Top 20 Marketing Mistakes You Are Making Today
by Nick Clarke
The key to marketing is differentiation. This list will give you the roadmap on how to be different in your business business without breaking the bank (or…changing your hairdo, getting lots of tattoos or strange piercings) There are so many things you can do to differentiate yourself from your competition: some of them work, many of them don’t. Some of them cost lots of money, some of them don’t. In a strange twist, it’s usually the ones that don’t...
Read MoreHow to hire an Inside Sales Agent ( ISA ) and get results...fast.
by Sarah Moore
When you bring your Inside Sales Agent ( ISA ) onboard, you’ll want this person to be a beast on the phone as soon as humanly possible. Certainly, there are a lot of moving parts involved in the process and being derailed by the details about what to do and when could easily hamper your results. The good news is that if you do what we recommend here, your ISA can hit the ground running in no time and start producing qualified listing appointments virtually...
Read MoreThe 5 C's of Cost Effective Lead Generation
by Kevin Risen
How to ensure your lead generation budget isn’t crippling your business This sound familiar? You saw a great lead generation strategy and after you watched the webinar, looked at the website and talked with the salesperson...you were in. It’s 90 days later and you’re not sure if it was worth the money. Unfortunately, you weren’t tracking the results you were getting and now, it’s not easy for you to make a definitive decision as to whether...
Read MoreCase Study: Jason Williford and Tracy Cousineau
by Lori Ross
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 MoreWhat has to be sent before every listing appointment
by Kathy Shearer
So you set yourself a listing appointment. Before you give yourself a richly-deserved pat on the back, you need to make sure you’re in position to win the listing long before you get there. Showing up “cold” without selling yourself a bit before the listing appointment can put you at a huge disadvantage when it comes time to getting the listing agreement signed. With a little pre-listing strategy and a small amount of effort, you can make the sale...
Read MoreHow to Expand Into a New Market With Predictable Lead Generation
by James Denson
2017 was a crazy year for real estate as the number of existing homes sold nationwide, 5.57 million, was the third highest since 2005 at the height of the market before the crash. The real estate market is still moving at breakneck speed and it appears that there’s little if any chance of it letting up. There’s definitely money to be made. That said, as an agent in today’s market you’re definitely facing competition from lots of...
Read MoreThe Best Ways to Stay in Front of Your Subscribers Part 1: Blogging
by Michael Givens
The best agents out there possess two elements of success that most other agents don’t : 1) incredible relationships with the consumers in their marketplace and 2) massive authority as the expert in the real estate industry for their area. They didn’t acquire these two fundamental requirements for success by chance. They engineered them using proven strategies that put them in the position to influence people at the highest levels. More specifically,...
Read MoreBREAKING: Expansion May Be the Best Way to Destroy Your Net Worth
by Jonathan Tucker
To expand or not to expand, that is the question. Many agents have dreams of building a big, powerful business that not only takes care of their employees and agents but also of themselves and their families. In the last several years, some of the “big box” companies out there have been facilitating expansion strategies to help agents do just that. While expansion has helped some who’ve taken advantage of the strategy grow their influence...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 1
by John Parrinello
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 5 C's of Cost Effective Lead Generation
by Taylor Delph
How to ensure your lead generation budget isn’t crippling your business This sound familiar? You saw a great lead generation strategy and after you watched the webinar, looked at the website and talked with the salesperson...you were in. It’s 90 days later and you’re not sure if it was worth the money. Unfortunately, you weren’t tracking the results you were getting and now, it’s not easy for you to make a definitive decision as to whether...
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