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Building a virtual real estate business: Jason Gesing
eXp Realty is a global cloud-based agency that has taken the industry by storm, with more than 22,000 agents joining the fold in North America and the United Kingdom. As eXp entered Australia last year, Jason Gesing was named the company’s Chief Executive Officer. We met up with him to go inside the virtual world and learn the growth story…
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Putting your best brand forward: Lisa Pennell
With 20 years experience in the real estate industry working with several major brands, Lisa Pennell is currently the head of marketing for the Ray White Group, specialising in brand protection and crisis management. Download the action guide for this episode with more links and resources at https://eliteagentelevate.com “The most interesting thing about the marketing…
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Addressing the complex issues in real estate: Douglas Driscoll
Douglas Driscoll is CEO and owner of the Starr Partners real estate group. With more than 30 offices across NSW, the group is one of Australia’s most trusted and recognised brands. Douglas has officially been recognised for his dynamic and pioneering approach, having been named Industry Thought Leader three times in the past four years.…
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The 6 P’s of branding and networking: Reed Goosens
The author of best-selling book Investing in the US: The Ultimate Guide to US Real Estate, Reed Goossens quit his safe engineering job in Australia to move halfway across the globe to change his life and chase a dream in the US in 2012. With limited funds, no investing experience, and no established network, Reed…
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How Josh Tesolin wrote a million dollars in his first year of real estate
Josh Tesolin is a man on a mission. At $3 million mission. In just his third year in the real estate industry the Australian Real Estate Sales Manager and Auctioneer is aiming to sell more than 150 properties and write more than $3 million GCI. It’s not an impossible task for the Quakers Hill area…
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Greg Merrilees: How real estate agents can build trust and nurture relationships online
Robert Cialdini's best-selling book Influence talks about six factors that can help you sell anything to anyone. In case you need a quick recap - they are reciprocity, consistency, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity. What works in the offline - or person to person world - also works with your website according to Greg…
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How agents can use LinkedIn to build relationships – Adam Franklin
Today, we are talking to Adam Franklin – who is the author of Web Marketing That Works – an Amazon #1 bestseller. He is a professional speaker, university lecturer and CEO of Bluewire Media – which he co-founded in 2005. His blog was named Australia’s #1 business blog and his podcast was named #9 on Entrepreneur magazine’s top marketing podcasts.…
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How to work less and make more (in real estate!) – James Schramko
Do you know what your Effective Hourly Rate (EHR)? For employees, it's pretty simple, but if you are a business owner it's a little harder to calculate! It's also a core principle that James Schramko's book Work Less, Make More builds upon to get you using your time more effectively to fund the lifestyle that…
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How to embrace change and future proof your business – Gihan Perera
If the database you’d built for years was hacked and destroyed, would it be the end of the world? Or could you replicate most of your data fairly quickly using other more modern ways of gathering data? Futurist Gihan Perera, in this podcast, throws down the challenge to innovate – particularly in relation to startups that may not have the…
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2020 PM/Leadership Kick-off with Hannah Gill
Last Saturday we kicked off the year from a sales perspective with Coach Claudio Encina. Today we look at the PM/Leadership angle with one of our favourite industry experts, Hannah Gill. As the MD of one of Australia’s largest rent rolls at Independent with a team of 60 staff, Hannah has been at the forefront of change and innovation in property management for many years. She…
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2020 Kick-off with real estate sales coach Claudio Encina
Coach Claudio Encina needs no introduction to Elite Agent readers and listeners, he’s been working with us pretty much from the word go, with his popular Ask the Coach column and his role as Head Coach in various rounds of sales transform. Outside of this, he is one of Australia’s most highly regarded real estate coaches and speaks regularly at…
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How to get Matchfit in 2020: Andrew May
How in tune are your body and brain right now - would you consider yourself to be fit for life - or what Andrew May would call being 'Match Fit'? If this is something aspirational for you this year, this podcast is for you. As one of the world’s leading strategists on wellbeing, workplace performance…
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Gaining the competitive edge: Victoria O’Sullivan
How did you end last year? Did you feel tired? A little run down? Did you find yourself at any time sacrificing your personal health for the sake of your business or your clients? Today we are going to kick the decade off with a bang - focusing on your competitive edge and energy in…
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A “Useful Belief” review of 2019 in real estate: Chris Helder, Mark Edwards, Samantha McLean
“There’s a lot of people spending a lot of time working on things that don’t actually matter.” - Chris Helder Chris Helder is a business communication expert and master storyteller whose presentations have radically transformed how thousands of people worldwide communicate with clients, customers, colleagues, staff and teams. He has been a professional speaker for…
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Building an audience to generate leads: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards
If someone gives you their email address they’re letting you into their very personal space and you need to respect that.” - Samantha McLean Samantha McLean is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Elite Agent and host of the Elevate Podcast. Mark Edwards is the Co-Founder and Publisher of Elite Agent. Download the action guide…
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What I learned at Harvard University about negotiation: Pancho Mehrotra
“It seems we are so fixated on more and more and more that we can’t celebrate what we are actually achieving.” - Pancho Mehrotra Pancho Mehrota is the CEO of Frontier Performance and an expert in communication, influence and the psychology of selling.
