Red Day 2012
What a GREAT Red Day!
I Joined the Palm Harbor office and put a few brush strokes on the Mattie Williams Neighborhood Family Center. They did a fabulous job making baskets and painting the building.
Then had a treat at the HOPE Children’s Home. I Had lunch with the kids there, heard them sing some beautiful, heartfelt songs and turned the jump rope for them.
Our Tampa agents did a fabulous job sprucing up the cottages there and cleaning busses.
Then we topped it off with a visit at Clothes to Kids. If you haven’t heard about this fabulous outreach, wow! The Region teamed with Belleair, Tampa and Palm Harbor to deliver dozens of bags of clothes. The Clothes to Kids store provided wardrobes for over 12,000 Pinellas County kids last year. They’ll do another 13,000 this year! They have a wonderfully warm store and I’m so proud to be associated with so many agents who made a difference in our communities today.
Truly put perspective on building Careers worth having, businesses worth owning and Lives worth living!
Click here to watch a short video with pictures from Red Day 2012!
Michael Burke – More Than Doubles Business
Michael Burke joined Keller Williams Realty’s Bonita Springs market center after attending Mega Camp in 2010. In just one year Michael took his business from $9 million to $20 million in production!
In 2011, Keller Williams associates continued on their success trajectory. Average income per agent went up a whopping 16 percent. Average units sold per agent up an incredible 19.5 percent in the United States.
We’re happy to share Michael’s key strategies for success and tell you how four other agents doubled – even tripled their business! Contact Mark Olesh confidentially today at 727.772.5600 or olesh@kw.com
Take Action Today – It Could Mean Millions!
I just heard about two real estate agents who’ve had great success recently. One took a $1.3 million listing from a For Sale by Owner. The other had a buyer who purchased a $3.9 million home. They had something in common. (more…)
The Way To Better Career Performance
A must see, entertaining video for real estate agents that can shed some light on what your current real estate company offers to help build your career. Look for these key points as you watch and how they apply to you. It happens that the Keller Williams business model falls along the same lines as the study findings presented by Dan Pink.
- Autonomy - working on your own, self direction
- Mastery - learning to become the best you can be at your career
- Purpose - Our philsophy at KW – Careers Worth Having, Businesses Worth Owning and Lives Worth Living. This attitude brings better talent, and creates a strong organization of people working together.
Number One in Marco Island Real Estate
The 2011 Awards celebration was held recently in our Marco Island office – check out these results!
- The McCarty Team was the #1 Agent on the island for Closed Volume.
- The Wilkins Team was the #3 Agent on the island for Closed Volume.
The McCarty Team was number 1 for the entire Marco Island Board of Realtors and Wilkins was #3. This was based off of closed volume of $44,531,750 for McCarty and 34,901,493 for Wilkins.
Below are the numbers showing the rankings at the board for 2011. Congratulations to everyone!
The McCarty Team
- The Wilkins Team and the CEO for Marco Area Board of Realtors.
Welcome Jeff Arrendale to Keller Williams Belleair Office
Jeff is a second generation Real Estate Broker and grew up in and around Real Estate. He has had his Real Estate Broker license for over 25 years but did not use it except for an occasional transaction when he would buy or sell my own home.
Jeff spent most of his life working in the Healthcare field as a Respiratory Care Practitioner specializing in Neonatal Intensive Care. He also spent many years working in the Trauma unit, Emergency Department, non-invasive and invasive Cardiology services, and Neuro-services. After 20+ years of adrenaline, Jeff decided to move into another role and manage multiple healthcare offices. He divided his time between the operations and sales management of Homecare, Hospice, and infusion companies. Jeff’s last 10 years have been spent managing numerous teams across 6 states. He has always kept his Real Estate license active and knew that one day he would be able to pursue his dream of working in the Real Estate field full time.
Jeff’s guide and mentor in his Real Estate career was his mother, who was an accomplished Real Estate professional. She was influential in so many lives and helped bring the joy of home ownership to hundreds of families in the West Atlanta area. She also brought many people to the field of Real Estate over her years in the business. As the recipient of the Phoenix Award from the Board of Realtors in Atlanta, she was always doing her best to bring the joy of Real Estate to everyone she met.
I am glad that I now have the opportunity to continue in my mom’s footsteps. She would have been happy to have known that I finally made it to the career that she wanted me to pursue.It has been a long and winding journey that has brought me to this profession and to this time in my life. I hope to grow my business quickly so that I can have the love of my life, my wife Deb, join with me in the Real Estate profession. I look forward to working with the team at Keller Williams.
From all of us at Keller Williams, Welcome to the family Jeff!
