Read What Agents and Lenders Are saying About Strategic Forum
Tom Smith
Hi Joe and staff. Just coming home from the Strategic Forum.
After
20 years being in this business and 3 years being a member I just get
excited every time I come to an event I implement more and more things
that are going on.
I think most of all, the number 1 thing for me, is that I see like minded individuals who are just great at doing their jobs. For me that’s’ everything.
It’s just WOW just yet so much more to go and it makes me just energized and very focused on the way back. Thank you again, I appreciate all the effort that you and your staff put together for me. Thank you bye-bye.
Cicel Vaulch
It’s been a very very enlightening experience for me.
I love all the technology that was introduced. I knew this stuff sort of existed, but I had no idea on how to implement or use it.
For Charlotte and I came together we have lots of ideas we talked about things that we can implement from using the strategies and the simple things to reach people at different levels. And understanding really that if one thing doesn’t work you have to do lots of things to succeed today. And talking to lots of different people at our tables this afternoon.
Just the neat ideas, simple to implement type of things that one person or my team could not necessarily come up on their own. That’s the tollar of this event, people working actively in their business, sharing ideas with other people working actively in their business.
It’s a lot different from going to a typical seminar, the guy or gal or team their whole focus in life is teaching the seminar and not actually generating income by selling real estate or originating loans that kind of thing. I am extremely impressed with the quality of people that are here and the genuine willingness of everyone to be able to share what is working for them.
It’s a really powerful thing. The forums yesterday with the hands on approach to getting people who are actively working loans everyday and selling real estate everyday that are actually passing on their expertise and knowledge and new concepts to the community in a sort of very selfless way that we all can benefit enormously from. I appreciate your total dedication to always helping us grow and do better than we do. You always inspire us to work big, think BIG and play big and I appreciate the leadership that you project there. Have a great day!
Thanks again for putting this together for us again. I would recommend this highly for anyone who wants to go to the next level!
Shirley Thompson
We drove down here from Las Vegas, NV. and took time out of our schedule to take this advanced course that you offer.
Actually, I have tried to come to this course in the past as I have been a member of BRO 1998 and never have been able to come at the time it was offered so I’m really glad that we made time for it this time.
Actually, I haven’t been to a Main Event for about a year so I didn’t know about some of the dialog changes that I just finished learning in the last session. We’re packing up to go in a couple of ours and I’m my friend and I will be discussing what we learned the whole way back.
In every unit BDA I sat with so many competent brokers and agents and mortgage officers that just were full of information. And I got to share some of the techniques that I’ve been using also. It was remarkable.
I feel that whatever the cost was for this event, in terms of money spent and the time involved away from our business was well worth it we could never have come up with so many great ideas as I’m taking back with me this time.
So I’m very excited which I’ve been in real estate for 30 years in Las Vegas and to be excited about a seminar at this stage of the game and new things to implement is remarkable to me and a break through.
So I thank you for ongoing searching and devising new methods, implementing new plans coming up with new technologies and making sure that we all get the hang of it and are out there ahead of the curve in the market so we can apply them first. I can’t thank you enough for this experience and I should throw in it was an awesome party you threw last night with a live band, playing all the old music everybody dancing and having a great time and the food has been spectacular.
Lunches and dinner everything has been first class. Probably better than we would have treated ourselves. So thank you for a great experience, Joe. I am looking forward to the next one already.
Jaquie Dobbins
Hi Joe, this is Jacky Dobbins and I just wanted to let you know that the value that I received. It seems as though in a sense, let me back up, it’s like the Main Event on Steroids!
It’s like really looking behind the curtains almost like the Wizard of Oz looking behind the curtain and really seeing the dynamics and also being challenged on going deeper and going further. It was also neat to see the others share, the panels was I think one of the most impactful things getting different perspectives, seeing the various personalities and seeing them all interwoven and knowing that we’re all doing the same thing, that we have the same template. T
he other thing that was really great was the breakout sessions where we had another panel that was labored into my case in mortgages. One of the things that I enjoyed most was, Todd Asbell was sharing his story and in sharing the different examples and strategies in what they were doing.
