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Real Estate Rockstars Podcast

1121: Chris Voss’ Guide to Gaining the Edge in ANY Negotiation

Real Estate Rockstars Podcast

Aaron Amuchastegui

Investing, Careers, Business

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Chris Voss, best-selling author of Never Split the Difference, spent decades honing his negotiation skills in the FBI. Before retiring, he served as the Bureau’s lead negotiator for international kidnappings. On today’s podcast, he gives practical advice on how to gain the edge in any negotiation. Chris also shares tips specifically for real estate agents from The Full Fee Agent, a new book he co-authored with recent guest Steve Shull. Listen and learn how to master the art of professional persuasion one conversation at a time.

Transcript

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Small stakes practice for high stakes results. Negotiation, Jim Camp wrote a book in

0:09.9

2002 called Startwin, though.

0:13.0

And he used to say negotiations

0:14.6

is a human performance event.

0:16.1

He compared it to a sporting event.

0:18.7

How do athletes get better?

0:20.6

I mean, you know, they practice each state.

0:22.4

They do the little things in practice

0:24.1

You can start doing the negotiation skills the labels the questions

0:29.1

With everybody you interact with with the Starbucks employee with a person behind

0:35.1

encounter at the grocery store at the drug store. If we encourage people to use

0:40.6

labels and mirrors and communication tools to understand the other side make people feel heard

0:47.0

every single day in little ways.

0:50.0

Because you're in a big negotiation, you're not going to use something you have been practicing.

0:55.0

You don't want to practice in your big negotiation.

0:58.0

So we say everything in life is a negotiation.

1:00.0

Potential collaboration uses skills every day.

1:04.0

So the question is this, how do most agents find the secrets to succeed in today's competitive real estate market, especially when the top agents

1:14.4

are keeping those secrets themselves. That's the question and this podcast will give

1:19.0

you the answer. Hi I'm Erin and Mooastake, and welcome to real estate rock stars. This is Erde Butchis Deggi and I'm interrupting myself to bring you this commercial break from one of our sponsors.

1:48.0

There's somebody I've been looking at for a long time and when they reached out to me I said yes we have to be able to do this

1:54.3

deal so that sponsor is follow-up boss there's a lot of superstars out there that

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