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Insights for Success Episode 27 – Patrick Stone In this podcast, Bob interviews Patrick Stone, Chairman and CEO of WFG National Title insurance company. Their discussions centers around what makes a great title partner and what kind of value can a title representative bring to a real estate transaction and …

Insights for Success Episode 27 – Patrick Stone

In this podcast, Bob interviews Patrick Stone, Chairman and CEO of WFG National Title insurance company. Their discussions centers around what makes a great title partner and what kind of value can a title representative bring to a real estate transaction and to their agent and broker partners. And we touch on Project Upstream and the massive amount of data currently at play in the real estate industry.

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Insights for Success Episode 26 – Craig Cheatham In this edition of Insights for Success, Craig Cheatham, CEO and President of The Realty Alliance, and Bob dive all the way in on Project Upstream. Never heard of Upstream? Then you need to hear this. Project Upstream is an aggressive and …

Insights for Success Episode 26 – Craig Cheatham

In this edition of Insights for Success, Craig Cheatham, CEO and President of The Realty Alliance, and Bob dive all the way in on Project Upstream. Never heard of Upstream? Then you need to hear this. Project Upstream is an aggressive and huge undertaking the industry has currently started to get a single point of data entry for everyone in the industry. Listen as Craig explains what it is, why it’s important and how it has the potential to impact every single practitioner in the industry.

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Insights for Success Episode 25 – Matt Beall With a passion for real estate and technology, Matt helped to reinvent HawaiiLife.com and started Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers in May of 2008. Hawaii Life now employs over 170 brokers, agents, and support staff in 10 offices around Hawaii. In 2009, …

Insights for Success Episode 25 – Matt Beall

With a passion for real estate and technology, Matt helped to reinvent HawaiiLife.com and started Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers in May of 2008. Hawaii Life now employs over 170 brokers, agents, and support staff in 10 offices around Hawaii. In 2009, HawaiiLife.com won a WebAward for best real estate website. By 2010, just 30 months after opening its doors, Hawaii Life had become the #9 real estate company in all of Hawaii. In both 2010 & 2011, the company was nominated by Inman News as one of the Most Innovative Brokerages in the country.

By 2011, Hawaii Life was the #5 residential real estate brokerage in the State of Hawaii and was named the 3rd Fastest Growing Company in all of Hawaii by Pacific Business News. In 2012, Hawaii Life sold over $500 million in residential real estate throughout Hawaii. On New Year’s Day of 2013, the Home & Garden Television network (HGTV) launched its premiere of “Hawaii Life”, a 13-episode real estate and lifestyle television series. Season 2 of the show aired in November of 2013.

Matt has experience with condominium developments, multi-unit properties and high-end property sales. He has been confirmed by the Hawaii judicial system as an expert witness for multiple real estate-related legal cases in Hawaii. He is a graduate of the Hawaii Association of Realtors Leadership Academy, Class of 2010, and he has served as the President of the Kauai Board of Realtors (2012) and on the Executive Committee of the Hawaii Association of Realtors. He is also a member of the Honolulu Board of Realtors, the Realtors Association of Maui, the West Hawaii Association of Realtors and the Hawaii Island Board of Realtors. In 2011, Inman News named Matt as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Real Estate.

This ActiveRain podcast is sponsored by: SmartZip

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Insights for Success Episode 24 – Brian Copeland In this podcast, Brian shares his secret to being one of the most active real estate agents in the business, and he works from 8am to 3:30pm. And he’s not just an active selling real estate agent. Brian is also super active …

Insights for Success Episode 24 – Brian Copeland

In this podcast, Brian shares his secret to being one of the most active real estate agents in the business, and he works from 8am to 3:30pm. And he’s not just an active selling real estate agent. Brian is also super active in his local association, his state association, his local community and in the business of his team as well as the teams and agents in his office (which he also manages).

The theme of Brian’s interview is taking control of your schedule and setting up systems that allow you to manage your life and your business. Hands down, one of our favorite interviews of the year. Be ready to be inspired by one of our industry’s really great people!

Brian Copeland (M.S., B.A., CRS, GRI, CIPS, ePRO, ABR, Broker) is the Nashville And Beyond team  leader, business coach and advisor. Brian was the 2011 Nashville REALTOR® of the Year. He is one of the most sought after real estate speakers in America, emceeing and keynoting some of the largest conferences in the profession. He serves as the President-elect of the Tennessee Association of REALTORS and advocates, also, for property rights at the local and national association levels. In 2014, he was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders in America. He is a graduate of Carson-Newman University and holds a master’s from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Brian and his spouse, Greg, make their home on a Nashville farm with their two children Micah and Esther.

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Insights for Success Episode 23 – Gail Smith- New Agent Part 2 It’s not often that we have inside access to a brand new agent doing amazing things! But such is the case with Gail Smith, a new agent on the Ben Kinney Real Estate Team. In her first two …

Insights for Success Episode 22 – Vanessa Noble and Melanie Seiler In this special edition of the Insights for Success Podcast, we talk to Vanessa Noble and Melanie Seiler, with Keller Williams in Anchorage Alaska. Our discussion is entirely about how their team used KWKLY, in conjunction with a giveaway, …