Real estate is a crowded market, with approximately 2 million active real estate licensees in the United States. This can make it feel impossible to grow your business-"How am I ever going to beat out all the agents I saw at that networking event the other night with my little business?" The good news is: growth is within your hands. There are a variety of actions you can take to actively grow your business, reaching new clients, and making more sales along the way. This book puts a spotlight on the challenges and victories most real estate professionals experience in the first year in business. You'll learn exact pointers to beat the odds and make good money. It gives proven strategies to help you prosper and build a 6 figure real estate business. Learn to: -Study for the real estate exam the simple way -Jump start your real estate business and make $100,000 -Generate new real estate leads continuously -Take your real estate business to the next level while reducing work hours -Maximize cash flow when investing and make $100,000+ -Find motivated sellers and start flipping houses -Maintain an optimistic mindset despite disappointments

About JumpStart for New Real Estate Agents If you only read one book at the beginning of your real estate career, then this should be it! This workbook contains detailed instructions on topics rarely (if ever) covered in other real estate training books or courses. Find out how to separate yourself from the pack and become a successful real estate agent as quickly as possible! After getting a real estate license, most new agents struggle to find in-depth, real-world training to help them start their real estate career. They very quickly find out that they need a road map to guide them in their first year in the business. This step-by-step workbook has over 230 pages on 8.5"x11" paper, filled with helpful instructions, worksheets, tips, and checklists to launch your new real estate career as quickly as possible! This is not a vague book filled with general advice. It is a practical, hands-on guide that you will use to fill-in-the-blank, check-off-the-list, and set up your new real estate business...without wasting time, money, and effort doing the wrong things in the wrong order. Just follow this proven step-by-step process, developed by 12-year veteran real estate agent, to jump start your career and achieve the financial security and independent lifestyle you desire. Topics covered: What It Takes to Be a Successful Real Estate Agent Tips for Newbie Real Estate Agents Easy-to-Follow Checklist to Guide You When Starting Your Real Estate Business How to Plan Your Budgets & Forecast Your Income Understanding Different Broker Compensation Plans How to Interview & Choose the Right Broker for YOU Setting Up Shop for Your Real Estate Business How to Work at the Broker's Office First-Day Tasks When You Start With a New Broker How to Become a Local Area Real Estate Expert In Order To Succeed In This Business How to Do a Market Analysis and Then Select a Profitable Target Market Detailed Template and Instructions for Writing a Useful Business Plan to Guide You the First Year Tips on Creating an Internet Platform to Promote Your Real Estate Business How to Get Ready To Meet With Clients & Manage Transactions How to Create Buyer and Seller Transaction Management Forms Instructions for Creating a Notebook for First Meetings with Buyers How to Create a Buyer Presentation to Convert Prospects Into Clients How to Create a Listing Presentation to Impress Sellers Instructions for Setting Up Your Lead Generation System And more!! Other books tell you what you need to do, this book shows you exactly how to do it...and in the right order so that you don't waste time. When you finish this workbook, you will have the knowledge and systems in place that usually take most real estate agents several years to finish. This will give you a competitive advantage in your market! This is how you achieve success as a real estate agent. ------------------------------------- About Author: Sheila K Cox Owner of Agent Success Builder, twelve year real estate veteran, and Five-Star Real Estate Agent dedicated to helping other real estate agents achieve the financial security and independent lifestyle they desire. Before getting into real estate, she was an Instructional Designer and Trainer for 15 years. Sheila has a B.B.A. and is an expert in digital marketing for real estate agents. ------------------------------------- Learn about important real estate training courses at www.AgentSuccessBuilder.com.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER USA TODAY MONEY BESTSELLER "Tough times make or break people. My friend Gary teaches you how to make the tragic into magic. Read & reap from this great book." --Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul Co-author, Cracking the Millionaire Code, The One Minute Millionaire, and Cash in a Flash.Author, Richest Kids in America "Real estate buyers and sellers have to SHIFT their mindset to new and more creative strategies in this challenging real estate market. This book shows them excellent ways to survive and thrive." --Robert Allen, author of the New York Times bestsellers Nothing Down, Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income and The One Minute Millionaire. "Change happens. It's natural. It's ever present. It's reoccurring. So when markets shift you need to as well. No one explains this better in the real estate industry than my good friend Gary Keller and his team of talented co-authors. Their latest book, SHIFT, is perfect for all real estate professionals. It captures the very essence of a shifting housing market and what Realtors need to do to thrive therein. SHIFT will help you alter your focus and your actions to ensure that you get your head back in the game and increase your market share, irrespective of strong or weak market conditions. It's a great book – read it today." --Stefan Swanepoel, author of Swanepoel TRENDS Report, 2006-2009 "Need help weathering the storm in today's real estate market? If so, reach for Gary Keller's new book, Shift-- it's the lifesaver you need today to thrive tomorrow. Shift is rich in easy-to-understand strategies, charts, and illustrations that show you exactly what you need to do to thrive in today's very challenging and 'shifted' real estate market." --Bernice Ross, Inman News The Millionaire Real Estate Series More than 1,000,000 copies sold! SHIFTS happen... Markets shift, and you can too. Sometimes you'll shift in response to a falling market, and other times you'll shift to take your business to the next level. Both can transform your business and your life. You can change your thinking, your focus, your actions, and, ultimately, your results to get back in the game and ahead of the competition. The tactics that jump-start your business in tough times will power it forward in good times. No matter the market-shift! SHIFT explores twelve proven strategies for achieving success in any real estate market, including Master the Market of the Moment: Short Sales, Foreclosures, and REOs Create Urgency: Overcoming Buyer Reluctance Re-Margin Your Business: Expense Management Find the Motivated: Lead Generation Expand the Options: Creative Financing

This book will help you in acquiring market knowledge, nurturing a future client base, researching brokerages, creating marketing materials for future use, and more.

