Glenn Twiddle

I was asked recently by a great and motivated student why on my Massive Success in Real Estate CD (click to check it out, it’s still cheap, but only til the end of the year) why I recommended getting on to ‘Commission Only’ as soon as possible.

This is the only way to earn the really big bucks for several reasons.

- The other options are where the business owner is taking a risk on you, so in order to make that risk worthwhile, often your % rate is significantly less than if you take a punt on yourself, like any self employed business person does.

- If you are on a wage PLUS commission (even worse than a debit credit system), then I’ve found most deals are better for the beginner than the super 6 figure earner. eg someone making no sales is way better off on a $52,000 salary plus bonuses. But someone making a sale a week is going to be paid over $350,000 in commission where they’d be lucky to make half that on a wage plus bonus system.

- This takes us to the mindset of Commission only. Just having that safety net of $500 per week, in my opinion, severely limits the chance you will ever make $300,000 per year. The very fact you have in your head $500 a week, means your subconscious is still thinking like a $500 per week employee. I know this doesn’t make sense to your conscious mind, your intellect, your logic, but then hey, not much that the subconscious does think makes any logical sense, it just is. We need to, as soon as possible, get as far away from this ‘exchange a week’s work for a week’s pay’ mentality. That is NOT the business we are in. You no longer exchange your hour for $22.67 or whatever your hourly rate to date has been. If there is a safety net on your wage, then there is a ceiling opn your earnings, even if that ceiling is a psychological one. It’s like the flea and the elephant training. A flea can easily jump out of a jar, but put one in a jar with a piece of cling wrap on top for a period of time, it gets conditioned to not be able to, and eventually it can’t. Same as when a baby elephant is tied by a stake and can’t pull the stake out of the ground. When fully grown that elephant has taken it as a given that when staked it is stuck, even though by this stage the elephant could easily pull the stake out of the ground with it’s massive strength, it just forgot about it.

I say all this and mean it with all my heart, but I want to add something. If your family responsibility requires a $500 a week certainty at this stage in your life and you are risking your family and your financial well being on your real estate career, I am not recommending you go to ‘Commission only’ straight away. If the worst case scenario is not acceptable to you, then don’t do it. Find someone who will pay you a retainer while you grow your mindset to know that you don’t need it anymore. Use it like training wheels. Yes, I believe that you will not succeed as quickly if you start with the training wheels, but at least the fall won’t be the end of your marriage, kids, whatever.

So in my Massive Success in Real Estate program, that is what I mean. Get onto commission only as soon as you can responsibly do so. And if you get that program, implement even a quarter of the strategies in it,  I promise you with a money back guarantee, you’ll be one step closer to doing just that.

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We are no longer in boom conditions so it is vital that you develop the skills to continue to sell when the others complain about the market.

1. Price must be accurate. Call each of your current listings and get them priced to sell with a well run ‘price adjustment’ meeting. If the owners don’t wish to meet the market price wise, with a well positioned advertising campaign, then do one of two things -

a) put them in your rent roll and look after them with your property management department until the market is ready to meet their price OR

b) refer them to someone else to handle. IF you have someone new in your office who needs the practice, then refer it to them, but if the owners really are unmotivated and overpriced, then refer them to your competition. If they happen to jag a sale, no problem, you still get 20%, but the most likely outcome is you’ll slow them down.

(For more info on this ‘price adjustment meeting’ stay tuned to www.glenntwiddle.com.au for the ‘Recession Buster’ CD and DVD program.)

2. Keep adding to your mailing list using a databasing program. (If you don’t have one yet, here’s a cheap (with a free trial to see if you like it) but very good one click here http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/327537 )

Make sure your clients have heard of you often before you go out and see them. Consistent (but not too often) emails will develop a relationship in the mind of each person, but take very little time on your part to send out emails to your list

3. Take steps to develop ‘Raving Fans’ among your group. See my youtube videos for some tips on what those things might be, but let your imagination run wild. There’s a million things you could do to get the attention of your people. (The ‘Massive Success’ program at my website is dedicated to this and other business creating topics.

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I have mentioned this young champion, Ben, in a previous post. Well here’s a cut and paste of an email he sent me recently that will show you guys and girls in real estate the difference between a mediocre earner and a future superstar like Amber Werchon.

‘…. another thing i think you might find interesting. On thursday i spent the best part of four hours doorknocking in the rain. Within five minutes i was soaked through to the skin and freezing but people took pity on me and i actually got one listing and four appointments out of it becaus people wernt treating me with resent like normal but were feeling sorry for me and were inviting me in for coffee.. i thought i would give it a try and it worked..
 
haha.. Pretty sure people were wondering wat i was doin walking around the streets in the rain, shivering yet with a big smile on my face.. Good fun.
 
