Christopher's Hemet CA Real Estate Blog - Mission Grove Realty: July 2007

If one word could make the difference....would you use it?

In my blog (rant) about The Rise and Fall of Common Courtesy I wrote of the shift from "you're welcome" to "no problem" as a common response to a "Thank You" which brought some interesting replies.

I do feel that we alienate our "older" clients, associates and friends  when substituting a Thank You for No Problem. I feel that it discounts, in some way, the "validity" of their offer of thanks. Something that I feel we should all be aware of and sensitive to. We do not want to alienate anyone in this highly competitive market. A response of "you're welcome" certainly wont raise any eyebrows as a "No Problem may".

Well....I am finished with that rant so.....drum-roll please.......On to the next one!

IRREGARDLESS

How many of you have heard, or choose to use, this lovely "word"?

regardless Adj- (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "the proverbial grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread"

Add IR (I thought this was a negative meaning 'not') to regardless (The less meaning 'without') and we have irregardless which would have to mean that what someone is saying is regardless to whatever you are speaking of being regardless to?  A double negative at the very least...a redundancy.

I KNOW, I KNOW....a now acceptable use or misuse of a word.....but why use it?  Because EVERYONE else does! Just like your Mom said;"Would you jump off a bridge if EVERYONE else did"?  Culture is eating us alive :)

Irregardless of all of this....Why put yourself at a disadvantage? "Acceptable" use of a word, "Acceptable" reply to an offer of thanks...Acceptable is something that the ordinary and run of the mill folks attempt to achieve.

Do you strive to achieve average results? Are you an "Average Agent"?

All of us here are believers in the power of the Internet.

The effect it can have on our business can be positive and negative.

One of the biggest positive aspects is having a billboard all over the world with your  name on it, your phone number and hopefully.....some really great content.

This is also the biggest negative. 

Every solicitor in the world (For the Europeans, I am not referring to Attorneys) has all of your information too. We already get enough junk mail to occupy an entire day of work per month just to filter through and get rid of it.  Our cell phones ring without the excitement of a family member, client or friend at the other end of the line. We all have to look at the ID of the caller and decide if we should take the call.

Now comes Homes.com. Not that they are new but....someone down there must have told the sales department this month  that #1 in sales gets a new Caddy.....# 2 a set of steak knives...... #3 on down....gets FIRED. 

I was a supporter of Homes.com yet after over 100 calls to our office in less than 2 weeks, their sales department now takes the cake as our biggest time and money waster. Not that they do not have a decent product or platform but....due to their incessant calling, I will no longer recommend them to our agents or other local associates.

Has anyone else out there experienced this from Homes.com?

Maybe we are the only ones out there experiencing this.

I expect it from others but not Homes.com.

If someone from Homes.com is out there...C'MON!!! It does not help in the long run to attempt and muscle agents into any agreement....with a contract or without.  Calling non stop until they do will ultimately cause many other problems and dissension among the very people needed to support you. We only have 22 agents with our company and the phones have been ringing non stop for 2 weeks with calls from Homes.com. No one wants to answer the phone....too much time has been wasted fielding those calls. I wonder what it is like in an office with 100 or more licenses hanging on the wall. A real client would never reach anyone. Good for business? I think not. Neither ours nor Homes.com.

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