Paul Andrews – 3 Deals After 30 Days With KW
Paul Andrews was in property management at a small local independent and wanted to switch in to sales. A friend referred him to KW and he joined the day before family reunion. He attended and got busy – getting three contracts in only 30 days! Here what Paul has to say:
Visualize Your Success
I was in Orlando Florida last month, with almost 10,000 realtors from Keller Williams Realty.
The Annual Awards ceremony was wrapping up and there was great excitement because this year there was a BIG Giveaway. A new Ford Edge! The contest was trumpeted for months. Everyone was talking about it.
Before Any Great Success, People Usually Visualize It
When the announcement came, a roar went up from the right side of the room and bouncing out of the mass of humanity was a woman named Maria Pumilia. She had a fabulous black dress, her hand over her mouth. She was crying as much as laughing. Her excitement overwhelmed the room. Maria quickly flashed her cell phone to the person who’d announced her name. WOW!, I thought. I know this is your dream of a winner for a contest. Here’s what I didn’t know:
Maria flashed her cellphone because there was a picture of the New Ford Edge—with the words, “MY CAR” She said she’d prayed EVERY day for the car—because she needed it. Groups of agents had come into the market center each day saying how this was going to be Maria’s car. She submitted 573 postcard entries. She bought a brand new dress just for the awards, so she’d be well-dressed at the awards—and here’s the clincher. She had bought and paid for a ticket from Albuquerque to Orlando—for his sister—who flew in the next morning—-to drive the Ford Edge back home with Maria.
What success do you want to have this year? Can you see it? Remember, what you focus on Expands!
You Got How Much?
psst!
There’s something we would like to share with you – actually quite a few things…
Do you know how much Keller Williams Partners
profit shared everyday in 2011??
$100,000 A DAY!
Every day. For an entire year!
That’s how much Keller Williams Partners profit shared in 2011! And it’s the best decision we ever made. Believe the rumors, or profit from the truth. For a confidential consultation on how you can grow your real estate business and your personal wealth, call me, Mark Olesh, at 727-772-5600 x 23.
- Would you like a piece of the pie?
How Rising Interest Rates Will Impact Affordability
For those who can afford to buy, trade up, or invest, our current market presents a lifetime opportunity. Reposted from KWblog.
In a recent Forbes blog post, multimillionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson declared that today’s record-low interest rates made this the best time to buy homes in fifty years. “If you don’t own a home, buy one,” Paulson said. “If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes, buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home.” Why should we care what Paulson thinks? Well, he was among the few to accurately predict the subprime collapse and, while no one has a crystal ball, a closer look at the numbers supports his call to action.
Historically low interest rates are the key…and they aren’t likely to hang around for long.
As we wrote in SHIFT, buyers who “choose to wait until prices come down more” are gambling that interest rates will hold steady or drop. The truth is even a 10 percent drop in home prices is nullified by a 1 percent increase in interest rates. The figure below illustrates how this works for a $250,000 home purchase and the relative likelihood of each scenario.
To figure out which was a smarter bet–counting on home prices to fall further or interest rates to rise–our research department took the last ten years of monthly home price and mortgage interest rate data and ran the numbers to see which was more likely: an increase in mortgage rates or a further drop in home prices. Here’s what we found:
- A one percent increase in mortgage rates is ten times more likely to happen than a ten percent drop in home prices.
- A one percent rate increase more than offsets a ten percent reduction in home prices.
- When interest rates fall by one percent, the total interest paid is almost three times more than the interest savings from a ten percent drop in home prices.
- The probability of both happening at the same time is ridiculously small, and homeowners would still pay 15 percent more in interest over the life of the loan.
Interest rates have dominated the news in recent months as we’ve shattered record low after record low. Potential home buyers need to understand the positive financial impact low interest rates have on the cost of home ownership and the thousands of dollars that can be saved over the life of a typical mortgage loan. For those who can afford to buy, trade up, or invest, our current market presents a lifetime opportunity.
The Path To Success – Is Through Failure
“You don’t succeed your way to success, you fail your way to success.” That was the topic of one of Gary Keller’s Session’s at the Family Reunion earlier this month.
“Everybody on this planet has been a loser in life at SOME TIME,” said Keller. The trick is not to stop, especially not while you are losing. That’s the only way you actually fail.
The depth of the concept can be difficult to grasp, unless you look beneath the veneer. R.H. Macy, J.K Rowling, Soichiro Honda, Milton Hershey, and F.W. Woolworth, were all REAL people, with real failures—lots of them, before finding phenomenal success.
Feeling sorry for yourself because you were rejected? Why Colonel Sanders SECRET recipe was rejected over 1,000 times!—Before it became famous chicken.
Upset because you were criticized? Well, Walt Disney was turned away for lacking imagination.