What he did was he made it more real by including the persons name and the company and it made it more personable. It drew me in a lot more I said, “ok she’s Century 21” it was very specific and I thought on how detailed it is and how easy it is to gloss over and not be specific but in him doing that that stood out for me so I’m going to definitely adapt that into my own style into my repertoire, my urcladed.
You guys have been so gracious to give to us. The other thing that I enjoyed was the association. Because you know the way you see yourself, the way your being in the 5-10 years, the books you read, the people you hang around and to have been in a room with that level of caliber of professionals was awesome and the thing that was cool was that we… there were no strangers, there were no strangers that were met, we were all on this same team, on the same track going toward the same journey with all different personal aspirations, but collectively as a whole we were very, very strong.
The other thing that I liked was just having the times of being able to be away and to reflect and to dig deeper as they say and to realize the things that I need to do, the self correcting that I need to make and also filling that pull. I felt such a great pull from the ones that were sharing, the ones that were the things that I haven’t mastered and the ones that were doing the things that are so far beyond where I’m at at this moment, but knowing that that’s were I’m headed.
I just wanted to say thank you so much, thanks to everybody at BRO, everybody behind the scenes all the staff and the team that support what you do and thanks for being such a servant. Bye
Billy Zimmerman
Hi Joe it’s Billy Zimmerman from San Antonio. SFQFE is almost over and just like the other ones it’s been exceptionally rewarding in every way.
From the nuts and bolts details to every last little checklist and procedure down to the beautiful evening party and the social times together over the meals that we had. And then all the hands on experience of sharing with each other, but above all the association and the friendships and the openness of people all over the continent that are so diligent, so creative, so effective in expressing the commitments and goals of By Referral Only. And above all their willingness to share with us and to help each other.
And we just appreciate you as the leader for setting the tone.
For that beautiful experience.
Thank you, I will refer it to every single person. And I would like to come again and trust that you will host another one.
Phyllis Riley
Hi Joe nations home funding.
Being relatively new to the BRO network since Feb Charlotte I would have to say this event is much like the two ME that I have attended in which it’s a sense of my heart exploding almost with excitement with the sharing of what people within this community do of their best practices and your ability to bring that together in a way that we can see the wisdom and the excitement on how we will be perceived not only by our clients but how much better our lives will be. The energy in the hotel was fabulous. It is very apparent to me that the By Referral Only community is a different group of people.
I shared with Jim McQuaig that it was noticeable when I arrived at the airport not having anything that indicated that I was with BRO a number of people just started smiling and saying hello to each other and it turned out that we were all going to the same place and that we were all in By Referral Only.
So it was all pretty interesting that its just a group of people that are so incredibly warm and open and connect not only just inside the hotel at an event but even outside in a busy world. They just have an ability to make contact and connect with people.
The whole experience has been fabulous, it’s been great! I think the opening was just fabulous. I think as a new member of the community I loved how you introduced the members of the panel, their strong points, but also referring back to your necessity of visuals for people.
Putting the pictures up of the individuals so that we knew if we had a particular area of interest. I really wanted to meet with Jae Wu, I knew what she looked like so during the reception, in line, intermission, if I saw her I would know who she is and I could take that opportunity to connect with someone who I wanted to meet.
So I really thank you for this opportunity. I think it’s wonderful. I’m so enlightened but what you do and so grateful that you took this path in your life that I get to benefit from and can turn around and share with other members of my family and business community.
Thank you very much and I look forward to seeing you in Palm Springs at the next Main Event.
Dave Osborne
Hi Joe,
I’ve been a member since Aug 2004. I’ve been to 4 main events since then, but this has been my first Strategic Forum. And the best way I can describe it for me… it’s like the Main Event on Steroids!
This has been an amazing 2 days just non stop action.
