Share 10 Page Sample - Press Coverage - Real Estate in 2008

Sales meetings in your office/brokerage could cover Real Estate in
2008 topics in Jan-Mar. We suggest four sessions on Finding
Motivated Buyers, Convincing Buyers to Buy, Getting Sellers to
Price/Position Properly, and Creative Ideas.

Attached is a 10 page sample of Real Estate in 2008 for you, your
broker/manager, and you may share this with fellow agents. If you
emailed hundreds or thousands of agents for initial survey, feel
free to send them this 10 page sample of Real Estate in 2008: Top
Agents Share Top Ideas. Tell them to see www.realestatein2008.org

to order paperback.

The final version shipped from printer on January 6, 2008. If you
would like a revised PDF of the final full edited version with all
contributing author names printed in book, please just reply to
email and we will send to you.

Press Releases:
Many contributing authors took our advice and issued press
releases/blogs and received press/website coverage. If you missed
our sample press release template, just reply and we will resend to
you so you can issue a press release. Attached is great community
newspaper reprint from Debbie Fonzo. See

http://activerain.com/blogsview/320037/New-Book-Release-REAL for
Active Rain blog and comments from Todd Menard. You can get press
coverage, just ask us how.

Again, this book project is a gift from Best Agent Business to all
agents. Any agent can still complete the survey and get free
eBook. We provide part-time virtual assistants for a living. So
if you need an assistant, just reply or call my cell at ...
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Minneapolis again

Long delay. Was in Cozumel Mexico for holidays. Sitting at 1,077 responses. Final book printed and to warehouse and back orders shipped today.

Sent off next message with sample 10 pages.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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Over 1,000 agents

We are far beyond goals. Now over 1,000 agents. Pulling those for final paperback to be included in back of book as contributing authors.

Drafting agent press release for any contributing authors to use.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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Over 900

How did that happen?
Snowing in Atlantic City.
Was just a Taj Mahal for a party by Broker Agent Magazine. Spoke to publisher who has interest in running Real Estate in 2008 with local co-authors in regional magazines.

Need to cross-reference authors by BAM pubs.

Spent 3-4 hours walking trade show floor and gave out 10-20 books and go 10-20 jv opportunities identified.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Contributing authors meet in Atlantic City

Historic first

Scott and Eddie met w me this afternoon at Tripleplay. First time authors met each other.
Very good brainstorming and will try Scott's site and do press release for agents and broker janaury sales training meeting.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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Up to 880 agent contributing authors

Scott and Eddie decided today to call themselves contributing authors.

Got another surge via Point2 posting Real Estate in 2008 project on their member home page.

Okay, close enough to shoot for 1,000 agents by final publication date next week.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Idea from an agent author

Thanks Martin!

Good Morning:
As a new agent I have read many a book, listened to many a tape, attended multiple seminars, read thousands of real estate guru's websites.  One of the most over looked areas in real estate sales is continued contact with clients.  And one of the best ways to reinforce your name is not through a closing gift that is never seen, again.  So I take my knowledge of my clients interests, and use it to my benefit.
For example:  I just closed a small deal on a century home, that was in very poor shape, extremely in need of clean up, and total disrepair.  My clients loved the house and were undaunted by the work involved, to bring this diamond in the ruff, back up to snuff.        My closing gift was a well written thank you letter accompanied with a branded and personalized coupon book with $2500. valueable coupons inside.  Then I purchased a branded/personalized with my name, home Journal, and a thick hard cover, coffee table book with tons of pictures and ideas, of Century Homes. Wrapped them together as one gift, and presented it to the new owners. In addition I pre-purchased a monthly subscription to two old home magazines that will arrive with my name on them, each and every month for one year. Now the home owners loved the gifts, loved the coffee table book and home journal, and now they sit on the coffee table for friends, family and neighbors to see, both, with my name in full view.  I can't wait to see their reaction from the magazines!

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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Atlantic City for Tripleplay

If we got agents at NAR Las Vegas to write a book, why not Tripleplay Atlantic City? :). Just drove 4 hours from dc area. Sitting at Tun Tavern planning next 100 hours.

This is state assn show of 10,000 agents from ny nj and penn. We emailed about 100 agent authors and in one day about 10 popped up to say they are coming here. Goal is to meet them, thank them, give them paperback and ask them to sell 10 copies each at show to people they meet. Most importantly to get feedback and passion on what's to be done next.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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We are over 800 agents

Wow. Not sure what happened. I thought we were at 700 yesterday. Gotta see what chunk happened.

