33: Marci & Bryan Fair, a Mother’s Day Special: Balancing Family and Business

What does it take to reach the top of the business world, while being family oriented? Join us as Marci and Bryan share their family first mindset and tell the story of their journey to becoming successful Real Estate Rockstars, while focusing on their family.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Supermoms out there! People will continue to grow businesses, and then try and figure out how to build their life’s around them. Bryan and Marci Fair join us in this Mother’s Day Special, and share with Rockstar Nation why doing the opposite is the key to success. Being present in the lives of your spouse and your children is one of the most rewarding experiences that life can offer. Unfortunately, we are seeing more often businesses breaking families apart. Marci, the author of TILT – 7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-Free Working Mom shares experiences and expert advice for mothers to encourage them to live their lives, take off their Supermom cape, and make the choices that matter letting go of the 80% of things that don’t matter. Hear how mother’s and families can focus on the 20% of things that really matter.

Mother’s Day Quote

  •  “Balance is impossible, memories are better.” – Marci Fair

Sponsors

  • 6 Steps to 7 Figures: A Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Building Wealth and Creating Your Own Destiny
  • MyOutDesk: MyOutDesk becomes familiar with your real estate systems and personality profiles before recommending Real Estate Virtual Assistants for you to interview. Use Virtual Assistants to grow your Real Estate Business. Hire a real estate virtual assistant today.
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Parenting AH-HA Moment

  • Bryan’s AH-HA moment came one night when his daughter Chloe and him were talking. As she told her story, Chloe stopped and said, “Dad you’re not here”! This was an important moment where Bryan’s family and business lives crossed paths and is a memory that continually reminds him to Walk into the house as a Mom or a Dad! 

Pick up Marci’s book today

  • TILT 7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-Free Working Mom: Juggling work and family has never seemed more possible than in Marci Fair’s parenting guide, TILT. It was written out of the difficult struggles and unexpected answers that Fair has found on her journey through the TILT of life, work, and motherhood.

The Fair’s Christmas Date

  • Each year at Christmas The Fair Children fill out a sheet that highlights ONE thing that they want to do next year as a “Christmas Date”. The goal of this is to become very aware of one-on-one time. Life and business happen, and all of a sudden you lose that time with your children. With this, Bryan and Marci focus on making sure they take full advantage of their one-time shot at parenting and spend time alone with each of their four children. Listen in to see if Christmas Date’s are something you could use in your family life.

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32: Rosemary Auricchio, from rookie to rockstar in the ‘Land Down Under’

Coming to you from The Adelaide Market in South Australia is a great interview with Rosemary. Starting in Real Estate at age 15, Rosemary is currently dealing with an increasing market, and she is dominating it. Last year, she sold 145 properties at an average sales price of 320 thousand dollars. Booking appointments and seeing people face-to-face is the one thing that she suggests that all Real Estate Agents do more of. Find out where the people are and ask them if there is anything that you can help them with in terms of Real Estate. Rosemary does a great job of diving into the Australian Real Estate game, and sharing with us how they do it in The Land Down Under! 

What does it take to reach the top of the market? Join us as Rosemary shares his Real Estate mindset and tells the story of her journey to becoming a successful Real Estate Rockstar.

Quote of The Day

  •  “Have the confidence and the courage to take risks and you’ll find that things will come together for you.” – Rosemary Auricchio

Sponsors

  • 6 Steps to 7 Figures: A Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Building Wealth and Creating Your Own Destiny
  • MyOutDesk: MyOutDesk becomes familiar with your real estate systems and personality profiles before recommending Real Estate Virtual Assistants for you to interview. Use Virtual Assistants to grow your Real Estate Business. Hire a real estate virtual assistant today.
  • Audible: Go audibletrial.com/hiban to get your 1 Free month trial, and your 1 FREE book.

Real Estate AH-HA Moment

  • Rosemary’s AH-HA Moment goes all the way back to her childhood. While watching her parents work very hard in the hospitality industry, Rosemary learned quickly that hard work is rewarded. One day, her father said to her “Rosemary if you want to succeed in life, you have to work hard. If you are prepared to work hard, you will do well.” These words have stuck with her day in and day out on her journey through life!

