That got me thinking about fundamental assets for those in the professional world, and I’ve identified three important characteristics of real estate professionals.

Relationship Building: The ability to develop and maintain relationships helps you be effective, exchange ideas as well as gain and maintain clients’ and customers’ trust and confidence. For example, sharing ideas with a potential seller who is considering listing his or her property with you may be one way to demonstrate that you listen to the potential client and can help him or her sell the home.

Teamwork: Collaborating with others enables you to undertake projects than you would not otherwise be able to handle. You can also accomplish more when working with others. For example, when you’re selling a home, you might work with other real estate professionals to get the deal done. These might include a home staging stylist, a third party short sales negotiator, and others who have skills you are still developing.

Communication: Sharing ideas and thoughts, forming plans, and executing against them requires the ability to make sure that everyone understands who is involved, what they will be doing, and what the expectations are. For example, communicating to a home seller that his or her home needs to be staged, what that entails, how much it will cost and how it will be paid for, and why staging is important will go a long way to maintaining the relationship you’ve built.

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With its flexibility for remote signing or in-person signing, DocuSign can capture electronic signatures in a way that makes the most sense for you and your client. Are your clients in separate states? With DocuSign, all they need is internet access, email, and a browser – there’s nothing to download and signers can sign for free, easily providing the communications needed to close a sale.

With carbon copy or “cc” functionality, the other agent can receive access to the documents as soon as you and your clients have esigned the papers. This automation creates a smoother process, is more convenient, and minimizes the potential for miscommunication. Providing all parties with needed copies of the papers provides for good teamwork.

With electronic signature and electronic contract execution, there’s no physical paper to keep track of and the documents stay clear and legible. When compared to papers that have been faxed back and forth due to offers and counter offers, documents from DocuSign are clean and easily read. Building relationships is easy when you streamline your processes with DocuSign.

What other characteristics will lead to professional success?

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