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Why Brokers Should See Themselves as Coaches

Matt Clements Being a Broker, Establishing Your Business, Leadership, Managing Your Agents 1 Comment

By Matt Clements Brokers are the leaders—like a team captain or an association president—they are responsible for your team’s growth by helping each individual player perform their best. Agents are the players, and creating a winning team takes involvement from everyone. Each team has its all-stars, rookies, seasoned veterans, salty dogs, award winners, and players in a slump. I love …

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New Year, New Plan? 2 Indications It’s Time to Switch Things Up

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By Lee Davenport There’s something about the start of the new year—even if we’re already a few weeks in—that makes it a motivating time to begin new initiatives, goals, and schedules. But is it really necessary? Here are two considerations to help you identify if it’s time to switch things up in 2022. 1. Did you have a seemingly good …

Coach Yourself to a Better New Year With 7 Key Questions

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By Lee Davenport There is an uptick happening. As this year comes to a close, I have been connecting with new clients who want to be coached as real estate agents because they’re tired of being stuck in their business. They are stuck because they know what to do but just aren’t doing it. For example, many of the agents …

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‘Automa-zation’ Tools to ‘Set It and Forget It’ in 2022

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By Lee Davenport “It’s been a while” are words we should never hear or say to prospects. These words indicate that our follow-up system has a missing link (or may even be non-existent). However, if those simple yet alarming words seem to be on repeat for you, then I have some tools that may come in handy because real estate …

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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 Stand Out in a Hot Market

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By: The CE Shop The housing market was thrown for a loop in 2020 with dwindling inventory and booming demand for properties. As of April 2021, the median existing-home price in the U.S. was $341,600, a 19.1% gain year over year. Despite property prices skyrocketing, we are seeing more bidding wars and all-cash offers. This trend is continuing into 2021 …

Leads Need Conversation; Connectivity Grows Business

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By Gary Ward Ask anyone with knowledge about the real estate brokerage business and they’ll tell you; those who control the real estate listings control the real estate market. Listings are the key to an agent’s (and a broker’s) bottom line, especially in a market with historically low inventory, rapidly rising home prices, and growing demand from exploding generational populations. …

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 …

Digital Marketing in the Time of Coronavirus

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By Tina Kocak-Hodapp, Adwerx People might be shutting their doors, but they’re opening their apps. These are uncertain times, to say the least. Local and federal legislatures are responding daily to the spread of the coronavirus, and we’ve seen companies adjust their activity or close altogether. This is all causing a major shift in the workforce. Most business owners are …