To everyone – I’ll admit – after I hit publish on this and went to bed, I woke up thinking, ‘Did I just confess I have a Rolodex on my desk? What have I done!” But it’s nice to hear your responses.

I guess I’ve learned that the comfort level varies person to person for every type of system and you can’t fight what works for you. Thanks guys!

Anyway – great post and I agree completely. I like to listen to (entertain) all sorts of ideas, always looking for one more twist that might work for me. But in the end, you have to do things you like, are comfy with and are good at.

I remember when I first got my license and had my first few meetings with my very old school broker/owner. He sat me down and piled about 2 feet high of gimmicks in front of me to get my sales going. Stuff like:

Neighborhood Farming via postcar
Sign riders with 800 numbers
FSBO conversion schemes
Expired Listing schemes
Series of tapes to listen to while in the car about all sorts of exciting “methods.”
Ways to network with everyone you know and try to get business.

Hey, he was trying and this was all he knew, so, I’ll give him that much credit. But in a couple of weeks, after reviewing all this info I informed him, “if I have to do ANY of that to be successful, I’m not going to stay in RE.”

I chose to go entirely different routes, and they work and it’s fun to do: for me!

Rob

Great post, I completely agree. People are always trying to convince folks that they need to be doing this that or the other.

We all know what works for us. If we don’t have anything that works, then maybe we should be listening to these folks …and looking for even more.

Personally, I’m looking to get better at the ones I do, and maybe learn some new ones.

But there’s no sense trying to talk someone into being a Tweeter, for example, when his/her gig might be neighborhood farming, or whatever floats em.

Right on!

RM

I for one, can’t stand Top Producer.. Bad enough Realtor.com tries to bully it’s realtor base with their pricing and monopolistic schemes; through Top Producer they”re now trying to control our agent database and our own access to it? I don’t think so…. I tried it and it’s easier for me with Mozilla Thunderbird. Why no one has created real estate agent extensions for Thunderbird yet I’m STILL wondering.. All we really need is an activity plan extension and a listings – buyer manager..

I use what I can use, and for me, less is better. I hardly have any software at all and the I use Openoffice, Thunderbird, and Firefox. I’m seriously thinking of changing to Macinitosh soon but the point is, I’m NOT dependent on any one vendor.. I have a Blackberry Curve 8330 and it syncs fine with Funambol, another free app..

The only service I do pay for yearly if I continue blogging is Typepad. I tried WordPress and Blogger and Typepad, in my honest opinion, is worth paying for.