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A Great 4th Quarter Makes a Great New Year

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By Tim and Julie Harris What you do now will pay dividends in 90 to 120 days. That’s because real estate activity follows cycles. The fourth quarter of the year is not the time to slough off—even if you’re exhausted from having a productive year and you’d like to kick back for a while. Remember that real estate typically follows …

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4 Important Lessons For New Real Estate Professionals

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By James Boyer Eleven years ago, at the tender of age of 14, my life changed forever when my father passed. My mother powered forward from this tragedy with remarkable strength, and from that day until today, her primary goal in life has been taking care of me and my siblings. On that sad day in 2010, and by watching …

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How to Develop a Rock Star Team

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By Tim and Julie Harris 3 Takeways: Make sure starting a team is a necessary business move. Your first hire should be an administrative assistant to help ensure your real estate systems are functioning smoothly. This is the first post in a series on best practices for developing rock star teams. Many brokers and agents fall in love with the …

For Real Estate Goal Getters: T.A.P. Into Your Value

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By Lee Davenport As a scientist at heart in a REALTOR®’s body, I love to research, examine, and identify why things work—or don’t work—especially on behalf of the agents I coach. Furthermore, as a real estate coach and educator for more than a decade, I have discovered a sure-fire way for my sales agents to succeed in achieving their goals: …

Your 2021 Real Estate Business Plan

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By Tim and Julie Harris Key Takeaways: Tools to develop an actionable business plan. How to find the magic number you need to realize your business goals. A free download of our Real Estate Treasure Map.   Your 2021 real estate business plan should be all about the numbers—in other words, the revenue you’ll need for your business to be …

Understand Your ‘Why’ and Put It to Work for Your Clients

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By Kyle Seyboth From CENTURY 21 Real Estate: Kyle Seyboth had the honor of being named the nation’s number one real estate agent according to the 2020 RealTrends and Tom Ferry “The Thousand” ranking. After choosing to affiliate with Century 21 Real Estate earlier this year, he now heads up the CENTURY 21 The Seyboth Team in Seekonk, Mass., with …

A New Amazon Feature That Could Help Generate Leads

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By Lee Davenport Are you looking for new and inexpensive ways to generate leads in a socially distant world? What if I told you I know of a new tool that will actually pay you to generate leads? Y’all (when I get excited my southern twang comes out), Amazon has a new feature called Explore that I believe can add …

5 Tips for New Agents Born After 9/11

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By Jasen Edwards   Dear 18-year-old agent, I remember the day I received my real estate license exam results in the mail. Just a few weeks after I turned 18, I slid a single piece of paper out of the envelope from the Texas Real Estate Commission and I saw the word “PASS.” I was looking out from my third-floor …

How Starbucks Fast-Tracked My Real Estate Career—And I’m Not Talking About the Caffeine

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By Rebecca Donatelli Anyone who knows me knows that I love coffee. I usually drink four or five cups per day—no exaggeration. In fact, it’s rare to run into me without a coffee in hand. My friends know it, my clients know it, even my favorite home inspector knows it (the first time I showed up at one of his …

Dominate in Real Estate: Lee Davenport interview

Learn From the Pros: Build a Successful Real Estate Business

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Are you looking for sage advice from an industry veteran on how to grow your business? YPN Lounge blogger and real estate coach Lee Davenport, PhD, shares her real estate journey and lessons learned along the way in her recent one-on-one interview with Kyle Eaves, an agent with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers in Atlanta. Get to …