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How to Lead a Winning Team in 2018
Building Super Teams and Impactful Leadership: Matt Lahood
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Azal Khan: Hi, I’m Azal Khan from Elite Agent Magazine, and we’re here at our event, How to Lead a Winning Team in 2018. I’m joined now by Matt Lahood, Chief of The Agency, one of the fastest growing real estate brands in Australia. Matt has spent over two decades transforming careers, building super teams, and mentoring hundreds…
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Transform Masters 2017
Asking What Matters Most in User Experience: Alister Maple-Brown
Transform Masters 2017 is brought to you with thanks to our sponsors Property Tree, realestate.com.au and Real+ In this exclusive interview brought to you by Transform Masters 2017, Alister Maple-Brown, CEO of Rockend, talks about user experience, trends in customer expectations and the future of property management. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Alister: I’m Alister Maple-Brown, I’m the CEO at Rockend. Q.…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 28: The real estate edition of the Census, Altman Brothers, connecting agents with voice recognition tech, resilience and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was. ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. To…
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How to Lead a Winning Team in 2018
Staff Incentives and Building Trust for Culture and Growth: Ewan Morton
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Azal Khan: Hi, I’m Azal Khan from Elite Agent Magazine. We’re here today at our event, How To Lead A Winning Team In 2018. I’m lucky enough now to be joined by Ewan Morton, Joint Managing Director of Morton. He spoke to us today on how to design staff incentives for culture and growth. Ewan, you’ve said that…
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Episode 27: How to Identify Risk and Obtain Insurance for your Real Estate Business
Transform Masters: Sharon Fox-Slater talks to the 2017 Transform Masters about the types of insurance that can be implemented in your business e.g. professional indemnity, cyber crime, landlord/pets and business continuity, and the importance of performing regular audit checks on your internal and external procedures and policies. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate…
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Episode 26: How to Be Resilient in the Face of Adversity
Transform Masters: Ush Dhanak talks to the 2017 Transform Masters about the need for resilience in life and business, how to avoid negative self-talk, and how to get yourself into a much more positive mindset. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you…
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How to Lead a Winning Team in 2018
Creating Sustainable Business and the Journey of Doing Good: Chris Hanley OAM
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Azal Khan: Hi. I’m Azal Khan from Elite Agent Magazine. I’m here today at our event, How To Lead A Winning Team in 2018. I’m joined by Chris Hanley, Director of First National Byron Bay. He’s an Order of Australia Recipient, and Byron Bay Citizen of the Year. To the real estate industry though, he’s a humble and…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
REIQ 2018 Awards for Excellence Finalists Announced
REIQ CEO Antonia Mercorella said this was a very special event because the winners would be part of the REIQ during its centenary of celebrations. “As we look back on a century of shaping the Queensland real estate market it’s wonderful to draw a link between today’s highly professional real estate practitioners and those ambitious few men who started this…
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Video of the Week
Video of the Week – A Day in the Noel Jones Office
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Video of the Week
Video of the Week – True Blue View at Esplanade
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 24: How to Improve Your Listings and Create Digital Efficiencies
Transform Masters: Kul Singh, Executive Manager – Rent at realestate.com.au talks to the 2017 Masters about the things that landlords, buyers and tenants look for in property listings, and implementing digital efficiencies to create more time back in our days and offer higher service levels. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals,…
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Transform Masters 2017
Understanding Business Insurance and Risk Management: Sharon Fox-Slater
Transform Masters 2017 is brought to you with thanks to our sponsors Property Tree, realestate.com.au and Real+ In this preview of her Transform coaching session, Sharon Fox-Slater of EBM RentCover talks about insurance to consider in your real estate business, protecting yourself from cybercrime, and shares some effective tips for risk management. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Sharon: I’m Sharon Fox-Slater, Managing Director…
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Brand Editorial
Tom Ferry on the Innovative, Motivated Agent of the Future
TRANSCRIPT Claudio Encina: So, Tom, tell me, you were one of the forefronts in technology. I remember going through all your summits. You were always one of the ones who was predicting the trends and they came true. I remember even that little flip video that you said, “I went to Australia, and I couldn’t find it anywhere. I had…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 23: How to Create Better Customer Experience Within Your Business
Transform Masters: Scott Downing, Chief Customer Officer of Rockend, talks to the 2017 Masters about how customer service can be the cheapest form of referrals if you get it right, why you should consider bad customer experience feedback as a gift, why keeping employees happy is key to keeping customers happy, and why partnering provides a better service than going…
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Elite Agent
A New Way of Working: Alison McGavin
Talented but tricky? The generation known as ‘millennials’ have a lot to offer if they find meaning and value in their work. Alison McGavin from Real+ shares some tips for ensuring you can engage and retain your top young talent. The millennial portion of your office, already likely to make up a substantial percentage which will just get larger as…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 22: Craig Pontey, Ray White Double Bay’s 30th birthday, and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean recaps the week that was with special guest Craig Pontey, Director of Ray White Double Bay. ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Sharing is good for business at Ray White Double Bay: Elliott Placks
