MAR73: How your resistance is preventing you from being a rich and happy real estate agent
"You have to get some assistance. You got to get someone helping you against that resistance." - Darin Persinger

"You have to get some assistance. You got to get someone helping you against that resistance." - Darin Persinger
"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful of the friends you choose for you will become them." - Darin Persinger
"And that's where all those little $9 and $19 a month stack up and to me that's wasting money." - Darin Persinger
"And I think you got to move past our instincts here on doing nothing. We freeze with all of this information out there. I think it's really easy to do nothing." - Darin Persinger
"It just would not make sense if we didn't identify them so that when we saw them show up, we would have a plan, a method in order to get over it, around it, through it, under it, whatever we're going to do." - Darin Persinger
"There's people that are motivated by the reward and then there's people that are motivated by not getting the bad result." - Darin Persinger
"The crucial tools that a real estate agent needs in their business and will still be viable five years from now." - Darin Persinger
"That's what marketing is, of being the storyteller of what it is that you do, of the successes that your buyers and sellers are having." - Darin Persinger
"It's a good idea to bring in outside consultants or coaches to get help with your blind spots." - Darin Persinger
"Forty-one point six percent of mobile Internet time for users in the U.S. is email. If you're not getting your emails opened, read, and responded to, it's because you're writing bad emails that they're not going to open, read, and respond to." - Darin Persinger
"The opt-out rate for real estate emails is 0.22%. I have a feeling that the reason why this opt-out rate is so low is real estate agents are not sending enough emails." - Jonathan Rivera
"I think if what you have is an email, you want to move that on to the phone as soon as possible and move that into face to face as soon as possible. Be first though with your conversion, with your engagement especially. Be first." - Darin Persinger
"If you went through the effort to capture it, why are you not going through the effort to engage them, convert them, follow up, give a great appointment, and then manage and coordinate the transaction? That's part of your job too." - Darin Persinger
"You don't try to save the princess immediately. You have to get through level one first, right? And you get better as you go up through the levels so then by the time you get to level eight and save the princess, you can because your skills and ability match what you need to do at that level." - Darin Persinger
"Marketing is something you kind of have to learn and your brain needs to get wired that way of connecting money, outcome, commission to lead capture which is a few steps away. It's all about being lead capture focused." - Darin Persinger
"I think while most agents see themselves as providing these solutions, I'd say real estate investors see the exact same way. Our jobs as investors are to help people find answers to their problems." - Joshua Dorkin
"I think while most agents see themselves as providing the solutions, I'd say real estate investors see the exact same way. Our jobs as investors are to help people find answers to their problems." - Joshua Dorkin
"If Rick Pitino views Twitter as a distraction from his players being their best, if Aaron Rodgers views Twitter as a distraction from his job, why are we telling businesses and solo entrepreneurs and self-employed people to be on Twitter? That it's your job to be there?" - Darin Persinger
"Fifty percent of the homes sold of sellers moved within 15 miles or less of the home that they sold into their new home. Which could make it a triple. I mean one good seller could be a triple. It could be you get their buyer, you help them sell their house and you help them as a buyer buy another house." - Darin Persinger
"It's so stupid simple. You know, you're talking like one to one in direct mail and if you've got the right messaging, the right packaging, and you can stop somebody, you can pull them in." - Jonathan Rivera
"Have you heard of entrepreneurial ADD? I think it's really an excuse, where you can't tie yourself down for too long? I have that. So when I get into something, I read it up to the point where I find something that I have to do or want to do, and I stop reading it right there, bookmark it, and then I go try it." - Jonathan Rivera
"If you are someone that is an employee and you're looking for ways to become more productive or maybe you're thinking about becoming a real estate agent, realize that your time management system should be very different." - Darin Persinger
"Ballantyne's Law: The more you know about how to do the technological things on the Internet, the less money you're going to make. Let someone else worry about the lighting, the camera, the audio, and you just be the expert in what it is that you do." - Darin Persinger
"Taking action is a muscle. You need to build up your muscles of taking action even if this seems silly or foolish to you." - Darin Persinger
"Do you see how precious your time is? How important it is? You've got to protect it. You've got to protect your time. You've got to protect every minute of it. This is how much it's worth." - Darin Persinger
"I've worked with agents that are like great at physical fitness stuff. They are very disciplined about showing up to the gym at the same time every day. And they're big and they're strong and they're healthy and they look great. And when I go, "Okay, block up this time and lead generate," they just can't do it because they are using so much discipline in other areas of their life." - Darin Persinger
"But how can you be too busy to grow your business? I mean, that seems like an oxymoron. Too busy to me is always a cop out. I try not to say I'm too busy for anything. I'd rather just say, "Hey, I don't want to do that" or "That's not important to me."" - Jonathan Rivera
"I think all of us were wasting a lot of time there for a while as we have talked about before, this perfect storm of as the real estate market was tanking and the Internet social media was kind of making this big wave. A lot of us went all in on the idea of technology and social media and Internet marketing because it was free or very cheap and we weren't quite sure how to deal with the new market." - Darin Persinger
"I think a lot of agents want to sit there and go, "How can I help this person? I really want to help them. What can I do to help them?" They don't want help. You've got to be able to be strong enough to walk away." - Darin Persinger
"We're obsessed with this celebrity thing, and I just want to point out that celebrity does not equate to wealth. All celebrity equates to is celebrity." - Darin Persinger