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The Best Ways to Stay in Front of Your Subscribers: Video

by Nick Clarke


The Best Ways to Stay in Front of Your Subscribers: Video

    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,...

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A Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 1

by Sarah Moore


A Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 1

    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,...

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The Truth About Discounting Your Commission

by Kevin Risen


The Truth About Discounting Your Commission

    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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How to Maximize the Results You Get From Your Database

by Lori Ross


How to Maximize the Results You Get From Your Database

    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...

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How to Expand Into a New Market With Predictable Lead Generation

by Cecille Joan Fianza


How to Expand Into a New Market With Predictable Lead Generation

    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...

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A Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 2

by James Denson


A Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 2

    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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How to Add 4 New Listings Every Month

by Michael Givens


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,"...

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Why Old-School Marketing Strategies Cost You Money

by Jason Kunzman


Why Old-School Marketing Strategies Cost You Money

 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...

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The Truth About Discounting Your Commission

by Taylor Delph


The Truth About Discounting Your Commission

    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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A Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 2

by Tammy McCurdy


A Complete Strategy to Nail Your Listing Appointments - Part 2

    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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