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3 Tips On How To Be A Better Buyer’s Agent

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Interested in how to be a better buyer’s agent? Here are 3 tips to help you represent your buyers to the best of your ability.

1. Always Conduct Thorough Market Research

This is perhaps the most important key to being a good buyer’s agent. The colloquialism ‘knowledge is power’ is really critical to embrace when you begin to look for properties and consult with your buyers on submitting purchase offers. By displaying your knowledge of the local market, your buyers will feel more comfortable working with you and know that you have their best interests at heart. When this happens, your buyers will feel confident referring you to their friends and families. And that is how you build your business.

2. Find (and utilize!) A Great CRM

Keeping track of current buyers, properties, prospects and seller agents can be a difficult task. This is where having a good CRM (or customer relationship manager) comes in handy. A good CRM should be able to track all of your contacts, integrate with email and phone services, and calendar at a bare minimum. Hubspot offers a great free(they also offer a paid version) CRM that integrates with G Suite and Microsoft products. You can even dial contacts right from your phone via the Hubspot app. There are also real estate industry focused CRMs and other contact management software out there such as REA. But from a cost effective solution, Hubspot is the best.

3. Manage Your Social Media And Online Presence

Managing your social media and other online presence (including your firm’s website, review websites such as Yelp, etc) is a fundamental part of how to be a better buyer’s agent in 2019. Whether the content is put out by you or your buyers in the form of reviews, it’s really important to maintain control and be aware of what is out there. As a buyer’s agent, you’re really selling yourself and your own personal brand versus a product. Reputation management is something that you cannot take lightly.

Bonus tip: Stay Up To Date With Your ConEd!

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4 Reasons To Become A Real Estate Agent

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Becoming a licensed real estate agent could be a great career opportunity for you!

Becoming a real estate agent, or real estate salesperson can open up a fulfilling and rewarding new career.  Here are 4 reasons to become a real estate agent.

1. You don’t need years of post secondary school and expensive student loans

In fact, most states simply require a 40 hour pre-licensing course and that’s it!  In fact, in Michigan, you could be a licensed broker(able to run your own real estate firm) by the time you’re 22-the same age when most of your peers are just finishing up their schooling and entering their careers.  You can be established in yours already.

2. The median salary for real estate sales agents is more than the US median salary

According to The Balance, the median wage in 2017 for all careers was $44,564.  The 2017 median salary for brokers and sales agents was $47,880 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.   That difference means a lot more coffee!

3. Pre-licensing training in Michigan costs as little as $169

In Michigan, a 40 hour pre-licensing course is all that is required to sit for the real estate sales person exam.  At Real Estate Leadership Academy, we offer them for as low as $169 and it’s completely online.  Click here to view Michigan sales person pre-licensing courses.

4. As a real estate sales agent, you can have a great work-life balance

Having a work/life balance is becoming more and more of a perk that companies are offering.  What if your entire career had a built in work life balance?  As a real estate sales agent, you have the ability to schedule showings and office work around your schedule.  In fact, may people work as a sales agent as a side occupation.

Ready to get started as a real estate sales person in Michigan?  Click this link and let’s go!

 

 

References:

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/average-salary-information-for-us-workers-2060808

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/sales/real-estate-brokers-and-sales-agents.htm

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alankohll/2018/03/27/the-evolving-definition-of-work-life-balance/#2d92ded79ed3

 

 

Don’t Forget Con-Ed!

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Heads Up!  Michigan Con-Ed Requirements are due by October 31!

Within each 3-year licensing cycle, licensees are required to complete 18 credit hours of CE (6 of which need to be legal and must be completed as two hours each year). The current cycle is November 1, 2015 to October 31, 2018.

 


There has to be a better way to learn the real estate profession!

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Ever feel like you really want to make a career change, but can’t afford to quit your current career while preparing for your knew one?  That’s where realestateleadershipacademy.com‘s real estate pre-licensing and continuing education courses come in.

Our online real estate training courses are designed specifically with the individual who is currently working in mind.  Our courses are 100% held online and are easily accessible from smart phones, tablets, and desktop computers.  This means that you can work on a lesson while you’re on a bus, after work, on your lunch break, or the weekend.

Check out our list of real estate salesperson pre-licensing courses and our pre-license broker courses here.

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