Rosemary’s Big Goal

  • Rosemary’s big goal for this year is to make Gold Status in the LJ Hooker network. In order to achieve this, she will have to have over $1M in gross commissions.

Check Out That App

  • Rosemary’s app advice was pretty lame, but she does use her iPad for everything, and loves Reminders

Interview Links

The best in Real Estate coaching and Masterminding.

[app_audio src=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/barenakedagent/Paul_-_Twitter.m4a”] When it comes to Real Estate coaching and Masterminding, there are a few key players which we have interviewed on our other show, Pat Hiban Interviews Real Estate Rockstars. A tweet from @PaulSjoberg motivated the…

31: Russell Shaw, the tell all about Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com

Russell Shaw is an incredible Real Estate agent who is on a mission to tame the three-headed monster, Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com. He has signed on for the duration of his career to be a permeant critic of Zillow. In this exclusive interview Russell dives into murky waters and shares his experiences and issues with these companies. Zillow and their silly Zestimates were founded by Richard Barton with one goal in mind, to lower Real Estate commissions. Being the house of cards that all of these companies are, it is tough to determine why we should really be concerned about what they are doing, but Russell lays it out for everyone to understand! The lack of unity between the National Association of Realtors and Realtor.com, is almost more disgusting in Russell’s opinion than Zillow and Trulia combined. In his opinion, Realtor.com should be owned by the NAR and should be included in the annual due’s that agents pay, similar to the system that Canada has in place. Russell also chats about the insider trading that Zillow executives are executing. Learn all of the right reasons to be upset with the three-headed monster!

Join us as Russell Shaw shares his Real Estate frame of mind, and dives in-depth into what is truly wrong with Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com.

Quote to share

  • “If they want to be dumb enough to sue me, be my guest” – Russell Shaw

Sponsors

  • 6 Steps to 7 Figures: A Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Building Wealth and Creating Your Own Destiny
  • MyOutDesk: MyOutDesk becomes familiar with your real estate systems and personality profiles before recommending Real Estate Virtual Assistants for you to interview. Use Virtual Assistants to grow your Real Estate Business. Hire a real estate virtual assistant today.
  • Audible: Go audibletrial.com/hiban to get your 1 Free month trial, and your 1 FREE book.

Anti-Zillow AH-HA Moment

  • Russell’s Anti-Zillow AH-HA moment came in the fourth quarter of 2012, and can be found here. According to his figures in the fourth quarter of 2012, Zillow changed their business model to sell impressions, and their average cost per deal skyrocketed from $24.28 to $1,905.54!

Current Business

  • Signing on for the duration of his career to become a critic of Zillow, Russell has started a blog where all of the details and facts to his argument can be found, Click Here to view that site.

Citron’s Report

  • Citron published a report in September of 2013 titled Citron Presents the Most Comprehensive and Thoughtful Piece on Zillow Ever Published. This is why this stock is going to $80 … then $50 … then right back to where it started the year … $30 per share. Click Here to see their report for yourself.

Interview Links

*This post is a summary based on the conversation that was had with Russell Shaw, Hiban Digital is not responsible* 

What is the best CRM system for you?

[app_audio src=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/barenakedagent/Jason_Hurst_Question_-_5_5_14_10.04_AM.m4a”] Customer relationship management is one of the most important things when dealing with Real Estate. In the competitive Real Estate industry, a relationship management tool can mean the difference between ten’s and thousand’s…

30: Josh DeShong, Who’s to tell you if you will be successful or not?

Josh DeShong is the Texas Real Estate “golden boy”, with the face of a teenager and the statistics of a 30 year veteran in the industry! Josh dives into the murky waters with Pat and shares stories of failure and triumph and how, at age 25, he now sits atop his market. As a rookie, literally broke, Josh bartered for his first desk at a Keller Williams office…serving as the office’s computer techie. Find out how Josh went from nearly hanging up his suit and tie, to cold calling until the phone broke, to making it big!

What does it take to reach the top of the market? Join us as Josh shares his Real Estate mindset and tells the story of his journey to becoming a successful Real Estate Rockstar.