Ray White Double Bay director Elliott Placks is a big believer in being open and sharing data with his team. The 36-year-old ambitious leader at the powerhouse Double Bay office said the benefits were monumental for everyone involved – for buyers, sellers and agents. “Many people are fearful of change and not letting go but I believe the better elite…
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Transform Masters 2017
Creating World-Class Customer Experience: Scott Downing
Transform Masters 2017 is brought to you with thanks to our sponsors Property Tree, realestate.com.au and Real+ In this preview of his Transform coaching session, Scott Downing, Chief Customer Officer at Rockend explains the role of customer experience within the real estate industry, how it is evolving through self service and cloud technology, and share the ways in which Rockend measures user…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Veteran agent Michael Finger loves to help others thrive
After 46 years in the industry, Ray White Double Bay director Michael Finger is an enduring leader who is respected by many. The power of strong partnerships resonates throughout Mr Finger’s whole life and at age 63, he still writes between $1.8M and $2.2M as well as driving and growing the already successful Double Bay office. The business of managing…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 21: How to Lead With Authenticity: Tracey Fellows, REA Group
Transform Masters: Tracey Fellows is one of the industry’s most accomplished and experienced leaders having held senior leadership roles for companies like Microsoft and Australia Post before heading up REA. With interesting lessons for everyone, Samantha McLean asked Tracey in-depth questions about how she finds and retains top talent, how she manages the demands of work with her personal life,…
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Elite Agent
Discipline, Patience and Process: Meet Ercan Ersan
Ray White Erskineville | Surry Hills | Alexandria director Ercan Ersan thought he’d made the worst decision of his life moving agencies three years ago. But in fact it turned out he had made the best move yet. The likeable 37 year old, who moved to property giant Ray White in 2014 from a small boutique agency group, said agents…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 20: How to Lead a Winning Team, the AREAs, the truth about cats and dogs and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was. ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. To…
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Transform Masters 2017
Transform Masters 2017: Highlights
Transform Masters 2017 is brought to you with thanks to our sponsors Property Tree, realestate.com.au and Real+ Enjoy the highlights from this year’s Transform Masters series.
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Agents need to sharpen communication with vendors in a slow market: Andrew Cocks
As the auction market softens and the gap between vendor and buyer price expectations widens, agents would do well to begin honing their communication skills. Despite some properties continuing to attract bullish prices the 65 per cent Sydney auction clearance rate, which is artificially high through manipulation of listings, and 32 per cent in Brisbane recorded on the weekend, suggests…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 19: Rental searches, How to get property editorial, Better customer experiences, Productivity apps, Rethinking video + Sharks and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. This…
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Transform Masters 2017
Digital Trends and Investor Insights: Kul Singh
Transform Masters 2017 is brought to you with thanks to our sponsors Property Tree, realestate.com.au and Real+ In this preview of his Transform Masters Coaching session, Kul Singh, Executive Manager – Rent at realestate.com.au, talks about the current trends in the rental space, the expectations of landlords and tenants, and how to improve your online listings. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT My name…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 18: October values, News round-up, Tom Ferry comp, Off-market sales, App stacking and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. This…
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Transform Masters 2017
Technology and Automation in Real Estate: Ian Campbell
Transform Masters 2017 is brought to you with thanks to our sponsors Property Tree, realestate.com.au and Real+ In this preview of his Transform Masters Coaching session, Ian Campbell from Aire Software talks about the importance of technology audits, tips for team software training, and how the future of technology will impact the real estate industry. Ian will also be speaking at…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 17: How to Sustain Business Growth Using Outsourcing
Transform Masters: Aimee Engelmann, CEO of Beepo, talks to the 2017 Masters about the benefits of outsourcing, how it sustains the fundamentals of your business and its return on investment with some example case studies and data. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we…
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Elite Agent TV
Matt Hall, Red Bull Air Racing Champion: Winning Without Shortcuts
To see Matt Hall and 20 other industry leading coaches and mentors on November 14, book your tickets here Check out the program here All the speakers are listed here
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Brand Editorial
What was Coach Tom Ferry about to say?
TRANSCRIPT Claudio Encina: So, here I am in LA with Elite Agent Magazine and we’re doing a little US tour. It wouldn’t be the same if we didn’t stop by and said hello to one coach, who certainly impacted my life almost 20 years ago. I was in Palm Springs, at the Marriott, and I saw this guy and it…
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FEATURE INTERVIEWS
Passion and Dedication: Jacob Pirrone
How many years have you been in real estate? On and off since I got my licence at age 18, actively selling for the last four years. Pirrone Property just celebrated its two-year anniversary! What motivated you to get into real estate? Other than family influence, my wife and I are keen renovators and have been buying and selling across…
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OPINION
First Homebuyers Making the Right Moves: Michael Davoren
The REIA recently reported that first home buyers, as a proportion of total owner-occupiers, are at the highest level since July 2013 and the number of first home buyer home finance commitments is the highest since December 2009. New stamp duty exemptions and concessions in NSW and Victoria began on the 1st of July this year, which were designed to…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 16: Trends in tech explained, Singing and Dancing, Russian Boats, Presenting tips, Robots and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. This…
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