Are Brokers Actually Wasting Their Time Recruiting Real Estate Agents?
Can you feel it?
It’s that feeling you would get standing on the shore of a tropical island, watching the tide vanish for what could only be an incoming Tsunami.
Even though you can’t quite see the wave yet, she’s coming. She’s coming with silent, destructive fury.
Your pulse starts to race. A softball-sized lump fills your throat. Your skin tingles and burns with anticipation of the impact.
The real estate industry is about to be reshaped in more ways than most people can imagine, thanks to tsunami-sized companies like Redfin, Zillow, and Amazon invading the space.
Never before have buyers and sellers felt such distaste for real estate agents and brokers.
Never before has your sense of urgency and ability to evolve with technology been so crucial.
As you race to recruit agents in competition with major players like Redfin, you need to stop for a moment and ask yourself:
Who do I really want to recruit to this team to help us survive the wave?
Who is worth me spending my limited time on recruiting and training?
Who will be prouder to belong to my brokerage than to have a guarenteed 6-figure salary?
The fact of the matter is, if you are like most real estate brokers, you are wasting a lot of your time on recruiting activities that are misdirected or out-dated.
If you want to survive the surge and swim to the top, you need to get more careful about who you recruit and how.
Today’s post is going to show you exatcly how to do that.
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Who Should You Recruit?
Up until now, recruiting has been a numbers game in most brokerages. Team leaders have been pressured to usher in as many agents as possible, for limited concern about the quality of the recruit.
That is no longer financially feasible.
If you want a brokerage that will be strong enough to withstand the trials that lie ahead, you need to start focusing on the quality of agents that you recruit.
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Instead, you should focus on designing a profile of your ideal agents. Who are they, what do they value, what motivates them, etc. The agents you recruit need to be in alignment with the overall mission of the brokerage.
Remember, you can always teach and train skills. In fact, that’s your job. However, values, morals, and talent can’t be taught. They either have what they need to empower the team or they don’t. It is as simple as that.
How Should You Recruit Them?
Once you have built a profile of your ideal agent, you get to manipulate the shit out of them.
Say what?!
That’s right; you get to manipulate big time.
You see, you can’t achieve astounding recruitment conversion rates until you know your target on a very intimate level. Once you know who they are, and what makes them tick, you can show them that you are the answer to their prayers.
How?
You show them with content.
Like I always say, anyone can tell you that they’re the best, but few actually prove it. Content in the form of blogs, books, webinars, podcasts, Alexa skills, videos, etc., allow you to show every agent looking for the best broker why you are the best choice.
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Here’s the thing though, and this is where most of you will fuck it all up…
You can’t make the content you create, about you.
I’m going to say it again because I need you to realize that this will make or break everything:
YOU CAN NOT MAKE THE CONTENT ABOUT YOU!
If you want to manipulate people, sell to people, make people fall in love with you, make them want to join a fucking cult, you have to make it all about them. You have to make them feel like you understand their inner-most thoughts, fears, and dreams. You have to make them believe that you understand them and their needs unlike anyone else can.
The way to do that is to make your content all about them.
Create how-to guides based on what they want to achieve.
Create podcasts that address their fears, obstacles, and goals.
Create videos that give them the play-by-play on what’s happening now, and what’s about to affect them in the near future.
The more you make it all about them, the more they will trust you.
If you want to seem like the biggest, badest, rockstar of real estate there ever was, show them what you know and they will come to you.
Did you catch that last part?
I said...let them come to you. That’s exactly what they will fucking do too!
I know, because it is exactly why some of the biggest names in the came come to me before I have ever heard of them. I don’t chase anyone. I don’t do any traditional marketing at all. All I do is create as much content as I can that is in the best interest of the people that I want to attract (my own ideal clients) and put it out there for everyone to see.
You guys come to me. Do you know how amazing that feels when people start chasing you down.
Imagine how much better your life and business would be if the best agents around were chomping at your heels asking to be allowed to become a part of your team?
It’s possible!
All you need is the right strategy.
Get A Personalized, Cutting-Edge Recruitment Strategy
I don’t want to see you drown.
In fact, I desperately want to see you end up on top after all is said and done.
The state of what is happening to the industry as a whole is a widespread condition. However, your market, your brokerage, and your team are unique. Therefore, you need a new personalized strategy to recruiting that makes sense for you.
I am offering you a free strategy session to address the recruitment challenges that lay ahead and the smartest ways for you to recruit, based on your unique situation.
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