Josh Phegan
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LEADERSHIP
Josh Phegan: How to Charge More
With every real estate agency seeking to win more listings, top coach Josh Phegan says there are only two ways to increase profitability. You can focus on the competition, or you can focus on the customer. But choose wisely, as only one of them is responsible for paying your invoice. Our industry is obsessed with what the competition is doing.…
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Elite Agent
How Far We’ve Come: Josh Phegan
You can’t do anything in business or life without intent. To grow a great business you’ve got to have something that drives you. Whether you call it goals, a dream, vision, a purpose, mission, whatever it is, it needs to be the number one thing that drives all your activities. Josh Phegan explains what needs to come next to make…
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TECH + SOCIAL
Rethinking Your Systems: Josh Phegan
The challenge with technology in our industry is that we’re not playing a big enough game. It’s our strategy that’s wrong, not the technology itself. In recent years we’ve been longing for a piece of tech that does it all, a magical database that lets property management and sales play together. Instead, what we’ve developed to date are silos of…
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CUSTOMER SERVICE
Winning Big
Let me tell you about an amazing App for your phone. You don’t need to download it from the App store; it’s already there and it’s the best way to get organised in the new financial year. I’m amazed by how many people wait until the end of the calendar year to reflect on achievements and set goals for the…
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CUSTOMER SERVICE
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Elite Agent
Solving the 10 Pain Points of Prospecting: Josh Phegan
Your greatest asset is your ability to learn. There can never be a day that you’re not learning something new; if that day comes it may be the beginning of the end. You need to have a lifetime of hunger, to push yourself beyond what you think you’re capable of, to allow failure and keep going. It’s not rocket science;…
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Elite Agent
Riding the wave: Josh Phegan
IF YOU WANT TO be successful at surfing the biggest waves in the world, you need to be able to read the signals. Likewise, learning to read signals from your prospective clients will help you to successfully deliver more sales and avoid a wipeout. Coach Josh Phegan explains. EVEN THE WORLD’S best surfers fear Hawaii’s deadly Banzai Pipeline. The surf…
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Elite Agent
Time to Tame Your Database: Josh Phegan
Databases can’t be bought; they must be built, and it’s up to you to do it. Josh Phegan explains how a modern take on a system that worked for his grandfather can help you successfully track your buyers and sellers. There’s no doubt my grandfather, Arthur Phegan, was a smart man. Way back in 1972 he categorised his sellers by…
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Every Agent Has a Story
Every Agent Has A Story: Josh Phegan
Our next story comes from Josh Phegan, real estate coach, trainer and speaker, who shares the two key lessons he learned after an untimely accident during preparation for a video shoot. Plan your time. Always be looking at your calendar. Look months to years ahead, not just days. Despite mistakes or mishaps in your day, they will eventually work themselves…
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Elite Agent
What They Really Need: Josh Phegan
In the digital age, showing that we’re human is more important than ever. High performance real estate coach and trainer Josh Phegan highlights how great agents create a unique bond with their customers and why personalised service wins. We live in a remarkable time. While the industrial revolution gave birth to huge factories and complex machines manufacturing on scale, the…
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Elite Agent
Our Top Ten Motivational Posts of 2016
Whether you are in Sales or Property Management, sometimes the hardest thing in real estate is to stay on course. Here is a list of our favourite motivational articles for 2016. 1. How to Beat Call Reluctance – Jet Xavier “Everybody lives by selling something,” according to Robert Louis Stevenson. But, for many agents, working the phones is…
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Elite Agent
Driving Change
Josh Phegan explains why you should view change as a positive thing. For many of us in real estate, change is the only constant. People handle it in different ways and many see change in a negative light. They’re the ones recounting the glory days of old while resisting the new, usually with an ‘if it isn’t broke, don’t fix…
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BEST PRACTICE
Beating Burnout
Working smarter, not longer, is the key to success. High performance real estate coach and trainer Josh Phegan examines what role diet, sleep, exercise and work routines play in you staying at the top of your game. We’d all love a few more hours in the day. More time to prospect, more time to list and more time to sell. But is…
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Elite Agent
Fee Falling
Negotiating your commission can be a tricky business, especially when someone tries to undercut you. High performance real estate coach and trainer Josh Phegan has some example techniques which will help you fight the discounters and maintain your fee. Fee cutters are a fact of life in real estate. You will never be able to escape them, but there are ways…
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Elite Agent
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
According to the AdAge, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So why are some business leaders afraid of expanding? High-performance real estate coach and trainer Josh Phegan examines the fear and how to beat it. Too often business leaders fear, rather than celebrate, the swift growth of their business. Management becomes overwhelmed and bogged down in…
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Elite Agent
50 Top Tips from Transform
