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Creativity, Innovation – Competition versus Collaboration
There is much confusion as to whether competition or collaboration is most beneficial to creativity and innovation. Though there are negatives to collaboration and it is not easy separating the effects of time pressure and group activity, in...
Failure is Not an Option
I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that online businesses -- just like brick and mortar businesses -- have a very high failure rate for startups. Ever wonder why that is? There are several business consultants, success...
Innovation Management – the harsh facts of life for all innovators
Your opinion doesn’t matter. The end user’s does
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
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Starting a Home Craft Business: Cashing in on your Artistic and Creative Skills!
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The Truth about Making Money Online
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Real Estate Values or Just Bad Habits
There are several small businesses that retain hundred-year-old traditions, Hand-dipping chocolates, fresh flowers on every table in a restaurant,or mints and roses on a guest's pillow at a B&B. Loyal customers come to expect these little perks or tokens of quality in the product and changing your traditions might mean the loss of evangelical customers. These are unspoken signs of a companies value system and devotion to the customer. Then there are traditions that are a little harder to explain.
There are two curious habits in the real estate industry that have always baffled me. They are age-old traditions and the public has come to accept them as part and parcel of the product. But are they a reflection of company values or just a couple of really bad habits?
The first....Why do real estate agents put their picture on absolutely everything? Real Estate agents are there to sell houses, people come to the agent as an expert in the field, not because they have pretty hair or freckles. The image portrayed through these headshots is that of an egoistical, self centered, self serving person. I have asked many agents why they do it...the answers range from; The company requires it, to simple, I don't knows, to I need it to stand out from the competition (If all the competition is doing the same thing, how does that set you apart?) There are many people who have their own businesses and are sole-propritors from hair dressers to contractors, pool cleaners, consultants and lawyers but they don't put their headshot all over everything that relates to their business. There could be reasons why they don't. One might be; that sending a message of conceit or self love is not the best way to get customers. Yet another reason is that the space on advertising comes at a premium,(especially if its in color most business owners think the space on their advertising
is better used for mentioning benefits and services. I think the number one reason is aging. As people get older they become less and less satisfied with the way they look, a little less hair, and few saggy chins, smile lines that have turned into furrows. Many real estate agents handle the problem by not handling it, they just leave the same picture on their business card for their entire 25 year career, a nice youthful look. New Clients visiting the agent for the first time are in for a shock!
The second tradition that seems more like a bad habit is to have flyers and doorhanger bags strewn all over a neighborhood. If it is a particularly popular neighborhood this means you find this stuff on your front porch 3-5 times a week thanks to 10 or 15 different agents! I've even seen this stuff delivered on Sundays. It's really convenient for thieves..they know you've been away on vacation even if the mail is being held at the post office. How many people pick up What they consider to be trash while vowing to NEVER do business with the agents who turn their porch to a landfill's delight!
At some point one's values should win over tradition. Respecting the client and property, making the client's/prospect's priorities your priorities must be the focus of a successful career. Common sense and creativity should come together with customer service and bad habits should be broken, even if all the competition plans to continue sowing seeds of badwill.
Be a leader, put a picture of a door knocker or house on your business card I know its a radical idea, but take the challenge! Who knows, you might even generate some goodwill by not cluttering up a porch with flyers that go straight into the trash.
About the Author
Owner Lasting Impressions 2 - Custom Business gift baskets, greeting cards, Customer Service Tips
www.lastingimpressions2.com
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