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The KEY to Scaling Your Real Estate Business - BEST Practices 2022
Episode 2729th July 2022 • All or Nothing in Real Estate • Matt Smith
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How has the Market Shift impacted the #8 Team in the Nation?

In this weeks episode of All or Nothing in Real Estate Casey Demille of RISE and Team Leader Matt Smith dig into the BEST PRACTICES you can implement right now.

The Real Estate industry is in a constant state of flux, and it can be hard to get ahead...

After listening to this episode you will have action items and tools equipping you to take the Industry by storm.

✅ How to be a GREAT Leader

✅ The most important aspect of Matt's business

✅ How to hold your team and peers accountable the RIGHT way

✅ Processes that work amidst the normalizing market

This isn't some entrepreneur bullshit - this is tangible advice straight from the trenches.


Listen now and don't forget to leave us a review!

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hey matt smith here founder of all or

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nothing in real estate i did a

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webinar with a company called rise who

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is a great lead generation partner and

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provider they work with the best teams

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across the country they asked me to do a

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webinar on best practices and it was so

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good i wanted to share it with you so

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make sure you stay tuned this is a great

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interview you don't want to miss it

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all right again i have uh matt smith

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here

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very excited to you know interview him

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with some questions and hopefully help

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you with any

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uh questions that some of these team

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leaders may have and you know direct it

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to you matt so

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uh matt tell me about a little bit about

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yourself what you were doing prior to

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real estate we'll just go ahead and kick

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it off yeah man thanks for having me um

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super excited to be here um i'm excited

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to share and help that's kind of my

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passion now um

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as i've grown my team and growing

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through the business it's just helping

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others so i truly appreciate it so

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i got into real estate kind of by

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accident um i grew up in a family

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business and just always wanted more and

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so just started thriving for more and

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took the next sales job and the next

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sales job and the next sales job and

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stumbled into real estate actually my

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wife was working for a property

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management company and at their work

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functions um the broker at the time

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there said dude you need to come so real

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estate i think you can do great and so

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um after three years of that i finally

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jumped into real estate and best move

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ever made didn't start out that way

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started off

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the first you know how it is they don't

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tell you in real estate school that you

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don't make money day one

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but started off very fortunate as i as i

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mean my very first year i sold 74

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transactions as a single agent um so

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just started off very very fortunate uh

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just all i was top work ethic very young

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so my family business was a sawmill

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so um if you don't know anything about a

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sawmill everybody you have to work

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harder you can make it and so i think

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that's really what i contributed my

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first year success was just putting in

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the work and i think that's probably

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relevant to everybody on this call today

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with this market

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people call it a shift a correction

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whatever you want to call it

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i call it a normalizing market

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what we've what we experienced the last

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two years wasn't normal right and so the

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market is just now normalizing and it's

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going to take more work ethic than the

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agents have put in over the last two

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years in order to make it through this

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market

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oh i love that

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so talk to me about your leadership role

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what is it that makes you so successful

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from

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say any other ordinary leader

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yeah i mean i'm nothing special um i

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mean my graduating high school class was

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33 kids um so come from come from uh

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come from the bottom um so to speak but

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uh i think so right now

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my team we're at

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we've just we've grown really quickly

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this year at the end of last year we had

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20 agents um we were ranked number 15 in

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the nation in real trends as as far as

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large teams um new rankings came out

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we're number one in the state of

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missouri number eight in the nation uh

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very proud of that with my agents and my

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team

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and it really just comes down to getting

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the right people and building the right

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culture and so a lot of people think

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culture's a buzzword and it can be but

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you have to be willing to be the leader

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that your your culture needs and so

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culture is yes we're a family we like

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each other we love each other we support

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each other we hold each other

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accountable but it's also what work are

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you putting in as a culture what i found

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is a lot of people you are who you

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surround yourself with and so i want to

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surround myself with people that inspire

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and motivate me and so adverse is

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surrounding myself with people that drag

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me down and so very early on we just

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started with culture first and we've

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kept that ever since and it's no

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negativity no gossip and we live and