We found 300 agents who did survey but not opted in to free ebook so our team is sending 300 individual emails today.

Point2 group just replied and likely going to post Monday to their 160,000 network so that would be significant.

Loaded ratings so 2,100 to be rated.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Woo hoo! 700 agent authors

We just hit 700 agent authors who completed survey. That is way more than expected. That is like 15 minutes each or 170 hours at average hourly rate of $50 hour is about $10,000 of labor hours of crowdsourced effort. And for those 15 minutes, they all get free copy of $19.95 ebook as well as their name in a published paperback.

Sounds like an excellent win-win arrangement for all.

Slowly getting back to positive mental state by getting back to routine in office. And getting a few new clients started for Best Agent Business part-time virtual assistant business helps!
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Over $5 billion

Finally back to office in dc and able to focus a bit.

Sometimes when you start a crazy project and you succeed, you realize you create a beast that needs to be fed. So it is w Real Estate in 2008.

We are now at 692 agent authors. About 400 properly did aweber opt-in to get free ebook. Just sent them broadcast w list of all agent authors in book and notice they wld be in book, plus samples of keyword search and request for Raters.

Rating is launched w Best Agent Business doing duplicate and excludes and Project Tinkertoy Raters to start idea rating. If we don't get promised help from the 10-20 agents of Project Tinkertoy we will be dead in water for best possible final version.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Over 600!

Wow, we went from 500 to 600 in two days. I finally had time today to send survey out to our own Best Agent Business db lists of a few thousand agents.

It is very interesting how many positive comments we are getting back on survey for the Project Tinkertoy idea. My guess is about 1-4 percent of agents who are told about this and get email from someone share ideas on survey. My guess is 10,000 to 50,000 agents have had a shot at this so far.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Over 500 agents for book

Got some sleep back in dc after week of conferences. Monday, today, we went over 500 agents. The draft book was based on about 250 agents. Decided to extend survey to 11/30/2007 so as many people as possible can participate.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

North Pole Alaska - Ishido

Jennifer who was proj lead just told us:

I truly do live in a town called North Pole. North Pole,
AK 99705 to be exact. To add to the disbeleif factor...
I started working at the Santa Clause House when I was in
high school and worked there for two years as "Head Elf"
in the Toys and Ornament department. I loved it! I got
to decorate trees and play with toys all day.

The town isn't that big, probably right under 2,000
people. We have a Taco Bell, McDonalds, Wendy's and a
small grocery store. The temperature ranges between 90
and -60 through the year.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Sitting on floor of vendor show

Ready to crash, but got a few more meetings and then red eye and then daughter's soccer sat am back in bethesda, md

Just met the person in charge of NAR bookstore who took over from Matt. Discussed getting book online asap. And dec special.

Said bye to Wayne and Bob. Lunched w enieghborhoods and prostep and pitched book and gave copy.

Walking floor of show super fast to catch anything I can pickup or remember.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Can we blog?

Dean Moss is asking if I can blog...

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Paperback arrives! We did it!

In taxi from renaissance to conference. Only 10 min off schedule. With 60 books. They look amazing for one week effort.

Project Tinkertoy rocks!
Had breakfast with Roseann and she had seen Seth Godin Project Tinkertoy reference.

As I walked into business center, fedex was at loading dock. Very happy they arrived.

Did a handwritten one page ad to enclose as we give out books. Had business center make copies and fax me so we can forward it around.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Dinner with Noah H.

Just had drinks, aka dinner in vegas, with Noah H, a Billion Dollar Agent. Discussed how value of moving Billion Dollar Agent net margin for 20 to 30%, which we cld do in 1-2 years, is worth $20 million to Billion Dollar Agent platform which is let's say $70 mil.on 3-5x ebitda. And 70 bdas is $1 million net worth increase.

Hello!!!!!!!!

Is it worth sharing ideas and spending 10-20k a year to make $1 mil increased value??

Shoutout to any Billion Dollar Agent reading - pls email me. You too future Billion Dollar Agents, you know who you are...
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Project Tinkertoy the true source of codename...

Just in...

Steve,

I checked it out and it works great I can do whatever you need me to, just
let me know.

