Making of Project Tinkertoy - part 3

is the project lead we have had about four to five assistant (inaudible) volunteer that they want to work on this project this week with their unique talent (inaudible) running. Our expert in Mexico is doing the book cover design which was brainstormed (inaudible) I was driving up to Santa Barbara, I spoke to Jay and Jay is (inaudible) running on the cover design. I also realized that (inaudible) who is a (inaudible) agent in Iowa was a former radio personality and he will do the audio broadcast over the next few days and the audio advertisements over the next few days.

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The making Project Tinkertoy - part 2

(Inaudible) and (Inaudible) as well as one of the first clients of my company (inaudible). (Inaudible) really gets the credit for this book happening since without (Inaudible) I would have never been interested in Paddy and she wouldn't have been invited me to the conference, so thank you (Inaudible). After I got up the plane, the e-mails went out once wireless went on and within an hour or two (Inaudible) was the first person who replied back yes. (Inaudible) doesn't really even know me, so that (inaudible) she said yes to a secret project that she had no idea what it was about. In all about four to five people said yes and then at the conference, I explained it to Paddy and Paddy said yes and then we announced it to the group on Saturday afternoon. The group built Tinkertoys to build an airplane as part of a project or exercise during the conference on Saturday afternoon, and on Saturday from 4:00 to 4:30 p.m., the group started working on project Tinkertoys. We broke up into billion dollar agent triangles of three people, each triangle named themselves, appointed spokespersons, brainstormed for half an hour and I gathered that information. The next morning at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, 15 of us met for breakfast and brainstormed further. Based upon that input, I created a (inaudible) on-line survey on Sunday afternoon at around 2:00 p.m. I e-mailed out that survey to about 10 to 15 agents who were at the conference who had already e-mailed me so I got their e-mail address. If everything is going write, it's now Sunday at 9:30 p.m. and hopefully some of the agents have already forwarded a list of a few hundred agents that they know. The objective is to (inaudible), collaboration, (inaudible) marketing and social networking to get the word out to a 1,000 agents or more within the next 24 hours and have a 100 agents or more respond with ideas via the on-line survey. I also got our team of experts of best agent business working on the project, Jennifer (inaudible)
Steve Kantor
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Lifebushido

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Phone: 240-396-5282
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The Making of Project Tinkertoy - part one

Dictated to India while driving from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles last night. They email back word doc within one day. See www.wetype4u.com.

Usually better quality. Car noise made it harder.

Note. Perfection holds back MANY real estate agents.

THE MAKING OF PROJECT TINKERTOY

I was on an airplane flying from Washington, DC to Los Angeles on Friday, November 9th. Like most (inaudible) trips on an airplane, I brought about five magazines, read them through and clipped a lot of pages with ideas, drink a lot of coffee and got in a certain state of airplane flow which seems to invoke mild (inaudible) of hypomania. In this case, I was flying to Los Angeles to speak at Coach Paddy Corey's Jumpstart 2008 Conference. I have never met Paddy, but I was decided to meet her and I heard that it was a great group of people and great conference. I was going to the NAR Conference in Las Vegas, the following few days and I was looking forward to find out someway to make it an interesting and exciting event. Suddenly it hit me, why not get all the agents at Paddy Corey's Conference to help write a book in one week which is launched at NAR of ideas for agent for the coming market in 2008. The concept was to conceive right and publish a book in one week that could help thousands of real estate agents deal with the expected bad market conditions in 2008. Even though I am not a real estate agent, (inaudible) to real state agents was that for most agents 2007 was worst than 2006 and the majority of agents were in a state of fear in trepidation that 2008 market may be even worse than 2007. Clearly what's important is, first a positive mindset of my focus on the concept of specific ideas and actions that could be taken for buyers and sellers specific to 2008. On the airplane, I created a e-mail on my Blackberry as (inaudible) announcing the secret project and asking whether someone was in or out if no one (inaudible) the secret project without revealing the details. I sent that information to few people who I already knew at the conference such as Ted Jacobson, Jim Burns, Sherry (Inaudible), Lucy (Inaudible), Chris (Inaudible), and Joy Gerardi, (Inaudible) Coy who is posting it and two other speakers
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

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Phone: 240-396-5282
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Achieved our Monday Goal! 100 top agents shared ideas

We are at about 150 completed surveys which means over 500 ideas. Amazing what can happen in 24 hours since survey launched.

Remember, probably 10 times that number of agents read email about survey but did not take 10 min to contribute.

Kudos to the 150 agents who shared their ideas openly with one million other real estate agents.

They operate from a mindset of abundance not scarcity. I bet they have a great year in 2008!
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Peek at book foreword...

