent Today, the majority of real estate agents thought just that! However, you’ve found that’s probably not the case. So, what will you do now? Give up, or persevere? [...]

Tags: Carla Cross, coach newer agent, inspiration, Motivation, selling real estate, success, Up and Running

In my last post, we talked about the myths of motivation–that money or the ‘carrot and stick’ approach really motivates (well, they do a bit, but they have no lasting power–and they motivates the wrong people). Not only that, people today just don’t like to be manipulated with ‘pie in the sky’ promises or threats. [...]

Tags: Carla Cross, coach newer agent, inspiration, Motivation, newer agent, selling real estate, Up and Running

Do you know what motivates you? This is an extremely important question for those of us in self-directed businesses–I’m speaking to you, agents (and to myself, of course). Do you think it’s money? Think again. Stunning New Research about The Realities of Motivation In his new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, [...]

Tags: Carla Cross, coach newer agent, Motivation, selling real estate, Up and Running