It doesn’t matter if you are a seasoned investor or just getting started, Multi-Millionaire or working on making your first million, our goal is to provide something for everyone. Regardless if you have been sitting on the sidelines or are a full time investor. Enhancing your education and building strong relationship will always prove to be beneficial. Especially in today’s real estate market were the game has changed. If you are listening to the media or running your real estate business on outdated strategies then you are missing out on the largest opportunity to create real wealth for you and your family that we will probably ever see.

That is why chicagoREIcommunity.com was founded. We believe “That together, we will achieve more”. It really is that simple, rather than be a lone ranger (old way of thinking) it is now time to learn from the county’s top educators and foremost experts on real estate investing. chicagoREIcommunity.com wants to share its resources with you so that we all benefit from this massive knowledge base. Each and everyone one of us has something unique to share and bring to the table and this is what we promote. Imagine meeting one person, getting one idea that changes your life and your family’s life forever.

At our monthly meetings we will have top speakers and educators from across the country in to share how they are making money in today’s market and what you need to do to be a part of the biggest real estate gold rush we have ever seen. Don’t wait; you will be kicking yourself 5 years down the road. Register now to network with likeminded people who are willing to help you succeed.

Please join us for our next FREE meeting Monday May 18th 2009 from 6:00pm-9:15pm

6:00PM-6:30PM Go over your deals and answer any questions.

Bring your current deals so we can go over them together. We will have our real estate attorney present to answer questions. We also encourage you to promote your deals by bringing flyers and networking with others

6:35-7:05 – Power Networking (Bring your Cards)

Remember that old saying “it’s not what you know, but who you know”, this will be your time to create new strategic alliances and forge new friendships and business partners. Many deals have been done by networking with likeminded individuals. This is easily one of the best parts of the night

7:15-8:45 – Guest Speaker – J.T. FOXX

2001 MIDWEST ROAD
OAK BROOK, ILLINOIS 60523
6PM MONDAY, MAY 18TH.

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Coaches Corner by Adam Ackerman Head Coach/Mentor and student

One of the essential skills for any entrepreneur is negotiation. How well you can negotiate a favorable agreement or deal for your business can often spell the difference between failure and success. Negotiation can occur between you and your employees, your vendors, your customers, or even your investors. Despite the possible sense of intimidation or distaste many business owners might have around negotiating, it is a productive skill that will enable you to build your business in positive ways – and it does not have to be approached as an adversarial tactic to be endured!

What’s Your Price?
The reason you negotiate is to produce something better than the results you can obtain without negotiating. What are those results? What is that alternative? That is the standard against which any proposed agreement should be measured.

The other key is to know, as best you can, what the other party’s true needs and objectives are. In negotiating salary increase requests from employees, for example, it is essential to solicit the employee’s perspective – and to be able to accurately assess what may not be said aloud. With vendors or suppliers, knowing their break points – the bottom line they are willing to go to – as well as your own leveraging strengths with them, is critical to negotiating deals that are mutually acceptable.

Ten Basic Steps to build your business by!!

1. Decide on your starting position and your “bottom line,” or lowest point you will accept in the deal.
2. Consider the objectives and emotional motivation of the other party.
3. Plan your sequence of proposals and possible counter-proposals. Open at the most you can reasonably ask for as this gives you room to negotiate.
4. Prepare for the meeting by determining your own motives and objectives: Why are you negotiating? What do you expect to gain and why is it important to you? What do you think you will have to offer to achieve this?
5. Be prepared with information, facts, comparable prices or costs, etc. Avoid going into any negotiation and coming across as either uninformed or unreasonably aggressive.
6. If the other party makes the first offer or proposal, this can allow you to gauge your response and set the parameters of the negotiation to your advantage. Though some experts suggest that your proposal be the first one on the table, this tactic can allow the other party to open at a point that is more favorable to you than you may have anticipated.
7. Start by discussing a mutually agreed upon point of the negotiation – something both parties will readily say yes to.
8. When do propose a deal or an offer phrase as “I will do such-and-such for you, and you will do this for me.” This establishes a position of confidence and authority.
9. Make your arguments and proposals incrementally and strategically. Avoid going immediately to your lowest point of acceptance, or bottom-line.
10. Know when it is time to close or break off discussion. If the other party is ready to close the deal, and it is acceptable to you, make it easy for them to do as little as possible by having everything ready to sign, etc.

Remember: your objective is what you want to achieve – your bottom line is what you absolutely have to achieve. These are not the same thing when you are negotiating!

Everybody Wins With Effective Negotiation

The ultimate goal of business negotiations is to produce two satisfied parties and to have paved the way for future negotiations when and where necessary. Having successfully completed negotiations it is tempting to think that it’s all over once you and the other party have said, “Yes!” However, it isn’t really “over” until it’s over. That is, proper and effective closure is key to sealing a deal successfully.

Master Negotiators know how to close. They consider every element of closure: when, where, documentation, pending issues. Novices either rush the end game or delay it interminably, with equally bad results. Rushing the end game usually means slapping a contract together with little time or thought; its ambiguities and deficiencies inevitably result in disputes. Delaying the end game means failing to ‘strike when the iron is hot’ if you wait long enough, something will happen to prevent closure. Time kills deals.

As with any business leadership skill negotiation is learned in the doing. Knowing the fundamentals before going into any negotiations is essential for successfully securing your objectives while preserving strategic relationships with employees, customers or clients, vendors, or investors.

To contact Adam about the coaching program email him at [email protected]