I also noticed you STOLE my Group name of Project Tinkertoy!!!! It is a
great name and I understand why you STOLE it and that's OK. However, you
may want to give the real creative genius behind the name some credit in the
book if you can. That creative genius was Chris Tertzagian!!!! I am sure
that with an ounce of recognition her creative genius will benefit the
project in many more ways to come. Let me know if this is possible.

Thanks and keep me posted,

GW

Gene Whittle, BROKER, AGENT
KEN PERRY REALTY
The 'HOME' Team

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
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Phone: 240-396-5282
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Thu 8am - 396 survey responses

Over 1,000 agents looked at survey and 400 shared ideas. The survey is not simple, you gotta take 10-15 min and think.

43% say market will worse. 77% say market will be same or worse. No one has done this survey in industry probably. And majority clearly wld say 2007 was bad.

Over 300 gave separate creative ideas and 150 volunteered to spread the word.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

In venice

No, not Venice Beach CA, but Venice Las Vegas. Yes the Venetian. Hmmm. Long day but fruitful. Got 56 Billion Dollar Agent books delivered and will pass along some tomorrow. Got zippo reply from speakers but 4 of 8 top women ceos responded. Wonder why they are ceos - that is answer.

Spent 5 hours in hotel in am on agonizing 2mb wireless connection. Downloaded 350 surveys from zoomerang, built QuickBase db app, imported data, invited ishidos at admin level to Tinkertoy, built single search by keyword. Emailed out the QuickBase link as beta to Project Tinkertoy and 5 people confirmed it works. Need ishidos to code rating module tomorrow and Kaizen - always improve!

We made a commitment to agents and delivered today. Less than 3 days from when they completed survey we setup aweber autoresponder, created first messages, imported 350 emails, modified www.realestatein2008.org to redirect to Best Agent Business - www.bestagentbusiness.com for now and backended zoomerang thank you to new Best Agent Business thank you.

So.....the 350 agents got ebook free if they want. New survey respondents get opt-in option to get ebook asap.

Ted is on for radio audio. Invited Russell.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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Prudential reception

Rob Levy answered the survey two days ago. He doesn't believe he is going to be in a book two days.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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Bloggers room

They are wondering about whether justin from google who spoke is worth 1 or 10 or 10s of millions. He was there 6 years. This is what bloggers in blogger room are talking about.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
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Phone: 240-396-5282
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Pro Step Marketing

Saw Rick, Lori, and Leanne and they all have long tails...

Hey they laughed.
Told them about Real Estate in 2008. They will check it out.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Idea search in alpha!

Over 1,000 ideas have been loaded into our QuickBase rating editing system. We are going to run public for a bit with giving everyone access to search ideas by keyword, such as 'investor'. More info soon...

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
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Phone: 240-396-5282
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Up to 340 agents

Over $3 billion sold last year. Average $10 million. So the ideas are from the top of industry.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
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Todd's thoughts...

On an overall basis my feeling toward what I read is that "Hey, I would
rather pay you 500 dollars for 3 pages that will change my life than 5
dollars for 300 pages that tell me something I already know" It may be
possible to generate some real interest by giving 3 great ideas away in
hopes they will buy a copy to see the remaining plethura of ideas. You must
have a large database of realtors by now.

The intro to the book sounds a little like a life coach I had a few years
back, my truth plays out a bit different. I don't give my self the excuse
that "oh maybe my intentions weren't right" or "I can't seem to stop these
negative thoughts and that is why I don't succeed"
I just can not play that game with myself, it leads to more self loathing
than I am willing to endure. My belief structure is that there is no cure
for Bad Intentions, or burnout or negative thought, Most people just can't
put it out of their mind. The only way to manage it is to recognize it is
there, that it is part of your life, and probably will be forever. So stop
beating yourself up about it, find a way to use it. Recognize it for what
it is, just thoughts passing through your mind. The more credence you give
them the more powerful they become. don't try to change them. The only
way I can beat stinking thinking is excitement. I have to get excited
about something. Change something at the core of my business, or my
business model altogether. Make a change that has an outside chance of
taking off and producing stellar results. Below are a few examples
realtors could use that may also promote your part timer business;

automate your lead generation

tap into a higher priced market by capping your listing commision while
maintaining your normal buyer fees

Automate most of your contact with your sellers, keep it personal at least
one time per week, the rest should be automated

Refuse a listing because you know it is a waste of time

Rebate 100% of a 1st time homebuyer's commision once every 6 months and
advertise the hell out of what you did.

