Market Maker Real Estate Blog

  In today’s real estate market, getting listings is as competitive as it’s ever been.   The combination of a shortage of inventory and a flood of new agents hitting the real estate market can make it tough to get consistent listing business. With this as the current reality, no agent can afford to be their own worst enemy in generating and then converting listing opportunities. It can damage your listing business...potentially irreparably. Here are five...

  One of the toughest things about growing a real estate business is the lack of consistency. There are months where you have multiple listing appointments and sales and then there are months where you couldn’t buy an appointment or a sale. It can be maddening. Sure, at the end of the year, things may come out alright, but who wants to live their life riding on the real estate roller coaster? Likely not you. Need more listings next year? Find out how to fill your...

 Here’s a closer look at some old school marketing strategies and why they cost more money to generate business for you.   Eight-track tapes, rotary phones, video cassettes, cassette tapes, CD’s, phone booths, etc; they all played a significant part in our history as a maturing nation. But today, it’s almost impossible to find any of them anywhere other than a museum or a flea market. Why...because they’ve ‘old school” solutions that have...

  With budgets ranging from $100 to $60,000 per month, it is imperative that you understand exactly how to not waste a single lead you pay for!   The single biggest mistake made by agents who are trying to grow their business is focusing solely on lead generation.  You could have the lowest cost per lead and the most leads out of your entire market, but IF YOU CANNOT CLOSE THEM...IT MEANS NOTHING! Agents waste up to 97% of their leads due to lack of understanding how to maximize...

    It’s exciting when the time comes to grow your business - either as a team or to expand to another location. What accompanies this excitement, however, are a number of decisions to be made and actions to be taken so that things turn out the best possible for you and everyone involved. And, while you can’t control everything that happens as you expand your enterprise, you can control what you decide to do and how you’re going to handle things. The most...