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breathe by our core values those are our

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guard rails to make sure they keep us on

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track oh i absolutely love that so you

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kind of touched on a huge piece for us

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that we feel is very important to be

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successful here at rise and that is

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accountability talk to me about the

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person that you have in that role when

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it comes to accountability for your

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agents and these uh lead sources

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yeah so um right now that's me

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uh but so there's it's

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it depends so accountability especially

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with

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with rise in particular um

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one of the benefits of ryze is that it's

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it's a lot of agents sometimes when you

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bring them in and they start prospecting

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leads they think they're cold calling

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like well this lead didn't answer so why

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am i calling them the cool thing about

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the rise opportunity is that most of the

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leads answer you're actually talking to

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somebody right it's actually you're

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actually speaking to somebody that said

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they want to speak to an agent and

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that's to me

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especially bringing in new agents

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whatever it is you're doing organization

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that's a huge value add especially as

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this market is is normalizing because

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i'm a real estate coach too actually you

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mentioned john chef black's going to be

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at an event i'm actually a coach for

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john jeff black he is my coach and i'm a

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coach for him um and so one of the

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things that i'm seeing across the

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country is that

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leads are down significantly in almost

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every single market for the same exact

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spend

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and so what does that mean like you

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can't just go out and buy more leads now

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i mean maybe you can to a certain extent

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but what you need is more high intent

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leads better quality leads better

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conversion rates and maximizing that

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effort and that money in this market is

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going to be huge and so holding your

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agents accountable to standards in

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particular with rise on the higher

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quality leads and making sure you follow

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the systems and processes that you guys

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lay out so beautifully that help with

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the algorithms get you more leads get

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you better quality leads that's just so

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so crucial so

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number one we rolled out standards and

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protocols if you want to be on the op

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city team here's what you're you are

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committing to doing we meet weekly to go

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over it and see where you're at if you

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don't make it we'll help coach you up or

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coach you out

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maybe this opportunity these opportunity

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of leads aren't for you but if they are

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here's what they've done for others and

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i know what they can do for you but in

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order to be on this team so you don't

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bring the team down as they hold here's

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the standards that we have that you have

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to meet and so we just hired a va as

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well to help overlook that as we've

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grown um to just look for metrics and

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say hey here's a red flag here's a red

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flag talk to this agent type thing

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but it's so so crucial that i mean you

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guys casey you guys roll it out

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beautifully what metrics you need to

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track why they're important so you guys

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aren't attending the best practices and

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all the training that they're giving out

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there is

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it's so valuable so just make sure you

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guys take that to heart and where i've

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seen people go wrong is they just kind

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of dabble in the best practices

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that's not how it works you got to go

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all in on the best practices and do

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everything to a t

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it doesn't happen overnight

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the instant gratification world we live

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and i have agents on my team they're

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like well i've done it for a week how

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come i don't have better leads yet it's

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because you've done it for a week

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it takes time right

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if you consistently do the right effort

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over a period of time i mean i saw our

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average sales price is around 200 000 in

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our market

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and a lot of agents were complaining the

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first leads as they signed up were lower

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price points

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well i had an agent that followed the

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system for three weeks

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they got they got three leads that week

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that were double harvard sales price

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through rise

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why did is that a coincidence or did

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they actually just follow the system for

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a period of time in order to get the

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real benefits i think that's just so so

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crucial that you guys understand coach

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your agents i don't know if you're team

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leaders agents wherever you are it's so

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crucial that you follow that process

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and again i keep saying it but as this

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market normalizes there's unfortunately

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there's gonna be a lot of agents that

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don't make the cut that's my opinion and

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you're going to have to do the extra

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work you're going to have to follow the

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processes and get back to the basics and

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work them so so well

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and make sure you're mastering the

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fundamentals and that starts with am i

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am i maximizing every opportunity and

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rise is a huge opportunity as long as

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you follow it properly

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no i absolutely love that in fact all

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new teams that join rise one thing that

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we did put into places it is mandatory

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that all new team leads as well as

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agents attend three best practices in