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Bolstering productivity and customer service: David Holman
“I think the biggest gain in productivity, is to create that level of collaboration and to create the spaces that really allow people to have those key conversations, meet each other and start talking about what they’re doing in their day, their work and hopefully then say how can we help each other be better?”…
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Thriving in your first year of real estate: Ryan Smith
“If I knocked on 100 doors and 99 said no it didn’t really bother me.” – Ryan Smith Realmark Rookie of the Year, Ryan Smith believes in integrity, energy, hard work and creative service in every facet of life, not just real estate. An exceptional sportsman, who represented WA in football and golf, Ryan joined Realmark Urban as a sales…
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Embracing online auctions: David Scholes
“What is most important is for an agent not to be scared to do something different. Not to be scared to approach an owner with a bold new plan … to differentiate themselves. Be adventurous enough to do something different because, I promise you, owners that have to select an agent are not going to be fazed by a person…
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Real estate trends in 2020: Dean O’Brien
“When we sit in a room we are allowed to have a difference of opinion, but when we leave that room we can only have one direction.” - Dean O'Brien
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The road to financial freedom and creating a life with purpose: Nancy Youssef
“Like anything where there’s adversity. I see there’s opportunity. And what I’ve seen a lot of business owners do, including ourselves, has been to go back and audit our business and say, right, well this was a bit of a scare. This was a bit of a shakeup. How are we running business today and what are the things that…
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Competition, Transparency and Social Proof: Will Ainsworth
“The only people that will succeed at Openn Negotiation are honest real estate agents, for starters. There’s more work involved in this process than there is under the traditional selling methods, so it does take a bit of time, but once you master it, it’s quite an easy process.” – Will Ainsworth Download the action guide…
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Real estate industry property and media stars recognised at AREAs 2019
Recognising industry excellence and best practice, 21 awards were presented across the categories of Innovation, Service & Marketing Excellence, and Community. Gold AREA awards were presented to outstanding individuals and agencies changing the game in property. (More photos below story) 1 2 3 4 5 Gold AREA award winners: Residential Agent of the Year – Holly Komorowski, home.byholly, ACT Commercial…
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Exactly what to say to progress the deal: Jimmy Mackin
“Sales shouldn't be sleazy. Sales shouldn't be misleading. Sales should not be something where. It's an argument, and oftentimes when we look at the landscape, we look at the scripts that are out there. We found that the outdated techniques that agents were using were both ineffective and didn't really represent what we felt were…
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How to become an authority in real estate by writing a book: Geoff Grist
“If you can find an area that you want to educate somebody about, how you do the job, what happens ‘if’…there’s a lot of things that can go wrong and if you can explain all those in an easy to read way, there’s probably a book in it." – Geoff Grist In this episode of the…
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Tara Bradbury – Building A Rent Roll From Scratch
Tara Bradbury, the Founder of the BDM Academy, has, over many years, being someone who has immensely raised the profile and status of the role of business development manager. In this podcast, she shares not only lessons from her time as a BDM coach, but also now in the role of business owner having this year started a PM business…
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Perry Marshall – The network effect and how to build a business that lasts
Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. He’s guided clients like FanDuel and InfusionSoft from startups to hundreds of millions of dollars. Not only that, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs uses his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. His Google book laid the foundations…
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Jeff Turner: How to future-proof your real estate business
Jeff Turner has been a leader in all things digital in the real estate industry for decades - and now he helps tech startups understand and navigate the real estate industry as a part of the NAR incubator program. In this interview with Hayley, we take a deep dive into how technology is changing real…
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Australia’s six-star family estate for sale
Australia’s unrivalled six-star luxury riverfront property is on the market in Perth. The resort-style oasis at 89 Watkins Road, Dalkeith is famed for its impeccable lush grounds complete with orchards, tennis court and picture perfect 25m swimming pool. The 6406sqm estate is spread over six titles on a quiet cul-de-sac, overlooking the Swan River in Perth’s prominent waterside suburb of Dalkeith. The…
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New campaign demands ‘Solar for All’ Australians
A coalition of more than 20 community groups has launched a ‘Solar for All’ campaign, calling on state governments to end ‘solar lock-out’ and give all Australians access to safe and affordable energy. According to the groups, more than one third of Australians are locked out of access to clean energy because they rent, live in apartments, have unsuitable rooftops, or…
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Hayley Mitchell: How to increase productivity in property management
Hayley Mitchell started in real estate in 1999 and has worked in all facets of property management. She’s won numerous awards including REIV property manager of the year two times and has twice been named on the Elite Agent industry influencers list in 2017 and 2018. She also recently launched a new business, Geelong Property…
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Mark McLeod – The fundamentals of business growth in real estate
With a wealth of experience in the real estate industry, Mark McLeod is the Chief of Growth of the largest real estate group in Australia. Mark’s role focuses in on how agents can grow themselves personally in order to grow the business professionally. In this interview, Mark discusses growth in any market, how the role…
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Kylie Walsh, DiJONES – Strategic recruitment and how to retain key people
Kylie Walsh is the General Manager of DiJONES and has more than 20 years of real estate experience in every type of role. She began her career at the young age of 21, where she bought her first real estate office in Tamworth. This was only the first step in a successful corporate property management career – and with many…
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Starting a real estate business in a niche market – Adrian Wilson
With nearly 20 years of real estate experience and an MBA under his belt, Adrian Wilson is a multi-award-winning real estate agent who is now conquering the Sydney City apartment market via his new venture Ayre Real Estate, an agency that is specialising in high-rise apartments.
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Jason Rose – Optimising Vendor Marketing Campaigns
Jason Rose began his career in real estate back in 1987, specialising as an auctioneer, traveling all around Australia. He was always determined to be the best in his business, but realised he wanted to transition to other parts of the industry. Spending some time as a real estate salesperson, business development manager, co-owner of…
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