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How To Silence Your Biggest Critic: Susan Boyle

Posted by Shawna Ebersole | Categories: Especially For Realtors, Just For Fun

This is an email I just received from a fellow Keller Williams agent, Michaelann Byerly in Tampa Bay, Florida and it was just too good not to pass it along.  Thanks Michaelann…I really needed this today…

“Did you catch the frumpy 47-year old Susan Boyle on her audition for Britain’s version of American Idol?

If not, it may be the best seven minutes you’ll spend this year.  Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY  

She’s middle aged, triple-chinned, eyebrows that look like dead caterpillars, never been kissed by a man… everyone just knew this Gong-Show reject was going to bomb.

I had to give Simon Cowell credit, as he did his best to keep a straight face.  When he asked about her goal, she said she wanted to sing like a star.

Simon rolled his eyes at this train wreck.  Half the audience groaned.  The other half just sighed, shaking their heads.  Some outright sneered.

But when she started to sing…it was like Angels from heaven had came to earth.

She lit it up.  And the crowd went wild!

If you were touched by her performance, you are not alone.  It brings out and OVERCOMES something in you that you try to hide, yet it’s buried inside you somewhere.

Any time you’ve faced defeat…been laughed at and humiliated…had your spirit crushed…faced rejection…experienced shame…you strengthened this part of you that identified with her.

Yet this one person reached inside herself and overcame all that inner negativity in one fell swoop.

The face you don’t want anyone to see…the one you hide even from yourself…is the one that she wears every day.  And she turned it into a thing of beauty.

This is about redemption, baby.

And it’s within your reach, too.  If you lack confidence that you can’t work in this foreclosure market, that it’s too hard, or you’ll never make it, that’s the inner voice of failure talking.

But know that you can reach inside and bring out the best within you and emerge a success.

If Susan Boyle did it, you can too.

Some of the most unlikely people have attended our trainings and have come out on top.  They might not have looked the part of a perfect Realtor, but with drive and determination, they’re making 2009 their best ever.  They are determined.  They are driven.  And they are making it happen.

Some are making more money than they dared to dream possible.  Dared to believe they were capable of.  Dared to believe they were even worthy of.

Training has changed their life.

Take this step.  Reach for the best within you and become the success that our other agents are now.

Yet they walked the path we showed them, and became new people.  maybe it was in spite of their former lives.

Maybe it was because of their former lives.

Point is, they ARE special.  And they were all along.  They were just waiting for a way to prove it to the world.

Sign up for training.  Come into the Market Center.  Make 2009 your absolute best ever.

Silence your biggest critic once and for all.

And I’ll see you at the top!

Chris McLaughlin

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Your Home SOLD In 120 Days…GUARANTEED!!!

Posted by Shawna Ebersole | Categories: Especially For Realtors

Do you have a lot of those “Guaranteed Home Sale” Realtors in your area?  You know the ones…that offer to buyer the listing if they can’t sell it within a certain time frame?

Well sure, that sounds like a great idea if you have a big fat line of credit, or just a huge pile of money laying around.  But what about the little guy (or girl) like me?  How in the world am I ever supposed to compete with that?

Well, I figured out a way to Guarantee my home sales…without costing me anything out of pocket!  (I’m a notorious cheapskate to those who know me well).  And believe me, this little marketing plan has definitely helped us to get our foot in the door for many listing appointments that we wouldn’t have otherwise been invited to.

Best of all, we’ve been offering this program for almost 3 years and we’ve only had 1 home that didn’t sell within our guaranteed 120 day time frame.  (We also offered a 39 day guarantee once for a higher commission and we lost….it sold in 47 days….grrrrrr……my team-mates have threatened me with my life if I ever do anything like that again).

I say all of this simply to say that we recently had an agent on Active Rain request to see a copy of our 21 Step Marketing Plan.  Unfortunately, I’m not sure how to make it into a jpeg file, but if you would also like to receive a pdf version of it, please let us know.  We’d be happy to share it if we thought it might help someone else, too.

Want more specifics on exactly how our program works?  Please feel free to contact us directly.  We’d be happy to share any of our marketing materials and help you any way we can! 

It’s YOUR Time To Shine In 2009!!!

PS – Click Here for the easiest way to get the downloads

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