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.
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hey matt smith here founder of all or
Speaker:nothing in real estate i did a
Speaker:webinar with a company called rise who
Speaker:is a great lead generation partner and
Speaker:provider they work with the best teams
Speaker:across the country they asked me to do a
Speaker:webinar on best practices and it was so
Speaker:good i wanted to share it with you so
Speaker:make sure you stay tuned this is a great
Speaker:interview you don't want to miss it
Speaker:all right again i have uh matt smith
Speaker:here
Speaker:very excited to you know interview him
Speaker:with some questions and hopefully help
Speaker:you with any
Speaker:uh questions that some of these team
Speaker:leaders may have and you know direct it
Speaker:to you matt so
Speaker:uh matt tell me about a little bit about
Speaker:yourself what you were doing prior to
Speaker:real estate we'll just go ahead and kick
Speaker:it off yeah man thanks for having me um
Speaker:super excited to be here um i'm excited
Speaker:to share and help that's kind of my
Speaker:passion now um
Speaker:as i've grown my team and growing
Speaker:through the business it's just helping
Speaker:others so i truly appreciate it so
Speaker:i got into real estate kind of by
Speaker:accident um i grew up in a family
Speaker:business and just always wanted more and
Speaker:so just started thriving for more and
Speaker:took the next sales job and the next
Speaker:sales job and the next sales job and
Speaker:stumbled into real estate actually my
Speaker:wife was working for a property
Speaker:management company and at their work
Speaker:functions um the broker at the time
Speaker:there said dude you need to come so real
Speaker:estate i think you can do great and so
Speaker:um after three years of that i finally
Speaker:jumped into real estate and best move
Speaker:ever made didn't start out that way
Speaker:started off
Speaker:the first you know how it is they don't
Speaker:tell you in real estate school that you
Speaker:don't make money day one
Speaker:but started off very fortunate as i as i
Speaker:mean my very first year i sold 74
Speaker:transactions as a single agent um so
Speaker:just started off very very fortunate uh
Speaker:just all i was top work ethic very young
Speaker:so my family business was a sawmill
Speaker:so um if you don't know anything about a
Speaker:sawmill everybody you have to work
Speaker:harder you can make it and so i think
Speaker:that's really what i contributed my
Speaker:first year success was just putting in
Speaker:the work and i think that's probably
Speaker:relevant to everybody on this call today
Speaker:with this market
Speaker:people call it a shift a correction
Speaker:whatever you want to call it
Speaker:i call it a normalizing market
Speaker:what we've what we experienced the last
Speaker:two years wasn't normal right and so the
Speaker:market is just now normalizing and it's
Speaker:going to take more work ethic than the
Speaker:agents have put in over the last two
Speaker:years in order to make it through this
Speaker:market
Speaker:oh i love that
Speaker:so talk to me about your leadership role
Speaker:what is it that makes you so successful
Speaker:from
Speaker:say any other ordinary leader
Speaker:yeah i mean i'm nothing special um i
Speaker:mean my graduating high school class was
Speaker:33 kids um so come from come from uh
Speaker:come from the bottom um so to speak but
Speaker:uh i think so right now
Speaker:my team we're at
Speaker:we've just we've grown really quickly
Speaker:this year at the end of last year we had
Speaker:20 agents um we were ranked number 15 in
Speaker:the nation in real trends as as far as
Speaker:large teams um new rankings came out
Speaker:we're number one in the state of
Speaker:missouri number eight in the nation uh
Speaker:very proud of that with my agents and my
Speaker:team
Speaker:and it really just comes down to getting
Speaker:the right people and building the right
Speaker:culture and so a lot of people think
Speaker:culture's a buzzword and it can be but
Speaker:you have to be willing to be the leader
Speaker:that your your culture needs and so
Speaker:culture is yes we're a family we like
Speaker:each other we love each other we support
Speaker:each other we hold each other
Speaker:accountable but it's also what work are
Speaker:you putting in as a culture what i found
Speaker:is a lot of people you are who you
Speaker:surround yourself with and so i want to
Speaker:surround myself with people that inspire
Speaker:and motivate me and so adverse is
Speaker:surrounding myself with people that drag
Speaker:me down and so very early on we just
Speaker:started with culture first and we've
Speaker:kept that ever since and it's no
Speaker:negativity no gossip and we live and
Speaker:breathe by our core values those are our
Speaker:guard rails to make sure they keep us on
Speaker:track oh i absolutely love that so you
Speaker:kind of touched on a huge piece for us
