To Win The Real Estate Game: You Need A Great Team!

Grow Your Network

Now, let’s expand the team!  There are, undoubtedly, many merchants or services that you use that would be good to add to your team. People like to do business with people who they know, like and trust AND people who do business with them. So over the next month, keep this list with you and each time you spend money somewhere, consider adding that person to your list. I’ve started this list for you. Expand it with additional categories that fit your life and business. These people will usually be others who are building their businesses and would benefit from some mutual referrals.

Expand Your Guru Status

You are already the Guru of Real Estate to a group of people. Maybe it is a small group of past customers, clients and your family. Or, maybe you have done a good job at creating a niche for yourself with a large group and you are THE GOLF COURSE PRPOPERT GURU in your town. Regardless of how successful you have been in the past, the conscious expansion of products, services and people to serve your niche will make you more valuable and increase your guru status.

Who are your ideal clients?  What is the profile of clients that you most often serve?  Where you are farming or prospecting? What hobbies or interests do you enjoy?  What are the common demographics or psychographics of the people who are in these categories? What services or needs might be valuable or of interest to them? The list below will help you  brainstorm these potential team players.

 If you are a golfer, it could be the golf courses, the golf shops, the golf pros, etc.

If you farm a neighborhood, all the small business owners, entrepreneurs or service people who live in that neighborhood or want the business of those living there.

These three charts give you 100 contacts. It is estimated that every person has an average of 200-250 people in his/her sphere of influence. You are shifting your focus from looking for the client to focusing on people who may know and refer a client. Your sphere is then greatly expanded. If you add 2 new team members each week will expand it to over 100 by the end of the year! This is a more profitable and fun way to prospect than cold calling.

Once you have expanded the team, it is important that you make them feel important and part of the team. An ongoing program and automatic system to stay in contact, to reward and to send as many outgoing referrals as you can is critically important. You may want to check out The Real Estate Game® as a way to get this in action and set yourself up for a really productive last quarter!

(Joeann Fossland, Certified e-PRO Trainer, GRI, PMN, is a Master Certified Coach and Founder of the Web Women Giving Circle. Joeann is the Creator of The Real Estate Game®, the most effective group coaching available, Co-Creator of No Blogger Left Behind, and organizes  an annual business planning retreat. You can reach her by e-mail.)