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The Truth About Discounting Your Commission
by Michael Givens
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 MoreHow to Maximize the Results You Get From Your Database
by Jonathan Tucker
Having a solid database full of prospects, past clients and members of your sphere is exciting as it represents a ton of great relationships and potential business. That said, not having a strategy in place to maximize the results you get from your database can render all of that opportunity virtually unattainable.When properly managed, your database can help you to effectively contact and nurture the folks you’ve chosen with whom to stay in touch with. Doing this will...
Read MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 3
by John Parrinello
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 MoreThe Real Estate Team Myth
by Taylor Delph
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 MoreA Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 1
by Tammy McCurdy
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 MoreBREAKING: Expansion May Be the Best Way to Destroy Your Net Worth
by Patricia Lanzilotta
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 MoreHow to Double Your Sales Results With Half Your Budget
by Lynnette Boudet
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 Brenda Snow
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 Brenda Armitage
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 Lucy Ulikhanova
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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