Speaker:that we feel is very important to be
Speaker:successful here at rise and that is
Speaker:accountability talk to me about the
Speaker:person that you have in that role when
Speaker:it comes to accountability for your
Speaker:agents and these uh lead sources
Speaker:yeah so um right now that's me
Speaker:uh but so there's it's
Speaker:it depends so accountability especially
Speaker:with
Speaker:with rise in particular um
Speaker:one of the benefits of ryze is that it's
Speaker:it's a lot of agents sometimes when you
Speaker:bring them in and they start prospecting
Speaker:leads they think they're cold calling
Speaker:like well this lead didn't answer so why
Speaker:am i calling them the cool thing about
Speaker:the rise opportunity is that most of the
Speaker:leads answer you're actually talking to
Speaker:somebody right it's actually you're
Speaker:actually speaking to somebody that said
Speaker:they want to speak to an agent and
Speaker:that's to me
Speaker:especially bringing in new agents
Speaker:whatever it is you're doing organization
Speaker:that's a huge value add especially as
Speaker:this market is is normalizing because
Speaker:i'm a real estate coach too actually you
Speaker:mentioned john chef black's going to be
Speaker:at an event i'm actually a coach for
Speaker:john jeff black he is my coach and i'm a
Speaker:coach for him um and so one of the
Speaker:things that i'm seeing across the
Speaker:country is that
Speaker:leads are down significantly in almost
Speaker:every single market for the same exact
Speaker:spend
Speaker:and so what does that mean like you
Speaker:can't just go out and buy more leads now
Speaker:i mean maybe you can to a certain extent
Speaker:but what you need is more high intent
Speaker:leads better quality leads better
Speaker:conversion rates and maximizing that
Speaker:effort and that money in this market is
Speaker:going to be huge and so holding your
Speaker:agents accountable to standards in
Speaker:particular with rise on the higher
Speaker:quality leads and making sure you follow
Speaker:the systems and processes that you guys
Speaker:lay out so beautifully that help with
Speaker:the algorithms get you more leads get
Speaker:you better quality leads that's just so
Speaker:so crucial so
Speaker:number one we rolled out standards and
Speaker:protocols if you want to be on the op
Speaker:city team here's what you're you are
Speaker:committing to doing we meet weekly to go
Speaker:over it and see where you're at if you
Speaker:don't make it we'll help coach you up or
Speaker:coach you out
Speaker:maybe this opportunity these opportunity
Speaker:of leads aren't for you but if they are
Speaker:here's what they've done for others and
Speaker:i know what they can do for you but in
Speaker:order to be on this team so you don't
Speaker:bring the team down as they hold here's
Speaker:the standards that we have that you have
Speaker:to meet and so we just hired a va as
Speaker:well to help overlook that as we've
Speaker:grown um to just look for metrics and
Speaker:say hey here's a red flag here's a red
Speaker:flag talk to this agent type thing
Speaker:but it's so so crucial that i mean you
Speaker:guys casey you guys roll it out
Speaker:beautifully what metrics you need to
Speaker:track why they're important so you guys
Speaker:aren't attending the best practices and
Speaker:all the training that they're giving out
Speaker:there is
Speaker:it's so valuable so just make sure you
Speaker:guys take that to heart and where i've
Speaker:seen people go wrong is they just kind
Speaker:of dabble in the best practices
Speaker:that's not how it works you got to go
Speaker:all in on the best practices and do
Speaker:everything to a t
Speaker:it doesn't happen overnight
Speaker:the instant gratification world we live
Speaker:and i have agents on my team they're
Speaker:like well i've done it for a week how
Speaker:come i don't have better leads yet it's
Speaker:because you've done it for a week
Speaker:it takes time right
Speaker:if you consistently do the right effort
Speaker:over a period of time i mean i saw our
Speaker:average sales price is around 200 000 in
Speaker:our market
Speaker:and a lot of agents were complaining the
Speaker:first leads as they signed up were lower
Speaker:price points
Speaker:well i had an agent that followed the
Speaker:system for three weeks
Speaker:they got they got three leads that week
Speaker:that were double harvard sales price
Speaker:through rise
Speaker:why did is that a coincidence or did
Speaker:they actually just follow the system for
Speaker:a period of time in order to get the
Speaker:real benefits i think that's just so so
Speaker:crucial that you guys understand coach
Speaker:your agents i don't know if you're team
Speaker:leaders agents wherever you are it's so
Speaker:crucial that you follow that process
Speaker:and again i keep saying it but as this
Speaker:market normalizes there's unfortunately
Speaker:there's gonna be a lot of agents that
Speaker:don't make the cut that's my opinion and
