{"id":5887,"date":"2015-10-09T07:48:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2015-10-09T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:48:51","slug":"location-location-location-everything-or-nothing","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/location-location-location-everything-or-nothing","title":{"rendered":"Location, Location, Location: Everything or Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work with amazing people in real estate. They\u2019re dedicated, intelligent, and talented yet I\u2019m constantly surprised by how much their careers and prosperity vary. It isn\u2019t that anyone is more ambitious than the others or that they have more to begin with. What I\u2019ve noticed is that those who excel learn what really works and keep learning. We all heard Thomas Edison\u2019s quote that \u201cSuccess is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.\u201d But does it have to be that way? I don\u2019t think it does. For me, Edison\u2019s less famous quote \u201cOpportunity is missed by most people because it looks like work\u201d is much more revealing. Let me explain why.
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\nWhat is the difference? <\/strong>
\nThe difference in these two outlooks lies in how you regard the application of learning, a.k.a. your knowledge, experience, and habits. Every day we use information to get ahead in business and information is the root of success. Unfortunately we can lose sight of what we don\u2019t know, what information we don\u2019t have, and suddenly we are not succeeding. We\u2019re outperformed and outsmarted by those we should beat.
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Trade area demographic profiles; executive and market potential reports.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nReal estate is all about location based information; from the regional trends to hyper local activities and developments. You need to know to make the best deal but too often business don\u2019t look at information strategically. They don\u2019t keep learning and so don\u2019t have the insight into information that makes a real impact on the competitive advantage of their business.
\nIt doesn\u2019t need to be like this.
\nThink about the fact that every<\/em> business decision in real estate needs to be made in the context of location. Yes we have financial data and other factors which influence our decisions, and those of our competitors, but when you boil it down every decision is made subject to location, location, location. What we are talking about isn\u2019t location data, it\u2019s a location strategy.
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\n<\/em>Fooled into complacency<\/strong>
\nThink about what you really need for clients to close the deal. What is it they actually care about? It\u2019s not inches of paper reports with demographics and lifestyle it\u2019s how that fits to your client\u2019s ambition and plans for the property. It\u2019s not measured by thickness, it\u2019s measured by the quality of your understanding and ability to communicate that. With all the data floating around, we\u2019ve become complacent. We think people will \u201cjust get it\u201d. Easy access to data has led many of us into a false sense of security about its value.
\nWhat really matters is how you use information and insight to make the biggest impact on your client. Show them that you can bring value because you can apply your knowledge to show them what they can learn from your understanding.
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Cannibalization.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/strong>If you know what makes a site successful why wouldn\u2019t you capture those characteristics and use it to benchmark all your other sites? You know from gut feelings that things will work but your clients don\u2019t want speculation and hypotheticals. They want empirical evidence based on knowledge. Experimentation is for someone else. With a location strategy you get to test alternatives, quickly get a handle on highest and best use and develop a better proposal that\u2019s factual not fiction.
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\nShare and reuse you best strategies<\/strong>
\nNothing is more frustrating than not being on the same page. You hate having to do the same work over and over again, and I know how frustrating it is to always think you\u2019re starting from scratch on every deal. By capturing workflows and what location-based insights really impact the deal, you can more quickly benchmark and get to what matters. Previously you\u2019ve been tempted to created lots of \u201cevidence\u201d measured by inches not impact. Now you can automate how you make decisions, measure and tune your ideas so you can spend more time on working out the best deal rather than having your team assembling data. If you can\u2019t easily understand what the deal looks like, how can your clients?
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Tasks and workflows can be easily automated to benchmark hundreds of sites against expectation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPut your experience and knowledge front and center with potential clients. Show them that you have everything they want before they even ask for it; on the phone, on paper and in person. What I am talking about is applying technology, tools and techniques that you\u2019ve likely forgotten how to use, in a different way.
\nNext time your client asks why, don\u2019t be afraid to show them why right away. With a location strategy, you line up your data and the answers to questions so you can access it one-on-one with your clients. At worse, you need to invest a little more time and effort to make something new which you immediately<\/em> email to them, instead of going back to the office or waiting days for materials. It\u2019s not just about capturing the ingredients of what works, or blindly following an instruction list. A location strategy learns with you. It enables you to capture what goes together and why. You are apprenticing your own knowledge and it\u2019s giving you back wonderful creations.
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\nAn investment in success<\/strong>
\nDoes all this matter? Yes, a lot. I can\u2019t promise that you\u2019ll be an instant success just because you started using a location strategy. What I can guarantee you is that Esri has worked with the best practitioners and real estate\u2019s brightest minds to create the ingredients and recipes for success. If and how you use them is up to you. I do know, however, that there are already thousands who are putting together their own location strategy, and their own success menu based on these recipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5887","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-focus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLocation, Location, Location: Everything or Nothing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/location-location-location-everything-or-nothing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Location, Location, Location: Everything or Nothing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I work with amazing people in real estate. 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