Dear David,
Just a short note to voice my appreciation and make some observations about the Marketing Consulting you provided me during 1997.
As I am a graduate of both the Phil Broyles Top-producer System and the Xerox Sales training I can honestly say you provided a unique approach to my business. Your emphasis on the “building of credibility” from outside sources, target marketing and the help in managing and training my assistant was invaluable. I feel your ongoing input as a both client and a consultant was one of the reasons I reached the Associate Vice President Title last year. Your extensive experience in marketing and as a business owner was evident in your good ideas which have influenced my success. I am this year focusing on the markets you outlined and look for another 40% jump in revenue and assets in the year 1998.
Dear Mr. Sweet,
I’m writing this letter to thank you for the time you spent with me this spring. As you remember, I was faced with a number of tough choices as to what direction I should take my real estate business. Your review of my choices proved to be very insightful and now looking back proved to be very helpful in choosing the right path of action. Sometimes we are just too close to the issues and it helps to have someone who can look everything over and give you a fresh look especially at things you hadn’t considered. Because of your review and recommendations, I now have 3 new contracts to develop real estate both in Washington state and most recently in New Hampshire. Thanks again.
Elapsed time on the job: 1½ hour.
To Any Prospective Associate Of David Sweet,
David Sweet has served as my personal coach for the past year. Throughout my retention of his services David has displayed a multi-disciplinary business acumen, a principle centered business ethic, and a results-oriented drive to cultivate success. David also has exhibited a rare quality common only to the most successful people – the ability to succinctly assess the strengths and weaknesses of his subjects and find creative ways to nurture better performance. His insightful understanding of the strategic, tactical, and psychological issues of real estate brokerage management has been particularly helpful to me in the past year. Our production is up 20% and we are currently the most prolific branch in the John L. Scott Network per capita with an average of 14 transactions per agent for each of our 40 agents, and closed volume jumping from 58 million dollars to nearly 79 million dollars in a one year period.
I offer an unqualified recommendation to anyone who is considering retaining David’s services.
To whom it may concern:
Recommendation for Dave Sweet’s Advanced Sales Seminar
Five years ago I moved to the Northwest to start my own seminar and consulting business. I teach business people how to manage and communicate.
I hired many people to market me. These people believed in what I was trying to do but they did not sell my services. One day I was bemoaning my situation to Dave Sweet. Dave suggested I enroll in his Advanced Sales Seminar. I thought “Why not, I’ve tried everything else.”
Dave convinced me I had to do my own marketing. He taught me an honest system of approaching people and selling them on my services.
Dave taught me the “4 P’s” that motivate people to buy. He made me practice until I had the skills down, and followed up with daily phone calls to see how I was doing and offer more advice. In the first three months after completing this training I was making more money than in the past two years combined.
I recommend his Advanced Sales Seminar without reservation.
This training took 6-8 hours to the best of my memory. The client went from zero to out of the park in skills.
One day, two months after we were done, I got a very excited phone call.
He had interviewed, used his new training and closed the deal. Against overwhelming competition and odds, he had landed a consulting job at a major hospital.
July 18th, 2011
Dear prospective client of David Sweet,
In 2007 I approached David for help regarding my art business. Although I’d been a professional artist earning a living by commissions and gallery work for over 30 years, the work had dried up and I needed guidance from someone I’d heard had a good reputation.
We met twice, first in order to establish my vision for what I needed to accomplish and to acknowledge my skill set for a possible career shift, and then for the practical hammering out of new direction.
David helped me focus on steps to create a slightly different approach. He was insightful, knowledgeable, creative and efficient. I really appreciated his balance of listening and suggestions of options. I needed his outside perspective and for an independent person like me he approached my challenges with exactly the right tone.
I recommend him!
Sincerely,
Lynn Di Nino
website: lynndinino.com
I am communicating this to any who are curious about the professional coaching techniques of David Sweet. I have had the opportunity to take advantage of David’s skills over the past 8 months and have been very satisfied with the results.
I deal with a variety of challenges in my professional life. I Supervise over 50 employees in my restaurant, and report directly to the owner of the company I am employed with.
The daily need for sharpened communication skills is of paramount importance to my businesses success. The obstacles that usually present the greatest difficulty are usually within myself. David’s subtle ability to bring awareness to these obstacles has left me with tools that I will now always possess.
One example of the tools I have acquired was a simple question that David asked me, “if someone calls you on the telephone, you leave them a message to return your call, and they don’t return your call by the next day what do you know?”. I pondered this for a long time. I came up with things like “they didn’t get my message, or they don’t want to call me back, or they don’t like me…”. David pointed out that all I really know is that they didn’t call me back.