We learned more than you could ever imagine from our Transform coaches over a 12-week period. Here is a rapid fire 50 top tips from both our coaches and our Super Six. What got you here won’t get you there. What got you to 12 or 16 sales is not going to get you to 100. But there is potential…
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Elite Agent
Listing Ahead Of the Curve
WE’VE ALL HEARD THE SAYING ‘slow and steady wins the race’ and real estate agents should take heed of this when they’re prospecting for new listings. Josh Phegan explains why you need to think about listing ahead of the curve – for the future. THE IDEA OF listing ahead of the curve may make you think you need to list…
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Transform 2016 Coach
Personal Productivity and Milestones for Growth – Josh Phegan
Thank you our Week 8 sponsor: myrealestatecpd.com.au provide online CPD training for NSW Agents. Click here for more information. Coaches: Josh Phegan. Josh Phegan will be speaking at AREC 16 this year, to book your tickets visit arecconference.com. Coaching Links: Josh is a regular contributor Elite Agent magazine. Click here for some of his articles Video Notes/Transcript 00:00 Introduction and Session Overview: Samantha McLean…
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Elite Agent
The Secret to Success
Fears halt many potential real estate careers in their tracks. Josh Phegan examines how to beat the devil inside and take the path to prosperity. Success – it’s all up to you. That may be blunt but it’s the truth. You’re the only one that can carve out a successful real estate career for yourself. The trouble is many people…
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Elite Agent
Starting Out Right: The Road to Success
REAL ESTATE CAN BE A MINEFIELD, particularly when you’re new in the business. With the dawn of a new year and with many fresh-faced agents joining the fold, it’s important to start off on the right foot. High-profile real estate coach and trainer Josh Phegan has some top tips on how to jump-start your year. Sometimes, the problem lies in…
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Elite Agent
Hitting a Homerun
JUST AS BASEBALL’S Sandy Koufax was known for his devastating curveball, many a vendor has been known to create a tricky situation as a result of a challenging question. Josh Phegan explains how to smash your vendors’ ‘curveballs’ out of the park. FOR THE unprepared agent, a listing presentation can quickly become a minefield of ‘should haves’ and ‘would haves’…
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PROSPECTING + LISTING
Old vs New
BOB Dylan sung that the times were changing, and it’s an adage that rings true in today’s real estate world. That’s not to say that everything old is now worthless, but it’s equally true that everything old is not new again. Instead there are new, modern ways to approach age-old processes to ensure you, as an agent, are performing at…
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BEST PRACTICE
Many Hands Make Light Work
JOSH PHEGAN LOOKS at the question of when you should hire an assistant. AS THE NUMBER of properties you list and sell increases, it’s vital that you build a team around you to cope with the increasing workload. There’s only so much one agent can take on; that’s why hiring an assistant is a key component in progressing your business.…
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Elite Agent
Making A Move
IT’S AN AGE-OLD QUESTION that both excites and perplexes many real estate agents: When is the best time to expand into a new market? This questions is usually then closely followed by ‘How do I decide which areas to expand into?’ and ‘How do I ensure I’m successful?’ On the one hand, expanding your business is exciting; but on the…
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BEST PRACTICE
Is your head in the game?
Real estate agents striving for success need to make sure they are mentally tough. Josh Phegan explains how to make sure your head is always in the game. WE’VE all seen tennis players who are struggling physically and psychologically double-fault at moments of crisis and lose a tiebreak. Every day real estate agents face just as much pressure. So how…
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Elite Agent
Tactical Listing
JOSH PHEGAN EXPLAINS HOW client-centred tactics and preparation will win the listing every time. TACTICS ARE the key to delivering a winning listing presentation. Just as footballers would never run onto a field without a game plan, real estate agents should not approach a listing presentation without preparing their tactical approach. The listing presentation is your chance to win potential…
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Elite Agent
Stay Humble, Stay Hungry
MEDIOCRE; IT’S A WORD MOST people hate. For real estate agents it’s a time, a phase in their career, they want to skip past quickly. Josh Phegan explains how you can make the big leap from good to great. SO HOW DO you leapfrog past the point in your career where things are moving along okay but not setting the…
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CUSTOMER SERVICE
The Power of the Past
JOSH PHEGAN DISCUSSES HOW to turn every sale into a long-term relationship. FORGET THE adage ‘the past will come back to haunt you’. Real estate agents should strive to ensure the past comes back to help them. The trouble is, many agents don’t look at the big picture or view their career as a long-term journey. Instead of viewing every…
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Elite Agent
Defending Your Fee
CHEAPER DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN better when it comes to selecting a real estate agent, but convincing sellers of that can be difficult. High-profile real estate coach and trainer Josh Phegan explains how to determine your worth and then how to get it. YOU KNOW the market. Your number of sales is on the rise. So are the prices you’re selling…
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PROSPECTING + LISTING
Get the lead, then don’t be beaten!
Solid leads are both the lifeblood and the bane of real estate agents’ existence. When you’re converting leads to listings and sales you feel invincible and suddenly all is right in your property world. Without leads or without converting leads, you have no listings and without listings you can’t make sales. The trouble many agents face is avoiding the ebb…
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