Barry Owen's Blog
Tips and commentary For Home Buyers & Sellers and REALTORS with primary focus on LIVE - Work - Play - Life Rhythm - Life Performance Oriented thinking for regular folks
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2019
“When you’re marketing change, you’re offering a new emotional state, a step closer to the dreams and desires of your customers, not a widget.”(From This Is Marketing by Seth Godin page 78) 4 pages later, he offers some sage advice to REALTORS entitled: “No one is happy to call a real estate brok...
02/28/2019
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It happens to all of us. Funk sneaks up on ya, and you just don’t want to do “it” anymore. The pile is getting deeper . . . The bills aren’t paying themselves . . . You’re not doing the good-for-you things you know you need to do . . . You feel like you’re spinning your wheels – treading water – ...
02/27/2019
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Oh my! Why do some people have make things SO difficult? Just when we start getting used to THIS way of doing things, someone feels compelled to CHANGE something. Why can’t we just leave things well enough alone? What we are doing now works . . . It does what it’s s’posed to do and has been doing...
02/26/2019
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How many projects on your list are almost completed? Why are they ALMOST completed? What’s happened? At the beginning, you had such great energy for each of these projects and tackled them with vigor. As you approached the finish line, you took your foot off the gas? Was there some other slique, ...
02/25/2019
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Most of the schools in Middle Tennessee are closed today due to the forecast of apocalyptic rainfall. It’s not so much the rain that’s the concern . . . It’s the VOLUME of water that’ll be deluging the creeks and Rivers and the low points. One might wonder why we Nashvillians can’t seem to figur...
02/22/2019
I relentlessly preach the importance of being held accountable. There seems to be some unwritten code that forbids the “followers” from holding the “leaders” accountable. I guess this is a perk of being the “BOSS”, eh? So . . . who, then, DOES hold the “leader” accountable? What leaders out there...
02/21/2019
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When in your place of business doing your thing called “work”, interruptions of any kind are counter-productive, right? So . . . why do we allow them? My prescription for optimal personal and professional performance calls for 2-3 hours of FOCUS at a high level of INTENSITY during that time when ...
02/20/2019
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All of us have different ways to measure our success. For some, it’s fulfillment, Happiness . . . a feeling of accomplishment. Some others are all about the numbers (Business-centric) . . . Number of calls dialed, conversations had, conversions to appointments, then conversions to client, then ...
02/19/2019
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Thor got loose last night . . . Thor is the innocent looking one on the left. He’s got a great, loving disposition. Looks can be deceiving! There’s a veritable hellion imprisoned in that calm and endearing presence. 90% of the time, he oozes with love and affection. The other 10% of the time, he’...
02/15/2019
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Throwing money at marketing to see if it’ll stick ain’t the path of least resistance to a successful business. Every day, I “run the gauntlet” of ads and connection requests from “Marketers” on Facebook, Linkedin, Email, text . . . They all promise the same thing. If I give them (Enough) money, t...
02/14/2019
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Stream of consciousness commentary on the real estate industry from the perspective of a Principal Real Estate Broker and Founder of Pareto REalty, LLC in Middlle Tennessee - Also a Career Development Coach with vast Organizational Development/Transformation training and experience - in the industry since 1993