Speaker:you're going to have to do the extra
Speaker:work you're going to have to follow the
Speaker:processes and get back to the basics and
Speaker:work them so so well
Speaker:and make sure you're mastering the
Speaker:fundamentals and that starts with am i
Speaker:am i maximizing every opportunity and
Speaker:rise is a huge opportunity as long as
Speaker:you follow it properly
Speaker:no i absolutely love that in fact all
Speaker:new teams that join rise one thing that
Speaker:we did put into places it is mandatory
Speaker:that all new team leads as well as
Speaker:agents attend three best practices in
Speaker:order for you to have success the last
Speaker:thing we want is teams to sign up and
Speaker:not be happy with the services that we
Speaker:provide so it is a crucial that you
Speaker:attend these best practices tony will
Speaker:touch on some realtor.com stuff as well
Speaker:as oh joseph um hank type we're going to
Speaker:go we'll get into that um matt so you've
Speaker:been in the program close to a year now
Speaker:i remember the first interaction that
Speaker:you and i had we were talking about
Speaker:referral based leads and how you you
Speaker:didn't really like them in the beginning
Speaker:but talk to me now since you've been in
Speaker:the program how has rice helped you
Speaker:develop your team yeah that dude that's
Speaker:such a great point i actually forgot
Speaker:about that because i was the guy so as
Speaker:i've grown my team um i was able to i'm
Speaker:a marketing guy and i i've learned how
Speaker:to create my own opportunities i've
Speaker:created a great brand for myself and my
Speaker:team and i just stayed away from the
Speaker:referral base stuff because i could get
Speaker:that same name through my marketing but
Speaker:what i came to realize is that that's
Speaker:only scalable so quickly right because
Speaker:if they talk to rise and have a better
Speaker:conversation just because they're in my
Speaker:database doesn't mean they're going to
Speaker:work with me
Speaker:and so you have to find that balance and
Speaker:what what i've really done is i've used
Speaker:that as leverage
Speaker:so not only do now i don't have to
Speaker:risk all that money up front in hopes
Speaker:that my agents have this in my isa
Speaker:department have the skill set to convert
Speaker:that lead into a client because ryze has
Speaker:done that for me what is that percentage
Speaker:worth
Speaker:knowing that you have an opportunity
Speaker:face to face with that person like what
Speaker:would you pay for if every lead that
Speaker:came through you had a 50 better chance
Speaker:of being face to face
Speaker:like that's worth a lot of money and i
Speaker:feel like that's what this referral base
Speaker:source is and just the if as long as you
Speaker:work it properly because i mean
Speaker:if you look at big teams as they scale
Speaker:like there's a lot of
Speaker:teams have isa departments rise is part
Speaker:of my isa department that's kind of how
Speaker:i how i pitch it to my agents because
Speaker:they are talking to a client that wants
Speaker:to set up a meeting with you like that's
Speaker:the mindset that we have and so whenever
Speaker:you have that mindset you realize that
Speaker:are way better opportunities
Speaker:than the referral fee is just it's
Speaker:binary right it doesn't matter because
Speaker:you are actually having that more
Speaker:opportunity not to mention the long-term
Speaker:effect right i preach this all the time
Speaker:on my podcast and my coaching is at a
Speaker:coaching call this morning where we
Speaker:actually talked about this is you need
Speaker:to teach your agents to do uh turn one
Speaker:client into three clients
Speaker:so as an example rise gives you one it
Speaker:has a referral fee you're like oh i
Speaker:could have made more money doing working
Speaker:on another client but could you really
Speaker:or because what's the time value of
Speaker:money how much time did you spend
Speaker:prospecting trying to set another
Speaker:appointment versus somebody that's
Speaker:basically calling you to send employment
Speaker:there's a big difference there and so
Speaker:just got to make sure to analyze that
Speaker:and then if you have that opportunity
Speaker:through a rise client and it was a
Speaker:referral fee what are you doing to get
Speaker:their sphere to get their friends what
Speaker:impression are you leaving on them are
Speaker:they going to sell a home again in the
Speaker:future probably are you staying top of
Speaker:mind it just gives you an opportunity to
Speaker:expand and grow quickly and give your
Speaker:agents opportunities that are more
Speaker:low-hanging fruit versus everybody
Speaker:having to feel like they're cold-calling
Speaker:well thank you so much i absolutely love
Speaker:that um
Speaker:i always tell team leaders um i probably
Speaker:told you the best converters that we've
Speaker:seen with ryze are someone that's you
Speaker:know hungry brand new to real estate you
