6 ideas to generate a new listing in the next 7 days (with scripts and templates)

My old manager and mentor, Paul Ellis, used to have a saying:

"If you had to get a listing in the next 48 hours because your life depended on it, could you do it? If so, how would you do it?"

I always liked pondering this question because it helped me get past my own mental prospecting barriers.

It's easy to fall into the trap of spending too much time thinking about the problem: the market's tight, no one wants to sell, I don't have any leads, I keep missing out to other agents.

Instead, you should spend the vast majority of your time working on solutions: What action can you take right now to get closer to a new listing?

Which brings me to another one of Paul's favourite sayings:

"Spend 5% of your time on the problem, and 95% of your time on the solution."

With that in mind, if I absolutely, life-depended-on-it, had to get a listing ASAP, this is what I would do: