Hey there! I'm from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and have been a realtor for three years. I’m gearing up to grow my business as I look toward retirement from education in about five years. My big goals are to get more visible, stay organized, and be extra proactive with my clients. Excited to learn and connect with all of you!

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Join me at 11am EST as I talk to my eXp team about how I created a 11K person facebook group in 9 months! See the event here!

Yesterday out of the blue, a new client called me. He was raving about how much he loved my videos. He loved my personality and wanted me to help him sell and buy his next home. After I got off the phone with him, I had a realization... I take it for granted that I get calls like this every week now. Because it wasn’t always this way. Just a few years ago, I was struggling and felt hopeless. I HATED what I was doing. 3 years ago, after blood sweat and tears (literally) I finished renovating my first home. Then I sold it, and was able to quit my soul-sucking accounting job. I wanted to make the big bucks, so I got my real estate license! I would sit at the office, with my realtor badge on, and wait for the phone to ring. But it never did. So I did what most new agents do…I held open houses. And no one showed up. Or worse, people WOULD show up and get my hopes up, only to leave me empty handed. Then I tried cold-calling. I spent hundreds of dollars on data lists each month. I called FSBO’s, expireds, and landlords. I got cursed at. Insulted. Threatened. After a year of cold calling angry people with no results, I reached the end of my rope. I got depressed and gained 30 lbs. And I was quickly running out of money. “Real estate’s not for me”, I thought. “Maybe I should go find a job because this isn’t working”… Until I stumbled on the idea of making YouTube videos for real estate. But I didn’t know how to make videos! And I didn’t particularly like how I looked OR sounded on camera. The thought made me cringe. But the possibility that buyers and sellers could actually be calling ME, felt too good to pass up. So I had to give it one last try. I posted my first video on YouTube and got a measly 30 views. Then I posted another, and another and another. The views grew, the phone rang. Every week, new clients were reaching out to me. “I love your videos! I can’t believe I’m actually talking to you!” they’d say. A couple months later I had my first commission check of $15k. Then another check for $7k, $13k… and so on.

Quick story: when I started out a new, part time agent (I was full time military and worked in a vault with no phone), I closed 4 deals my first year and one was my own house (doesn't count...!). I had the same struggle that most new agents have: the realization that you only have two options to succeed in real estate: 1. Join a production team for leads and pay ~50% plus your broker split/fees for those closings 2. Choose and CONSISTENTLY work on some form of lead generation for many months to start seeing results and build your own business You can either build your own business or serve another's business, but getting licensed and joining a brokerage is far from all it takes - that's the EASY part. Lead gen is by far the more critical skill. So in my second year as still a new and part time agent, I took home over 100K in commission thanks to one simple act: I started a Facebook Community that provided value to my ideal client profile and converted members to clients. I put together a few hour min-course on how I did EXACTLY that for THIS community. Check it out: https://www.skool.com/realestatemastermind/classroom/4bab04b1?md=e4c05a45893d4787bb65c9394c77a1a8 And then comment below: is this a strategy you would consider doing? Why or why not?