1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Being a great real estate appraiser does not automatically make you a great business owner. In fact, some of the same skills that make you excellent at appraising can actually hold you back when it comes to building and growing an appraisal business. In this episode, Blaine Feyen explores the gap between technical expertise and entrepreneurship and why so many talented appraisers, real estate professionals, and service based business owners struggle to make the transition from technician to business owner. You may have spent 10, 15, or 20 years becoming better at your craft, but how much time have you deliberately spent becoming better at business? Blaine breaks down six critical business skills that many technically skilled professionals never intentionally develop: systems thinking, financial literacy, marketing and positioning, delegation and leverage, strategic decision making, and identity flexibility. Pasted markdown You’ll also learn why the habits that make appraisers good at managing risk and defending their work can create analysis paralysis, resistance to delegation, weak marketing, and difficulty making business decisions. Pasted markdown Whether you want to grow an appraisal company, build a team, diversify beyond lender work, or remain a successful one person appraisal business, the lesson is the same: when you decided to work for yourself, you chose a second profession. You became a business owner. And there is a massive difference between having 20 years of business experience and having one year of business experience repeated 20 times. Pasted markdown Maybe the next level of your career has very little to do with becoming better at the thing you already know how to do. Maybe it requires becoming a student again. Watch the YouTube version here:&amp;nbsp; https://youtu.be/w7nWev6McHg Try the Appraiser Increase Academy free for 30 days: www.coachblaine.com/freemonth The Real Value Podcast https://www.coachblaine.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/43174063/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/207122563