Seth's Blog: Advice for real estate agents (Read Photographers as well)

After doing a lot of consulting with a couple of photographers who are starting to really get it - the "it" that things have changed, are never going back, but that there are definite ways to go forward - along comes this remarkable little post by Seth. He could be talking to photographers you know. The comfortable ones are no longer comfortable. The beginners have no baggage - good or bad - and the older ones are just biding their time so to speak. Not all, but too many. Read this... there is a lot of info for photographers to consider as well.

Seth's Blog: Advice for real estate agents (quit now!): "I had the good fortune to speak to a large gathering of real estate agents last week. Here’s my best advice (everyone knows an agent or two, so feel free to forward this along).

Plan A: You should quit selling real estate.

I’m serious.

Quit being an agent. Get a job doing something else.

Some of you have been waiting to hear that. My pleasure.

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Now, if you’re still with me, you’ll be glad to know that the competition for attention just got smaller. The agents who built their business on low interest rates, easy money and speculation (the order takers) have left the building.

The ones that are left, that’s you, can consider Plan B:

If you’re not going to be able to make a living by taking orders, by selling houses the way everyone else does, by using the never-ending rise in real estate prices to make sales, then what are you going to do? Whining is not an option.

In fact, I think this is an extraordinary opportunity for you.

Without a frenzy, without short-term competition, you can actually build assets that will pay off for the long run. I have two in mind:"

Keep going: There is more... much more.