I have more information in the last 2 days than I think I have in my whole career up to now. So best of all when I attended the break out session on the Before unit.
Was amazing to me, not only was it just great information, but for the first time in my career I actually have a clear cut vision of what my company is going to look like.
So I attribute that to you and the training that you did and the feedback that you received from the people that have already gotten there too. Thank you very much and look forward to seeing you at the next event.
Andrea Harland
From Thousand Oaks, CA.
I just wanted to call you on my way home
I’m going to be in the car for 2 ½ hours and I was thinking about the
strategic forum and what I got from it, what I liked.
One of the things that I liked about the format is that there was ample time to network during breakfast, the breaks, lunch and then also how you encouraged us to sit at different tables and not the same table every day.
I really liked that part too. The thing that I liked the most I cant really pin point one thing.
It would probably be the atmosphere and the spirit of sharing.
I was really amazed at how many high producing loan officers and realtors were there. I felt that I could learn a lot not only from the program but also from them by just hanging around incredible people.
So I enjoyed that got some great ideas and I’m thinking about what I’m going to implement next and I know that the blog idea is really good.
The next piece of equipment that I’m planning to buy is an Ipod and the video camera for your computer and the headset that goes with the audio so that I can do pod cast. And as far as the next strategy I’m going to “It’s sorry to see you leave” card in conjunction with my “Welcome to the neighbor hood” card.
Wow! There were so many great ideas I’m going to have to review my notes, but I would definitely refer it to other people and hopefully will be able to come to the next one.
Lisa Walters
California
This forum was fantastic!
I just wanted you to know that it gave me the knowledge to know what I lacked in my business and the motivation to go and do it!
So that was really fantastic.
I know you guys worked hard to put this together and it really was worth every minute.
I would do it all over again and I would definitely refer it to somebody else.
Everything was positive, there was nothing negative.
Everything
was just superior, the food was superior, the hotel was superior, the
speakers were superior, I just have nothing, NOTHING negative to say!
Thank you very much!
Rick Dasler
Hey BRO Team. Thank you for the outrageously successful SFQFE.
You know I hungrily continued my personal quest for excellence this week. I’m even more committed more energetic, and exceedingly passionate, mortgage consultant affiliated with Family Lender here in Fair Fax, VA right outside this great nation’s capitol DC.
You know after 2 1/2 mind altering days of being around an even higher producing professionals who’s collective vibrations was just off the chart. Remarkably, I found a more clearer and refined understanding of where my business and career is going in the next 6 months.
And the best part is I have the abounding hope now and I will achieve the remarkable and permanent results within that short period of time. I was surrounded by monster achievers and gratefully met 5 really highly resonating professionals that are modeling the specific behavior that I must immolate to achieve the vision that I engineered for my wife to retire her within the next year. By the end of the visit here t heaven on earth, La Jolla is just beautiful. I clarified my specific “numbers” that define the success of my business and family.
I redesigned my mortgage and investor business structure. I found the form and this is the best part, the necessary strategies that are already being implemented by these 5 new friends I met this week.
Thank you Joe for the gift to be the best loan officer my future clients will ever meet and my beautiful bride, Elizabeth, and the cutest kids in the world, Aston and Gracie, they thank you By Referral Only for the future lifestyle they deserve and will enjoy in the next new year.
Cheri Tiscarino
My experience at SFQFE was so enriching not only from a business perspective but also personal one. For me your 6 must to be truly excellent was a single most important concept in the event.
It is just so core and so fundamental it really hit home with me. It’s allowing me to get focused in a way that I have never experienced before.
I had been struggling with the idea of my number and some issues I had around this. However, through this event, I have been able to not only get a really clear picture of what my number is but now I feel comfortable with it. I feel passionate about it.
Thank you Joe. Secondly, Dean Jackson was brilliant with his cutting edge technology of the Utube, podcasting and blogging. His presentation of these seemingly daunting ideas broke it down in a really simple and easy to understand way.
