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What do Commissions and Tightly Fitting Underwear Have in Common?

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In a recent post on Active Rain, an agent posed this question and her answer was "Sometimes you need to make adjustments." Of course her "adjustments" were to simply cut her commission when a deal was threatened. She included an image of a tightly fitting corset.

I would answer the question totally differently: maybe it's time that we abandon the corset and start wearing underwear that fits with our times. In other words, maybe the adjustments we need to make are with how we're paid rather than continuing to loosen the corset more and more till it's lost it's usefulness.


Yes, that means offering different services and ways to pay for those services entirely. Those who are still comfortable with a corset can continue to use it but for the increasing number of consumers who are looking for REAL adjustments, start offering some quality choices such as paying just for the services and/or time rendered rather than continuing to adjust an article of underwear built for a different time.

That corset might be comfortable because it's what we know but isn't it time to start wearing something that it built for the beginning of the 21st century, not the 20th?

Just my 02.

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