By Kevin Shirley
Your Ultra-Strength Quarterly Day Planner
The growth of digital devices has dramatically reduced our customs of note-taking, journaling, and plan to place on paper. Do you recall the last time you wrote down more than two sentences by hand? Whatever we do and wherever we go, we never forget to take our phones with us. Therefore, obviously, many are moving their organizational systems into the digital world. However, despite our online proclivities, paper planners, agendas, and productivity journals appear to continue to take off. Many people are intrigued by owning a paper diary and using it daily.
By Kevin Shirley
This 90-day, undated planner has been designed to support entrepreneurs, who need to know their stuff, but they also have to be marketing themselves every day. Entrepreneurs are often isolated; they really have no peers, no one to bounce ideas off, and no one to give them a high-five for a job well done. This planner aims to mitigate this sense of isolation through daily and quarterly coaching exercises. INCLUDED IN THE PLANNER: A quarterly review of the previous 12 weeks through journaling prompts; Daily coaching questions designed as journaling prompts; A 6:00 am to midnight daily schedule; Daily goal setting and prioritization prompts; A daily habit tracker (for meditation, visualization, gratitude, exercise, hydration, database updates, journaling, silence, and planning the following day’s schedule; A daily marketing tracker (for logging the number of personal notes written, phone calls made, and social media and blog posts executed); Ample space for notes. SPECIALTY WORKSHEETS AND CHECKLISTS: There are also specialty worksheets and checklists explicitly designed with the entrepreneur in mind: A one-page business plan (1); A one-page marketing plan (1); Procrastination buster worksheets (8); A travel-planning checklist (1); A packing checklist (1); Comprehensive client-appreciation checklists (2); One-page project planners (8); Note pages (20).
By Kevin Shirley
The decision to hire an assistant is one of the most important decisions a real estate professional will make in his or her career – and one that is fraught with many variables and unknowns. Do you have enough business to warrant the expense? Will you be able to relinquish some jobs to an assistant? Will you be able to let an assistant create ways of thinking differently than the way you do them? Consumer expectations are higher than they have ever been. The successful agents are providing their customers with a consistent, high level of personal service. This high level of service is an integral part of the relationship that will endure and generate referrals. Having a bright, analytical, well-trained, and “user-friendly” assistant can make your business run more effectively and efficiently, and free your mind for its highest and best uses, both professionally and personally. Imagine taking a vacation and knowing that your business is well taken care of. Or, moving to a new and higher level of production and client satisfaction. Or, spending more time with your friends and loved ones. An assistant can help you realize these goals. But the road to fulfilling these goals can be difficult to navigate and bumpy. This guide will help you along the process.
By Kevin Shirley
Working from home is terrific. Right up until the child hides your laptop. And your neighbor, who you can only assume is constructing a motorcycle, begins firing up all kinds of power tools and noisy machines next door. For most modern professionals, working in the home from time to time is a luxury that we are afforded by our individual companies. Now, however, in the age of weekly pandemics, working at home may become the new normal. But which environment really allows us to be more productive: the home office or the office office? At the workplace, your coworkers frequently pose the greatest danger to your getting your work done. They pop up from their cubicles, engage you in a conversation, and invite you to coffee. The social advantages of a workplace are attractive, but they can become a struggle if you are easily distracted. In the home office, on the other hand, it is easy to become your very own worst enemy. Even though you aren’t being distracted by coworkers, you’re still vulnerable to even more pressing distractions — laundry, bills, a sink full of dishes. On top of that, in your home office, no one’s watching, so you won’t feel that built-in peer pressure to get things done. But before you can even begin to wrestle with the day-to-day logistics of being productive at home, you first must create a workspace the fosters productivity. In this e-book, I have compiled a list of suggestions to get you up and running in your home office as rapidly as possible.
By Kevin Shirley
Real estate isn’t rocket science, at least on the surface: Put buyers and sellers together, help guide them through the negotiation and on to a successful settlement, collect a commission check, exit stage left, repeat. Alas, the devil though — as they say — is in the details. And details there are. Many of them. It seems that each year real estate sales become increasingly more complicated. The “contract-to-close” period is among the most important in real estate. All the hard work of finding a buyer for your listing, working with the buyer’s agent and negotiating the offer, and getting that offer ratified are just the beginning. Failure to attend to even one of a myriad of details during this period can threaten to undermine even the most solid-looking sale — which could jeopardize not only your commission but your relationship with your client as well (which could consequently put an end to a referral stream). For these reasons, as real estate agents, we must take these processes very seriously. This book aims to help you anticipate and avert those mini-disasters that could derail your transaction. Whether you’re a brand-new agent who doesn’t want to reinvent the proverbial wheel or an experienced agent who simply wants to hone your own contract-to-settlement checklist, this book will help you continue guiding your clients to a successful settlement, collecting commission checks, and cultivating long-lasting personal and professional relationships with your clients.