Making it exciting and fearless to embrace this new technology, that I have no doubt will revolutionize the industry. Lastly, Joe, your panel members were just 5 star.
I could feel their willingness to give and their desire to impart the gifts they had. Infact this energy, this concept of leading with a giving a hand is evident throughout the community and it was at this event as well. I was able to establish at least 3 deep connections with other members that I know will be long lasting and mutually beneficial relationships.
And on a final note Meshell and her support team pulled of the entire 3 days just beautifully. Everything was seemless making for a very comfortable, enjoyable and fun experience.
Joe I will absolutely see you in May in Florida and I highly recommend the strategic forum to all members.
Thank you again Joe for all of your inspiration.
Mandy
Woodland, CA
I’m struck by this saying, “If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, if you teach a man to fish, he eats forever.”
You, By Referral Only you have taught us how to fish and its our choice to practice and to really use the skills that you have given us.
At the Strategic Forum you bring community members back to really hone these skills. You bring us the best of the best. I would say, the bass pro-shop professional fisherman.
And you bring them in to show us how they fish and how they do it and how they use the skills. They even show us a little bit of the best of the fish that they have caught.
And it’s not only inspiring, it’s also an opportunity to learn even more than we learn through the Main Events and through Community Remodel Days and other forums.
I really appreciate the opportunity to have spent the week with you and I can not tell you nor explain to other community members what it will do for my business and what strategic leader has done for my business in the past.
If you are a community member considering whether or not you should to go to this event, the next Strategic Forum please remember… it is our choice to practice and use the skills and to get better at using the skills. We can excuse our behaviors over and over again, but he has taught us how to fish… we need to start fishing.
Thanks a lot Joe and I really appreciate the opportunity.
Linda Winters
I am your warm hearted mortgage loan consultant in Anchorage, Alaska who is passionate about the role that I play in people’s lives.
I want to thank you so much for the opportunity to attend the strategic forum.
I am really excited about the many ideas I took way from it. The fact that it was a members only experience I think really enhanced it’s value over the main event.
The opportunity to share a meal or be at the same round table with people at the caliber, Scott Asbell and Terry Moerler was powerful.
It also really meant a lot to me that I was able to meet my coach, Mario Martinez. He’s really helped me explore what holds me back and invites me to catapult myself forward in my business. The agenda was a full one.
It was great, for future events I would like to see break out sessions exploring innovative uses of technology. Dean Jackson is just a guru of creativity.
I also came away wishing I had better skills and tools on how to develop a business plan how to create a clear agenda on how I’m going to reach my number.
I’ve already emailed Mario about working on that so I’m looking forward to doing that and excited about that prospect.
The Strategic Forum really challenges me to look beyond the basic business model, my employer set. And yet the mind set of By Referral Only quietly invites me to revisit my faith and for all of that and what’s ahead thanks Joe it was phenomenal. See you soon.
Debbie Rynheart
I just got back late last night, from the first Strategic Forum in La Jolla.
I’m just so blown away! It was the most amazing conference that I have been to in about probably 15 years.
I was inspired, I was challenged, the ideas were incredible, the networking was phenomenal, I loved the intimate atmosphere, the round tables, the interaction with my peers, the ability to talk with you and get your ideas one-on-one.
The U-tube information was just incredibly cutting edge. I’m so excited about incorporating that into my marketing.
Sharing the ideas with the other successful loan officers and realtors was just an incredible experience.
I will be signing up for the Ft. Lauderdale event just as soon as you make it available on the website. I’m just so excited with all the new changes that are happening at By Referral Only. You are just an amazing man and I applaud you and of coarse I will refer anyone to you that I possibly can. You have a wonderful day.
Thanks, bye-bye.
Robin Trupe
National City Mortgage, Virginia Beach, Virginia
I’ve been a member of By Referral only for 7 years.
This is probably the best experience that I have had in that time. I’ve been to a couple main events. I want to go to another one here, that you talked about.