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order for you to have success the last

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thing we want is teams to sign up and

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not be happy with the services that we

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provide so it is a crucial that you

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attend these best practices tony will

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touch on some realtor.com stuff as well

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as oh joseph um hank type we're going to

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go we'll get into that um matt so you've

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been in the program close to a year now

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i remember the first interaction that

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you and i had we were talking about

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referral based leads and how you you

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didn't really like them in the beginning

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but talk to me now since you've been in

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the program how has rice helped you

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develop your team yeah that dude that's

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such a great point i actually forgot

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about that because i was the guy so as

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i've grown my team um i was able to i'm

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a marketing guy and i i've learned how

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to create my own opportunities i've

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created a great brand for myself and my

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team and i just stayed away from the

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referral base stuff because i could get

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that same name through my marketing but

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what i came to realize is that that's

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only scalable so quickly right because

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if they talk to rise and have a better

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conversation just because they're in my

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database doesn't mean they're going to

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work with me

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and so you have to find that balance and

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what what i've really done is i've used

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that as leverage

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so not only do now i don't have to

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risk all that money up front in hopes

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that my agents have this in my isa

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department have the skill set to convert

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that lead into a client because ryze has

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done that for me what is that percentage

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worth

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knowing that you have an opportunity

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face to face with that person like what

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would you pay for if every lead that

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came through you had a 50 better chance

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of being face to face

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like that's worth a lot of money and i

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feel like that's what this referral base

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source is and just the if as long as you

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work it properly because i mean

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if you look at big teams as they scale

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like there's a lot of

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teams have isa departments rise is part

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of my isa department that's kind of how

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i how i pitch it to my agents because

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they are talking to a client that wants

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to set up a meeting with you like that's

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the mindset that we have and so whenever

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you have that mindset you realize that

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are way better opportunities

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than the referral fee is just it's

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binary right it doesn't matter because

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you are actually having that more

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opportunity not to mention the long-term

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effect right i preach this all the time

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on my podcast and my coaching is at a

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coaching call this morning where we

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actually talked about this is you need

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to teach your agents to do uh turn one

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client into three clients

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so as an example rise gives you one it

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has a referral fee you're like oh i

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could have made more money doing working

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on another client but could you really

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or because what's the time value of

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money how much time did you spend

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prospecting trying to set another

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appointment versus somebody that's

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basically calling you to send employment

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there's a big difference there and so

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just got to make sure to analyze that

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and then if you have that opportunity

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through a rise client and it was a

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referral fee what are you doing to get

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their sphere to get their friends what

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impression are you leaving on them are

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they going to sell a home again in the

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future probably are you staying top of

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mind it just gives you an opportunity to

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expand and grow quickly and give your

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agents opportunities that are more

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low-hanging fruit versus everybody

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having to feel like they're cold-calling

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well thank you so much i absolutely love

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that um

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i always tell team leaders um i probably

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told you the best converters that we've

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seen with ryze are someone that's you

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know hungry brand new to real estate you

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send them to the best practices now matt

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i'm sure you've probably experienced

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that yourself with your team um talk to

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me about you know when you bring on a

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brand new agent do you get them involved

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with rise how does that work well 100 um

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i

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if you join my team as a brand new agent

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you are on the rise team automatically

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you have to hold up held up to the

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standards but if you don't hold up to

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the standards you're not cut out to be

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my team

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like that sounds harsh i present that in

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a way nicer way of course but ultimately

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if they're not going to put in the work

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to stay up with rides which is a great

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opportunity for them as a new agent i

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don't ultimately want them on my team no

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longer right i want the right people on

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my bus and so it's just a great way to

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indoctrinate them into the work that

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it's going to take to be successful and

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so um and on top of that anybody that

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has ever worked with a bunch of agents

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if you're a team leader or if you're a

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new agent we're all new agents at once

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right and so if you go back to when you

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were a new agent you didn't know what

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you didn't know

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and my new agents as they're coming on

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are so successful with rise way more

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successful than my veteran agents

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because they don't know any different

