Why Wont They Hear Me?
Isn’t this how life works? You suggest, recommend, implore that someone do something a certain way. They resist, never doing it like you think they ought. Then, someone form another place in their life, maybe an outsider or someone they know from another context, asks them to try the same #*@&%$ thing and they just do it. No questions asked. I’m not sure why this is so, but I’m sure you’ve seen it happen all the time.
Maybe I Can Help
I think I’m in a rather unique position to help you. Every year the National Association of REALTORS® puts on a conference for the people who work for your state and local associations of REALTORS®. Attended by about 1,000 state, local and national REALTOR® association staff from across the country, the Association Executives Institute (AEI) is one of NAR’s largest annual events. Someone thought I could add some value to the committee that’s planning this conference, and I began my term on it a few weeks ago.
It occurred to me that you, dear Agent Genius readers, are in a unique position to help me. Here’s what I want: Tell me what you think your REALTOR® association staff needs to know. No one understands better in what areas your local associations just don’t get it. So please, let me know what they need to know.
Recently, I tweeted a shorter version of this blog post and got these reactions:
- Tell them to make the MLS work in Firefox
- I wish our staff knew more about short sales
- Help them convince us how important it is to get involved
Those are a few samples. What else do you wish your local association staff knew? Of course, I’ll also happily accept your suggestions on how we could get the point across in a way that will help your state and local associations actually absorb and deliver on the stuff they need to understand. I’ll do my best to make sure those topics make their way into the sessions at AEI 2009.
