How to Overcome Inconsistency and Grow A Successful Team
by John Parrinello
Every agent goes through changes in their business and each of those changes moves them through different stages towards building a bigger, better more successful real estate business. There’s no time frame for how long it takes to get to each stage, nor is there a time limit as to how long you’ll stay. CTA One of the biggest challenges most agents face is inconsistency - inconsistency in...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 3
by Theresa Hinch
Here in the final installment of this three-part blog series, we’re going to take you from the listing presentation into the home stretch to discuss pricing and then get your paperwork signed. Once you’ve gotten into you listing presentation, you need to be looking for two specific things: 1) signs that your seller prospects are tracking with you and 2) buying signals letting you know it’s time to stop your listing presentation and move on to pricing...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 2
by Lauren Morgan
In part 1 of this series, we talked about how to prepare yourself - and your sellers - for the time you’re going to spend at their home. By the time you get to the front door of the seller’s home, they should be moderately familiar with who you are, what you do and how you’re going to be able to help them achieve their goals. As well, you should be very familiar with the seller’s timing, motivation and the goals they’re looking...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 1
by Casey Butler
Showing up unprepared at a listing appointment with nothing more than your laptop and a CMA is akin to showing up with the proverbial “knife at a gun fight”. With the real estate market only producing 3.6% more homes sold in 2018 over 2017 and having the largest number of agents selling homes in 6 years, competition for listings is as fierce as it’s ever been. CTA As a result of this,...
Read MoreThe Truth About Discounting Your Commission
by Tammy McCurdy
Buffett’s quote is particularly applicable in the case of real estate sales. Unfortunately, many home sellers don’t appreciate what this means until after they’ve sold their home with an agent who’s cut their commission. Despite the fact that even in a smoking hot market like 2017, only 33% of sellers were able to sell their home for full price (or net full price), sellers are still willing to work with agents who discount their commission. Even...
Read MoreThe Real Estate Team Myth
by Patricia Lanzilotta
Why your team will NEVER deliver the results that you expect Any of this sound familiar: You have done a great job selling real estate and you found if you want to do more without working 14 hour days, 7 days a week...you need to start building a team. You start building the team by hiring an assistant and a couple buyer's agents. They aren't the best, but they are excited...you generate leads for them, but they don't call all of them. One leaves, so you...
Read MoreHow to Double Your Sales Results With Half Your Budget
by Santino Gance
Doubling sales is an exciting proposition for most agents. Doubling sales by using only half of your annual marketing budget to do so is mindblowing. But or those who are willing to take the steps necessary to make it happen...it’s also completely realistic. By looking at how you do your marketing a little differently and being open to some simple but effective ways to generate and convert leads, you can have a whole lot more sales at the end of...
Read MoreThe Best Ways to Stay in Front of Your Subscribers: Video
by Lynnette Boudet
If you missed the first entry of this three-part series on the best ways to stay in front of your subscribers, you can check it out here. In part two, we’re going to talk about the power of using video to build authority with your subscribers. As I’ve discussed previously: authority sells. People listen to authority. People trust authority figures and believe them to be right. So right, in fact, that people are willing to listen to them,...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 1
by Tristen Peterson
Showing up unprepared at a listing appointment with nothing more than your laptop and a CMA is akin to showing up with the proverbial “knife at a gun fight”. With the real estate market only producing 3.6% more homes sold in 2018 over 2017 and having the largest number of agents selling homes in 6 years, competition for listings is as fierce as it’s ever been. CTA As a result of this,...
Read MoreThe Truth About Discounting Your Commission
by Brenda Armitage
Buffett’s quote is particularly applicable in the case of real estate sales. Unfortunately, many home sellers don’t appreciate what this means until after they’ve sold their home with an agent who’s cut their commission. Despite the fact that even in a smoking hot market like 2017, only 33% of sellers were able to sell their home for full price (or net full price), sellers are still willing to work with agents who discount their commission. Even...
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