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other than to do what rice says

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if you just follow the process

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specifically you have success it's crazy

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like the new agents are twice as

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successful if not more on rise and other

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referral based opportunities because

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they just follow the process they don't

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try to outsmart it or try to mix it up

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to make it to where they're like oh well

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i can do it this way or that way because

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that's how i've done with my other

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clients ryze knows how the algorithms

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work rise knows what these these clients

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want to hear and so just follow the

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process and it works

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absolutely i've had teams that started

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with two agents one team in particular

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started in portland they used our

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program to expand into the seattle

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market and now phoenix started with two

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agents and now they're up to 25 so if

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you utilize it correctly ryze is an

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amazing tool to help you grow your team

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so

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absolutely so on that so sorry casey

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catch you off but like not only my local

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team but i'm a part of exp so i have exp

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network across the country and one of

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the things ryze has given me the

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opportunity is give agents and partners

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and teams in other areas as an example

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i've got two teams in florida i've got a

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team that's in st louis which is two

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hours away from me that got on rise and

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they're like dude how did you get me

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signed up for this like i'm the hero all

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i did was introduce them to casey in

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case he did the work right but it's it's

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just the leverage of knowing these

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opportunities exist

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because if you i would be willing to bet

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if you poll people and ask them how well

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op city works for them a lot of them are

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not going to be happy with op city they

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did not have the results they expected

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but what does casey and rise do

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they help you maximize that opportunity

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in case you may have the stats but i'd

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be willing to bet you guys get a lot

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better percentage results on opcity than

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than just an agent going through op city

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because of the algorithms and coaching

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you guys provide and that's the huge

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huge benefit for such a small cost to be

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in this network and make sure that you

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are

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maximizing these opportunities it's i

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can't tell you enough right now in this

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market shift in this market

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the maximizing opportunities is

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everything

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because the opportunities are going to

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get so much less and it's going to

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continue and so what do you do with

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those opportunities in front of you

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make sure you're maximizing them and

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rise gives you a great opportunity to do

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that yeah so when a brand new agent

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comes on um i've heard this from other

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team leads and i'm sure that yours is

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the same thing how fast can you put an

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agent under contract and get them to

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close their first deal a brand new agent

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no it kind of depends on the agent of

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course but we've had some we've had some

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that we've had to finagle that they got

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under contract before they were fully

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onboarded right so they called they won

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um and you've had some we've had some

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that i mean honestly if an agent doesn't

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get something under contract in the

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first 90 days on our team we look into

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it super super in depth to see what we

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can do to help them because we we want

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to set them up for success

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but ryze is a huge part of that a lot of

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our new agents get great opportunities

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through the rise opportunities because

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they're not

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they don't have a big database yet right

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like we have a pond we have

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opportunities but the longer you've been

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with the team you your database is more

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mature

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right depending on where you're at and

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so getting those rise opportunities as a

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new agent it's i mean they're hand

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raisers right they're like hey i want to

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talk to an agent about looking at a

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house that's a great opportunity for a

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new agent and right and so i think

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that's key to getting them up for

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success as long as they've taken the

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onboarding classes that casey mentioned

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awesome

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now the fun stuff

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talk to me about the shift

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we are seeing and how can agents stay

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relevant i know you kind of touched on a

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few things but let's literally kind of

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dive into that little piece

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yeah so i mean number one um

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inventory inventory's going up interest

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rates are going up and it's the market

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is more normalizing right we were so

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so drastically

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shifted in the in a way like we were

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fortunate as real estate agents like

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cove would hit and all of a sudden it

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became great to be a real estate agent

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right like it was insane what happened

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um

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but what is going to happen what i'm

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preparing everybody for is the market is

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going to normalize and as an example you

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talked about new agents casey one of the

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speeches that i give to my new agents

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all the time is you guys have a

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tremendous opportunity right now

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because you don't know what you don't

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know

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and so you don't know how it was 16

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months ago to sell the house

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what like literally you're like oh

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there's another lead let me go show them

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a house right it was easy oh this house

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just came on the market let's just make

