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Jet Xavier: How to keep climbing when the going gets tough
Before the global health crisis that is the Coronavirus pandemic hit hard, we picked Jet Xavier’s brain about how to stay on track and get back on top during tough times. Little did we know how fortuitous that conversation would become. In this enlightening episode of Elevate, Jet shares some of his top tips and best kept secrets to help you…
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Pancho Mehrotra: Dealing with fear in an uncertain world
Pancho Mehrotra is the CEO of Frontier Performance and an expert in communication, influence and the psychology of selling. As Frontier’s principal and founder, Pancho brings considerable experience gained over 30 years of corporate sales success. He marries his passion for psychology with his business experience to help others achieve the results they want.
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John Minns: Delivering on the rapidly evolving expectations of consumers
John Minns is the Managing Director at Independent Property Group and a business transformation leader. He believes uniting CX and EX (Client and Employee Experience) is fundamental to delivering the rapidly evolving expectations of consumers. Success is delivered through collaboration, energy and belief when great people unite around a common cause. Combining a track record…
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Tameka Smith: Quality over quantity in property management
Tameka is an award-winning real estate professional who has both worked for others and now owns her own boutique agency – Key2 Property. Her plethora of personal achievements include the President’s Award (REIT) 2018 and winning the REIA (National) Residential Property Manager 2019. She was also the winner of Elite Agent’s PM Transform in 2018. In this episode of Elevate…
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Jim Remley: How to have conversations about real estate (that lead to listings!)
When it comes to real estate in the United States, Jim Remley is pretty much a superstar. A college dropout made good, Jim started his own agency as a 24-year-old and set about opening 17 offices over the following 15 years. Still a lead performer and a highly sought speaker and author, Jim helps good…
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Tyrone Shum: What property investors really want
Tyrone Shum is the host of the popular podcast Property Investory. It is ranked #1 for property podcasts on iTunes Australia with more than 1.2 million downloads since 2017. The podcast shares the latest investor stories, strategies, and examples from Australia’s most innovative property experts. Tyrone has been interviewed across 30 different podcasts around the world, featured on numerous world-class…
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Darin Butcher: How to run a family real estate business, but still ‘do you’
Family comes first in Darin Butcher’s life. That includes his wife Renee, their three children and his employees at the Wiseberry Heritage Group. After a 28-year career in the real estate industry there’s not much the affable agent hasn’t experienced. Just like he learnt from his father, his son Toby is now moving up the…
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Jonathan Lui: The real estate matchmaker
Soho founder and CEO Jonathan Lui is a proven entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Airtasker, which has two million users and has raised $65 million of investment. Jonathan also co-founded the $20 million venture capital fund Tank Stream Ventures, as well as the 700-member Australian network of startup co-working spaces Tank Stream Labs. Download…
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Mat Steinwede: How to design a career (and life!) in real estate that’s free from anxiety
Regarded as one of Australia’s leading agents, Mat has a journey that has been anything but easy. Starting from the bottom and working for the first year with no car, Mat door knocked all day, every day for years to start building his career. Known for his relentless prospecting, even today, 25 years later, he…
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The 1 per cent rule in real estate: Leanne Druery
Leanne Druery was a latecomer to the real estate industry, joining the fold when she was 40. But they say with age comes wisdom and the Gardian agent certainly has plenty of that. In this revealing podcast Leanne talks about her start in the industry, her success and how she fought back following the death…
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How to build customer loyalty for life: Ben Collier
Ben Collier doesn’t like the limelight, he prefers his results, and that of his team, to speak for themselves. And what an eye-popping collection of results they are. In 2018 Ben was involved in the sale of Rona for a suburb record in Bellevue Hill for $58.37 million. He also achieved the record for the…
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Building a real estate business that lasts and becoming a master negotiator: Wayne Marriott
Wayne Marriott isn’t just fast on his feet, the national masters 100m hurdles champion also knows more than a thing or two about real estate. In this episode of Elevate, Wayne takes Samantha through his early career working for a Melbourne-based sound company that supplied equipment to rock ‘n’ roll artists such as Billy Thorpe…
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Navigating legislative changes for NSW agents
The Hon Kevin Anderson MP, was appointed the NSW Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation in April last year following the re-election of the Berejiklian-Barilaro Government. The Minister oversees a broad range of regulations that affect the day to day operations of business in almost every Australian industry. Over the last 11 months the Minister…
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What consumers want from a real estate professional: Owen Wilson, REA Group CEO
Owen Wilson likes spending time with customers. The REA Group Chief Executive Officer loves nothing more than finding out their needs and then doing his best to see that those expectations are met. In an authentic 'spur-of-the-moment' chat, Owen tells Elite Agent Managing Editor Samantha McLean about his first year in the top job and…
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Building a virtual real estate business: Jason Gesing
eXp Realty is a global cloud-based agency that has taken the industry by storm, with more than 22,000 agents joining the fold in North America and the United Kingdom. As eXp entered Australia last year, Jason Gesing was named the company’s Chief Executive Officer. We met up with him to go inside the virtual world and learn the growth story…
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Putting your best brand forward: Lisa Pennell
With 20 years experience in the real estate industry working with several major brands, Lisa Pennell is currently the head of marketing for the Ray White Group, specialising in brand protection and crisis management. Download the action guide for this episode with more links and resources at https://eliteagentelevate.com “The most interesting thing about the marketing…
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Addressing the complex issues in real estate: Douglas Driscoll