Depressed because you are carrying too much debt? Harry Truman worked for years to pay off debt. 13 years to be exact!
No matter how dire your situation may be, you can work your way out of it and become great. Every success story has done just that. No one can determine how big you think or how high you go, but you! Why not make 2012 the year, you decide to go for it? Fear not, failing your way to success. The reality is—it’s the only way to get there!
If you’d like proven models and systems to succeed in real estate, give me a call. I love to help people take their real estate business to the next level.
Three Tips For Success From Mike Eruzione
1980. The Cold War. It was a time of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Along came a hockey team that revived the spirit of our nation. The Russian Team had beaten all the best PROFESSIONAL teams in the world and had rolled the U.S. amateur team just before the Olympic Games by a score of 10-3.
Now, in Lake Placid, the U.S. team turned the tables and stunned the Soviets with an improbable 4-3 victory. I had the opportunity to see the captain of that team, Mike Eruzione, at the Keller Williams Family Reunion this week. (more…)
Profit Share – It’s not just about the money!
The Keller Williams South Florida Region alone shared over 1.2 MILLION DOLLARS with its associates in 2011. But you don’t have to choose to participate and get a check to receive the benefits of Profit Share. You see, because someone in the Market Center is going to profit share, the kind of environment that’s developed is dramatically different. And it ultimately benefits everyone.
The Business model creates an office that feels like a T-E-A-M. Imagine a place where top agents don’t hesitate to jump in and help others if needed. It’s an environment where everyone is treated like family. That’s because it’s a true partnership. It’s impossible for a market center owner to make money without associates having the chance to share in the profit.
So if you want to share, jump into the profit share program and you can make passive income. You’ll get checks. If you don’t want passive income and you want to learn how to earn more, that’s great too. Either way you win!
Come join the family for a few days—-at the Family Reunion, beginning Feb. 11th in Orlando. Call today 727-772-5600 x23.
Welcome Eric Cederman and His Team!
Eric Cederman, of Cederman Properties, and his team have recently joined Keller Williams Realty, Palm Harbor. Eric has been named Commercial Director and comes with 20 years commercial experience. Eric has owned his own company for years and made the decision to merge with Keller Williams Realty for many reasons. Eric states “ The opportunity to grow our Commercial Division with KW’s innovative technology and the potential of growth in the International Market were driving forces in my decision”.
Eric and his wife Marie settled in the US from France 20 years ago and continue to have strong ties to the international market. Their business views and the desire to help others closely match that of Keller Williams Realty. He is looking forward to adding many Commercial agents to Keller Williams.
Thanks a MILLION for KW Family Reunion – Orlando Feb. 2012
I just heard the story of Nicole Charles. This real estate agent from Wisconsin has made over a million dollars in just over four years—THANKS to the Family Reunion!
Her story will give you 7 things to think about:
- She has earned over $50,000 in referral income from the event.
- Nicole implemented the building blocks for her plan from concepts she heard at Family Reunion
- She Spent 6 uninterrupted weeks in Europe on a family vacation. Could that be you?
- Nicole has more time off.
- She has More Financial Security.
- Ready for this? She now expects to make almost another million dollars in just the next 12 months.
- Think you should sign up? What are you waiting for?
It’s coming to Orlando February 11th!
Sign up today! Come meet the Family! We’d love to see you there!
Florida Real Estate Agents – Come Meet Our Family
The Super Bowl has been played 45 times, but only 14 times has that unique event played out in Florida.
Likewise, the Keller Williams Family Reunion is played once a year, and its location varies. This February 2012, the Reunion is coming to Orlando, Florida and YOU are invited! Yes, all real estate agents, with any company, are warmly invited to share in this amazing event, to experience the culture, training and group spirit KW has to offer. (more…)
Where’s Me Gold?
Ok, so you’ve been panning the river for talent and finally, you’ve done it. You struck Gold!
You hired a really talented person who will no doubt make your life easier. Now what? (more…)
ALC Clinic 2012 Jan 19-20th Davie
ALC membership is a unique opportunity to have a choice in driving the success and profitability of your market center. The ALC Clinic shows you how to be a member of a highly powerful and effective ALC (more…)
Action Training – January 9-10th 2012 Pembroke Pines
In two days learn how to develop successful and self-managed talent, as well as, ways to successfully lead and motivate your team. (more…)
Don’t Go Without in 2012
Get your GPS to Business Success
Did you make the money you wanted this year? A lot of real estate agents did. Our agents in South Florida have put over 11 Million dollars MORE in commissions in their pockets during 2011! The ones I know had 2 things in common.
- They had a business plan.
- They committed to doing what it takes to make it happen.
Some committed to farming. Some did open houses. Another worked his database. They’re all celebrating the joy of (more…)
