Playing off of the wildly popular post 5 Things to Do to Make COIs Love You, in the Winter edition of I Carry The Bag…the official magazine of wholesaling we are doing a feature story on Centers of Influence.
Great Wholesalers Don’t Disrespect Others
CAUTION: RANT AHEAD
Last week I was at the Birmingham Marriott for a speaking engagement. As is my usual routine I shipped the audience handouts to the hotel with the customary “hold for arrival” indicator on the shipping label.
The morning of my presentation I called the front desk at 9 AM and asked if they had the box. The front desk clerk confirmed they had it and offered to hold it at the front desk until I came down for the gig.
Wholesalers, this all sounds familiar right? You and I have done this part 1000 times.
Then it got strange.
Bud Fox Style Elephant Hunting
Yeah! Woooo! I just bagged the elephant! – Bud Fox, Wallstreet (1987)
Admit it. You have a wee bit of Bud Fox in you.
In the original Wall Street, Bud had his sights on the Elephant Gordon Gekko.
Every wholesaler wants to bag a Gordon Gekko-like Elephant, the huge producer, the corner office king.
Why?
Because an Elephant can single handedly make your year, catapult you up the production ranking and make you a hero in the Firm damn fast.
Take The Less Traveled Wholesaling Road
Do you find yourself following in the footsteps of every other wholesaler in your region?
If you have a territory, for example, that encompasses Los Angeles, do you find yourself focusing on Downtown L.A. the Westside and the South Bay because that’s where the money allegedly is?
Do you spend all your time in the recognized money centers and related suburbs of Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Atlanta?
Confessions of a Wholesaling Workaholic
Guilty as charged – and that’s all I have to say.
Work consumes who I am.
It defines my existence.
And I am not proud of this fact.
And I’m damn sure not alone, especially in our business.