I have been working with real estate agents for over 6 years now and being a 20 year veteran of the industry myself here are a few of my Top Ten lists that you must be doing in order to be a superstar agent!

First and foremost, top agents are crystal clear on what their vision is.  If you ask any top agent where they will be in 5 years they will give you a detailed answer.  I want you to think about will you have a team, an assistant, how many deals do you want to be doing.  Where is your business mainly coming from?  (more…)

I know what you are thinking I am so tired of hearing about social media or you may be thinking ok I hear of it so much I guess I should be doing it too! I started only 18 months ago and honestly I thought I really don’t have time for this! My brother introduced me to Facebook, he is 10 years my junior and actually thought this was just another My Space. He started communicating with me on Facebook and adding some pictures and tagging in me in posts and we were talking more often which was pretty cool. I started spending some more time on there and connecting with old friends and distant family members but more importantly my past clients! (more…)

This goes for any profession, any industry. This is a great database building tool.

If you don’t like doing open houses or have never succeeded, read on, this blog is definitely for you!  Most real estate agents do the same thing at their open house, they fail to promote and they fail to connect.  First thing you need to do to promote your open house is cross-market.  (more…)

In this economy I don’t care what business you are in, you have to be a master networker. It is not what you know but WHOM you know for sure!  I want you to write down how many networking groups you belong too, whether it is BNI the chamber, a social group, heck it could be your softball team that you play with every week.  I am curious when you were writing or thinking about the networking groups you belong too, did you include your (more…)