Speaker:send them to the best practices now matt
Speaker:i'm sure you've probably experienced
Speaker:that yourself with your team um talk to
Speaker:me about you know when you bring on a
Speaker:brand new agent do you get them involved
Speaker:with rise how does that work well 100 um
Speaker:i
Speaker:if you join my team as a brand new agent
Speaker:you are on the rise team automatically
Speaker:you have to hold up held up to the
Speaker:standards but if you don't hold up to
Speaker:the standards you're not cut out to be
Speaker:my team
Speaker:like that sounds harsh i present that in
Speaker:a way nicer way of course but ultimately
Speaker:if they're not going to put in the work
Speaker:to stay up with rides which is a great
Speaker:opportunity for them as a new agent i
Speaker:don't ultimately want them on my team no
Speaker:longer right i want the right people on
Speaker:my bus and so it's just a great way to
Speaker:indoctrinate them into the work that
Speaker:it's going to take to be successful and
Speaker:so um and on top of that anybody that
Speaker:has ever worked with a bunch of agents
Speaker:if you're a team leader or if you're a
Speaker:new agent we're all new agents at once
Speaker:right and so if you go back to when you
Speaker:were a new agent you didn't know what
Speaker:you didn't know
Speaker:and my new agents as they're coming on
Speaker:are so successful with rise way more
Speaker:successful than my veteran agents
Speaker:because they don't know any different
Speaker:other than to do what rice says
Speaker:if you just follow the process
Speaker:specifically you have success it's crazy
Speaker:like the new agents are twice as
Speaker:successful if not more on rise and other
Speaker:referral based opportunities because
Speaker:they just follow the process they don't
Speaker:try to outsmart it or try to mix it up
Speaker:to make it to where they're like oh well
Speaker:i can do it this way or that way because
Speaker:that's how i've done with my other
Speaker:clients ryze knows how the algorithms
Speaker:work rise knows what these these clients
Speaker:want to hear and so just follow the
Speaker:process and it works
Speaker:absolutely i've had teams that started
Speaker:with two agents one team in particular
Speaker:started in portland they used our
Speaker:program to expand into the seattle
Speaker:market and now phoenix started with two
Speaker:agents and now they're up to 25 so if
Speaker:you utilize it correctly ryze is an
Speaker:amazing tool to help you grow your team
Speaker:so
Speaker:absolutely so on that so sorry casey
Speaker:catch you off but like not only my local
Speaker:team but i'm a part of exp so i have exp
Speaker:network across the country and one of
Speaker:the things ryze has given me the
Speaker:opportunity is give agents and partners
Speaker:and teams in other areas as an example
Speaker:i've got two teams in florida i've got a
Speaker:team that's in st louis which is two
Speaker:hours away from me that got on rise and
Speaker:they're like dude how did you get me
Speaker:signed up for this like i'm the hero all
Speaker:i did was introduce them to casey in
Speaker:case he did the work right but it's it's
Speaker:just the leverage of knowing these
Speaker:opportunities exist
Speaker:because if you i would be willing to bet
Speaker:if you poll people and ask them how well
Speaker:op city works for them a lot of them are
Speaker:not going to be happy with op city they
Speaker:did not have the results they expected
Speaker:but what does casey and rise do
Speaker:they help you maximize that opportunity
Speaker:in case you may have the stats but i'd
Speaker:be willing to bet you guys get a lot
Speaker:better percentage results on opcity than
Speaker:than just an agent going through op city
Speaker:because of the algorithms and coaching
Speaker:you guys provide and that's the huge
Speaker:huge benefit for such a small cost to be
Speaker:in this network and make sure that you
Speaker:are
Speaker:maximizing these opportunities it's i
Speaker:can't tell you enough right now in this
Speaker:market shift in this market
Speaker:the maximizing opportunities is
Speaker:everything
Speaker:because the opportunities are going to
Speaker:get so much less and it's going to
Speaker:continue and so what do you do with
Speaker:those opportunities in front of you
Speaker:make sure you're maximizing them and
Speaker:rise gives you a great opportunity to do
Speaker:that yeah so when a brand new agent
Speaker:comes on um i've heard this from other
Speaker:team leads and i'm sure that yours is
Speaker:the same thing how fast can you put an
Speaker:agent under contract and get them to
Speaker:close their first deal a brand new agent
Speaker:no it kind of depends on the agent of
Speaker:course but we've had some we've had some
Speaker:that we've had to finagle that they got
Speaker:under contract before they were fully
Speaker:onboarded right so they called they won
Speaker:um and you've had some we've had some
Speaker:that i mean honestly if an agent doesn't
