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What do You Wish They Had Been Told?
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What do you wish new agents had been told before they hit the ground?
You could save many hours interviewing and informing would-be agents if they knew the facts–and the best questions to ask.
I’m just completing my new book, Launching Right in Real Estate: What They Won’t Teach You in Pre-License School.
I started gathering information for this book as I interviewed dozens of would-be agents. They were hungry for information. I found they had lots of misinformation, too, from various sources. So, I started gathering reams of information to hand to them. Finally, one of my agents said, “You should put that in a book.” So, I did. I’ve just written a whole new version, with the most updated facts, figures, tech, and knowledge I can find.
Lots of Info on How to Become a Zillionaire Selling Real Estate, But…
There’s little or no comprehensive information on the decision to or steps to becoming a real estate agent. Or, as I read articles, they sound too good to be true (and they probably are). The real estate agents I talk to are quick to tell me what they wish they had known prior to getting into real estate. They tell me they weren’t told the whole story. So, this book is from the perspective of the would-be agent–not the agent already in business.
In this eBook:
- Common myths about real estate as a career
- How to tell if this is a career you’ll love—and whether you have the habits and skills to succeed
- How much money you can make—and when and how you’ll get paid
- What it costs to get started—and how to budget so your money doesn’t run out before your first commission
- 70+ areas to query your interviewer to assure you pick the right company, office, manager and team for you
- The 5 most important interview questions to ask
- The best first-year start-up plan to launch you right and get paid fast
- 30 actions to take during your pre-license training to hit the ground running after you’re licensed (great to help agents make money their first month in the business!)
Not a Pie in the Sky Viewpoint
I’ll warn you. This is not a sugar-coated, everyone should become a real estate salesperson eBook. Why? Because our industry is not doing itself any favors by inviting everybody and their brother into the business (which is what we do–sorry, but we do). This book has several self-analysis tools to help readers figure out if:
- They will love selling real estate (several questionnaires)
- They are ‘wired’ to accept the actions and responsibilities of selling real estate
- They have the financial back-up to start the business
Can You Help Me Out Here? FREE book!
What do you find is a misconception your interviewees carry into the interview process? What do you want me to tell them as they prepare for a career? What advice to you want me to give them? How can I help you save time in the interview process and prepare good people for a real estate career?
Tell me me in the comments here. I’ll send you complimentary copy of the eBook, out in mid-April. Thank you for your contributions to our industry!
Should New Agents Get a Coach?
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Should new agents get a coach?
This blog is excerpted from my ebook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School.A�A�
I wrote this eBook to save prospective agents and managers time during the interview/selecction process. Here’s an excerpt from the eBook, discussing whether agents should get a coach, mentor, or…..:
New Agents A Looking for Support–Sometimes in the Wrong Places
As youa��re interviewing {this is from the new agent’s perspecive}, you may be offered these things:
- An accountability coach (the manager or a professional coach affiliated with that office)
- A peer coach
- Become a team member
- Become an assistant
Which of these are good for you? Herea��s my advice on coaches. Watch for future blogs on enlisting a mentor, joining a team, or becoming an assistant.
The Coach
I hope your manager will become your accountability coach. But, many managers promise to a�?coach youa��. However, that quickly becomes a a�?got a minutea�� answer man function instead of a focused, linear, goal-oriented action coaching. You dona��t need a coach just for answers. You need a coach to hold you accountable to your goals and action plan.
Choosing a Coach
Here are three important points you should consider as you search for a coach:
- The specific program should be highly organized and precisely outA�lined with checklists and systems. Ask, a�?What system are you going to use to coach me?a�? You need a specific game plan, because you are new. You have no history..
- The specific program should be related to a a�?game plana�?a��a busiA�ness start-up plan. Ask, a�?What game plan are you going to use?a�?
- The coaches should be trained and coached themselves. Ask, a�?Whata��s your coaching background, and what sales principles do you believe in?a�? For example, each of our coaches in the Carla Cross Coaching program has been trained by me and coached regularly by me.
Positives: Having a coach keeps you on track, motivated, and, ideA�ally, inspired to reach your goals.
