Every top agent went through unanswered phone calls, canceled meetings and long, unproductive days before succeeding.
In Part 1 I relayed how a top travel agent was able to instantly make me Gold elite on a major airline I had never flown.
Left fielder Carl Crawford of the Rays will be the top free agent in the 2010-11 class, followed by starting pitcher Cliff Lee and both could be wearing pinstripes next season.
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An important point that many home sellers fail to realize: Their first sales job involves hiring a top-notch agent.
Baltimore has similarly been unable to compete for top players on the free-agent market.
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On May 2nd the News of the World, a British Sunday tabloid, published an account of a sting operation in which John Higgins, the world's top-ranked snooker player, and his agent Patrick Mooney, appeared to agree to accept bribes in return for losing specific frames in future contests.
To the 48-year-old lawyer, whose life partner, Matthew Richards Silverman , is a real estate agent, that smelled like a market top.
Suter, formerly of the Nashville Predators, was the top defenseman on the NHL's free-agent market and signed a deal of identical length and dollars, and he and Parise are now charged with re-energizing a moribund franchise in a hockey-crazed region.
Other new entries in the North American top 10 were comedy drama Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and children's sequel Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.
The reigning Vezina Trophy winner, who is again a finalist this year to be named the NHL's top goalie, has one year left on his contract before he can become an unrestricted free agent.
With his top two receivers out, Eli Manning got a chance to throw more balls to recently signed free agent Louis Murphy and young receivers Rueben Randle and Jerrel Jernigan.
Sixteen months into his stint as entertainment chief at the General Electric-owned NBC, the 38-year-old agent-turned-producer-turned-network honcho has yet to lift the once top-rated broadcast network out of the ratings basement.
Inter Milan right-back Maicon is top of Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini's summer wish list, according to the Brazilian's agent.
But in an agent-based model you simply run a computer simulation to see what emerges, free from any top-down assumptions.
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