Speaker:get something under contract in the
Speaker:first 90 days on our team we look into
Speaker:it super super in depth to see what we
Speaker:can do to help them because we we want
Speaker:to set them up for success
Speaker:but ryze is a huge part of that a lot of
Speaker:our new agents get great opportunities
Speaker:through the rise opportunities because
Speaker:they're not
Speaker:they don't have a big database yet right
Speaker:like we have a pond we have
Speaker:opportunities but the longer you've been
Speaker:with the team you your database is more
Speaker:mature
Speaker:right depending on where you're at and
Speaker:so getting those rise opportunities as a
Speaker:new agent it's i mean they're hand
Speaker:raisers right they're like hey i want to
Speaker:talk to an agent about looking at a
Speaker:house that's a great opportunity for a
Speaker:new agent and right and so i think
Speaker:that's key to getting them up for
Speaker:success as long as they've taken the
Speaker:onboarding classes that casey mentioned
Speaker:awesome
Speaker:now the fun stuff
Speaker:talk to me about the shift
Speaker:we are seeing and how can agents stay
Speaker:relevant i know you kind of touched on a
Speaker:few things but let's literally kind of
Speaker:dive into that little piece
Speaker:yeah so i mean number one um
Speaker:inventory inventory's going up interest
Speaker:rates are going up and it's the market
Speaker:is more normalizing right we were so
Speaker:so drastically
Speaker:shifted in the in a way like we were
Speaker:fortunate as real estate agents like
Speaker:cove would hit and all of a sudden it
Speaker:became great to be a real estate agent
Speaker:right like it was insane what happened
Speaker:um
Speaker:but what is going to happen what i'm
Speaker:preparing everybody for is the market is
Speaker:going to normalize and as an example you
Speaker:talked about new agents casey one of the
Speaker:speeches that i give to my new agents
Speaker:all the time is you guys have a
Speaker:tremendous opportunity right now
Speaker:because you don't know what you don't
Speaker:know
Speaker:and so you don't know how it was 16
Speaker:months ago to sell the house
Speaker:what like literally you're like oh
Speaker:there's another lead let me go show them
Speaker:a house right it was easy oh this house
Speaker:just came on the market let's just make
Speaker:sure our offer is the highest and we got
Speaker:it right because it was just a such an
Speaker:unnormal market now the market is
Speaker:normalizing it's gonna there's gonna be
Speaker:a lot of agents that don't adjust and
Speaker:adapt because they're so used to doing
Speaker:business how they've done it for the
Speaker:last two years as a new agent you don't
Speaker:know any better and so if you just
Speaker:follow the processes and do what works
Speaker:for other seasoned agents to help them
Speaker:get to that successful level it works
Speaker:for you as well you don't have to
Speaker:you don't have to untrain yourself on
Speaker:the bad habits you've picked up on
Speaker:accident or on purpose over the last two
Speaker:years of being a real estate agent so
Speaker:with that being said the shift i mean
Speaker:there's two things that i keep that i
Speaker:tell my coaching clients and i'm telling
Speaker:my team that it's going to take to win
Speaker:number one is the action and the cool
Speaker:thing is that we're in control a lot of
Speaker:agents right now are panicked they look
Speaker:at mainstream media they look at all
Speaker:this oh my gosh the sky is falling right
Speaker:but in reality if you actually look at
Speaker:the national numbers in your local
Speaker:numbers number one you need to be
Speaker:educated on them to where you can
Speaker:explain
Speaker:over the click bait from mainstream
Speaker:media to make sure that your buyers
Speaker:aren't panicking so as an example
Speaker:make sure that you
Speaker:explained to them
Speaker:work like as an example month supply is
Speaker:a huge huge stat how many months
Speaker:supplier in your market
Speaker:how many were there six months ago
Speaker:because ours like you look at mainstream
Speaker:media and they're like oh my gosh all
Speaker:these how the housing market's gonna
Speaker:crash right we're going into we're going
Speaker:into um the housing market crash just
Speaker:like 08 but it's not it's completely
Speaker:different
Speaker:supply and demand
Speaker:think about it what was our problem with
Speaker:the real estate market for the last two
Speaker:years
Speaker:we had no supply
Speaker:none and tons of demand what happened to
Speaker:08
Speaker:the exact opposite
Speaker:right and so
Speaker:just because we're going into a downturn
Speaker:in the economy doesn't mean the real
Speaker:estate market is going to crash
Speaker:what half what caught 108 i feel like a
Speaker:big difference was the real estate
Speaker:market caused the economy to crash
Speaker:now the real estate real estate market
Speaker:is going to be an effect of the economy
Speaker:slowing down
