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3-C’s of Facebook Networking
I challenge you to say something positive about our team every couple days in your social environment. It could be an experience, a great listing, a compliment or congratulations to a team member, or whatever you decide. Touching your sphere will make a difference. I just posted an example, way to go Jesse.
Our New Home
We can’t say enough about your firm. My husband and I decided to sell our home in Montana to move back to Alaska in March 2010. At this time I contacted your firm on the internet and had nothing but great response. Shanna Lantto was great to work with as she directed me and assisted us with our needs and then connected us with Jesse Tanner. Everything from the beginning to the end was smooth. Our needs were met in so many ways and the communication was spectacular. We can’t say enough about your firm and about Shanna or Jesse. They both made our move to Alaska and our purchase of our new home so smooth. From the time our offer was accepted and closing occurred it was right at 30 days.
Our new home is everything we wanted and wouldn’t have been able to put the deal together without Jesse at our side. He is very caring, compassionate and a great listener. You are fortunate to have such a wonderful person working in your firm. He will be recommended by us to our friends. I know our son will be contacting him in the future when he is ready to buy his first home.
Thank you so much for a wonderful experience.
-John & Cindy Mielke
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Victim vs. Opportunity Graditude
I cannot say enough great things about the recent opportunity I was afforded. About 9 months ago I fell into the team leader role in a Keller Williams office and it changed my life. I am a connector; I love nothing more than being able to help connect people with the path to their personal, financial, relationship or business goals. This role as a KW TL immediately put me in a position to connect at a very high level and make a living doing it. About 3 weeks ago the ownership group of the organization I was leading at the time decided I was not performing at the level they needed and gave me an opportunity to change my vision and leadership of the organization or find a new work address. This led to a weekend without sleep, several contacts with my coach, thumbing through a couple personal and business development books, and ultimately the decision to step out of the organization and search for my next opportunity. WOW!! At the time I had no idea how much gratitude I owed for giving the opportunity to look. I had known for some time the organization was not the right long term fit for me; however this organization had brought me into a great company and paid for my on boarding experience. They were the conduit to my inner company and local area network; for that I owed them my loyalty and passion as long as they desired or until I recruited and trained a suitable replacement. As first I was frustrated, hurt, and just plain ticked off they were now offering me the door due to a perceived lack of performance on my part or maybe they just felt our leadership visions would not align. After a week or so of being a victim I realized what they did for me actually deserved my gratitude and my initial perception of failure was actually a huge leap forward for me personally.
iPad Sales Team
This past couple weeks have been exciting as I look for my career path. In that search I was fortunate enough to spend some time with the new Northpoint Title & Escrow iPad sales force. Wow, what they are doing is really cool! Howard Chung recently took over the team and implemented the concept, most likely one of the first in the industry. As a sales guy myself I quickly validated how I might implement this tool in my career search and now here I am writing a blog on my new fathers day iPad. Apps, apps, and more apps.. I find myself most excited about wow factor productivity apps and thought I would write about my favorite thus far.
1) Seychelle Vanpoole introduced me to dropbox.com through the myredtools.com gang to help write some training webinars. I have always used amazon’s jungledisk.com, but may have just found a new favorite for multi-user and computer syncing. Btw you can also use dropbox to set up public urls to your files; the possibilities are endless.
2) now to my favorite part 
iPad app goodreader – once installed you can sync to web based servers like dropbox and google docs. Now I have access to any files I drop in the drop box from my iPad? It’s fluid, reliable, and fast…
Now I can create shared folders with my sales teams from which they can sync as many computers and devices as they like and best of all, I can access them from the iPad and am starting to wonder if I even need to bring my laptop with me anymore.