The interchange of ideas and the meeting of people who are doing the same thing was invaluable. The ideas are giving me ideas that I want to go home and implement.
Obviously it can’t be done instantaneously. But now I have the names and phone numbers of people I can call if I have trouble implementing the ideas. I foresee it will strengthen my referrals in my before and during unit. Most of mine come from my after unit at this time.
I appreciate the opportunity.
I look forward to getting back and implementing the ideas that you
and others have shared with me and I look forward to the next Main
Event in town.
Stephanie Ring
Fort Lauderdale
I can hardly express how moved I have been, being at this Strategic Leader event.
It’s been extremely powerful.
And we have in Fort Lauderdale, as you probably know, such a devastated market at this particular point in time. And I was coming here to get strategies and tips on what to do to increase business, because I know there’s got to be more buyers out there then there actually seems to be. And I certainly want to get my share. And this has been probably one of the most useful events that I’ve been to at this time in my career.
I’ve been in the business for about 23 years and it’s always great to be able to walk away from an event saying WOW I learned so much!
So thank you very much and you can count on me to make sure I go back and let people in my office and other people in the real estate industry know what a great event this was and also in my By Referral Only master mind so that they can get to the next one.
Thanks so much and I appreciate all the learning and knowledge that you have been able to pass my way. Thanks, bye
Chris Sylvada
San Diego, CA
Real Estate consultant for life.
Working and loving it out here.
And just recently attended the Strategic Leadership conference and there are no other words to express what the experience was like for me other than to say, “it was absolutely live changing and I thoroughly look forward to the next event in Florida.
I absolutely can not wait for it to arrive. If you’re out there having fabulous success in business or you’re out there maybe struggling a little bit in business, it really makes no difference.
You absolutely have to attend this event. It was FUN-nominal and I’ve actually already gotten a couple of referrals through the event.
But separate aside from that it does not matter I walked out of there with a brand new perspective on my business, I’ve got passion around this business again and I am highly motivated to be a super servant.
I got some fabulous language skills to really improve my business. Phenomenal ideas on how to go generate some more business and if you’re thinking about maybe attending the next one, stop thinking sign-up. Hope to see you there. Bye.
Kathryn Label
Real estate consultant from Lagrange, IL
This was my first
Strategic Forum and my first event outside of the main event. And my
overall experience was that it was fantastic!
I loved being in community, I loved being around like minded people, that can keep you in the same kind of conversation.
It was also reinforcing the idea that when your values are clear your decisions are easy and if you want a business and a life that you love and you want to give back to other people then you put in place the strategies that are available to us that we can make that happen and we don’t have to take everything, we can just take a little bit a the time, and it’s a process it’s not perfection.
I really got a lot clearer on that.
Would I refer other people to do this? I tell people all the time about By Referral Only I think it just makes so much sense not only for realtors and lenders, but anybody who wants to learn how to do business on a different level.
So thank you, and I look forward to the next opportunity. Take care.
Athena
Hey everyone at By Referral Only and Joe,
This is Athena Brucket. I've been a member of By Referral Only going on 9 years in the community. And I’m calling from the Strategic Leadership Conference and just to give you a little note on how grateful I am that you put this on Organized it and had great presenters.
You know it's something really humbling to be learning from your peers and from the greatest of the great in the community and in the finance and real estate world. So anyway, I wanted to share with you what I got out of this.
The learning around technology was just amazing for someone who is not very friendly with technology I would say, it was really neat to learn what technology can do for me and the break down of the steps.
And using some of the technology we learned about was really helpful for me to envision just how easy it will be for me to implement cuz I'm definitely an executer and implementer of systems. So my phobias or resistance around technologies was overcome a little bit more by being here. Which of coarse is invaluable.