Speaker:so i just put out a post yesterday it's
Speaker:the deceleration doesn't mean
Speaker:depreciation
Speaker:so as an example it starts with
Speaker:educating your clients when your home
Speaker:value doesn't increase 30 over a year
Speaker:that doesn't mean it's a bad real estate
Speaker:market
Speaker:right it's just decelerating to where
Speaker:now they're i think they're projecting
Speaker:around six percent in 2022 increase and
Speaker:like four percent next year
Speaker:and like four percent for the next three
Speaker:years
Speaker:like you're buying an asset that is
Speaker:scheduled to appreciate
Speaker:to appreciate and sorry i followed chat
Speaker:there um to appreciate over the next
Speaker:five years
Speaker:right and so
Speaker:don't don't fall into the trap of well
Speaker:the sky is falling because it's not
Speaker:we're we were so tilted um there's
Speaker:there's going to be tremendous
Speaker:opportunity for those that choose to see
Speaker:this as an opportunity
Speaker:but what it's going to take to win
Speaker:during this shift is two things the
Speaker:coolest part is they're in your control
Speaker:the action that you take on a daily
Speaker:basis and the skills that you build
Speaker:so what action are you taking are you
Speaker:getting back to you have to realize you
Speaker:have to follow up with people more what
Speaker:is your average contact attempt per lead
Speaker:how many how many calls does it take to
Speaker:reach a contact what is your home what's
Speaker:your contact rate to an appointment set
Speaker:appointment set to appointment met all
Speaker:of your kpis are very very crucial
Speaker:because if you can just move the needle
Speaker:five percent on one of those kpis has a
Speaker:drastic impact on your business
Speaker:and also the skills that you build
Speaker:so as an example
Speaker:how well are you what is your skill of
Speaker:educating your clients on what we just
Speaker:talked about how many of your clients
Speaker:come to you and say well i i think i
Speaker:want to back off and slow i want to wait
Speaker:and see until the dust set let's see
Speaker:what happens with the market or i'm no
Speaker:longer going to buy because interest
Speaker:rates went up i'm no longer going to
Speaker:sell because of all the stuff on the
Speaker:news
Speaker:like maybe that is the right decision
Speaker:for them but it's your job as a real
Speaker:estate professional to educate them on
Speaker:the national news and your local news
Speaker:you're the local expert be that resource
Speaker:that can educate them on actual facts
Speaker:versus click bait to see if you can work
Speaker:through what's the right decision for
Speaker:them because i have a gut feeling at
Speaker:least in my market and i know a lot of
Speaker:the markets the people that i coach if
Speaker:they wait it's gonna it's never gonna
Speaker:there's never gonna be a better time to
Speaker:buy a home than right now
Speaker:no i agree
Speaker:i think
Speaker:maybe this is bad uh name to put out
Speaker:there but i mean i watch this thing
Speaker:about dave ramsey
Speaker:he he said too right the biggest thing
Speaker:he says right now is the best time to
Speaker:buy a house and you think about who
Speaker:that's coming from
Speaker:the most conservative financial guy on
Speaker:the planet
Speaker:says right now is the best time to buy
Speaker:the house buy a house in the next five
Speaker:years like that says a lot
Speaker:100 percent so we're going to open it up
Speaker:uh to some q and a for you i know we
Speaker:only have a few more minutes with you
Speaker:matt um so
Speaker:i see one uh thing in the chat says matt
Speaker:were you uh agent and oh wait just
Speaker:curious i was not
Speaker:okay and then i have amazing friend uh
Speaker:steve shane out of uh florida here i
Speaker:don't know if you know steve shane he's
Speaker:a he's a cool dude um
Speaker:your kpis you track uh matt he's got to
Speaker:be a cool dude with a name like steve
Speaker:shane right
Speaker:so kp i track everything so i track
Speaker:number of leads average contact tent per
Speaker:lead um contact rate how much how many
Speaker:contacts equal an appointment how many
Speaker:appointments set versus met met versus
Speaker:signed signed versus under contract
Speaker:under contract versus closed how many of
Speaker:them came from which lead source how
Speaker:many of them came from our isas we track
Speaker:absolutely everything we can because
Speaker:what i've found and this is from my
Speaker:coach john chef like tiny hinges swing
Speaker:big doors and the more you can maximize
Speaker:those like as an example i went through
Speaker:an exercise with some of my coaching
Speaker:clients i'm like if i if i step in front
Speaker:of my team tomorrow and says how am i
Speaker:i'm gonna we're gonna double our
Speaker:business next year
Speaker:everybody's like how are you gonna do
Speaker:that
Speaker:like i've done that before right from
Speaker:from the stage being like i'm gonna
