Stop Trying To Be The Best.

Become Their Only Pick. You want to get picked. Not once. Not by luck. You want people to choose you...

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Well-Known, Little Understood.

Let me ask you something, and I want you to actually answer it before you keep reading. Not skim pas...

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The Quiet Man and the Fairground Barker.

The Brand Within — Character & Coaching Put a Jim Rohn talk next to a Tom Panos reel or a Benjam...

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The Death of the Expert

The Artificial Competence Era. Somewhere in the last two years, the word "expert" quietly stopped me...

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Improvement Is Hard -

It's Also Unnecessary. I used to believe I needed to get better. At everything. Every year, a new co...

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Nobody Cares -

Not Everybody Cares. There's a scene in Katy Perry's documentary where she shows her manager a folde...

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The One Status You Can't Fake.

Sit across the table from enough people and you learn to tell the difference between someone who has...

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Who's Actually Talking.

Part Three of Three — On Coaching, Trust and Rhetoric Overvaluing and price reduction are the same s...

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What The Rebuttal Lines Are Actually Doing.

Part Two of Three — On Coaching, Trust and Rhetoric The previous piece argued that the fee objection...

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The Fee Objection Nobody's Actually Answering.

On Coaching, Trust and Rhetoric - Part 1 of 3. There's a script most #realestate coaches hand out fo...

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No Shiny Objects Required.

Trust & Industry — Field Note Two long articles (if you missed them, link below) just reverse-en...

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The Art of Public Begging

On Prospecting Cold calling doesn't need a better script. It needs an honest name. Strip away the fr...

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The Men Who Cashed Out.

Trust & Industry — Part 2 of 2 The Men Who Cashed Out Every industry has architects. Real estate...

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Trust & Industry.

— Part I of 2 The Architecture of Distrust Consumer trust in real estate agents didn't collapse by a...

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Nobody Wants The Best Agent

They Want The Best-Fit. Rob Rask sent me an article on Herbert Simon who won a Nobel Prize for provi...

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Be a Ford, Then a Sloan.

In June 1896, a Detroit engineer working nights in a rented shed finished the machine he'd spent mon...

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Simplify Instead of Amplify

Real estate has confused being seen with being known. Open any #estateagent's feed and you'll find t...

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Hustle Is Not A Personality.

The industry that sells you exhaustion It's a Business Model. In real estate, busy is a cloak everyo...

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The Authority Trap.

Last week I wrote about the sameness problem. Every #realestateagent claiming the same expertise, th...

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Trust Is The Pitch.

The Brand Within It Is Given. Or Not. Strip trust out of a #realestate pitch and watch what fills th...

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What's Preventing You?

Part Two of Two The Brand Within External Beliefs: The Crowd Was Never Coming With You Last time, we...

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What's Preventing You?

— Part One of Two The Brand Within Internal Beliefs: You Were Never the Problem I want to tell you s...

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You're An Expert, Congratulations.

So is Everybody Else. Open ten #realestateagent profiles in your area. Read the bios. Count how many...

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State. Story. Strategy

The Brand Within — Framework The Order That Character Demands. Most #estateagents build their busine...

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Practice Makes....

Realestate coaching has one gospel, delivered in a hundred accents: do the reps. Make the calls. Kno...

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Well-Known Isn't The Same As Worth- Knowing.

The Brand Within — Trust Architecture Open LinkedIn on any given day and you'll find another consult...

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The Life Nobody Has To Explain.

Somewhere along the way, most of us learned to perform our lives. We learned how to look successful ...

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Evergreen.

Scroll for five minutes and count what remains. A hot take, gone by lunch. A trend, dead by dinner. ...

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Away From - Towards

Every agent starts here. Away from failure. Away from rejection. Away from the fear of not being goo...

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The Uncopyable RealEstate Agent

False Belief Patterns — Part Three Parts One and Two of this series named the patterns: comparison, ...

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