Megan Barber, Author at Real Estate Agent Support

Hit Your 2019 Goals By Adding Transaction Coordinators To Your Team

Get a strong start to 2019 by putting experienced Closing Coordinators on your team. By now most agents have an idea of what their goals are for 2019, and most of the time that includes either a set number of transactions or a dollar amount of closings for the year. To reach your goals you will probably need to build a strong closing team to help you. No agent is an island and you can't hit those goals alone. Even if that means you are only working with inspectors and the cooperating agent and lender, Continue Reading

Focus on Client Care: Creating a Great Experience For Clients in a Transaction

6 Ways to Let Your Client Know You Are Still There Even When Using a Transaction Coordinator One of the reasons you hired a transaction coordinator is because you want to create a great client care experience, grow your business, and not miss things along the way. The transaction coordinator becomes a vital part of your client care team. You found the perfect transaction coordinator and things are going great until you get THAT call. The call from an irate client that wants to know why they don't hear Continue Reading

7 Ways To Market Your Real Estate Listings and Generate New Leads

Get ready to maximize the exposure of your Real Estate listings to generate new real estate leads and increase brand awareness with this 7 point plan. Congratulations, you have a new listing! You've got the sellers to sign the dotted line of the listing agreement, the home about to be staged and photography is scheduled. So now what? It's time to spread the word about this new home beyond just inputting into the MLS. Time to market this listing to the masses online and offline. At List to Close Inc, we Continue Reading

How Real Estate Agents Can Authentically Connect on Facebook With Clients

Connecting with your clients on Facebook in a real authentic way is important in building your referral business. Facebook has long been the platform to communicate with our friends and family. And with recent changes, Facebook is putting the newsfeed focus squarely back on the reasons people joined Facebook to begin with: connecting and engaging with friends and family. With real estate being a relationship business, Facebook is just one tool that can help agents build and nurture relationships with the Continue Reading

5 Tactics To Turn Downtime in Your Business Into Business Growth

Turn that slow period into a WIN with these 5 tips to foster business growth! Downtime in the real estate industry typically leads to frustration, unless it's scheduled, because you want to be doing more business, not less. The truth is if you learn how to make the best of unexpected downtime you will actually be able to create business growth instead of a deficit. Let's take a look at 5 ways you can use downtime to create growth. 1. Revamp your marketing plan. I know an agent that had some unexpected Continue Reading

Serita’s Recommended Reading List

Recommended Reading to inspire and improve your real estate business One of the things I think is important in any person in business is to keep learning so that you can keep improving what you are doing. One of my favorite forms of learning is to read. I seriously have over 1,000 books on my shelves with business and pleasure reading. That doesn't touch the number of books I only have in digital format on my Kindle. That being said, I have a few books I like to recommend to expand your Continue Reading

Facebook Algorithm Changes and What it Means for Real Estate Agents

Facebook announced a Game Changer. What is a Real Estate Agent To Do? Late last week, Facebook made a huge announcement about some major algorithm changes that will be headed to their newsfeed. What followed that news story was a collective freakout session among marketers and other businesses, including many real estate agents. After spending some time listening to the Facebook experts like Mari Smith and digesting what they had to say, I'm here to weigh in on what this means for real estate agents on Continue Reading

9 Tips for Putting Your Real Estate CRM to Work For You

When it comes to actually using their Real Estate CRM, many agents seem a bit lost. When consulting with agents across the country one of the things that are discussed most often is their lack of success with their real estate CRM (Customer Relationship Manager). Most agents tell us they have not been using their CRM simply because it is a mess. It typically becomes our job as real estate virtual assistants to clean it up and get it organized and working for the agent. Here are some tips I have put Continue Reading

15 Ways to Work on Your Real Estate Business When Cold and Snow Hit

Just because it's cold outside doesn't mean you can't still be working on your real estate business. Even if you have a blizzard there are ways to work on your business that will help you get more business and take care of the clients you currently have. I know it's tempting to curl up by the fire and turn on Netflix, but take at least a few hours to work on the below tasks to make an impact on your business. Let's take a look at some of what you can do from the comfort of your office or home Continue Reading