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By Coach Cheri

Cheri has partnered with hundreds of Small Business Owners and Real Estate Professionals to help them become more successful in business and in life. As an experienced entrepreneur with a background in real estate, Cheri knows how frustrating it can be to keep working harder and harder and still fall short of your desired results. Coaching gives business owners, real estate professionals and other entrepreneurs like you a whole new perspective on situations, problems and goals. That insight combined with coaching's unique partnership with goal-oriented individuals allows for quantum leaps to the next level of success in business and in life. Cheri is certified through the Coach Training Alliance and has attended the School of Small Business Coaching and Graduate School of Coaching. She is a member of the International Coach Federation, the IAC and CoachVille. Cheri is the mother of three teenagers and works to apply the principals of life balance that she coaches her clients on in her own life. Having relocated from her native Minnesota, Cheri now resides in Orange County, CA where she enjoys the world?s best weather year round.

What Kind of Business are you in?

Posted on June 08, 2010

by Cheri Alguire

PSST. We are in the People Business, not the Houses Business.
Do you believe that? Now it is true that you do have to have a working knowledge of home basics. If you don't know what a water heater looks, like or the difference between a Rambler and a Split, you may have some challenges being in this industry. However, having a background in structural engineering won't help you either, unless you have clients to work with.

I am sure you have heard the old saying "They don't know how much you know, until they know how much you care." But how do you show people how much you care?

Well let me ask you this? Are you on Facebook? Do you post information on your new listing or latest price reduction? Probably. And that is fine. But, is that the ONLY thing you post? If it is, you probably get past clients and friends tuning you out. You also have to connect with them on a personal level. As human beings we are craving connection with each other.

So how are you staying connected? Let me know what is working for you.
You may want to try connecting on Facebook, or sending a personal email, or handwritten note. A great way a lot of my coaching clients are sending personal notes is with www.CardsForRealEstate.com

Here are just a few easy, inexpensive ways you can let your sphere and past clients know you care and to keep your name top of mind when they here of someone looking to buy or sell:

Birthday Cards
Anniversary of their house sale cards
Thank you cards
Let’s do lunch cards
Get well cards
New baby cards
Congratulation cards

Spending just a few minutes each day connecting with your sphere and past clients can help lift someones spirits, remind them of who you are and the great job you did for them, and help them to remember you when others are asking them if they know a good real estate agent.

Because people DO want to know how much you care!

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Coach Cheri Alguire has helped hundreds of Real Estate Professionals and Super Small Business Owners create a Lead Generation and Marketing Plan to really take their business to the next level of success using www.CardsForRealEstate.com and other methods. Find out more at http://www.CheriAlguire.com