How Ben Kinney Built a Real Estate Team to Sell 600 Homes / Real Geeks Training
RECORDED LIVE Google Hangout “Keeping It Real” event on "How Ben Kinney Built a Real Estate Team to Sell 600 Homes" . Ben shares the most common mistakes agents make when hiring people to build your real estate team. What to do and NOT do when building a team. * His ideal team structure and positions you can model * Team Break Down: Buyers Agents, Listing Agents, Admin, and Telemarketing * How his team generates leads and listings * How he finds top talent for his team and you can too * Shares how he compensations team members for profitability He’s on track to sell 600 homes this year, working only 4-5 hours a week in his business – and also owns 7 other locations with over 800 agents. Here's a few main points we covered with timestamps: (4:09) Ben Kinney's background and the benefits of having a team (6:21) Getting started building a team: What's your first hire? (9:55) Hiring buyers agents so you can focus on listings (13:36) Adding a listing agent and additional lead generation support (15:49) Giving leads to agents BEFORE going to an ISA (19:11) How to maximize efficiency and growth with the right admin team (21:17) Ben's "10 Days of Pain" process for lead conversion (23:30) The mindset it's crucial to have for effective communication (27:26) 3 tips for successfully utilizing scripts (30:12) How to approach compensation for each position (33:50) Identifying talent: ALWAYS be on the lookout (38:48) Accountability through transparency (41:56) How Ben adjusted to changing Craigslist guidelines (46:00) "If you could start over, what would you do differently?" (49:05) The benefits of unfair or unequal lead distribution (51:32) Tracking both nurtures and appointments from ISAs (55:04) Resolve to release anything not adding true value Ben answered a lot of live Q&A. Keeping it Real live events are hosted by Jeff Manson, Hawaii real estate broker & CEO/ Founder of Real Geeks and Frank Klesitz, CEO and Co-Founder of Vyral Marketing – these are 100% educational events. P.S. If you didn't have a chance to watch our last event "How to Hire a Prospecting Assistant to Set 40+ Appointments For You w/ Special Guest Bill Jenkins" you can watch the full replay here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQrky0NihE
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