Dan Duffy (far right) with president of Ducks Unlimited (far left)
Every week we’re going to share a story with you from someone who’s found their freedom with United Country. From buyers to sellers, from brokers to managers – everyone in the United Country family has a story. Today’s post comes from our CEO, Dan Duffy.
My father always pushed us to realize our full potential, whatever that was. My brothers, sister and I were challenged not to squander an ounce of energy on unimportant matters and to remain focused on doing great things with our lives to the best of our potential. We were told that luck does not exist and what people call luck is the intersection of hard work and an ardent respect for doing things right and doing the right thing.
The missing ingredient was gaining the experience to make this a reality and finding a place to apply this attitude with a great group of people that you respected on all levels.
This is where my personal experience with United begins.
Four short years ago, I was fortunate to be introduced to United and the great people that make this a special company. I have a strong desire to be in a position to contribute to others’ success by bringing them opportunities and resources that would make a difference in their lives and the lives of those they serve, as well as a difference that would positively change an important market in a demonstrable way.
United was and is a perfect place to make this happen.
The impact we have had to date is appreciable; but, years from now we will look back on what we (the collective “we” of United Country) have done in the past few years, and we will realize that this is the moment that we changed the real estate game forever.
When I was asked to write about how I found my freedom with United Country, I remembered a restaurant I used to go to outside of St. Joe, Mich. Tucked away on the edge of the sidewalk were two statues, one engraved with a quote that I feel rings true with a philosophy that I hold dear.
I believe that every man and woman should make the most of the time God gives us on this beautiful blue marble, and I feel that the statue’s quote is an appropriate punctuation point at the end of my story about how and why I chose to be part of the United opportunity:
“It is better live one day as a lion than a thousand as a sheep.”
~ Julius Caesar
If you’ve found your freedom with United Country, please send us your story to be featured in a future blog post!
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Dan,
Great Convention. I feel blessed to be a part of an organization that really does care about core values, and doing what is right. I am very fortunate to be doing just what I want to at this point in my life. Thanks Dan and all at the Home Office for keeping “United” ahead of the curve. Our best days are in front of us!!!!
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”Zig Ziglar
Like with Dan, United Country has helped me find my freedom in more ways than one. The people that work with United, both agents and customers are by far the best characters I have ever had the privilege to work for and with. That to me was my freedom – freedom to be around really good people. Thanks UC.
Dan,
United Country Auction Services is receiving tons of calls since our National Convention in New Orleans last week. They are wanting more information about all of the new technology platforms, marketing services and ancillary programs that UC has developed over the past year.
It is awesome to see so many offices all pumped up about 2010 with the energy and knowledge that the sky is truly the limit, regardless of current market conditions. We have just empowered hundreds of brokers, auctioneers, and agents to go back to their marketplace and make things happen.
Look out world………….
I remember a quote by former Senator Bob Dole, it went something like this “the best way to accept change is to help create it”. The real estate market is/has/will change and it’s exciting to be a part of it. The excitement comes via my relationship with a fantastic company lead by a group of visionaries that have a firm grasp on the future of the market and who supply me the tools I need to navigate my way through. It is comforting to know that I can spend my energies on my clients, because my team at UC is handling the technology and marketing implementations and innovations. A huge thank you to the leadership at UC, “the future’s so bright I have to wear shades”.
I would like to address the CEO with a matter regarding United Country and deceptive opportunities. Whoever works the united country websites is deceiving potential customers. I was looking at some cheap land on a website and I clicked on the link that said get more information, or something to that effect. I filled out the required fields and saw that the land detail fields were filled out by default. Several weeks went by and I heard nothing from anyone about this land. Then my personal and private email exploded with agents and brokers wanting to sell me property from Florida, Georgia, S.C. Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey. They had been lead to think I was looking to buy property in those locations. Nobody EVER contacted me about the specific property, in N.C. Had they done so they might have learned why I was making an inquiry and not assumed that I was looking to live in other states and was looking to buy a house or beachfront property or a townhouse… United Country suckered me in for my email address though and that’s wrong as it’s deceptive and dishonest. I can’t find an email address from the United Country officers and I wonder why they support exploiting email addresses while they hide their own from those they have exploited? You might call them “opportunities” but I call them losing a potential customer. Your practices in falsely obtaining email addresses for the purpose of sending them out is low!
Sincerely,
Darlene Brown