“A brand new Aston Martin for a week’s worth of work. It doesn’t suck to be me!”– Chad Carroll, Million Dollar Listing Miami
Ego. Greed. Rude. Disrespectful. Materialistic.
I don’t know why I watch this show, sure, I guess it’s entertaining, but it drives me insane to see my profession displayed in this light. And, unlike Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, which celebrated some of the hardest working men and women in America for doing the jobs most would never do, Million Dollar Listing paints the profession of real estate agent as a “lifestyle,” and celebrates the “stupidity” and “character flaws” of those in the profession.
On a recent episode of Million Dollar Listing Miami, one of the stars of the show, in the process of bitching about her client, revealed just how little show knows about getting her clients the best result. Continue Reading …
“Meet Aimee Mullins, she as 12 pairs of legs. Like most people she was born with two, but unlike most people Mullins had to have both legs amputated below the knee due to a medical condition. Mullins has lived with no lower legs since her first birthday.
When I set out to study Warren Buffett, his investment philosophy, to find out what made him the world’s greatest investors, and, ultimately, how his methods could be applied to my clients’ home sale—I came stumbled upon a book called Differentiate or Die. This book changed my entire perspective on real estate. Jack Trout was the author. In the book he laid out the fundamental reasons why a business must differentiate from competitors, not just to be successful, but as the key ingredient to thrive in our current era of Killer Competition. Now, admittedly, from a business perspective, this is common sense. Every entrepreneur knows he must differentiate his business. As a mentor once told me, “Nobody needs two left shoes.” In business, if two businesses are the same, then one is dispensable.