Douglas Driscoll is CEO and owner of the Starr Partners real estate group. With more than 30 offices across NSW, the group is one of Australia’s most trusted and recognised brands. Douglas has officially been recognised for his dynamic and pioneering approach, having been named Industry Thought Leader three times in the past four years.…
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The 6 P’s of branding and networking: Reed Goosens
The author of best-selling book Investing in the US: The Ultimate Guide to US Real Estate, Reed Goossens quit his safe engineering job in Australia to move halfway across the globe to change his life and chase a dream in the US in 2012. With limited funds, no investing experience, and no established network, Reed…
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How Josh Tesolin wrote a million dollars in his first year of real estate
Josh Tesolin is a man on a mission. At $3 million mission. In just his third year in the real estate industry the Australian Real Estate Sales Manager and Auctioneer is aiming to sell more than 150 properties and write more than $3 million GCI. It’s not an impossible task for the Quakers Hill area…
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Greg Merrilees: How real estate agents can build trust and nurture relationships online
Robert Cialdini's best-selling book Influence talks about six factors that can help you sell anything to anyone. In case you need a quick recap - they are reciprocity, consistency, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity. What works in the offline - or person to person world - also works with your website according to Greg…
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How agents can use LinkedIn to build relationships – Adam Franklin
Today, we are talking to Adam Franklin – who is the author of Web Marketing That Works – an Amazon #1 bestseller. He is a professional speaker, university lecturer and CEO of Bluewire Media – which he co-founded in 2005. His blog was named Australia’s #1 business blog and his podcast was named #9 on Entrepreneur magazine’s top marketing podcasts.…
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How to work less and make more (in real estate!) – James Schramko
Do you know what your Effective Hourly Rate (EHR)? For employees, it's pretty simple, but if you are a business owner it's a little harder to calculate! It's also a core principle that James Schramko's book Work Less, Make More builds upon to get you using your time more effectively to fund the lifestyle that…
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How to embrace change and future proof your business – Gihan Perera
If the database you’d built for years was hacked and destroyed, would it be the end of the world? Or could you replicate most of your data fairly quickly using other more modern ways of gathering data? Futurist Gihan Perera, in this podcast, throws down the challenge to innovate – particularly in relation to startups that may not have the…
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Episode 21: How to Lead With Authenticity: Tracey Fellows, REA Group
Transform Masters: Tracey Fellows is one of the industry’s most accomplished and experienced leaders having held senior leadership roles for companies like Microsoft and Australia Post before heading up REA. With interesting lessons for everyone, Samantha McLean asked Tracey in-depth questions about how she finds and retains top talent, how she manages the demands of work with her personal life,…
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Episode 20: How to Lead a Winning Team, the AREAs, the truth about cats and dogs and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was. ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. To…
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Episode 19: Rental searches, How to get property editorial, Better customer experiences, Productivity apps, Rethinking video + Sharks and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. This…
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Episode 18: October values, News round-up, Tom Ferry comp, Off-market sales, App stacking and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. This…
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Episode 17: How to Sustain Business Growth Using Outsourcing
Transform Masters: Aimee Engelmann, CEO of Beepo, talks to the 2017 Masters about the benefits of outsourcing, how it sustains the fundamentals of your business and its return on investment with some example case studies and data. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we…
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Episode 16: Trends in tech explained, Singing and Dancing, Russian Boats, Presenting tips, Robots and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was ‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. This…
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Episode 15: How to Give to Give in Your Community
Transform Masters: Chris Hanley OAM, Director of Byron Bay First National, talks to the 2017 Masters about where real estate businesses can really add value to both other businesses and the community – and why giving to give works but giving to get does not. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales…
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Episode 14: How to Own Your Space in Any Conversation
Transform Masters: Julie Masters, founder of ODE Management and CEO of Influence Nation, talks to the 2017 Masters about how to own the first two minutes of any meeting, why the rule of threes matters, and why gravity is more important than confidence – and much more. These tips can apply to presentations, staff meetings, 1:1s and even listing presentations.…
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Episode 13: Business growth, Shopfront reno for niks, Safety in the workplace, Winning the listing, What is news (and what isn’t)
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was with special guest Kaly Smith of KS Property Solutions. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help…
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Episode 12: How to achieve extreme rent roll growth
Transform Masters: Tara Bradbury of BDM Academy talks to the 2017 Masters about how she became a successful BDM, why rituals and routines are key to growth and how to stay accountable using her rent roll growth action plan. Note: If you would like to join Tara’s 6-week acceleration program, please email Tara directly at [email protected], or download an information…
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Episode 11: Transforming your business, Clearing Sales, Good works, competing with Purplebricks, Wrestling Sharks, Technology Innovation, Facebook Marketing and more.
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was with special guests Lukas Pedder from Elders Mildura in Victoria and Michael Carter from Raine & Horne Penrith, NSW. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes…
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Episode 10: The A List, New ways of buying and selling, REINSW awards, Knowing your numbers, PM BD for experts and more
Weekly wrap: Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards recap the week that was. ‘Elevate’ is the new official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results.…
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