You failed often before, at a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors, but are too lazy to hold a full-time job, so you call yourself a consultant, and use the rule of perception to build a false career and establish “credibility.” You begin to succeed, but you also forget to stay humble. You begin to step on what others say, you can’t participate in a panel because it has to be all about “you, you, you” – you promote yourself, your services, your business. People believe what you say. You stop listening and begin broadcasting.

As I sit there and listen I know better. As you think I might not be “active” because of my change in pattern, I still watch and observe. That is what do, which is why I know what you are about, you are about a lie. I am a strategist, I am a futurist – I watch the streams, I watch the networks, I watch the channels, and I can see the new directions well ahead of many, including you.

Proclaim it the social network, the social community, the rules of engagement. We support our community, we go to our members to promote their business. You get pizza from the local pizza person on Twitter, you buy your magazines at the local book and tobacco store, all the people you have in your social network circle are the ones you promote, except for one. The one lonely person you don’t turn to when you should, leaving yourself with something far inferior to the best.

Why is it when it comes to real estate you won’t promote within your own community? Excuses, I hear them all. You want the rest of the “experts” to promote you, to endorse you, to help you, to teach you, then when it comes time for you to pay your dues, you don’t call upon myself or my sister and brother real estate professionals to represent your best interests.

The Top Excuses:
“It wasn’t my choice” – yes it was, you own the house as much as your spouse, you chose not to ask or even give that real estate agent a shot.
“We had to use my Uncles Wife’s Daughters College Roomates brother because of the close connection and ties” – You mean you don’t have the guts to say “I don’t understand how it works and I didn’t even think as my selfish needs were met, but please keep telling people how awesome I am because you’re the best!!” sure, see you next Tuesday…
“Oh, I thought I had to use the listing agent” and you consult in social media for businesses? That would imply you had a brain, oh yes – an attempt at a lame b.s. excuse.