The Good:
I came up with an idea relating to one of my favorite vacation spots. Since opening 3 days ago, I have 15 clients willing to pay over $60,000 collectively to rent vacation homes at this location. I am easily getting 3-4 new clients per day. I'm astonished at how quickly I've had success finding clients - obviously there is a market and need for my service.
The Bad:
I'm astonished that no rental/property management company wants to even consider having me send this money their way. I've called 5 of the largest so far, and have either gotten the run-around, left messages with directors of marketing and have gotten no call backs, or been flat out told that they weren't interested! Now, I know companies get their walls up when some stranger calls and is obviously looking for some sort of compensation, but I didn't think I'd get totally shut down like this. With one I called and said "I have $60,000 worth of rentals to place - I'd like to send them your way" and the response was "we don't pay travel agent fees, have a nice day." I didn't even get a chance to tell them that I didn't want a typical travel agent fee arrangement.
Any suggestions? Will it take me physically going down there and talking to people, or is this an easy fix? I'm getting to the point where I want to respond back "wait, did you hear what I said? You arn't interested in $60,000? Are you stupid?" but I know that won't be helpful
I came up with an idea relating to one of my favorite vacation spots. Since opening 3 days ago, I have 15 clients willing to pay over $60,000 collectively to rent vacation homes at this location. I am easily getting 3-4 new clients per day. I'm astonished at how quickly I've had success finding clients - obviously there is a market and need for my service.
The Bad:
I'm astonished that no rental/property management company wants to even consider having me send this money their way. I've called 5 of the largest so far, and have either gotten the run-around, left messages with directors of marketing and have gotten no call backs, or been flat out told that they weren't interested! Now, I know companies get their walls up when some stranger calls and is obviously looking for some sort of compensation, but I didn't think I'd get totally shut down like this. With one I called and said "I have $60,000 worth of rentals to place - I'd like to send them your way" and the response was "we don't pay travel agent fees, have a nice day." I didn't even get a chance to tell them that I didn't want a typical travel agent fee arrangement.
Any suggestions? Will it take me physically going down there and talking to people, or is this an easy fix? I'm getting to the point where I want to respond back "wait, did you hear what I said? You arn't interested in $60,000? Are you stupid?" but I know that won't be helpful
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