Archive for July, 2010

Becoming A New Real Estate Agent – Part 1

According to our expert James Kimmons

Whether you’re about to get your real estate license, or you’ve begun your career as a new real estate agent, this plan of action will help you to do the right things at the right times for a successful start of your real estate agent career. Though these steps are shown in a certain order, many of them are worked on simultaneously. So don’t try to work them out one at a time, but work on several at the same time. This your “Master Planning Sheet” with links out to detailed instructions for each summarized step.

Difficulty: Average

Time Required: The more you devote, the faster you’ll progress.

Here’s How:

  1. Nail down your personal and business expenses. This is a business. Successful businesses do budgets and know their expenses, as well as projected revenues.
  2. Get a realistic plan of your income expectations. Using a funnel approach, you can estimate income out the bottom of the funnel from the type and number of expected prospects falling into the top of the funnel.
  3. Develop a marketing budget with data from previous step. Once you have an idea of the results from each type of marketing, you can more intelligently allocate money to them.

To be contd….