By Kevin Shirley
Real estate isn’t rocket science, at least on the surface: Put buyers and sellers together, help guide them through the negotiation and on to a successful settlement, collect a commission check, exit stage left, repeat. Alas, the devil though — as they say — is in the details. And details there are. Many of them. It seems that each year real estate sales become increasingly more complicated. The “contract-to-close” period is among the most important in real estate. All the hard work of finding a buyer for your listing, working with the buyer’s agent and negotiating the offer, and getting that offer ratified are just the beginning. Failure to attend to even one of a myriad of details during this period can threaten to undermine even the most solid-looking sale — which could jeopardize not only your commission but your relationship with your client as well (which could consequently put an end to a referral stream). For these reasons, as real estate agents, we must take these processes very seriously. This book aims to help you anticipate and avert those mini-disasters that could derail your transaction. Whether you’re a brand-new agent who doesn’t want to reinvent the proverbial wheel or an experienced agent who simply wants to hone your own contract-to-settlement checklist, this book will help you continue guiding your clients to a successful settlement, collecting commission checks, and cultivating long-lasting personal and professional relationships with your clients.
By Kevin Shirley
What Your Agent Wants You to Know Before You Get Started
Selling a home is a significant life decision. Making wise decisions during the process is one of the best investments you can make in your family’s financial future. But, selling a home is not taught in school, even though it is one of the most necessary pieces of knowledge you could acquire in life.The event can be extremely stressful, especially when you are doing it for the first time. The truth is that selling a home can be complicated, emotional, and fraught with both perils and expenses. Nevertheless, understanding the process can make the task much more relaxed. And one of the links in the chain is involving a professional.Securing a professional to watch out for your interests is good common sense. Many people seem to find the idea of getting a professional to handle their home transaction quite daunting. But it shouldn’t be. This book explains the process in simple everyday language and provides the fundamentals that should help anyone succeed. Furthermore, even though selling a home seems like a linear, logical process at first blush, it can be more complicated, confusing, and emotional than you think. In this book, you will find the primary ways you can break the process down into easily manageable chunks.Beyond that, as a home seller, you may be excited to find a buyer and get your home under contract. However, until the closing is final, you still have a lot that you need to consider. Many sellers make mistakes before closing that can delay the sale. So, the question is, how can this be avoided? How can you be made aware of the potential pitfalls of selling a home, so you don’t make the same errors as you go through the process?
By Kevin Shirley
What Your Agent Wants You to Know Before You Get Started
Buying a home is one of the ultimate proofs of your financial discipline and success. But behind all the glamor and excitement is a challenging process. You have to look for houses, inspect them, make offers, and make do with what you can afford. The thing is, a lot of these activities only become successful if the buyer and the REALTOR are in a good working relationship. I wrote this book to enlighten you about the activities that happen behind the buying process. There are so many people involved in the real estate industry. It would help buyers like you if you knew what to do before you start shopping for a new home.In this book, you will learn: How to choose a great real estate agent; the legal boundaries of what a real estate agency can do; where to find a home loan; hunting for the right house; the logistics of the purchase; closing the deal. As you know by now, buying real estate is not the same as buying goods from a store. For one, you need to find a loan that is not going to put a massive debt in your pocket. There is also a myriad of legal documents that you have to process such as, but not limited to, the written offer, the contract, and the closure of the deal. And before you can even get there, you need support to validate the title history, the legitimacy of the property, insurance, appraisal, title transfer, and so much more.Given all these activities, where do you even start? I want to share with you the complexities of buying a house — before you even get started, so you’ll know what to expect. I also want you to be prepared for all these documentary requirements and activities. If you know what is expected of you as a buyer, your real estate agent can focus on finding the perfect property. This book does exactly that — help you understand the goings-on in the home-buying process to avoid making costly mistakes.
