Real Estate Trainer & Coach Brian Icenhower and high producing “young gun” agent Apple Corial discuss the importance of “Getting Purposeful with her Business” by protecting lead generation time, tracking lead generation numbers, and understanding conversion ratios.

MOTIVATION

Lead generation activities like prospecting can often mean day after day filled with rejection and failure.  Tracking these activities enables the agent to focus on the activity and not the results. For example, an agent that makes the requisite 20 daily telephone client database contacts may feel a sense of accomplishment if his focus was on that activity.  Yet an agent focused solely on results may experience only depression if he received no leads from the 20 contacts.  A knowledgeable lead generator understands that prospecting is a numbers game and eventually the leads and appointments will come so long as the activity persists.  Lead generators have control of the effort and not the outcome.

ACCOUNTABILITY

The key to understanding how numbers tracking enhances agent accountability is found in the 10-10-80 principle.  Success in real estate is broken down by:

  • 10% Knowledge – learning what to do

  • 10% Taking Action – starting to do something

  • 80% Accountability – keeping yourself doing it

Almost all agents can remember when they learned a way to get more business and maybe even started taking action.  However very few agents continue to lead generate with any type of consistency after getting started.  Numbers tracking holds agents accountable to the activity when the lack immediate results might otherwise discourage persistence.

DIAGNOSIS

Finally, establishing conversion ratios helps agents to see where their attempts are missing the mark by isolating areas of activity that need more training and development.  In turn, agents are able to gain confidence quickly and become much more efficient with time as their skill level improves at a rapid rate.

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