Don't Over Romanticize What Prospects are Good & Bad
The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience
Tom Ferry
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up everybody. It is Wednesday, I think, and I think you saw based upon the post that I just had like a communication exchange with somebody that is |
| 0:18.7 | just hell bent on telling me why some leads are good and why some leads are bad. |
| 0:26.8 | And I'm not gonna say who because it really doesn't matter |
| 0:29.7 | because it is the same battle that I had been in since the day I started this company nearly 13 years ago. |
| 0:35.0 | You know, like I used to say there's basically, there's like three kinds of real estate agents. |
| 0:41.0 | There's people that like are really into marketing, there's people |
| 0:44.0 | that are really into referrals, and there's people that like really into prospecting. And when I |
| 0:48.9 | started this company I looked at the you know the nine clients that I started with and the thing they all |
| 0:56.3 | had in common was they shared this like mindset like there's no wrong way to take care of customers. There's no wrong way to take care of customers. |
| 1:04.0 | There's no wrong, let me say that, there's no wrong way to find and attract customers. |
| 1:09.0 | There's no wrong way to find and attract customers. |
| 1:14.6 | Like I'm literally in this dialogue with this. |
| 1:17.6 | Sorry my buddy from Europe is texting me. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm literally in this like exchange with this person who just so overly is romanticizing about lead |
| 1:28.9 | generation like telling me basically that I'm wrong that that people that work, all these other sources are wrong, |
| 1:36.0 | that the only should be doing this one thing. |
| 1:39.0 | And first I'm just curious, like, what do you guys think? |
| 1:42.0 | There's 500 of you or 434 people right now |
| 1:46.1 | that are with me live like what do you think like do you think that some |
| 1:50.8 | leads are wrong do you think that let me let me give you this way do |
| 1:55.5 | you believe that a for sale by owner is a bad human being do you believe that if you walked in with a closing check from an expired listing |
| 2:09.4 | that your bank is going to say, oh, excuse me, we are a buy referral only bank, we do not accept checks |
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