Watch out for: Your coach is trained and dedicated to your success, and is following a proven game plan (otherwise youa��ll be paying just to talk to someone every once in a while).
Types of Coaches
Professional coach: Someone trained to coach, who uses a specific program and who is paid to be your coach. If youa��re considering a professional coach, find out the specific program the coach will use to coach you. Get expectations in writing, and give your expectations in writing. You should expect to sign a 3-12 month contract.
Manager coach or in-office coach: Someone who may be trained as a coach, who has agreed to coach you. May be paid from your commissions or from a combination of office/your commissions. May be paid on an hourly based by the agent. Be sure this coach is prepared to be your accountability coach, has a specific schedule with you, and a specific start-up plan to coach you. Otherwise, youa��re just getting an a�?advice sessiona��.
Peer coach: Someone in the office, an agent, who has agreed to be your coach. However, this could be anything from
- Answer questions
- Let you a�?shadow thema�� (see how they do a listing/buyer presentation or offer presentation)
- Be your accountability coach
Most peer coaches dona��t have a coaching program to coach to, and havena��t been trained. They are also at a loss with what to do if the agent refuses to do the work.
If youa��re going to work with a peer coach, get in writing exactly what that peer coach is willing to do with and for you. Bad peer coaching can turn into a nightmarea��for both parties.
Agentsa�� advice: Dozens of experienced agents have told me they wish they had started with a professional coach. If you can find one to trusta��and to followa��youa��ll shorten your learning curve dramatically and easily pay for the coaching fee. Plus, youa��ll establish a successful long-term career.
In the next blogs, wea��ll discuss three a�?safety-netsa�� that some new agents considera��because theya��re afraid they will not be able to generate enough commissions by relying solely on their
own work.
Have All the Answers You Need to Make the Best Business Decision for You?
If you’re interviewing tons of prospective agents, you’re spending lots of time at it. Why not let Carla answer some of the most important new agent questions–and free you up to do a real interview? Check outA�my ebook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School.A�
You’ll save lots of interview time and help the winners choose you!
What Should You Expect Your First Week in the Business?
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What should you expect your first week in the business?
The next few blogs are excerpted from my ebook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School (the facts about real estate as a career!).
Herea��s Your Desk, Herea��s Your Phone, Got Any Questionsa��..
Thata��s what my first boss told me as I was hired. So, I went to the desk I was assigned anda��..waited for something to happen. I was so naA?ve I didna��t even know the questions to ask! You may be laughing now, but, that still occurs in real estate offices today. What would you do if that happened to you? Probably sit and wait for someone to
Invite you to have a cup of coffee or lunch
Invite you to go see homes for sale
And, those were both things that happened to me. You may even conclude thata��s how real estate was sold. Wrong. Unfortunately, neither of these activities makes you any money. So, I quickly figured out I couldna��t do things like the agents in the office did them, or I would produce the same amount they produceda��3-4 sales a year. (There were two others in the office, but I never saw them, because they were out sellinga��.).
What Your First Week Should Look Like
Orientation: Get everything done on the orientation checklist your manager provided. Work with the secretary or assistant to complete all the tasks, so youa��re ready to sell real estate.
Schedule an appointment with your manager to get your business start-up plan and a coaching schedule with him/her or someone designated as your accountability coach.
Start-up checklist: Your manager may provide a start-up checklist, which has things on it such as a�?create a databasea��; call potential clientsa��; a�?meet with a mortgage repa��. These lists can include business developing and business-supporting activities. Just be sure they are targeted to start your business successfullya��not just give you busywork.
Schedule your initial training: Your company should have an initial training program that occurs at least every two months. Schedule attendance at it. Chapter 9 has a comprehensive new agent training calendar you can use to compare to what youa��ve requested in the interview.
Property inspection: Every new agent wants to feel comfortable with inventory. So, schedule inspection of listings for 3-5 hours this week, and during your first month. As you become comfortable with inventory, dona��t a�?previewa�� any more than you need toA� feel comfortable working with buyers and sellers.