Speaker:double my business and just pure
Speaker:motivation no no facts no data just hey
Speaker:we're going to do it right we're just
Speaker:going to push through and persevere but
Speaker:i actually broke down an exercise and
Speaker:the biggest percentage increase that i
Speaker:had on any metric that we tracked was
Speaker:five percent
Speaker:can you increase the number of leads by
Speaker:five percent year over year is that
Speaker:something that's doable of course it is
Speaker:can you increase the number of
Speaker:appointments set versus met by three
Speaker:percent
Speaker:that doesn't sound significant but if
Speaker:you set 500 appointments on a large team
Speaker:you set 500 appointments three percent's
Speaker:a big number now you're meeting with
Speaker:three percent more and then say it's
Speaker:four percent more of those are getting
Speaker:signed
Speaker:two percent more of those are under
Speaker:contract and you close five percent like
Speaker:those little percentages on all those
Speaker:metrics make a huge huge impact on your
Speaker:business at the end of the year
Speaker:and i think it's tightening things up
Speaker:like that and knowing your numbers and
Speaker:knowing your business is what's going to
Speaker:help you not only survive but thrive in
Speaker:this changing market
Speaker:i like this next question from megan um
Speaker:what systems do you use to track all
Speaker:this data so our uh crm we use fallout
Speaker:boss um
Speaker:and so that that's very helpful for us
Speaker:but we also use csu
Speaker:um so it it and what what's cool about
Speaker:it is
Speaker:most things are only done once in the
Speaker:crm
Speaker:and when it's done the crm it updates
Speaker:all these other systems so the agent
Speaker:doesn't have to go in i don't have to
Speaker:worry about chasing the agents down to
Speaker:update their stuff are they perfect no
Speaker:but it doesn't our rule is if it's not
Speaker:in the crm it doesn't happen and their
Speaker:work number is through our crm so that
Speaker:they can have vacation and family time
Speaker:and not have to worry about that and we
Speaker:track everything through there so it's
Speaker:just we can and ultimately whenever they
Speaker:make their calls and their texts and
Speaker:whatever it is they're doing in their
Speaker:crm
Speaker:now i can actually coach them from a
Speaker:knowledgeable standpoint because i know
Speaker:what they have done and the result they
Speaker:have or have not gotten and so i can
Speaker:help them improve their business
Speaker:absolutely
Speaker:um you guys i got a couple more minutes
Speaker:for matt do you guys have any more
Speaker:questions
Speaker:this guy is the man so if you guys have
Speaker:anything please uh
Speaker:ask any questions feel free to unmute
Speaker:yourself
Speaker:um while we're doing that matt um
Speaker:go ahead how if someone wants to get in
Speaker:touch with you as well what's the best
Speaker:way to do so would it be email
Speaker:i'm gonna drop no it's on
Speaker:email um
Speaker:uh so i'm going to drop a link here in
Speaker:the chat um it's a link tree to my my
Speaker:all or nothing real estate brand um and
Speaker:it's just got anything um like i just
Speaker:did a webinar on how to how to thrive in
Speaker:a market shift it's all free sign up go
Speaker:for it
Speaker:i do a podcast all that's on there
Speaker:if you really want to get in contact
Speaker:with me the facebook private group which
Speaker:is a link there um sign up there um it's
Speaker:private group so you get more exclusive
Speaker:one-on-one with me i kind of i kept it
Speaker:private so i can monitor i have the
Speaker:right people in there i want it to be a
Speaker:community of contribution we're all
Speaker:working through this together i feel
Speaker:like the real estate industry sometimes
Speaker:gets cutthroat i don't like it
Speaker:and so i can monitor it and make sure
Speaker:that everybody in there is contributing
Speaker:and helping each other
Speaker:i also am open for coaching
Speaker:opportunities i've got three spots
Speaker:available right now i just opened up
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Speaker:opportunities there in that link
Speaker:and if nothing else just join that
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Speaker:it's free i give back to just give
Speaker:information and help help real estate
Speaker:agents succeed
Speaker:jillian another rock star i have right
Speaker:here what lead sources are you
Speaker:implemented during this shift
Speaker:um so we i'm a big big believer in
Speaker:trying everything and trying and
Speaker:tracking
Speaker:um and so
Speaker:but what i commit to and this is a
Speaker:little different during this the shift
Speaker:that the normalization that's coming um
Speaker:so i'll give you two answers number one
Speaker:make sure if you're trying to lead
Speaker:source do your research up front
Speaker:right and then give it an opportunity to
Speaker:work
Speaker:so as an example i see too many agents
