New Year’s Resolutions
Wow, here it is the end of the year already, and what have I done? Another year over, and a new one’s begun.
It’s funny how even my resolutions have become Internet resolutions.
Here’s a good one: I’ll tell the people close to me and the people I meet how special they are. Like my teammates, Vicki and Wendy, who’ve done such an outstanding job with all our clients this year and made even a nerd-turned-salesman like me look good.
We’re counting down the days until the 25th anniversary of Vicki’s Real Estate License. This awesome silver anniversary is taking place on 02/27/06. Suggestions are open as to what we’ll do about this neat event — just please don’t call Vicki our “senior” team member, she might not take the “senior” thing in the spirit it’s intended. As she does every year, Vicki closed a ton of business this year, thus keeping me off the streets and letting me live to type another day.
(By the way, consumers you can check up on me or Wendy or any other real estate licensee using the DRE’s license status check utility.)
During the last year, it was great too watching Wendy grow from an outstanding buyer’s agent into an equally outstanding listing agent. Now we just have to get our marketing guy — hint, hint, note to self — to get more sellers to call so she can do a great job with even more of them. Oh, and speaking of outstanding agents, outstanding results, with just under three years in the business, and out of sixty agents in our office, Wendy took the #2 position in our office for the number of closed transactions representing the buyer, only one closed transaction less than a top producing agent whose been at this thing for sixteen years!
At the risk of letting my boasting become tiresome, I really am proud of my team’s accomplishments, especially with buyers! Even though you had to put my buyer-side production together with Vicki’s to beat Wendy’s, our team’s average overall is none too shabby. Looking at how many buyer transactions our team closed and how many were closed by the average agent in our office that isn’t on our team, it turns out that we closed 2.6 times as many transactions — or 160% more, depending on which statistic makes us look cooler :).
We’ve improved our numbers with sellers in 2005 over 2006 as well, but there’s another New Year’s resolution in the making as I review our work with buyers, and that is, to let seller’s know we have 160% more buyers than the average agent!
Thank you to all the buyers and sellers who trusted us this year with your real estate transactions. We appreciate your confidence in us and your business, and I hope your new year is prosperous, safe, and successful!