Top-producing agents preview with a reason: To do research on a potential listing, or to preview with a specific buyer in mind. They dona��t have time just to preview pretty properties because they are on the marketa��but non-producing agents have plenty of time to become a�?property expertsa��.
See my business start-up plan, A�for a good prototype schedule for yourself, so you’ll get great time management habits from day 1.
Want proven guidance to start your career? Check out
What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License SchoolA� -A�everything each prospective agent should know about careers in real estate
Up and Running in 30 DaysA�–A�the new agent’s business start-up plan, with dozens of training tips, checklists, and sales guidance to start your career right
UP and Running in Real Estate — the comprehensive online version; a detailed start-up plan, with 25 training videos, dozens of documents to save you thousands of hours, and coaching plus motivation to keep your momentum to success
Carla’s advice: No matter how you start, start with a proven plan!
Here’s How to Get More Success–Even Before They’re Licensed!
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Here’s how to get more success with your new agents–starting with before licensing.
Managers: Use this as you’re interviewing to help those best candidates get ready to be successful.
Managers: your new agents wait to start training until AFTER they join an office. Why? Think how much faster they could go if they had lots of the organization and training under your belt prior to their first day in the business?A� Okay. I know. Until they are licensed, they can’t do the things licensed agents can do. But, they can do many things. And all those things get them ready to hit the ground running. At the end of this blog, I’m providing you my great checklist,A�30 Things to Do Right (In Pre-License School) Now to Hit the Ground Running. (from my new eBook,A�What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School).
New Agents Lose Lots of Time Because They are Not Prepared to Start the Business
New agents generally spend the first 1-2 weeks getting ‘orientated’. Brokers have checklists to assure they get their keys, join the Realtor association, etc., etc., etc. How long do you estimate it takes the new agent just to get those orientation checklists finished? 2-4 weeks? In some cases, they never finish them!!!!! Not only that, they probably think that finishing those checklists assures they are going to be successful agents.A� Ha!
When Do New Agents Plan to Start Lead Generating?
My studies show that new agents want to make a sale their first month in the business. That means you need to start lead generating your first WEEK in the business! From hiring and training hundreds of new agents, I’ve observed they put off the inevitable as long as possible, hoping ‘there’s another way!’ In fact, the more ‘get ready to get ready’ work new agents doing, the worse their habits become and the less money they make!
A Better Method to GetA� a Check Fast
Instead of waiting until new agents areA�are licensed, why not get them prepared to sell real estate while they are in pre-license school? These eager beavers can do things like
- Decide on the database/CRMA�they want to use and learn how to use it–with your guidance
- Populate their databases with 100-300 potential clients
- Prepare an email/hard copy note/letter to all those in their databases saying they’ve joined_____________ real estate company
30 Things to Do While in Pre-License School
In fact, as I was writing myA� eBook,A�What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School, I started thinking about how we could really prepare agents to sell real estate–lots of real estate. That’s how I came up with this checklist.A�Click hereA�to get it.
Let me know how theA�checklistA�worked for you. I’ve used this with pre-licensees and seen them sell much faster and with much more confidence.
You Need This! Prepare to Sell Real Estate Fast and Well
This 280+ page eBook is packed with questionnaires, advice, processes, and systems to prepare pre-licensees (and new agents!) for the real world of real estate.A� SeeA�What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School.A�Only $14.95, and immediately downloadable. Now, a Kindle version, too.
Managers: Use this to help your great candidates assure they make it in the business!
Are You Training During Pre-License? Why Not?
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Are your training during pre-license? Why not?
This month, we’re focusing on training.
Managers: Why aren’t you training for sales during pre-licensing? You hire them–then you just wait until they have their licenses to start training.
Give Them a Head Start Instead
Have you thought about a ‘head start’ program for your newbies? If you’re like 98% of managers, you wait to start training your agents until AFTER they join your office as newbies. Why? Think how much faster they could go if they had lots of the organization and training under their belts prior to their first day in the business?A� Okay. I know. Until they are licensed, they can’t do the things licensed agents can do. But, they can do many things. And all those things get them ready to hit the ground running. At the end of this blog, I’m providing you my checklist,A�30 Things to Do Right (In Pre-License School) Now to Hit the Ground Running. (from my informative eBook,A�What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School).