Speaker:that try lead source for 30 days and say
Speaker:oh that didn't work
Speaker:what online lead source works in 30 days
Speaker:the average online nurture like attempt
Speaker:for a lead is 18 months right somewhere
Speaker:around there depending on where you are
Speaker:so you gave it a 1 30 days you didn't
Speaker:have a closing and you gave up
Speaker:like make sure you have the budget to do
Speaker:it for the time that you can actually
Speaker:measure it now if it's something that
Speaker:just they didn't deliver sure get rid of
Speaker:it but i give i give everything 12
Speaker:months i used to be six months when i
Speaker:was an individual agent but when i sign
Speaker:up i do my research i make sure i filter
Speaker:it out first and i give it 12 months to
Speaker:see if it's going to work and i again i
Speaker:track everything to see what the roi is
Speaker:on that another thing if you run a team
Speaker:a cool thing too is to
Speaker:you can see if you if you track things
Speaker:properly
Speaker:you can see which agents were better
Speaker:performing on certain lead sources
Speaker:and then you can give them more of those
Speaker:opportunities so they are more
Speaker:successful there and the other agents
Speaker:are more successful in their resources
Speaker:so it just depends every lead source
Speaker:every market is different
Speaker:i i recommend using what works for you
Speaker:now for the market shift what we are
Speaker:doing is we are doubling down on the
Speaker:stuff that doesn't cost us as much money
Speaker:what i mean by that is all of us on if
Speaker:you've been in real estate for more than
Speaker:more than three months you've probably
Speaker:got a past client or two
Speaker:what are you doing to stay in front of
Speaker:them what are you doing to educate
Speaker:educate them what are you doing to
Speaker:provide value to them so that they can
Speaker:be a lead generation source for you
Speaker:do you think how many of your past
Speaker:clients do you think would love to know
Speaker:about what the what their equity is in
Speaker:their home during this crazy real estate
Speaker:market when we're seeing all this
Speaker:craziness on the news when's the last
Speaker:time you did a pop by just hey just
Speaker:wanted to give you this one cheater on
Speaker:what your home was worth
Speaker:it's an investment as important as a
Speaker:home i just thought it might be
Speaker:important for you to know
Speaker:that's a value add that will get get
Speaker:your referral business which is free
Speaker:business
Speaker:oh thank you so much matt i know our
Speaker:times at 8 30. i don't know if you can
Speaker:answer this one question if you gotta go
Speaker:you gotta go uh when you were a new
Speaker:agent what was your daily focus
Speaker:work
Speaker:so um
Speaker:most people most people and now we track
Speaker:yeah work ethic was if that's that was
Speaker:my superpower work ethic i just
Speaker:outworked everybody um as an example
Speaker:where i was at
Speaker:wherever i came in
Speaker:i came in i was licensed in 2013 was my
Speaker:first year in real estate um and so in
Speaker:2013 in my market we just come our main
Speaker:market was right is right outside a
Speaker:military base and we had a military boom
Speaker:and everybody's belly was full similar
Speaker:to right now
Speaker:right every real estate agents have
Speaker:their best year over the last two years
Speaker:you should have
Speaker:um if you didn't there's a different
Speaker:conversation have but it's been easy
Speaker:right and so everybody was that way and
Speaker:so it's shifted similar to what it's
Speaker:doing now a different type of shift but
Speaker:similar and so nobody wanted to work
Speaker:they'd already made more money and
Speaker:they're like well i'll just wait for
Speaker:that that low-hanging fruit to come in
Speaker:and so i took duty every day
Speaker:six days a week for the first six months
Speaker:i'm duty in that office was 10 hours a
Speaker:day
Speaker:i had to do my showings either before or
Speaker:after you know like i i just i just
Speaker:outworked everybody and i was willing to
Speaker:do what it took and i'm a very
Speaker:self-aware person and so one of the
Speaker:things that i think we can all do better
Speaker:as as people and especially as real
Speaker:estate agents in the skill building
Speaker:maximizing opportunity space is
Speaker:reflect after a phone call reflect after
Speaker:a buyer appointment what could you have
Speaker:done differently or better to have a
Speaker:better result or better impact on that
Speaker:person
Speaker:because a lot of people just focus on
Speaker:the the numbers and they just want to
Speaker:call more people call more people which
Speaker:is great action's going to win but
Speaker:action without skill doesn't work
Speaker:it's not about it's not about the number
Speaker:of people you've caused about the
Speaker:quality
Speaker:so make sure you're focusing on the
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