Most new real estate agents maintain another primary employment. As the years pass, they never leave their primary employment, and also never reach the high real estate sales volume of their fellow agents who work only as full time agents.I have been a dual career real estate agent for more than twenty years, working a full-time 9 to 5 for someone else and working as a full-time Realtor for myself. Even with two full-time occupations, I am creating and maintaining the real estate sales volume and income equal and even greater than many of my fellow agents who work full-time only as real estate agents.In this book, I will share with you the techniques and strategies I use to leverage my time and accomplish the sales volume of agents that only work real estate full-time.

Eager to pass that state exam and jump into a lucrative new career as a realtor? Want the street-smart advice no one else will give you? Sidestep beginner mistakes from the start with these insider tips. Do you want to avoid becoming one of the eighty percent of novice agents who quit? Are you worried about surviving your crucial, make-or-break first year? Wondering what type of real estate agency is the optimal fit for your needs and lifestyle? Feeling unprepared to help homebuyers and sellers navigate contracts? With a decade of invaluable real-life practice learning all the industry’s best-kept, and sometimes dirty little secrets, skilled real estate agent Valerie Thorne has left rookie errors in the dust. And now she’s here to take you under her wing and share how you can skip the missteps, bypass time and money-wasting blunders, and earn faster. Start Selling Real Estate: The Empowering, Street-Smart Survival Guide for New Agents is a must-have manual for anyone interested in beating the odds and lasting in the field of real estate sales. Using down-to-earth advice, expert knowledge, and step-by-step breakdowns about the licensing process and how to choose your first office, Thorne walks newcomers through the details they never knew they’d overlooked. And by following her methods, you’ll bypass the frustrating downsides of being a novice realtor and reap the rewards of her hard-won experience. In Start Selling Real Estate, you’ll discover: - Why so many people fail, how to guarantee you’re not one of them, and ensure success - A breakdown of the pros and cons of every type of office, prevent constant office-hopping, and make the best choice from the get-go - How to identify hidden fees, agendas, and hierarchies in brokerages so you can dodge unnecessary spending requests, avoid being used as a pawn, and earn what you deserve - What the timeline and expenditure look like for the licensing process and how to plan accordingly - Ways to evade predatory employer demands, how to recognize the tell-all warnings about common pitfalls, cut-throat business practices, and much, much more! Start Selling Real Estate is a revised and updated welcome to the rough-and-tumble world of being an agent. If you like detailed information, conversational guidance, and in-depth discussions, then you’ll love Valerie Thorne’s priceless roadmap. Buy Start Selling Real Estate to arm yourself with critical survival skills today!

Launch a Profitable Real Estate Career Now! Most new real estate agents have no idea how to actually launch their real estate career after they get their license. Even worse, many of them waste a small fortune on costly mistakes-simply because they don't know what to do or how to even get started. Are you trying to decide which brokerage firm to join? Or maybe you've joined one, but you wonder if you made the right decision-and you're afraid to make a change. Do you wonder how to get clients? Paying for leads is NOT the only way, even if it seems like all of the other agents are doing it! There are ways to find clients without paying for them. Do you start every day with a plan for how to grow your business? Or does your plan consist of wishing that the phone would ring? Why should buyers and seller work with you, anyway? What separates you from the thousands of other real estate agents out there? Are you worried about making mistakes? You do realize that mistakes can be very costly in the real estate business, right? After all, you're dealing with assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars-maybe more! Let's be honest. All of this is a little frustrating, right? Maybe even a little scary? Right now, you may feel stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. - You've spent a good bit of time (and money) to get your real estate license. - You need to get this show on the road, but you're not exactly sure how to do that. You need clients, and soon! - Spending more money to fund your real estate start-up is not an option. Step Five: How to Launch a Kick A$$ Real Estate Business Without Going Broke. This book will show you how to: - STOP making career decisions based on emotion & START (or restart) your career the right way. - STOP (or never start) paying for client leads & START expanding your sphere of influence and work with people you choose. - STOP wondering what to do to grow your business & START working with a strategic plan for growth. - STOP wondering how to compete with thousands of other agents in your market & START sharing your value with potential clients. - STOP (avoid) making costly mistakes & START working smarter, not harder. The five simple steps in this book will guide you through the process of launching (or relaunching) your real estate career without spending a small fortune in the process.

The foolproof guide to buying, selling and growing wealth without money, credit or experience. Do you feel like you are constantly taking one step forward and two steps back with your finances? Are you working around the clock with nothing to show for it? Brian Evans, creator of Ultimate Real Estate Investors (www.UltimateRealEstateInvestors.com), presents you with proven strategies for wealth and income. He admits that the road to real estate gold is not necessarily EASY, but if you approach your business with honesty and integrity, if you have CLEAR expectations, and if you are prepared for a sometimes harsh reality... through real life examples, insider information and advice about what NOT to do, Brian Evans will set you on the track to NEW money making opportunities. Stop being a victim, and become an ultimate real estate investor. Take hold of the tools to turn an ordinary business into an extraordinary business TODAY.

So you've made your real estate investment, now the question is: How are you going to make it successful? Maximize its potential? MMake it grow? One word: management. Hundreds of thousands know bestselling author Ken McElroy as a real estate investment tycoon. in his new book, he reveals the key to his success, exceptional property management, and teaches you its most important principles, showing you how to fundamentally succed where others fail. THE ABC'S OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT tells readers: How to decide when to manage your property and when to hire someone to do it How to implement the right systems and structures for your investment How to manage and maximize cash flow What to expect: a month in the life of an owner-manager How to find the right property manager (and avoid the wrong ones) How to assemble a superior management team.