We Lose Lots of Time Because They are Not Prepared to Start the Business
You know the drill. We hire that new agent. We spend the first 1-2 weeks with them getting the ‘orientated’. We have checklists to assure they get their keys, join the Realtor association, etc., etc., etc. How long do you estimate it takes the new agent just to get those orientation checklists finished? 2-4 weeks? In some cases, they never finish them!!!!! Not only that, they probably think that finishing those checklists assures they are going to be successful agents.A� Ha!
When Do Your New Agents Start Lead Generating?
My studies show that new agents want to make a saleA�their first monthA�in the business. But, when do you think they start lead generating? Do you know? (Better track that so you know who’s going to work). I believe they put off the inevitable as long as possible, hoping ‘there’s another way!’ In fact, the more ‘get ready to get ready’ work you have them doing as licensees, the worse their habits become and the less money they make!
A Different Method to Get Them a Check Fast
Instead of waiting until they are licensed, why not get them prepared to sell real estate while they are in pre-license school? They can do things like
- Decide on the database/CRM they want to use and learn how to use it
- Populate their databases with 100-300 potential clients
- Prepare an email/hard copy note/letter to all those in their database saying they’ve joined_____________ real estate company
30 Things to Do While in Pre-License School
In fact, as I was writing my eBook,A�What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School, I started thinking about how we could really prepare agents to sell real estate–lots of real estate. That’s how I came up with this checklist.A�Click hereA�to get it.
How to Recruit with the Checklist
This list is not only helpful to those you know you’re hiring, it’s a very effective recruiting tool. It proves to your potential recruits that you care about their career success–even before you hire them!
Here are a few suggestions:
- Offer this checklist to all your new licensee candidates
- Offer this checklist for your Career Nights
- Offer this checklist in your ads (newspaper, Craig’s List, Facebook, etc.)
I’m Taking It a Step Further
In the next few weeks, I’ll be introducing a course to prepare people to sell real estate. More to come!
Save Time! Prepare Your New Agents to Sell Real Estate Fast and Well
This 280+ page eBook is packed with questionnaires, advice, processes, and systems to prepare that pre-licensee for the real world of real estate. You’ll save precious interview time and help winners choose you. SeeA�What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School.A�Only $14.95, and immediately downloadable. Now, a Kindle version, too.
P. S. This book will save you hours if interview time because it will weed out the ‘hang my license’ bothersome ones…..unless you want non-producers, of course!
Why Aren’t You Training for Sales Success During Pre-Licensing?
Posted by: | CommentsManagers: Why aren’t you training for sales during pre-licensing? You hire them–then you just wait until they have their licenses to start training.
Give Them a Head Start Instead
Have you thought about a ‘head start’ program for your newbies? If you’re like 98% of managers, you wait to start training your agents until AFTER they join your office as newbies. Why? Think how much faster they could go if they had lots of the organization and training under their belts prior to their first day in the business?A� Okay. I know. Until they are licensed, they can’t do the things licensed agents can do. But, they can do many things. And all those things get them ready to hit the ground running. At the end of this blog, I’m providing you my checklist, 30 Things to Do Right (In Pre-License School) Now to Hit the Ground Running. (from my informative eBook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School).
We Lose Lots of Time Because They are Not Prepared to Start the Business
You know the drill. We hire that new agent. We spend the first 1-2 weeks with them getting the ‘orientated’. We have checklists to assure they get their keys, join the Realtor association, etc., etc., etc. How long do you estimate it takes the new agent just to get those orientation checklists finished? 2-4 weeks? In some cases, they never finish them!!!!! Not only that, they probably think that finishing those checklists assures they are going to be successful agents.A� Ha!
When Do Your New Agents Start Lead Generating?
My studies show that new agents want to make a sale their first month in the business. But, when do you think they start lead generating? Do you know? (Better track that so you know who’s going to work). I believe they put off the inevitable as long as possible, hoping ‘there’s another way!’ In fact, the more ‘get ready to get ready’ work you have them doing as licensees, the worse their habits become and the less money they make!
