Category Archives: leadership

Expectations Matching Enviroment

I see and hear about real estate offices asking their real estate agents to lead generate. These real estate offices ask their real estate agents to block out time to lead generate 2-3 hours every morning. This is great! These … Continue reading

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Different Approaches To Attract Real Estate Agent Recruits

When recruiting in a down real estate market, the better agent you can recruit, the better your company becomes. The challenge becomes, how do you attract and recruit the best real estate agents in your market? The way not to … Continue reading

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The Four Styles Of Real Estate Company’s

This has nothing to do with business models. This has nothing to do with franchise or independent. This is about retention of your real estate agents. Recruiting real estate agents into your real estate company is important and retention of … Continue reading

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What Is A Recruit Looking For In A Real Estate Office?

I have told you that when you are trying to recruit a real estate agent that the commission split has nothing to do with the recruiting process. Bold statement? Not really. A good real estate agent, the kind you want … Continue reading

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Where Are You At In Your Real Estate Business?

Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, gives what I feel has been the best example of the development stages of businesses yet. He refers to the four stages that … Continue reading

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Recruiting Real Estate Agents Has Nothing To Do With The Commission Split

I will repeat that. Recruiting Real Estate Agents Has Nothing To Do With Commission Splits. For you full service real estate company’s that are all about the 6-7% commission to the seller, what do you tell your real estate agents when … Continue reading

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Real Estate Brokers: Do you know what business you are in?

I know you think you are in the real estate business. Wrong. That is the industry you are in. You are in the real estate industry. As Real Estate Brokers, you run a business inside the real estate industry. So … Continue reading

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Stop Giving Minimum Standards To Your Real Estate Agents

Minimum Standards are killing the production in your real estate company. Minimum Standards are killing the motivation of your real estate agents. Minimum Standards have got to go. What kind of minimum standards do you have in your real estate … Continue reading

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When Recruiting Real Estate Agents You Have To At Least Care

This is recruiting posting I saw on http://www.craigslist.com. I deleted the brokers name but honestly did not change anything else. Looking for an ever changing job opportunity?? Join the ****************** team and expeiebce just that in with a real estate … Continue reading

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Before You Recruit That Top Producer Real Estate Agent

Before you head on to the deep seas and going fishing for the big one, lets pause and think for a second. What really will be the benefit of recruiting a top producer real estate agent into your real estate company? … Continue reading

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My Neck Hurts

The chiropractor said I have scar tissue that keeps pulling me out of alignment. He could realign me but, I will have to keep coming back in every so often, as I will go out of alignment again and again, … Continue reading

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