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Something that’s great about being a commercial real estate broker, is that your competitors normally don’t do much to stand out from the competition. They rely primarily on prospecting and on their grit and determination, and oftentimes they don’t embrace doing things like marketing, and utilizing today’s technology to stand out from their competitors...
Sometimes, when you begin feeling overwhelmed, you'll recognize that you need an assistant working along with you in your commercial real estate brokerage business. But you may not be ready to hire a full-time assistant, and this is where hiring a Virtual Assistant can be of great help to you...
So many commercial agents have asked me over the years about the possibility of hiring a telemarketer to make prospecting calls for them. This video does a good job of telling you how to find the ideal telemarketer to get this done, and it includes some good resources for both locating the ideal person, and for making sure they're properly prepared to make the calls for you. In addition, keep in mind that depending on the state you live in, the laws there, and what exactly you will be having the telemarketer say for you on the calls, you may need to hire someone who has their real estate license.
Leave it to a solid, amazing, top-producing broker like Craig Coppola, SIOR, CCIM, CRE, to create a new software program for commercial real estate brokers named CREOneSource. This program helps brokers to track all of their deals that are currently in progress, and it helps to facilitate the ongoing communication between all parties to the transaction, the timely meeting of all of the deadlines, and the transmission of important documents for the deal, too...
Here's something simple you can do that will help to brand yourself in people's minds, have them see you as the market leader, and have them appreciate the valuable information that you'll be providing to them...
The Holiday Season has always been a natural time for many brokers to make the move to join another brokerage company. So with this in mind, here are some ideas to help you decide whether or not making the move right now would be a good idea for you...
So what do you do then if you're a broker working for a company that doesn't already have great software available for creating solid presentation packages? Well, one solid option now is to take advantage of the software known as the Commercial Real Estate Online Publisher, located at...
In knowing that both email and e-newsletters have now been around for so long, it’s still interesting for me to observe the relatively low number of commercial real estate brokers who are sending e-newsletters out to their clients and prospects on a regular basis...
Something that I've been recommending for years that commercial real estate brokers should do, is to host a monthly or a quarterly video market update, keeping your clients and prospects informed on what's going on within your territory...