A Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 3
by Lauren Morgan
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 Casey Butler
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 MoreHow to Add 4 New Listings Every Month
by Tammy McCurdy
A Step-by-Step Guide on how to fill your calendar every month with listing appointments Half of the battle is over. You've made a conscience decision that you are no longer going to focus on chasing buyers all over town to close more deals. (If you need to be convinced why you should want to be paid $2500+ per hour vs. $238 per hour, READ THIS) Now, some of you are going to need a real action plan because if you just say "I'm never working with a buyer again,"...
Read MoreThe Truth About Discounting Your Commission
by Patricia Lanzilotta
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 MoreCase Study: Jason Williford and Tracy Cousineau
by Santino Gance
A Powerful Story of Redemption and Success Tracy Cousineau and Jason Williford are partners in one of Atlanta’s most successful real estate companies: Real Estate Expert Advisors. In 2017, their team sold over 550 homes for $136 million in volume and over $4.6 million in GCI. This year, they are on pace to serve over 700 families, putting them in rarified air in the real estate community in Atlanta and beyond. As clients of ours for the past five...
Read MoreThe Best Ways to Stay in Front of Your Subscribers Part 3: Social Media
by Lynnette Boudet
There’s no shortage of social media outlets available to business owners and consumers these days. In fact, there are more than 60 of them where providers and consumers can connect with each other on a regular basis. That said, there is a much smaller number of social networking sites where the majority of people spend most of their time. Fifteen to be exact. And it’s on these sites where you should invest your...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 2
by Tristen Peterson
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 MoreHow to Add 4 New Listings Every Month
by Brenda Armitage
A Step-by-Step Guide on how to fill your calendar every month with listing appointments Half of the battle is over. You've made a conscience decision that you are no longer going to focus on chasing buyers all over town to close more deals. (If you need to be convinced why you should want to be paid $2500+ per hour vs. $238 per hour, READ THIS) Now, some of you are going to need a real action plan because if you just say "I'm never working with a buyer again,"...
Read MoreWhy Old-School Marketing Strategies Cost You Money
by Lucy Ulikhanova
Here’s a closer look at some old school marketing strategies and why they cost more money to generate business for you. Eight-track tapes, rotary phones, video cassettes, cassette tapes, CD’s, phone booths, etc; they all played a significant part in our history as a maturing nation. But today, it’s almost impossible to find any of them anywhere other than a museum or a flea market. Why...because they’ve ‘old school” solutions that have...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 2
by Alefe Oliveira
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...
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