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sure our offer is the highest and we got

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it right because it was just a such an

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unnormal market now the market is

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normalizing it's gonna there's gonna be

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a lot of agents that don't adjust and

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adapt because they're so used to doing

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business how they've done it for the

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last two years as a new agent you don't

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know any better and so if you just

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follow the processes and do what works

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for other seasoned agents to help them

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get to that successful level it works

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for you as well you don't have to

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you don't have to untrain yourself on

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the bad habits you've picked up on

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accident or on purpose over the last two

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years of being a real estate agent so

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with that being said the shift i mean

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there's two things that i keep that i

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tell my coaching clients and i'm telling

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my team that it's going to take to win

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number one is the action and the cool

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thing is that we're in control a lot of

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agents right now are panicked they look

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at mainstream media they look at all

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this oh my gosh the sky is falling right

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but in reality if you actually look at

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the national numbers in your local

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numbers number one you need to be

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educated on them to where you can

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explain

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over the click bait from mainstream

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media to make sure that your buyers

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aren't panicking so as an example

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make sure that you

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explained to them

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work like as an example month supply is

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a huge huge stat how many months

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supplier in your market

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how many were there six months ago

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because ours like you look at mainstream

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media and they're like oh my gosh all

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these how the housing market's gonna

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crash right we're going into we're going

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into um the housing market crash just

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like 08 but it's not it's completely

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different

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supply and demand

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think about it what was our problem with

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the real estate market for the last two

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years

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we had no supply

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none and tons of demand what happened to

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08

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the exact opposite

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right and so

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just because we're going into a downturn

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in the economy doesn't mean the real

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estate market is going to crash

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what half what caught 108 i feel like a

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big difference was the real estate

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market caused the economy to crash

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now the real estate real estate market

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is going to be an effect of the economy

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slowing down

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so i just put out a post yesterday it's

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the deceleration doesn't mean

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depreciation

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so as an example it starts with

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educating your clients when your home

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value doesn't increase 30 over a year

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that doesn't mean it's a bad real estate

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market

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right it's just decelerating to where

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now they're i think they're projecting

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around six percent in 2022 increase and

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like four percent next year

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and like four percent for the next three

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years

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like you're buying an asset that is

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scheduled to appreciate

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to appreciate and sorry i followed chat

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there um to appreciate over the next

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five years

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right and so

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don't don't fall into the trap of well

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the sky is falling because it's not

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we're we were so tilted um there's

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there's going to be tremendous

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opportunity for those that choose to see

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this as an opportunity

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but what it's going to take to win

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during this shift is two things the

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coolest part is they're in your control

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the action that you take on a daily

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basis and the skills that you build

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so what action are you taking are you

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getting back to you have to realize you

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have to follow up with people more what

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is your average contact attempt per lead

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how many how many calls does it take to

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reach a contact what is your home what's

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your contact rate to an appointment set

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appointment set to appointment met all

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of your kpis are very very crucial

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because if you can just move the needle

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five percent on one of those kpis has a

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drastic impact on your business

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and also the skills that you build

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so as an example

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how well are you what is your skill of

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educating your clients on what we just

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talked about how many of your clients

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come to you and say well i i think i

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want to back off and slow i want to wait

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and see until the dust set let's see

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what happens with the market or i'm no

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longer going to buy because interest

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rates went up i'm no longer going to

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sell because of all the stuff on the

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news

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like maybe that is the right decision

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for them but it's your job as a real

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estate professional to educate them on

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the national news and your local news

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you're the local expert be that resource

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that can educate them on actual facts

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versus click bait to see if you can work

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through what's the right decision for

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them because i have a gut feeling at

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least in my market and i know a lot of

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the markets the people that i coach if

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they wait it's gonna it's never gonna

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there's never gonna be a better time to

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buy a home than right now

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no i agree

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i think

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maybe this is bad uh name to put out

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there but i mean i watch this thing

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about dave ramsey

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he he said too right the biggest thing

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he says right now is the best time to

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buy a house and you think about who

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that's coming from

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the most conservative financial guy on

