How to Combine Your Passions With Your Real Estate Profession

Are you hating life as a real estate agent? If so, you need to hear today’s interview with Austin-based Realtor Andres Bustamante. Andres found the perfect way to mix his passions with his real estate profession. As a result, he’s crushing it in his sales career and enjoying the grind. Listen and learn how to spice up your sales strategies, what to focus on in your social media content, and why a fear of public speaking could be holding you back from helping more clients.

Listen to today’s show and learn:

What you’ll learn in today’s Real Estate Rockstars Podcast [0:00]
Mixing your passion with your profession [1:52]
Overcoming nerves as a new real estate agent and having quality conversations [5:03]
What’s working for Andres on social media right now [11:30]
Hyperlocal real estate content [12:19]
Creating educational real estate content for potential clients [15:37]
Inviting collaborators on Instagram for massive reach [17:29]
Creating “hooks” to keep content viewers engaged [20:25]
Andres’ process for creating reels with CapCut [22:37]
Placing CTAs in social captions [25:40]
Andres’ favorite real estate apps and tips [28:00]
How public speaking and story telling can get you sales [32:06]
Andres’ goals for the future [39:34]
Additional advice for real estate agents on social media [41:52]
Where to find and follow Andres Bustamante [46:21]

Andres Bustamante

Born in El Paso, TX, Andres studied at the University of Texas at Austin and got his Real Estate License at 19 in order to pay for College. Upon graduating at the age of 23 he got Rookie of the Year selling 21 homes ($6.8M Volume). Andres is now 27 years old and Year to date has sold 130+ homes, $70M + in volume and owns 3 rental properties. He also mentors 3 agents on his team which is composed of 10 agents and 2 transaction coordinators. Outside of that Andres is trilingual, he learned French while studying
abroad in France for a full year when he was 16 years old. His hobbies include dancing salsa/bachata, soccer, weight lifting and public speaking. Every year the goal is to travel to at least 3 different countries, in 2023 the countries so far have been England, Colombia and Mexico! His FAVORITE thing ever is watching Arsenal, favorite soccer team in DA whole world! Owns 3 investment properties, house hacked 2! First ever sale was at the age of 21 $1.1M condo !

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