Thursday 6 October 2011

How To Grow Your Commissions With Prospecting

By Tara Millar


Prospecting for new business in commercial real estate is best done as a solid routine in every business day, not once or twice a week. Establishing new venture is a key proficiency and perhaps the best skill you possibly can put together. Major and frequent commissions happen only to people who prospect on a regular basis and daily.

Only some 10% of the people in the property industry really do prospect at the required levels. The other 90% just do a random prospecting course to manage themselves 'comfortable' in the thought that they are carrying out the right thing. You'll think that they would recognize the real substance of the task and probably they do, yet they take no considerable engagement of any magnitude. It is the 'call reluctance phobia' that holds them back. Tend not to fall 'foul' of this mindset disorder of functional. Gain some real money in several markets.

Listed below are the indispensable commandments that the skilled commercial real estate salespeople work getting new business circulating around them.

Employ the first 2 hours of each day to do your prospecting through the telephone.

Operate the middle of the day for wandering the streets including prospect properties

Use the final half-hour of every day to make more prospecting phone calls.

Phone the owners of properties around and in the area of the other agent's sales listings.

Phone the proprietors of properties that have acquired property about 3 years ago and beyond. They're just most certainly to call for your services in the next 3 years.

Keep checking on the planning approvals at the local council.

Make contact with all of the sellers and buyers that have supported you in the past, but for some reason you're no longer in touch today.

Make sure you call all client or prospect at least every 60 to 90 days regardless.

Search for referral business from the people that you know and meet.

Be knowledgeable about the many local businesses and business leaders that inhabit the property in your area.

When some people are difficult to reach, use a call back system that enables you to opt another time of day and other days of the week till you get through to them. Employ an easy basic system of 'bull-dog' clips for the call backs.

Establish your telephone calling at 8:00 am to get in touch with people before they get too unavailable.

Give every client or prospect you speak to with a chunk of commercial real estate information in every call.

Disclose a relevant story where appropriate to help the prospect appreciate what is going on out in the market.

Constantly record your call process and feedback on a simple database in order that you know what to state on the following call with your prospects. You will need approximately 1000 people in your own database to make inexpensive proceeds from created leads and options.

All property campaign that produces genuine enquiry needs to be logged and captured in your database for impending recall on other properties.

Commissions only occur in large quantity to those people that do the hard work. The greater you do the greater you gain. Whenever you improve your value to the market place the listings you generate also escalate. The market needs to appreciate and keep in mind you as the professional salesperson of choice. You are the 'pain relief' that everyone wants.




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