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the planet

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says right now is the best time to buy

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the house buy a house in the next five

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years like that says a lot

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100 percent so we're going to open it up

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uh to some q and a for you i know we

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only have a few more minutes with you

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matt um so

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i see one uh thing in the chat says matt

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were you uh agent and oh wait just

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curious i was not

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okay and then i have amazing friend uh

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steve shane out of uh florida here i

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don't know if you know steve shane he's

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a he's a cool dude um

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your kpis you track uh matt he's got to

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be a cool dude with a name like steve

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shane right

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so kp i track everything so i track

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number of leads average contact tent per

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lead um contact rate how much how many

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contacts equal an appointment how many

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appointments set versus met met versus

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signed signed versus under contract

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under contract versus closed how many of

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them came from which lead source how

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many of them came from our isas we track

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absolutely everything we can because

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what i've found and this is from my

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coach john chef like tiny hinges swing

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big doors and the more you can maximize

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those like as an example i went through

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an exercise with some of my coaching

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clients i'm like if i if i step in front

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of my team tomorrow and says how am i

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i'm gonna we're gonna double our

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business next year

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everybody's like how are you gonna do

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that

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like i've done that before right from

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from the stage being like i'm gonna

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double my business and just pure

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motivation no no facts no data just hey

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we're going to do it right we're just

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going to push through and persevere but

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i actually broke down an exercise and

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the biggest percentage increase that i

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had on any metric that we tracked was

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five percent

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can you increase the number of leads by

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five percent year over year is that

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something that's doable of course it is

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can you increase the number of

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appointments set versus met by three

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percent

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that doesn't sound significant but if

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you set 500 appointments on a large team

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you set 500 appointments three percent's

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a big number now you're meeting with

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three percent more and then say it's

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four percent more of those are getting

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signed

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two percent more of those are under

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contract and you close five percent like

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those little percentages on all those

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metrics make a huge huge impact on your

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business at the end of the year

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and i think it's tightening things up

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like that and knowing your numbers and

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knowing your business is what's going to

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help you not only survive but thrive in

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this changing market

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i like this next question from megan um

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what systems do you use to track all

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this data so our uh crm we use fallout

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boss um

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and so that that's very helpful for us

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but we also use csu

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um so it it and what what's cool about

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it is

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most things are only done once in the

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crm

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and when it's done the crm it updates

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all these other systems so the agent

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doesn't have to go in i don't have to

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worry about chasing the agents down to

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update their stuff are they perfect no

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but it doesn't our rule is if it's not

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in the crm it doesn't happen and their

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work number is through our crm so that

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they can have vacation and family time

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and not have to worry about that and we

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track everything through there so it's

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just we can and ultimately whenever they

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make their calls and their texts and

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whatever it is they're doing in their

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crm

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now i can actually coach them from a

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knowledgeable standpoint because i know

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what they have done and the result they

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have or have not gotten and so i can

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help them improve their business

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absolutely

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um you guys i got a couple more minutes

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for matt do you guys have any more

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questions

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this guy is the man so if you guys have

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anything please uh

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ask any questions feel free to unmute

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yourself

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um while we're doing that matt um

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go ahead how if someone wants to get in

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touch with you as well what's the best

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way to do so would it be email

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i'm gonna drop no it's on

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email um

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uh so i'm going to drop a link here in

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the chat um it's a link tree to my my

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all or nothing real estate brand um and

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it's just got anything um like i just

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did a webinar on how to how to thrive in

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a market shift it's all free sign up go

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for it

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i do a podcast all that's on there

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if you really want to get in contact

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with me the facebook private group which

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is a link there um sign up there um it's

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private group so you get more exclusive

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one-on-one with me i kind of i kept it

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private so i can monitor i have the

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right people in there i want it to be a

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community of contribution we're all

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working through this together i feel

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like the real estate industry sometimes

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gets cutthroat i don't like it

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and so i can monitor it and make sure

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that everybody in there is contributing

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and helping each other

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i also am open for coaching

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opportunities i've got three spots