Thanks!
 
Ben’

So for you guys saying that listings are tight, a young man with bugger all experience just got 4 appointments and a listing by doing what no one else would be willing to do. Young Ben just mentioned to me that he wanted my latest CD but his boss didn’t want to pay for it (I’ll reserve my comments) so he told me he’d get it on pay day. I told him I’d send him my new one, plus I’ll send him anything I come out with in the future for free, and the first year he earns $250,000 he can buy me a Harley and he agreed.

Man is this the surest bet I’ve ever made. I’ll bet on someone like him ANY DAY. I’ll take it in red Ben. Might take a few years but there’s a spot in my garage saved coz I KNOW he’ll earn $250,000 in his sleep.

Thanks in advance for my shiny Harley mate, your CD’s are on the way.

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I haven’t had a laugh like this in years. Then I got mad and now I don’t know whether to ignore and let the ignorance of this news article to itself or to investigate and comment to the authors. Might do a little of both, haha.

 The article I refer to is here.

http://www.itnews.it/news/2008/0630080201783/no-place-for-hypnotherapy-and-acupuncture-in-an-evidence-based-nhs-stop-smoking-service.html

And I understand that by linking to this article I only increase its prominence but I feel the need to discuss.

I have been a student of the mind, NLP, hypnosis for many  years now, and now I’m hypnotherapist and work for (I’m honoured and humbled to say) the most successful hypnotherapy and training organisation in Brisbane for the last ….well for many many years, the Brisbane Hypnosis Centre www.brisbanehypnosis.com.au

In my sessions I make this comment or something like it to EVERYONE who comes for smoking cessation, that if for whatever reason they slip up, or heaven forbid, have a cigarette, don’t go through life thinking they are a failure or hypnosis is a failure, or it doesn’t work. But I make the offer to come back, and let’s help them tighten up what they learned at a conscious and an unconscious level and see what happened, what success they did have and build on that success. And despite this offer made to several hundred people, only a handful have taken me up on that offer. That, coupled with the many referrals I have had from people who have stopped smoking FOR GOOD, tells me that this articles’ claim that any long term success over, 20% did it say, is to ‘beware of.’

‘Smokers should beware of any treatment that claims to have a higher than 50 per cent short-term (i.e. four weeks after quitting) or 20 per cent long-term (i.e. after six months) success rate.’

 Here’s my guess. Dr Andy McEwen has just under a 20% long term success rate using whatever method he uses (and just under a 50% short term success rate) so anything that claims to be better than that is to be WARNED about.

I claim to have a 100% success rate. I am a very good hypnotist, so I know what to say, how to say it, using the right tonality and the right skills to induce and deepen an altered state and help influence the unconscious mind. I make it very clear that it isn’t ME, or this state called HYPNOSIS that is doing the smoking cessation though. I give the credit to the PERSON when they give up smoking. It is THEM that deserves the credit and in the same way, if they do NOT give up smoking, they deserve the credit for that as well.

I once saw a client who had previously seen Martin St James and David Kennedy for smoking cessation. Between these two legends of the hypnosis community they have about 400,000% more experice in hypnosis than I have (that figure is approximately accurate according to my research), and the fact that this client has now stopped smoking after seeing me this latest time is a point worthy of discussion.

I could get all egotistical and think I’m the all powerful hypnotist with these great skills because I could do what two of the absolute best of the best could not do. But anyone with half an understanding of hypnosis (and I’m not talking about an authoritarian ‘Look into my eyes and obey me’ type of hypnosis) will know that my thinking and arrogance would be unfounded. Martin I’m sure did a great job. I’ve not met Martin St James but have read his very good book a few times and he claims to have hypnotised over a million people in his career, so no doubt this man knows a thing or two about how to use hypnosis. And I am absolutely sure that David Kennedy, who can hypnotise the unhypnotisable (ie ME), did an absolutely superlative job. I don’t deserve the credit for this guy stopping and they don’t deserve the blame for him not stopping in the past. Only now was he ready to stop, and hypnosis was the thing that helped him instruct his unconscious that he was ready to stop, for his reasons, and now he’s ready to change a behaviour and a series of unconscious responses, that previously, for whatever reason, he was unwilling to do. It could have been anything. It even could have been him saying to himself, ‘..well I’m with Martin St James or David Kennedy and they’re such great hypnotists, then I won’t have to do any work, the HYPNOSIS will quit for me. Well no wonder he kept smoking. Hypnosis doesn’t do it, a person does.

in fact when our friend types this statement “There is no good research evidence to show that hypnotherapy or acupuncture increase a person’s chance of stopping smoking. You may hear people who are convinced that these, or other complementary therapies, helped them stop smoking - but there is no way of knowing whether they would have stopped anyway….” I wonder if he wasn’t closer to the truth than this Doctor realises. They were committed to stopping, and hypnosis assisted in making this commitment become a reality for them in their lives.