Being around like minded people is just the best part of this. Sharing the joy and humility of being a life learner. I am a life learner and being able to be around people of like minded is just so amazing since I often feel quite alone out there outside in the real world in that regard. So thank you for bringing us together and having a beautiful venue. And what a celebration you organized last night. The dinner celebration for the members was beautiful. Classy but also the energy in the room was just so...just so beautiful.
So I want to thank you for this and yes I would recommend this to anyone no matter what their level of production in the last 17 years in my career I have been from $0 - $600k in income and I still could come back because all through the ups and downs emotionally, mentally and physically By Referral Only has always had something there for me to help myself with but has also created a community that I could rely on.
Thank you again, there's just no way to put this into words, but I'm trying. Thank you again By Referral Only, Joe, the whole gang. And of coarse I will be back. Bye
Tom Drake
I appreciated very much the session where you talked about the different habits to be reminded of those and to refocus and get in tune with what I needed to do to take it to the next level I appreciated most the three sessions of before, During and After units where ideas were shared from all different scopes of interest and ideas that the creative people that make up BRO, just how creative they are to come up with some of those ideas is just phenomenal what some people can do.
I’m glad that there are some creative people in this organization cuz my creative brain doesn’t work quite that way.
So I can just plagiarize them, steal them, borrow them, but thank you very much for that. Yes, I would attend another one; I would encourage others to do it.
But, thank you very much for putting it together. I understand that this is totally different than the main event, but this is probably one of the most profitable things that I have attended since becoming a member of By Referral Only.
Thank you very much to your staff for all the work that they put in to put it together they did a great job. And thank you. Talk to you soon. Bye.
Collet Smith
REMAX/home store from Las Vegas
I had a great time at the event you know you looked great and everybody really shared a lot.
I really enjoyed the group of people. I thought everybody was much more open and much more friendly and I enjoyed the different sharing of everybody like that brought a piece of paper and gave you a copy of what they do. because now I can put it in my book and I can look back and email them and ask them questions if I feel like I don’t understand something (that’s my bird) and uhm, the only thing is I can say is that next time hopefully everybody will bring 300 copies so everybody can get a copy of what everybody is doing.
And uhm I will definitely go to the next Strategic Forum because I didn’t really realize until I’m back home how much I can use these things.
I’ve already implemented two things and I’ve gotten a great response from both and I really feel that my life is going to be changed by this.
So I just wanted to say thank you very much and I’m sure I will be coming to the Florida Forum. Thank you bye.
Amy Simmons
This is the first experience like this that I have had in terms of something above and beyond what the main event is.
And I just want to thank you so much for putting this all together, for sticking with it for and for going against maybe what you really wanted to do to provide something of so much value and its such an amazing experience.
For me this experience really meant being able to be around people playing at a higher level who to see the positive energy, and positive feedback and encouragement that came out of this was just an incredible opportunity for me.
And I had a chance to meet some people to sit and talk for a little bit and to just have more of a one on one experience. Learning exactly what some people are doing and knowing what is making people successful.
I think probably the most uhm, the biggest aha for me was just realizing that it’s just really is just one step at a time and it really doesn’t mean you know, just huge huge plans, to get everything done all at once. It’s just implementing one thing then doing another, then doing another and you end up with this amazing business in the end. And I’m really really excited about the chance to really play big and it’s really encouraged me and taught me a lot about playing big and being a doer and just getting out there and doing it. And you know I gotta tell you, I am really tired of not being a doer and of not getting things done and sitting back and hoping for someone else to build my business. And I think that was another aha for me…that this, that this is not going to be someone else’s business, this is me, it’s all me, it’s my business, it’s my chance to play big and to really go pro. So I’m excited about that I’m excited to have those people backing me up who did say call me if you need anything. And I was just amazed by the openness the gifts that so many people gave me this week. So thank you so much for doing this. I am absolutely looking forward to going again in May and will bring some other people with me and will encourage some other people to join and to come along and play big and to really see where our business can go with that.
So thanks so much. I appreciate you and I appreciate everything that you do for us on a daily basis. Have a great week and I am looking forward to the next one.
