This Thanksgiving weekend, I was reminded of a note I shared with the Realvolve community two years ago… SEVEN years ago, to the day, I registered the name ‘realvolve’ with the idea and intent to build simple (haha) CRM software. Looking back, it took months to come up with that name. […]
I’ve said it many times, and here I am saying it again: Relationships are key to real estate success. But relationships alone won’t get you there. There are two cornerstones to real estate success, both of equal importance: relationships…and process. Process is what turns those relationships into transactions. It’s what enables you to convert a [...]
There are millions of tech tools out there that were designed to make our lives and our work easier, more productive, more enjoyable—just somehow better. A lot of these tools, you already know—Evernote, Facebook Ads Manager, and, of course, Realvolve. But with new software and apps being developed all the time, there’s no way you [...]
I observe this every day here at Realvolve. One of our salespeople will call a prospect at the scheduled time of their meeting and the line rings and rings and rings. No answer. They send a short follow-up email to set up another call. Still nothing. Crickets… They’ve made good on a promise to connect [...]
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Welcome to the world of real estate! If you do it right, you’re going to build a successful business that will change your life. Getting started as a real estate agent can feel daunting. How do you win your first client when you have zero experience? How do you generate leads when you have no [...]
Despite all of the wonderful opportunities that lie within your hands of being a Realtor®, we sure do have a tough business when it comes to building a real estate contact database. A traditional long tail* business rules don’t easily apply to us—we sell someone a house, and then wait seven years until they’re ready to buy [...]
When shopping for the best real estate CRM software platform, consider the following: The most important question to ask yourself is – do I want to have a sales career for 30 years or do I want to build a true business? And the keyword is YOUR business. Even if you work for a big [...]
“Indeed, the persons who take the greatest pains to proffer such advice are themselves unable to put it into practice.” – Seneca In order to grow, evolve and move forward as real estate agents and as an industry – we have to look at our past with open eyes. Let’s be honest. Real estate sales [...]
This is the final post in a series of 5 articles demonstrating the impact templates and workflows can have on your real estate business. When I think back to how I used to run my real estate business before using a CRM, it makes me cringe. So much time spent with incomplete paper checklists and [...]