I’ll sum up by saying that the Brisbane Hypnosis Centre, www.brisbanehypnosis.com.au, that I am honoured to work at, has seen over 10,000 smokers for more than a decade and more than 70% of the clients there come by way of referral. Make up your own mind as to whether or not a business could be THAT successful if it was founded on the premise that all of those people ‘would have given up anyway.’

I apologise for the inflammatory tone of this article, but I guess when I see people reading this article and I picture them not coming to a skillful hypnotist because of misconceptions like this article, it gets my back up.

Anyway, I’ll get off my soapbox now. I’m quite happy with my level of success, and so are my teachers, employers, students and most importantly, my clients are SO often, getting the outcomes they are after, and if that’s the case, I don’t care who gets the credit, in fact I’d prefer it’s not me, too much pressure on me. haha.

Wonder if this will get the attention of Dr Andy McEwen Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre Epidemiology & Public Health University College London? If so, I hope he comments and some healthy debate ensues. Kieren and Co, you up for it?

Comments appreciated. (and late at night so apologies for any spelling or grammatical errors)

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I have recently left a question for Dr Joe Vitale on his blog at http://blog.mrfire.com/movies/the-leap-movie/#comment-32469

It was kind of asking (and I don’t think I worded it very well) him to respond to my spirituality vs the unconscious mind that I outlined in my last post (link here)

Joe Vitale / The Secret vs the Skeptics

I really look forward to hearing how Joe responds to my ‘less spiritual, more scientific explanation of ‘The Secret’ and other similar movies that tell us that the universe magically delivers to us things we focus on, believe, want etc. Whereas my opinion is that our unconscious mind changes US and we move towards the thing, object, whatever, as opposed to the universe being a magical genie that delivers us toys. Again, last post explains a little better I think.

I have learned so much from Joe about being a marketer I really hope he responds to this question and see if the Law of Attraction could, in his opinion, be interpreted this way.

Let’s see…..

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Tonight I had a great dinner with an fired up, intelligent young man and his lovely partner (I won’t name him as I’m about to talk in a somewhat negative manner about his former employer and I don’t really want to be sued, haha).

He has just left his real estate salesperson’s job, and for reasons as I’m about outline.

When listing a property, they don’t do a presentation and in fact they don’t even talk price. In fact, if the owner requests advice about what price to list the property for, their procedure is to form a circle consisting of 3 salespeople and the Principle Licensee around the seller and badger him, sometimes for up to half an hour to an hour, until the seller gives them a price to list it for, and that is the end of the discussion, even if the price the seller ‘guesses’ is too high or too low. If it’s too low, obviously the agency gets a quick sale (and broke about 983261298762198376 sections of the Code of Conduct.

If the price the seller gives is too high and unattainable, the agency simply takes their advertising money, runs the ads and the file gets put in the ‘too hard basket’ and promptly forgotten as sson as the seller’s money for advertiosing is spent.

No wonder some agents have a bad reputation and in this case, the reputation as crooks is rightly deserved.

My friend was absolutely right to leave this agency, and the head office of this brand should take steps to ensure that practice like this doesn’t happen under their banner, but that’s not for me to judge. I trust that as my friend starts his own agency, that it will be very very easy for him to outperform a skilless agency like the abovementioned, grab a market share that is deserved by someone who is truly skilled, well trained and looking out for the best interests of his sellers.

 I wish him all the best but he hardly needs it given what his competition is. It’s like the story of the two guys on safari in Africa who see a hungry lion with a glint in his eyes. One guy starts taking his shoes off to try and get away, and his friends says ‘Shoes on, shoes off, you’re never going to outrun that lion.’ To which the other replies….

‘ I DON’T HAVE TO, I JUST HAVE TO OUTRUN YOU !!!’

It’ll be pretty easy to outrun the ‘Circle of Idiocy’ that you told me about.

Have fun and work hard,

 Glenn Twiddle

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Hey team,

Test me, put ‘Glenn Twiddle’ in google and I’m all over it. Better yet, put real estate training Brisbane or Brisbane real estate training or hypnosis training brisbane in and see what comes up very early if not number 1.