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available right now i just opened up

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three more spots if you guys are

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interested in having a free discovery

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call to see if i'd be a good fit for a

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coach

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you can sign up for the coaching

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opportunities there in that link

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and if nothing else just join that

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movement

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it's free i give back to just give

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information and help help real estate

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agents succeed

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jillian another rock star i have right

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here what lead sources are you

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implemented during this shift

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um so we i'm a big big believer in

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trying everything and trying and

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tracking

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um and so

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but what i commit to and this is a

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little different during this the shift

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that the normalization that's coming um

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so i'll give you two answers number one

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make sure if you're trying to lead

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source do your research up front

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right and then give it an opportunity to

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work

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so as an example i see too many agents

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that try lead source for 30 days and say

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oh that didn't work

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what online lead source works in 30 days

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the average online nurture like attempt

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for a lead is 18 months right somewhere

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around there depending on where you are

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so you gave it a 1 30 days you didn't

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have a closing and you gave up

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like make sure you have the budget to do

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it for the time that you can actually

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measure it now if it's something that

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just they didn't deliver sure get rid of

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it but i give i give everything 12

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months i used to be six months when i

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was an individual agent but when i sign

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up i do my research i make sure i filter

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it out first and i give it 12 months to

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see if it's going to work and i again i

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track everything to see what the roi is

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on that another thing if you run a team

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a cool thing too is to

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you can see if you if you track things

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properly

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you can see which agents were better

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performing on certain lead sources

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and then you can give them more of those

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opportunities so they are more

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successful there and the other agents

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are more successful in their resources

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so it just depends every lead source

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every market is different

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i i recommend using what works for you

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now for the market shift what we are

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doing is we are doubling down on the

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stuff that doesn't cost us as much money

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what i mean by that is all of us on if

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you've been in real estate for more than

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more than three months you've probably

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got a past client or two

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what are you doing to stay in front of

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them what are you doing to educate

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educate them what are you doing to

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provide value to them so that they can

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be a lead generation source for you

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do you think how many of your past

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clients do you think would love to know

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about what the what their equity is in

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their home during this crazy real estate

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market when we're seeing all this

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craziness on the news when's the last

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time you did a pop by just hey just

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wanted to give you this one cheater on

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what your home was worth

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it's an investment as important as a

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home i just thought it might be

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important for you to know

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that's a value add that will get get

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your referral business which is free

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business

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oh thank you so much matt i know our

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times at 8 30. i don't know if you can

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answer this one question if you gotta go

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you gotta go uh when you were a new

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agent what was your daily focus

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work

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so um

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most people most people and now we track

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yeah work ethic was if that's that was

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my superpower work ethic i just

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outworked everybody um as an example

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where i was at

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wherever i came in

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i came in i was licensed in 2013 was my

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first year in real estate um and so in

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2013 in my market we just come our main

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market was right is right outside a

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military base and we had a military boom

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and everybody's belly was full similar

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to right now

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right every real estate agents have

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their best year over the last two years

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you should have

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um if you didn't there's a different

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conversation have but it's been easy

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right and so everybody was that way and

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so it's shifted similar to what it's

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doing now a different type of shift but

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similar and so nobody wanted to work

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they'd already made more money and

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they're like well i'll just wait for

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that that low-hanging fruit to come in

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and so i took duty every day

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six days a week for the first six months

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i'm duty in that office was 10 hours a

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day

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i had to do my showings either before or

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after you know like i i just i just

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outworked everybody and i was willing to

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do what it took and i'm a very

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self-aware person and so one of the

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things that i think we can all do better

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as as people and especially as real

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estate agents in the skill building

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maximizing opportunity space is

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reflect after a phone call reflect after

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a buyer appointment what could you have

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done differently or better to have a

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better result or better impact on that

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person

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because a lot of people just focus on

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the the numbers and they just want to

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call more people call more people which

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is great action's going to win but

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action without skill doesn't work

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it's not about it's not about the number

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of people you've caused about the

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quality

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so make sure you're focusing on the

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quality thank you so much for listening

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