Try Something New

Getting a little bored with the routine of your business?  One way to gather new energy is to bring in a new practice.  Our first responses to a new tool, technique, or technology usually centers on limited time or fear of failure.   Step one: block two hours as an appointment, early in the day makes it even better.   Step two: give yourself permission to fail.  In fact, make it a results- free effort.  

Immersion is one of the best ways to learn a new practice.  Rather than just squeezing it in from time to time, carve out large chunks of time to work on your new practice.  Be creative, look for the expected applications, and create new ways to apply the new skill.  Here are a few tech tools you may want to try on: 

• Top Producer CRM : application tool for managing contacts and setting up routine communications. 
• Yelp: social networking tool to engage with local businesses and promote your own services. 
• Blog: let the world know what you think in writing, images, or video.  Try Blogger to get started with a simple tool.  
• Trulia: post your listing, check in properties, pull showing stats. 
• Postlets: market your properties across the Internet.  
• YouTube: start your own channel and build an audience. 
• Twitter: it's a crazy world in there, but the possibilities are endless.  Consider writing to a specific community and build your contacts there.