Limit your buyer clients, Maybe pick the best 8 and refer the rest away.
Give those 8 your absolute best and you will again feel good about yourself
and the market

I hope you are getting the idea. I must pause here and ask that you forgive
my grammar and punctuation. Not my best skill.

Your comment " to be successful in today's market, we have to become
comfortable with being uncomfortable" Amen brother, you can't be afraid
in this market, if you are getting a lot of business now, you are taking it
from someone else. If they get pissed off then they will find another
career, if it motivates them to do better then they will pull the whole
profession up with them. As far as I am concerned that is a Win/Win.

I enjoyed sharing with you, I hope it helps.

Todd

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Weds morning - Lucy Matsumoto

Let the editing by the wisdom of crowds begin!

Guess as to percentage as to what is value, I think there is a LOT of VALUE there, but seriously in need of editing and rigorously deleting. I think that at the end of the day if you end up with 25% donated content and 45 to 65 pages total, you will have a FANTASTIC achievement that will affect countless lives and make a real and significant difference in our real estate market.

Sincerely,

Lucy

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Wow what a day

In shuttle bus back to renaissance hotel. 8pm. We did it. Book launched. Great day. Seth Godin mentioned book effort in front of 2,000 agents. Project Tinkertoy rocks. Birthday present for Patti. Met Joeann. Spoke to Lori about Personal Advantage web service crm. Saw Susan at eneighborhoods. Etc
Steve Kantor
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Lifebushido
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Phone: 240-396-5282
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Joeann's newsletter

Joeann's Tuesday Tip - November 13, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
Project
Tinkertoy
What Do You Need for Success in
2008?
3 Last Calls
2nd
chance
Upcoming Opportunities


Project Tinkertoy
My partner in The Real Estate Games®, Coach Patti Kouri, held her Annual "Jump Start Your Business into 2007" workshop last weekend. (And. if you missed it, your should consider coming to my 3-day Business Planning Retreat REINVENTION <http://www.joeann.com/gameretreats.htm> ) They had a great panel with Bernice Ross <http://blross.typepad.com/luxury_clues/2007/11/whats-your-bill.html> , Frances Flynn Thorsen <http://www.realtown.com/> and Steve
Kantor <http://www.bestagentbusiness.com/> . As they were working to create breakthrough thinking...an idea was hatched to gather hundreds of ideas from agents around the country of how to succeed in the coming 2008 market. AND this project is happening this week, with a book and audio CD to be developed by Thanksgiving!
I love it when the IMPOSSIBLE becomes POSSIBLE! Don't you? want to be part of it? You can...

This is an easy way to have some fun, get famous,and contribute to a cool project that will create a book this week!
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What Do You Need for Success in 2008?
Please take 5 minutes, complete survey below, and forward to fellow agents:
Survey for Real Estate
Agents <http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB2275H36JR5S> .

*
If you reply to survey below and share ideas you will receive a free copy of the ebook PDF by Thanksgiving.
*
This effort is being organized by <http://www.bestagentbusiness.com/> Best Agent Business, the publishers of Billion Dollar Agent: Lessons Learned to help top agents, RealTown, and a consortium of real estate professionals!

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Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Did it!

Ebook live. Jennifer is amazing! Took less than a week. Pricing ebook at $19.95. On purpose higher. Thus agents who helped got $20 ebook for free for 10 minutes of their time. Will send them free ebook on weds. Trying to see if paperback is viable super rush for friday.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

250 agents

Just finished speaking to Sell4Free conference and we are now at 250 agents. At 7am we had 200 so it looks like about 10 per hour which is almost one idea per minute.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Excited and late

Okay, in cab to ballys. It is 952 and I am speaking at 1000 to 20 agents. Not good. My excuse will be they get ebook of hundreds of ideas.

Got content out to team. Got first press release out. Registered a domain thanks to a Project Tinkertoy suggestion.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247

Over 200 agent surveys!

Good morning Las Vegas!

Top of the morning to you!

Happy to report at 8:10am that www.zoomerang.com, our survey platform, reports 206 surveys. Since we have 4 key questions and multiple people gave multiple ideas, we are officially over 1,000 ideas! Now, we have about 4 hours to download survey, get into word, put into ebook template and publish in lulu. Stay tuned...

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

Phone: 240-396-5282
Fax: 240-751-4247