The Making Agents Rich Show with Darin Persinger & Jonathan Rivera

"If the only time your sphere and your database hears from you is when you're asking for referrals, how do you think they feel about their relationship with you?" - Darin Persinger

"Home buyers, on the home buying side, 54% of them found their agent by repeat or referral." - Darin Persinger

"There's two things tleverage-making-agents-richo keep in mind. There's two types of first impressions that you're making: the online and then the actual first time you meet." - Darin Persinger

"It's a bappointments-making-agents-richig myth that buyers, especially first time buyers, will just go to whatever agent will show them the home first because that's not what they get as tenants." -…

“You need to move from being an entrepreneur in your business to being an investor.” – Darin Persinger

"A lot of it is do you have faith, do you have trust in the system, the strategy, the action that you're taking? If you do, be patient for the result to show up because if you change directions, then…

"I think some of the best copywriting, direct response marketing books were the things written in the '20s, '30s, '40s, and '50s, not the new blogs that exist today." - Darin Persinger

"I think one of the problems that's missing though is let's say you're new to an area or you're new to the business, who's going to do a repeat business with you if you're brand new?" - Darin Persing…

"I do think though in today's chaos-filled, technology-filled world, it wouldn't hurt anyone to just disconnect for a little while." - Darin Persinger

"I'm a big fan of early victories. Whenever you create an action plan, have some goals in mind, make sure that you're giving yourself early victories." - Darin Persinger

"A habit is not the same as a goal. The habit is the thing that you do. The goal is the outcome." - Darin Persinger

"I think that it's harder than ever to just get going to do something because of all this information and the emphasis on technology."- Darin Persinger

"I can't chase the shiny things. I have to be serious and do the stuff that matters in my business so..." - Darin Persinger

Even if you see someone acting in a very positive, glass-is-half-full type of thing, do you think it's fair to say that that might be partly -- not completely, but partly an illusion? - Darin Persing…

"Become the marketer, become the storyteller of what it is that you do and how good you are at doing it if that is the case. And if you are good at what you do and you do know things more than anyone…

"Whatever you're thinking about doing, run it through a filter of: am I willing to be committed to this thing for nine months at a minimum?" - Darin Persinger

"Sometimes the plan might not be perfect but if you just follow through with it, it will be better than trying to redo the plan halfway through. Just keep going." - Darin Persinger

""Yeah, I tried that one time. That didn't work." Anyone who talks like that in your office, get away from them as soon as possible." - Darin Persinger

"Pick up the intensity. Stop putting in 12-hour days. Start putting in six- and eight-hour days but just be more intense." - Darin Persinger

"And what they found is that every day there's 2.4 billion conversations about a brand." - Darin Persinger