Pros:
An agent gets you in the door and takes care of your editorial needs.
Not exact matches
Agents try to
get their foot
in the
door before a player blows up.
So you
get rid of two of your crap players and
get one of our best so whats
in it for us or are you also giving us that 50 ml on top of them because that would be the only way it could happen.Berbs went because he was a shit and carrick well he was much the same.Difference is now we are closing on you and if we can
get a striker
in january then we will be even closer so why would our guys want to go there.Also with cry baby rooney
getting a massive pay rise how long before berbs, giggs, scholes and the rest are knocking at the
door.That was a very bad move by mannure your wage structure is about to explode out the
door and how are you going to pay for that.If Bale was to go there i bet he would be looking at least 150k a week which with rooneys wage rise seems fair.Add to that his price tag for buying him and well it looks like it could cost you at lot more than 50 ml.I know if i was his
agent i would be saying to mannure if you want himyou have to pay him a wage up there with rooneys.You have shot yourselves
in the foot big style with rooney to the point can you now afford to buy any more players?
I read one of our favourite guys from pants saying it is none of the fans business who players
agent is.Well that is bleedin naive
in my eyes.Is it not clear to see that the players still around from the championship are indeed mainly Curtis boys.Is it just coincidence these are the second rate players we are now looking to
get out of the
door because they do nt cut it.To assume this is just coincidence is stupidity of the highest f*cking order.Nolan, Jussi, Jarvis, O'Brien, Carroll, Demel.Sam & Curtis boys, all need to be sold or let go with the exception of Carroll possibly.So yeah i think it is our business.Enough said!
Technical specialists and patent
agents,
in particular, do not need to have any legal training before they
get their collective feet
in the
door.
Although it looks like Denzel has just
gotten out of bed to answer the front
door, his character is infact a rogue CIA
agent in the custody of mega-rookie Ryan Reynolds.
In other words, your goal when writing a query letter should simply be: 1) Get your foot in the door; 2) Make agents curious to know more; and 3) Get agents to trust yo
In other words, your goal when writing a query letter should simply be: 1)
Get your foot
in the door; 2) Make agents curious to know more; and 3) Get agents to trust yo
in the
door; 2) Make
agents curious to know more; and 3)
Get agents to trust you.
Getting to talk to a real
agent is the best way to
get in the
door.
It's even harder to
get an
agent — something you need to
get your foot
in the
door at most legacy publishers.
Even small press publishers are closing their
doors to unsolicited manuscripts, meaning if you don't have an
agent who is willing to back your work (which is sometimes a trial
in and of itself, finding an
agent that you
get along with and is willing to work for you), you're a little out of luck.
«Big Pub basically runs its own monopoly over writers,» a commenter on a New York Times article retorted, and I received an email about the Amazon - Hachette clash
in which the writer complained of «the impossibility of a non-NYC writer just
getting his foot
in the
door without sleeping with professors, visiting authors, publishers; without an M.F.A.; or without publications
in major magazines (100 percent of which are supplied by
agents).
I'm really not prepared to engage
in some of the games the conventional publishing world indulges
in - especially some
agents - largely because I've come to this after years of banging my head aginst other career
doors and
getting nowhere.
To actually
get a foot
in a publishing house
door you will need a literary
agent to represent you.
Because of the squeeze
in commercial pubbing,
agents are
getting squeezed as well and many are using the
door.
Now, if you've hired a literary
agent (which you will most likely need to do to even
get your foot
in the
door of traditional publishing), they will receive 15 % of your advance as commission for their services.
Pleasing them and your
agent (who
got you
in the
door with them) was life and breath to your working author.
And then I remembered, I had an
agent, a great
agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub,
doors have been slammed
in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all
gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all
in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.
At Author Agency we understand that a quality Book Agent can open the
door for a new author, that is why we provide the means for authors to
get their work
in front of book
agents.
The next day i
got an email that the card will be delivered to me within three working days and to my greatest surprise, on the 24th
in the Morning i was about going out when i heard a knock on the
door and behold was the shipping company
agent with a parcel which he came to deliver to me.
He explains, «If the electrical panel or crawlspace
door has a padlock on it, I will call the listing
agent and ask them to
get in touch with the property owner and see if there is a key somewhere
in the house.
Hundreds of thousands of universal life policies will have their prices skyrocket to unaffordable levels
in the near future all because an
agent to the path of least resistance and showed his or her client the cheapest way to
get in the permanent life insurance
door.
«Hundreds of thousands of universal life policies will have their prices skyrocket to unaffordable levels
in the near future all because an
agent took the path of least resistance and showed his or her client the cheapest way to
get in the permanent life insurance
door.»
Another curiosity while arriving to show my buyer lawyer a listing, as another
agent was leaving the MLS listed property, he too, literally spewed volatile expressions (amazing language from a so - called top producer) as he was leaving the doorway, I had no idea there was anyone
in the house, no car
in the drive, and a closed lockbox on the closed
door, telling me to
get off the property and never come near a property he was at ever again.
It's also proven to be an invaluable tool when it comes to providing busy
agents a way to
get their foot
in the
door when marketing to leads.
Finally, I know a few
agents in the area that
get over half their listings from knocking on
doors in their farm area.
One of the most proven ways to
get in the
door as an
agent and out the
door as their «listing»
agent is to launch the «WOW» process right from the first point of contact.
David, you also repeated unsubstantiated claims by, at least, one homeowner, that they felt an
agent or
agents had made appointments to show their home (FSBO) under false pretenses, just to
get in the
door.
Of course, a trusted real estate
agent will be an ally to help any new buyer
get a foot
in the
door on their way toward accomplishing longer - term real estate goals.»
Wow, where I come from we roll out the red carpet, send the buyer's
agent chocolates... ANYTHING to
get an offer
in the
door so we can start negotiating.
Let's say you are most interested
in knocking on
doors and doing Subject To's, you might think twice about
getting licensed because our regulatory agency DORA doesn't particularly like
agents doing that.
Top
agents share tactics for
getting their foot
in the
door of prospective clients & many
agents were excited to hear that they did not include knoc...
These same
agents use a script 81 % of the time and 74 % of them use at least three ways to
get in touch with leads: phone,
door knocking and direct mail.
Love what you do to make money at your JOB hang out with doers and not talkers, have a good team of money contacts and REI services people (e.g.
agents that own rental properties) learn private money and OPM (read trustetc.com), walk through 200 open houses and track sold prices, know market rents by talking to property managers find a good RE CPA that knows rentals at your REIA find a good RE Eviction Attorney at your REIA Know how to construct a Wholesale offer, a CFD offer, a LO offer, a Wrap - AITD offer (not all are available
in every state) Know your landlord tenant law Learn how to go give a speech (www.toastmasters.com) Learn how to write a blog Learn how to
door knock and offer a Letter of Intent Learn how to prospect, present, sell and close (Tom Hopkins, Zig Ziggler)
Get referrals and send Thank you cards Read «Swim with the Sharks» by Harvey McKay