As simple as that sounds, it has had a profound impact on me. That is what David’s talent is, to help you center on the simple things that have dramatic meaning and importance in your dealings with yourself and others.
I cannot begin to completely explain the breadth and depth of the value in my sessions with David, but would encourage any who are looking for an edge in their pursuit of happiness to spend some time with him.
Respectfully,
Troy Christian
General Manger
El Gaucho Tacoma
Subsequently: The correspondence speaks for itself.
One of Troy’s goals was to start and own a part of a successful restaurant.
He soon accomplished that.
David Sweet is one of those writers whose poetry spills out of him constantly, in his work and in his private life. Which is why I asked him to provide feedback for some of my written work. He has offered helpful suggestions that opened creative doors for me, and showed me new possibilities for my writing.
Val Dumond
Author / Editor / Playwright
As to the letter, every once in a while, no matter who you are, it helps to
have someone look inside, find and kick any lingering mental blocks to the curb.
Thank you Val for all your work!
Whereas consultants are type cast as expected to come in, “fix it” and call it done;
I proceed with getting to the bottom of what’s needed at the time.
I spent the two previous meetings with a note pad working through the crowd asking open-ended questions of my peers: What’s sticking? What would be of most help? What would you like to leave with? As a result I was able to gain insights and directions for the final presentation. I left them with tools for thought and ways to accomplish what was important to them.
DIAMOND BELLE RANCH
Wauconda, WA
To whom it may concern: June 3, 2011
We manage the Diamond Belle Ranch (767 acres including Walker Lake and 10 bedroom lodge/guest facility) on site and David Sweet manages it and the overall finances from the west side.
David knows and can converse fluently in all aspects of sales, how to create solutions and solve problems, make repairs or build new:
1) Water systems-domestic
2) Lake/fish/aeration systems
3) Timber land, resource management, grazing lands/weed treatment
4) Cattle grazing/leases
5) Promotion of properties, photos, verbiage/write ups, layouts:
- Website and brochure were facilitated by David.
6) Acreage:
- Understands size and concepts of large acreage;
- Aware of mineral rights and conservation easements;
- Understands and is fluent in easements, roads, surveys, etc.
7) Works one on one with county right of way and county commissioner.
David solves problems because he knows these things and is easy to communicate with for a diverse, successful partnership.
Sincerely,
Steve and Trisha Pomeroy
Diamond Belle Ranch
P.O. Box 104
Wauconda, Wa 98509 Phone: 1-509-486-1270
Diamond Belle Ranch website: http://www.diamondbelleranch.com/
UP FOR ADOPTION: NATURE’S CROWN JEWEL
This property is up for adoption: $3,995,000 includes all timber and mineral rights and it is conservation easement free. You, as the new owner(s), will get a Rocky Mt. climate, forests, meadows, Walker Lake (private-all enclosed), Nat’l Forest, many old homesteads, lodge, caretaker’s lodging, outbuildings and spectacular territorial views. The fish grow large, it’s in the flyway, and we have long valued Nature with no hunting. (Read: Elk. Moose, Bald Eagles’ nest, Deer, Turkey, Grouse, Bear, Coyote, a pair of Loons, and 28 or so other species of birds and waterfowl traveling through.)
I wrote the poem “Spirit” to describe as best I could the power of this land: It does have “energy centers” or however you might choose to call them, or articulate your feelings while there.
The Diamond Belle website
Contact our broker, Jim Platt at 1-888-771-8414
His email is JimPlatt@aol.com
This is a unique and special property.
Click the picture above to download the story behind the statue "The Poet"
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The Universe has its own timing and for both our creating, this was to become poignant. Every so often we checked with the other on progress. At about nine months into it, Michael had had his sculpture done for awhile, however, “she wasn’t quite right.” Then one day, he “cocked her head to the side and she was done! A poet with attitude!”
During this same period I played with the verbiage, let it sit, went back to it, mused on it, rewrote, paused, edited, however, wasn’t satisfied. Finally at about a year, the end result came and the poem “The Poet” was done—Solid! Finished! Our much-longer-to-create-than-usual-period was over. I sent it to Michael, he agreed, and the rest is history.
Attached is the brochure for “The Poet” sculpture picturing the finished sculpture and showing the book The Poet. Also attached are two pages picturing and describing more of Michael’s Hands of the Artists collection.
Michael’s website can be found at http://www.artistsgallerie.com/
David,
Thank you for everything. I sincerely wish you the things and experiences that are best for you. I believe you have done much good to help others
(me included) and your world. You are a visionary, and I believe there are many others awaiting your wisdom.
Regards,
client