A Different Method to Get Them a Check Fast
Instead of waiting until they are licensed, why not get them prepared to sell real estate while they are in pre-license school? They can do things like
- Decide on the database/CRM they want to use and learn how to use it
- Populate their databases with 100-300 potential clients
- Prepare an email/hard copy note/letter to all those in their database saying they’ve joined_____________ real estate company
30 Things to Do While in Pre-License School
In fact, as I was writing my eBook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School, I started thinking about how we could really prepare agents to sell real estate–lots of real estate. That’s how I came up with this checklist. Click here to get it.
How to Recruit with the Checklist
This list is not only helpful to those you know you’re hiring, it’s a very effective recruiting tool. It proves to your potential recruits that you care about their career success–even before you hire them!
Here are a few suggestions:
- Offer this checklist to all your new licensee candidates
- Offer this checklist for your Career Nights
- Offer this checklist in your ads (newspaper, Craig’s List, Facebook, etc.)
Take It a Step Further
Why not create a 4-6 module course based on this checklist. Do it evenings, with assignments for the attendees. You’ll be able to see who is willing to go to work. Now, you’ll be able to hire the best!
Save Time! Prepare Your New Agents to Sell Real Estate Fast and Well
This 280+ page eBook is packed with questionnaires, advice, processes, and systems to prepare that pre-licensee for the real world of real estate. You’ll save precious interview time and help winners choose you. See What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School. Only $14.95, and immediately downloadable. Now, a Kindle version, too.
P. S. This book will save you hours if interview time because it will weed out the ‘hang my license’ bothersome ones…..unless you want non-producers, of course!
What’s Your Best Advice for the Interviewing Agent?
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is month, I’m featuring information for would-be or new agents. Why? Because although they get lots of information, much of it is slanted by the person offering the advice! (Think ‘interviewer’….). I was just asked to write an article on best advice to a new agent–as though that new agent were my relative.
As an interviewer, my question to you is, “Are you giving unbiased advice? Can you back it up with statistics–proof that what you say works? Read my advice here.
Because I have start-up plans and programs for new agents, Ia��m contacted constantly by new agents wanting advice. The most discouraging thing they tell me (more discouraging to me than them at the beginning) is that they have no one to train or coach them to success. From talking to these agents, I think theya��re vastly underestimating what it takes to get started and be successful. Theya��ve been sold by a nice and well-meaning manager on the thought that joining them and buying a book or going to an easy-in training program will do the trick. And then, when it doesna��t, the agent is out of time and moneya��and ita��s too late for a re-start.
What Did They Tell You about their Training?
My best advice to the would-be and new agent interviewing is to be very, very tough when talking about training expectations. Never accept the phrase that a�?we have traininga��. I have yet to talk to a manager who says they dona��t have training. Yet, when the agents talk to me after being hired, they say there is no or little traininga��.
What Are You Being Coached To?
Be sure the manager (or in-house coach)is going to train and coach you with a business start-up plan, so you know exactly what to do, how to do it, and how to measure it. Without that specific plan, youa��re essentially foundering around trying this and that. And, most importantly, see the programs in writing, so you know theya��re real. And, be discriminating when looking at those programs. Too many of them are cobbled together lovingly (but not professionally) by well-meaning people who arena��t trained as trainers or coaches.
What Results is the Program Getting?
Finally, find out the results of the program. Good programs measure results to assure you that the program works. You deserve this level of expertise to start a successful career.
Here are the questions: Describe your training program. Is it foundationed in a business start-up plan that youa��re going to coach me to? Please let me see your start-up programa��the training, the coaching, and the start-up lan. What are the results?
New agents and managers: What would be your best advice for the serious new agent?
As an interviewer, you need to know what I’m telling your candidates!
Take a look at the five most important questions you should ask your interviewera��and how to evaluate the answers, in What They Dona��t Teach You in Pre-License School.
