Mind The Gap.

Part Three: The Agent Can't See it, But the Client Feels it. The agent walks out of the listing pres...

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The Carnie and the Candidate.

The Brand Within — Part 1 of 3 Estate agents and politicians sit at the bottom of the Veracity Index...

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The Cost of the Performance.

The Brand Within — Part 2 of 3 Selling anything where trust is missing is inefficient. Not immoral f...

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Educating Tom - The Right Words.

I've been transferring blogs from an old website, written five years ago, to The Brand Within websit...

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The Blind Date Economy.

I used to think lead generation was a marketing problem. It isn't. It's a honesty problem wearing a ...

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The Mask Trap

The Mask Trap — Part 1 of 5 Start With Who. Why real estate agents become strangers to themselves. W...

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The Beliefs Keeping You Small.

The Mask Trap — Part 3 of 5 Nobody said these sentences out loud. That's why they still run the show...

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Build On Land You Own.

If You Want It, Come and Get It · Part 3 of 5 So you've turned the ship: attraction, not interruptio...

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The Mask They Haven't Found Yet.

The Dependency Economy — Part One of Three Somewhere in the coaching industry right now, someone is ...

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First, Take Off Your Own Mask.

The Dependency Economy — Part Three of Three Part One named a manipulation strategy heading toward r...

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Don't Take My Word For It.

Agreement That Doesn't Go Deep Enough Personal branding isn't coming for estate agents. It's already...

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Do You Not Love Yourself -

To Trust That You Are More Than Enough As You Are? Part 1 of 3 — Why Agents Feel The Need To Manipul...

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Do You Not Love Yourself Enough -

To Trust That You Are More Than Enough? Part 2 of 3 — What The Client Feels On The Other Side Of The...

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Do You Not Love Yourself -

Enough To Trust That You Are More Than Enough? Part 3 of 3 — What Replaces The Shortcut There's no t...

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Clients Don't Read Your Bio -

They Read You. Part Two of Four: How People Decode Character Before They Can Explain What They're De...

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The Frequency Beneath The Script.

Tuning Forks and Resonance — Part Two You can memorise every objection-handling line in the industry...

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Best-Fit; Not Best Estate Agent.

Tuning Forks and Resonance — Part Three The industry keeps asking who's the best in the market. Sell...

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Coaching Is Tuning The Wrong Instrument.

Tuning Forks and Resonance — Part Four Here's what a tuning fork cannot do, no matter how skilled th...

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The Congregation

Preaching to the Converted. Walk into a room full of agents at the wrong kind of conference and you'...

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The Introvert Estate Agent?

Could HR have gotten this one backwards the whole time? Plenty of agency hiring still leans on perso...

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Eventually, We Stop Being The Caterpillar.

The Brand Within // Membership Competition with few rules is not a game you need to play. Every day,...

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Burn The Map. Keep The Compass.

The Brand Within You Won't Get Lost. Everyone hands you a map. Nobody asks if your legs are the same...

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The Lost Art of Being Yourself.

Trying Too Hard to Be Liked Don't laugh. This is genuinely happening. An identity crisis, entirely s...

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The Habits Nobody Sees.

Part One of Four: Character, Habits, and Why Clients Choose You Before They Can Say Why Nobody hires...

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Home Moving Is Finally In The Process Of Being Fixed. Be Careful Who Owns It.

For years, almost everybody involved in moving home has agreed on the problem. The process is too sl...

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The Portal Era Isn’t Ending. It’s Becoming Less Important.

For more than twenty years, the property industry has treated the portal as the centre of the digita...

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Why Pay for an Introduction to Someone Who Is Already Looking for You?

There is something about modern lead generation that feels unnecessarily complicated. Imagine somebo...

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Everyone Wants Change. Until Someone Has to Pay for It.

There is something I keep coming up against in property, and the more I think about it, the more I r...

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Just Because AI Can Do It Doesn’t Mean We Should Let It

The property industry is racing towards AI agents that can act across a transaction. But before we h...

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More Regulation. More Risk. More Responsibility. Same Broken Transaction.

Something struck me while reading the property and legal press recently. Estate agents are being ask...

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