I have just read one of the best guides on social
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Book by Jack Humphrey.

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Jack is the go-to guy who consults gurus and
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I have watched my traffic and rankings improve
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What is strange to me is that Jack is just giving
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It was not rated the #1 ebook for bloggers by
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Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

You should grab it tonight and devour it.

And do not forget who sent you all this free
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Regards,

Glenn Twiddle

P.S. - The Authority Black Book is now in its
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I am constantly asked for a list of books to get a real estate salesperson started, as I encourage so strongly, that one of the clues that successful people leave, is that they all read books on the subject of their career and success in general. Is it any wonder that the homes of successful people often have a library of books. Do you think they bought the library full of books AFTER they got successful or did they accumulate so many books that when they bought the big house (or built as the case may be) that they NEEDED a library to accommodate the books they’d used to help them BECOME successful?

So here’s a nice list to start that I read when first starting in sales. (There’s a few real estate specific books, so anyone in other fields, just delete the real estate specific ones, plus I’ve added a few links to  buy these and from Amazon they are often much cheaper than you’ll pay in a book store here, even with the dollar a little low, and they get delivered to you hassle free)

Of course you have to check my stuff out -
Real Estate Training- (Click this link for the awesome products guaranteed to have you the envy of your competitors !! Yeah, ok, ok, it’s me, but hey, you must like me a bit or you wouldn’t be here!!!)

Kirsty Dunphey - ‘1001 Tips for real estate agents’ is a GREAT start, and cheap for the value it adds. Click here and buy it, it’s awesome.

The Magic of Thinking Big - Dr David Schwarz

You Inc - John McGrath

Norman Vincent Peale - (His stuff is very ‘thought and attitude’ based)

Anthony Robbins - obviously, he’s one of my favs.

W. Clement Stone - The Success System that never fails

Personality Plus - Florence Littauer

Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people

Jim Rohn (this is the guy who basically ‘made’ Tony Robbins. HE trained and mentored him into the business. Wow, he’s good.

Brian Tracy

Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill

and of course

Click here for the secret weapon against failure and towards success

Real Estate Training - (Click this link for the awesome products guaranteed to have you the envy of your competitors !! Yeah, ok, ok, it’s me, but hey, you must like me a bit or you wouldn’t be here!!!)

That ought to keep you busy for a while.

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Watch this one first……

then this one….then read on……

or try these links if you didn’t have any luck with the embedded videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvHFp6×4yY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvHFp6×4yY&feature=related

After having watched this video, I hope some thoughts have been sparked in you regarding what we can do to have ‘Raving Fans’ in our database rather than just ‘past clients.’
I’ll get the ball rolling with a few ideas to ensure a bunch of raving fans in your database.

- Make your open for inspections absolutely second to none. With the local, suburban office becoming less and less frequented by our clients and customers, it is up to us to take our professionalism and presentation out into the market. The days of simply turning up on a Saturday, opening the front door, pointing at the bedrooms, kitchen benchtops and backyard and expecting people to think of you as THE agent of choice in the area, are gone !!
Way too much of a discussion to complete here (maybe another product needed, but having thoroughly impressive OFI’s is a great tip.)

- Study, study and study. Make the words that come out of your mouth be IMPRESSIVE. Remember, it’s the only product we have, are our words and our ability to use our words to negotiate on behalf of our clients. So study language and how it can be used to influence others and you’ll do very well. Read lots of books on the subject, listen to CD’s and podcasts etc.

- Of course the most obvious tip, is you absolutely MUST BUY Massive Success in Real Estate, the best $50 you’ll ever invest in your career, or I’ll refund every cent. Click the link above and grab it before someone convinces me to put the price up. (I’ve already been advised it’s too cheap!!!)

I’ll leave it over to you guys now to continue this discussion…..

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I just received my monthly CD from Pat Mesiti, and this month is a ripper. Pat often in his Millionaire Mindset Club interviews people like Brian Tracy, Justin Herald, Jim Rohn, and many other absolute gurus from the world of profeesional excellence training. This month was simply Pat talking about success strategies and I must say that despite how much I enjoyed the authors, speakers and the like that Pat gets on his series, I really liked this one as it was just my mate, Pat Mesiti, at his best doing what he does best; educate, motivate and inspire.

Do yourself a favour, join up his Millionaire Mindset Club, at www.mesiti.com (see if you can find the back issues of the club too, maybe you’ll get a discount) and tell Pat Glenn Twiddle sent you. haha.

Have fun while working hard,

Glenn

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