Success Quote – How To

  • “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure” Bill Cosby

Sponsors

  • 6 Steps to 7 Figures: A Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Building Wealth and Creating Your Own Destiny
  • MyOutDesk: MyOutDesk becomes familiar with your real estate systems and personality profiles before recommending Real Estate Virtual Assistants for you to interview. Use Virtual Assistants to grow your Real Estate Business. Hire a real estate virtual assistant today.
  • Audible: Go audibletrial.com/hiban to get your 1 Free month trial, and your 1 FREE book.

Real Estate AH-HA Moment

  • Being the office computer nerd came with its benefits and downfalls. While removing a virus from a fellow agents computer, Josh was given the advice to pack his bags and run. The man told him that without a sphere of influence, and a wad of cash in his pockets, Josh was wasting his time and effort. Taking this to heart, with tears in his eyes, Josh set off for the car and planned to pack it up until that AH-HA moment. “Who is that guy to tell me if I will be successful or not” Josh said to himself over and over again until he built up the confidence to march into the office, and cold call until success.

Current Business

  • At age 25 Josh is killing it! He has decided to commit to “under promising and over delivering” and because of this, last year was forced to turn down 100 listings so that he could maintain his 85% conversion rate on the listings he did take.

Get Some of That App

  • iScape – Virtually landscape your yard. With iScape, you can create a realistic rendering of what your yard will look like before any time or money is spent.

Interview Links

  • http://www.joshdeshong.com – Josh’s “pretty” website
  • Refog Keylogger – Do all your employees use their computer resources and Internet connection solely for your business? Do they work as hard when you are away as they do when you are watching over their shoulders? In other words, do you suspect your employee’s productivity is lacking? You should consider installing a surveillance system to address the problem.

 

29: Peter Middleton: From professional soccer player to a Real Estate Agent with an average sale price of over $1.5M, by networking

Peter is the President of Middleton & Associates Real Estate, specializing in San Diego Real Estate. After graduating college and passing up many job offers, Peter decided to “live the dream” and moved to Australia to become a professional soccer player. After a year of the good life, Peter moved back to Boston, Massachusetts to run the family Real Estate business. After attending a Brian Buffini seminar, Peter learned how he to could enter the Super Bowl of Real Estate by moving to California! The seminar inspired Peter to move accross the country, to an area where he knew no one to put his networking skills to the test. In doing so, he went from a $90k average sale price to a $1.5M average sale price, he hasn’t stopped there. Listen in as Peter shares the method he is using to catapult his team to an average sales price of $4M DOLLARS!

What does it take to make it to the top? Join us as Peter Middleton shares his Real Estate mindset and gives us an insider glance at his journey to becoming a successful Real Estate Rockstar.

Success Quote – How To

  • “So my first year, I think I lost roughly around 33 to 34,000 (dollars) in commissions just from doing bonehead moves, and not understating what I should be doing. That was challenging, but it opened my eyes up to that fact that you need quality training and to learn systems.”

Sponsors

  • 6 Steps to 7 Figures: A Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Building Wealth and Creating Your Own Destiny
  • MyOutDesk: MyOutDesk becomes familiar with your real estate systems and personality profiles before recommending Real Estate Virtual Assistants for you to interview. Use Virtual Assistants to grow your Real Estate Business. Hire a real estate virtual assistant today.
  • Audible: Go audibletrial.com/hiban to get your 1 Free month trial, and your 1 FREE book.

Real Estate AH-HA Moment

  • While attending a Brian Buffini seminar, Peter sparked up a conversation with the man sitting next to him. They began to talk numbers. This man laughed in Peter’s face at the 85-90 hour work weeks for the measly 1,000 dollars in commissions per sale that Peter was getting. Diving into this man’s numbers Peter saw how he could increase his sales volume to over $20M by simply moving across the country, and going to where the Super Bowl of Real Estate was, California.

Current Business

  • At age 25 Peter has an average sales price of $90k dollars. In this interview, he dives into how he went from that figure to $1M to $2.5M, and how he now plans to “burn the boats” and take that average sales price figure to the $4M dollar mark!  

Interview Links