Overpriced Listing: 4 Reasons to Think Twice Before Jumping In

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Let’s set the stage with regard to an overpriced listing. You’re meeting with a client preparing to list their home. You go over the comps, but the client insists on a higher listing price than you are comfortable with. All your training is telling you to stick to your real estate scripts. Years in the…

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Be the Best Professional You can Be

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Look up the definition of professional and you’ll find the following: “A person engaged or qualified in a profession,” and “relating to or connecting with a profession.” With all due respect to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, those phrases don’t tell us much. As a young adult starting in business, the word ‘professional’ may have conjured thoughts of…

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Leadership: Becoming The Consummate Sales Pro

In today’s post, we take a different look at leadership. Say you’ve been in real estate for years. You’ve come up through the ranks as an affiliate agent, then an agent, and now you are ready to branch out an open your own agency. “At last!”  you say to yourself. “No more sales for me!…

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Adapt: Flexibility Instead of Reactivity is Key to Success

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To be able to adapt is to recognize that the only thing we can count on in life is change. Markets change and the economy changes. Our colleagues change firms, technology evolves and of course, clients can – and do – change their minds. We often have little to no control over these changes, but…

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Listing Strategies: Best Practices to Consider

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Without a listing strategy, we have no business. All your networking, your marketing, your cold-calling, and prospecting is directed toward this goal, for getting a listing is the first step to closing a deal. And, once you nail down a listing, the way you provide service will set the standard for futures ones. With so…

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Drive Real Estate Sales Success With Tech Upgrades in 2019

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Mid-way through the year is always a good time to reassess the progress of your business, from the success of your real estate sales efforts to staffing needs to your office’s use of technology. Today we address the last of those. With new platforms developing constantly, it’s key for you to know technology is changing…

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Marketing During the Holiday Season

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The holidays are upon us and though visions of sugarplums may be dancing through heads, you’ve still got to tend to your business: after all, sellers still want to close their deals and buyers need to place for Santa to visit. But, staying relevant and keeping customers focused during one of the busiest and most…

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How to Create a FSBO Packet For Realtors

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FSBO (For Sale By Owner) statistics are probably familiar to you if you’ve been in the real estate business long enough Nearly 9 out of 10 homeowners fail when trying to sell their own home. Wanting to pocket the commission, they go into the process thinking a sign in the front yard is all it…

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Old School Branding

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Technology is great, isn’t it? Smartphones, apps, and social media have all given us so many new ways to connect with potential customers and market ourselves. But, ask anyone who gets trapped in automated customer service purgatory or caught on the phone with an anonymous call center staffer and they will tell you it’s hard…

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Find The Right Lead Gen Strategies For You

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If there’s one aspect of a business that keeps real estate professional awake at night, it’s the constant grind of generating leads, for, without those, we get no new business. But with some solid planning and a few savvy strategies, lead generation shouldn’t be such a stressor. Pick a few of the following tactics, hone…

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Mythbusters: CRM Systems

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Boy, the things we hear. You wouldn’t believe it – or maybe you would. Customer Relation Management (CRM) systems may be THE most misunderstood tool in any real estate agent’s toolkit. From the mundane – they’re too expensive! – to the weird – conspiracy theory: you’re being spied on! – myths about these super-useful systems…

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A Guide to the Do-Not-Call Registry

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Unwanted sales calls and texts are a common source of frustration for consumers. In fact, they are consistently among the top complaints consumers register with the FCC every year. The National Do-Not-Call Registry aims to protect consumers from these unwanted phone solicitations. While it has been around for over a decade, many still don’t entirely…

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Lead Generation Strategies

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We all know referrals are possibly the best way to get new customers, for nothing is as a good as having a friend or prior client sing our praises, but we also know we can’t, unfortunately, rely solely on referrals for new business. There are literally a hundred ways to generate leads, some old school,…

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How Drones Are Changing Real Estate

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In one of the many ways evolving technology is affecting the real estate industry, the usage of unmanned aircraft systems, or ‘drones,’ is providing brokers and agents with sophisticated tools for marketing properties. The detailed aerial views drones provide are an affordable way to showcase homes, a plus in that MLS statistics show homes with…

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Is Your Digital Footprint Making the Grade?

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We won’t belabor the point that a strong online presence is critical to real estate success. If you don’t know that by now, well, it’s likely you may not have a long and fruitful career in real estate. Today, home sellers and buyers have so many ways to get to know you before ever speaking…

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Lead Generation And The Power of Mindset

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Lead generation excellence separates the good from the great real estate agents. In fact, it’s probably not a stretch to assume that the top 1% of the 1 million plus agents got there because of powerful lead generation habits.   Vulcan 7 has identified a number of intangibles that drive super agents: Great sellers exhibit high…

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