Ask Me Your Questions

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2013 is a year of new beginnings for me.  This blog has a new look and an expanded scope.  I have a new job.  I have a new vision for the future and new goals.  I couldn’t be more excited.

Another shift that starts now is I am purposing to focus more upon the highest interests of my readers.  Practically, that means I am trying to write for my readers.  Until this point, I’ve been writing whatever I hoped would be interesting or useful for someone.

In one of last week’s posts, The One Secret to Winning the Business Every Time, I make the case that the most important thing that you can do with your clients and prospects is understand their needs.  You do that by asking questions.

So today, I’m asking for your questions.  Here is how this will work.  You can ask me anything.  As this blog is focused on Next Practices in Life, Business, and Commercial Real Estate, your questions simply need to fall into one of those categories.  Feel free to ask about my experiences, background, job, or my thoughts on any subject.  I’m certainly no expert in most subjects, but I have thoughts on most.  I will respond in one of 3 ways:

  1. Your question will turn into a post – Some of you already been firing questions at me – and they are great questions. Those that warrant a full post will get it.
  2. I will respond that I don’t have a clue – This may happen more than I’d like.  However, if I don’t know, then I will tell you.
  3. I will find out – I expect some questions will pique my curiosity and will send me searching.  In that case, I will report back what I find.

To give you a feel for what I am working on, here are some post titles coming up in the future.

Life

  • A Review of the App ‘Book on Her’
  • How to Pursue the Hearts of Your Children
  • How to Create a Healthy Family Culture

Business

  • The 7 Steps to Cast a Vision that People will Follow
  • The Art of Delegation Results vs Tasks
  • Book Reviews

Commercial Real Estate

  • CRE App Reviews
  • Why You Should Consider Syndications as Part of Your Business
  • More Posts Unpacking the Steps in a Prospecting System
  • An Introductory Post on Creating Presence

Those are my plans, but I want to hear from you.  Here is how you ask a question:

  1. Use the comments section below
  2. Include your name and website – I will link to them if I use your question as a post.
  3. Ask your question!

So ask away!  I look forward to increasing the interaction with you on my blog and ensuring that I am listening to my readers.  Use the comments below.

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Categories: Business, Commercial Real Estate, Leadership, Life Lessons, Miscellany

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  • rnschmidt

    I’ve learned that we gain more wisdom from our failures than from our successes. I know Major Mike Arnett wrote a great guest post on failure, but can you share with us your biggest professional failures and the lessons you learned from them?

    • Wow – great question. My biggest professional failure is a pure face plant. A buddy of mine and I swung for the fences and whiffed badly. Huge lessons learned from that experience. That definitely sounds like a post. I’ll start working on that. Thanks!

  • rnschmidt

    Bo, I’d also be interested in what you think about personal websites for CRE brokers. It’s pretty standard in the residential world, but it doesn’t seem to have caught on with CRE agents. What do you think?

    • Another good question, and I do have some thoughts on this. What everyone needs is that space online where you control the content. Michael Hyatt calls this your home base. There are different ways to do this. Sounds like another post. Thanks!

  • SCHaigler

    I’m trying to find a savvy commercial real estate broker (Charlotte, NC area) to list a property which is subject to a partial taking via eminent domain. There are investment buyers out there who buy property in this situation. What do you think is the best way to find those buyers? How would you find the best commercial broker to handle this and may have the buyer contacts for this type of listing?

    • Spring – thanks for your question. This is a great example of how having a platform could really help you.

      My suggestion would be to look for a CRE advisor with a national platform For instance, at Sperry Van Ness, we have the Asset Recovery Team that would handle this type of transaction. I’d be happy to connect you with those guys if you think it would help you. My best!