How to Put some Pizzazz in your Career Nights
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How can you put some pizzazz in your career nights? Are they dazzling, informative, and truthful? Or, do you just plow through the material and hope, at the end, you’ve ‘covered the material’? Career Nights are one of the 11 methods of finding recruits. Why not optimize your chances of finding more winners?
Here are three ways to assure your Career Nights involve, provoke, and capture the attention and imagination of your audience.
1. Help them discover their own business attributes
Are you using some analytical tools that help the attendees discover if they would be a ‘fit’ for real estate sales? In my new eBook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School, I provide some analytical questionnaires for would-be agents so they can discovered whether they would love real estate sales.
Point: It’s much more interesting talking about yourself than hearing others talk!
2. Provide them a solid job description
But, don’t just hand it out. Instead, work with them in listing business-producing or business supporting activities. Help them prioritize the activities that make them money–and cost them time. What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School has a job description for a successful real estate agent.
Point: Most agents never get a job description, and end up doing many things that don’t make a difference in their careers.
3. Help them discover their ideal job
In the pre-license book, I have them answer a questionnaire that helps them discover their ideal job. The truth is that some people will love selling real estate, and many won’t. Wouldn’t it be better for everyone involved to figure that out prior to making the decision to go sell real estate?
Point: We don’t need more licensees. We need more people who will love selling real estate and be compelled to do it well!
What do you include in your Career Nights that makes it exciting, involving, and truthful? Is it helping you choose winners?
This month, when you order my eBook below, I’ll include the documents from the eBook ready to use in your Career Nights.
Save Time and Make your Interviews Work for You
See more about that eBook here. There are dozens of ideas you can incorporate into Career Nights, your interviews, and your recruiting packages.
Choices: Join a Team? Become an Assistant? Be Part-Time?
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In my eBook for prospective and new agents, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School, I address several choices they need to make. I know some of these choices feel ‘safe’. But, are they really good for you? Here are pros and cons to each of these possibilities.
Managers: Use this information to counsel your indecisive agents, whether they’re new or not!
Joining a Team
As you interview, you may be invited to join an office team. That means youa��ll be essentially working for a a�?rainmakera��, a lead agent who generates a�?leadsa�� for those on his team. Of course, those leads cost money, and the rainmaker takes about half the income from the team member for the lead generation and other services.
Teaming helps agents obtain leads as they start up business. While agents earn the most in commission dollars when they generate their leads themselves, a new agent may need to pay for someone elsea��s lead generation to begin to develop business. There is a downside to this approach, howA�ever. Agents can become complacent and sit and wait for leads. They wona��t generatea��until they get tired of paying for someone elsea��s leads.
A�Positives: You may be able to jump-start your career with leads given to you.
A�Watch out for: Be careful to choose a rainmaker who really has enough good leads to distribute to you. Sit in on her team meeting to see how she manages the team. Find out if and how the rainA�maker will train you. Find out how much turnover there has been on the team. Find out whether you can sell and list houses outside the teama��and how much the rainmaker would charge you if you did. Read the contract the rainmaker asks you to sign and be sure you understand the consequences of your involvement. Evaluate how good a leader that rainmaker is. Some rainmakers are great salespeople, but lousy leaders, and so their team never a�?jellsa��. Most team leaders ultimately expect their team members to generate their own leads, in addition to team leads. If you cana��t meet the rainmakera��s expectations, you are terminated. Be willing and ready to take the responsibilities of team member seriously.
Become an Assistant
Some agents have the bright idea (they think) to become an assistant to a�?learn the businessa��. I have seen a few assistants become good real estate agents. But, herea��s the rub: The good assistant likes to do a�?tasksa��. Remember the information about behavioral profiles? The assistant profile is task-oriented, while the salesperson profile is people-oriented. So, while the assistant criticizes the agent for not doing paperwork, the agent is out in the field selling houses. (The assistanta��s job is paperworka��..). The agent and assistanta��s skills are supposed to complement each other, not duplicate each other.
If you become an assistant, youa��ll learn the paperwork side of the business. If you have the right profile and background, you may become very good at it. But, the more you love being an assistant, the more you will hate selling real estate!