Foreword
By Patti Kouri, Master Coach

This book is living proof that 100% intention gets 100% results. It started with a team-building exercise in my Jumpstart workshop. "Impossible!" everyone said. But they quickly realized that Impossible wasn't an acceptable solution, and in just 30 minutes, using Tinker Toys and one arm each, they proved that we can accomplish much, much more than we first imagine.
So when Steve Kantor proposed that the Jumpstart participants collaborate on a book, that sounded pretty exciting. When he said it's going to be finished in less than 30 days, that sounded "nearly impossible." But when he explained this is how it's going to look, and this is how we're going to get it done—well, we all saw it, we understood it, we knew we could do it, and we got started. We saw the goal clearly. We got intention. We knew what we had to do. You're looking at the results.
This is the formula for success and it works whether you're putting together a book, becoming a competitive dancer or having an astonishingly good year in real estate.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

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

Mark Twain was a smart guy...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

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

Noah Herrera - Billion Dollar Agent

My Man,

You do live a great life enjoy the Sun, the original hot dog on a stick is there you should try one if you never have..
Talk to you when you get in town I'll be at the NAR Expo tommorow.

All the best,

Noah Herrera
Over 1 Billion Closed

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Waiting for Taco Bell

Need to eat a bit. At Santa Monica pier. Had breakfast w Rae Wayne. We processed first 60 survey replies and got 20 pages of content. Book cover draft in process. Survey just sent to over 60,000 who use Realtown. Other chunks flowing. Will now to try to post last few hours. Blogger cocktail at NAR happening in 2 hours. Audio interviews have started at NAR to build cdrom for people who don't like to read.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Over a billion dollars in sales!

In less than 12 hours, we have advice from agents who sold over $1 billion last year. That is equal to between 500-1,000 average agents of NAR. In one week, my guess is we will have expertise equal to everyone from one of the top 20 real estate companies in usa giving their ideas...Go Team Go!

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Survey count 59

We have 59 replies with over 200 ideas in the first half of Monday. Various groups of agents are being emailed Monday by agents from Project Tinkertoy and our goal is to get over 100 in next 1.5 hours. We will then revise survey and step up to larger group via realtown Monday afternoon.

Need to now read first replies and sort out start. Need to create subpage on Best Agent Business - www.bestagentbusiness.com, voicequilt, bizcards, press release, check mturk.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Monday morning 7am

Going to have breakfast w a Billion Dollar Agent, Rae Wayne.

Spoke to Fran and blogs are starting. This is a sub blog. Shooting for google number one for 'real estate 2008' in a few weeks.

Will go live on Realtown homepage by this afternoon
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Book title - Jay in Mexico

Some thoughts on title are
 
TRANSFORMING THE MARKET IN 2008
Attract Clients, Synchronize Mindset, Close Sales Now!
 
2008 RESIDENTIAL SALES FORECAST
Be a player, attract, synchronize, close
 
HOMES SALES FOR 2008 -- MAJOR INCREASES
Attract buyers with mindset methods for closing
 
RESIDENTIAL HOME SALES GUIDE - 2008
Secrets to attraction, mindset synchronization, and immediate closings.
 
See if any of these work with your thoughts,
if any .... cut piece, send the pieces back to me
I'm in a mind play mind set.

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido

www.lifebushido.com

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

First title idea for book!

Crowdsourcing has begun via Amazon MTurk. See www.mturk.com and search for Lifebushido. Asking 100 people around the world to come up with titles for book. Within 5 minutes someone posted title below - pretty decent first title!

How to Add Pillars of Reality to Your Real Estate Fortunes in 2008 How to Add Pillars of Reality to Your Real Estate Fortunes in 2008 Nov 12 2007, 12:58 AM PST

First survey results...

Monday begins at 12:43am in Los Angeles Woodland Hills.

16 visits to survey and 6 completes, including the famous Billion Dollar Agent, Russell Shaw from Phoenix and one of authors of Bloodhound Blog.

Somehow, we gotta get 100 surveys in next 12 hours to stay on deadline.

Time to sleep. Over and out.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Survey launched!

The first online survey to gather ideas launched a few hours ago. All agents who complete survey and give ideas will get a free ebook copy.

Survey link: http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2275H36JR5S

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

First survey results...

Monday begins at 12:43am in Los Angeles Woodland Hills.

16 visits to survey and 6 completes, including the famous Billion Dollar Agent, Russell Shaw from Phoenix and one of authors of Bloodhound Blog.

Somehow, we gotta get 100 surveys in next 12 hours to stay on deadline.

Time to sleep. Over and out.
Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Survey launched!

The first online survey to gather ideas launched a few hours ago. All agents who complete survey and give ideas will get a free ebook copy.

Survey link: http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2275H36JR5S

Steve Kantor
President
Lifebushido
www.lifebushido.com

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

Intention - What is Goal - Patti Kouri

Looking forward to this project. What excites me the most is that this project will take this intention success formula I+ M= Results and the other elements of the Jumpstart Workshop and put them right into action. Look what we can create.

The Intention is to contribute to ourselves and the real estate community as a whole with tips and techniques specific to this market and time in selling real estate.

As you have experienced this weekend and the workshop, this is an incredible group of people that buy into these philosophies and use them in daily life. They can move mountains.

Be in touch,

Patti Kouri

Frances Thorsen

Yes.

Warmest regards,
Frances Flynn Thorsen, e-PRO, SRS, Certified e-PRO Trainer
Managing Editor
RealTown.com
RealTown Report
Founding Member Web Women Giving Circle

BlackBerry blog post

Blogger allows you to email posts directly so you do not even need to go to web. I am on my BlackBerry and emailing a test post. This should be useful for stream of thought posts while on conference floor at NAR Las Vegas conference.
Steve Kantor