Big idea: Assistants see a different side of the business, and see what the agent isna��t doing well (paperwork and follow-up). What they dona��t see is the people-interactiona��which the agent does exceedingly well. So, assistants think that the business is a task/technical one. Thata��s the wrong emphasis.
Start the Business Part-Time
Wea��ve already discussed the part-timer in another part of this book. If youa��re considering that, I have important questions to ask you:
What will compel you to change your emphasis from your present job to selling real estate?
What will compel you to do the hard things in real estatea��lead generationa��when you have a safety net of your other job?
How will you have the 2-4 hours each day to lead generate? How will you have the time to show homes and market listed properties?
Do you have the guts to set a drop-dead date to change to full-time real estate?
Don’t leap into any of these positions until you really, really look. Too often, agents are choosing these positions because they are afraid of–or don’t want to do the work of a real estate agent. Find out the ‘why’ behind the rationale, and help your agents make the best choices for themselves.
A�Use this Tool to Save Time and Inform Prospective/New Agents
Managers: You don’t have time to spend hours educating those prospective agents! Instead, share my new eBook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School. (You need to have this information, too)!
A�
Managers: a ‘Head Start’ Program for your Pre-Licensees
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Managers: Have you thought about a ‘head start’ program for your newbies? If you’re like 98% of managers, you wait to start training your agents until AFTER they join your office as newbies. Why? Think how much faster they could go if they had lots of the organization and training under their belts prior to their first day in the business?A� Okay. I know. Until they are licensed, they can’t do the things licensed agents can do. But, they can do many things. And all those things get them ready to hit the ground running. At the end of this blog, I’m providing you my checklist, 30 Things to Do Right (In Pre-License School) Now to Hit the Ground Running. (from my new eBook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School).
We Lose Lots of Time Because They are Not Prepared to Start the Business
You know the drill. We hire that new agent. We spend the first 1-2 weeks with them getting the ‘orientated’. We have checklists to assure they get their keys, join the Realtor association, etc., etc., etc. How long do you estimate it takes the new agent just to get those orientation checklists finished? 2-4 weeks? In some cases, they never finish them!!!!! Not only that, they probably think that finishing those checklists assures they are going to be successful agents.A� Ha!
When Do Your New Agents Start Lead Generating?
My studies show that new agents want to make a sale their first month in the business. But, when do you think they start lead generating? Do you know? (Better track that so you know who’s going to work). I believe they put off the inevitable as long as possible, hoping ‘there’s another way!’ In fact, the more ‘get ready to get ready’ work you have them doing as licensees, the worse their habits become and the less money they make!
A Different Method to Get Them a Check Fast
Instead of waiting until they are licensed, why not get them prepared to sell real estate while they are in pre-license school? They can do things like
- Decide on the database/CRM they want to use and learn how to use it
- Populate their databases with 100-300 potential clients
- Prepare an email/hard copy note/letter to all those in their database saying they’ve joined_____________ real estate company
30 Things to Do While in Pre-License School
In fact, as I was writing my new eBook, What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School, I started thinking about how we could really prepare agents to sell real estate–lots of real estate. That’s how I came up with this checklist. Click here to get it.
How to Recruit with the Checklist
This list is not only helpful to those you know you’re hiring, it’s a very effective recruiting tool. It proves to your potential recruits that you care about their career success–even before you hire them!
Here are a few suggestions:
- Offer this checklist to all your new licensee candidates
- Offer this checklist for your Career Nights
- Offer this checklist in your ads (newspaper, Craig’s List, Facebook, etc.)
Take It a Step Further
Why not create a 4-6 module course based on this checklist. Do it evenings, with assignments for the attendees. You’ll be able to see who is willing to go to work. Now, you’ll be able to hire the best!
Save Time! Prepare Your New Agents to Sell Real Estate Fast and Well
This 280+ page eBook is packed with questionnaires, advice, processes, and systems to prepare that pre-licensee for the real world of real estate. You’ll save precious interview time and help winners choose you. See What They Don’t Teach You in Pre-License School. Only $14.95, and immediately downloadable. Now, a Kindle version, too.