Brokerage Insider

Get a taste of a long and successful career in Real Estate from Johnny’s mentor, Jim Flaum.

They discuss his vast range of experiences in real estate from selling, managing and running an entire company.

Get insights into how Jim accomplished his goals of making others successful and how he surrounded himself around the right people from so many different backgrounds and walks of life.

They discuss real estate's transition into technological solutions and what it means for the business at large.

Other topics include what makes salespeople great, the commonalities and the ultimate success in the business.

Listen as Jared and Johnny identify areas you should be focusing on in your real estate career, plus the mentality you need to break in and stand out. Jared also speaks on LIME culture and what is at the center of it. They also touch on the next big things in real estate that he and his team use at LIME.

Johnny and Eric assess the current and future real estate market and what to look for in tech, CRMs, and challenges across the industry. Learn more at TRIBUS.com

Learn about the Ins and Outs of today's agent with Better Homes and Gardens Linsey Ehle in Houston, TX.

Johnny and Linsey talk about all things agent including engagement, marketing, and the program she helped develop at BHG.

Johnny speaks with one of Arizona's top-producing agents, Denise Pruitt of Arizona Best Real Estate. They talk about her start in the resort business, what it means to deliver services, her history in Arizona, and why it is such a desired area. They have a fascinating conversation about being intentional and The future of the industry, interest rates, and all. You do really get a sense and worth of professionals who have been through cyclical markets.

Everyone immediately knows Aspen around the world and Johnny discusses the area with one of the most respected names in Colorado Real Estate, but also within the entire industry, Krista Klees, President of Slifer, Smith & Frampton. They discuss Krista's journey to Colorado, her Real Estate career, The Aspen culture, and the current market.

Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.

Welcome to episode one in the latest season of Brokerage Insider Podcast, with new host Johnny Pfeiffer and our first guest: President of the Corcoran Affiliate Network, Stephanie Anton.

They go over Stephanie's rise through the industry that includes topics like growing a career in real estate, its limitless opportunities, and how to set yourself up for success. They also touch on female leadership within the industry and advice for navigating the landscape plus the people within it.

They also give some insight into Corcoran and its importance to Stephanie and the industry at large. And also where the industry is moving to and what to expect for the future.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and check us out at TRIBUS.com

Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.

TRIBUS CEO Eric Stegemann discusses the brand new season of Brokerage Insider. Meet the new host of the show, Director of Coaching, Johnny Pfeiffer and see who he has on tap to interview over the coming weeks.

Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi, everybody. Welcome to brokerage insider the podcast where we interviewed the leaders in real estate and technology. I'm your host, Eric Stegemann. I'm the CEO of TRIBUS, one of the largest independent prop tech companies in the real estate space and provider of custom brokerage technology to medium and large brokerages in the United States, Canada, and even around the world.

Now, in addition, I'm also the managing partner, TRIBUS capital, a private equity fund, focused on the prop tech. On today's episode, we have art Carter. Now art is the CEO of CRMLS. It's one of the largest MLSs in the country, and I'm really excited to dig in with him on a slew of topics today. Art, thanks for joining.

Thank you for having me, Eric. Now I ask all my guests, you know, tell us a little bit about how you got to where you're at now. First of all, how did you get into real estate to begin with? So I've been working a couple of private and publicly held companies really on, you know, the technology and, and accounting actually fronts and had done some consultants.

Especially on the technology side for a smaller mid-sized companies. And it was really looking for a, a new challenge and found a, a position with a local association in 1997, I believe it was. And from there kind of transitioned to where I'm at right now which is CRMLS which was at the time that I started in 2005 was MLSMLS. And we have grown from an organization servicing about 20,000 brokers, agents, appraisers to about 110,000 today. So a lot of growth, a lot of expansion, a lot of changes. And my job today is vastly different than it was when I first started. And I'm the type of person who loves a challenge. So it is kind of right up my right up my alley and.

Well, so obviously being, being in charge of a, a, of an MLS has all sorts of of great pieces, but also probably some, some frustrating things that you deal with on a daily basis. So what's the, what's the the big kind of things are the things you're seeing right now, or that the MLS is dealing with that are maybe challenges that you're working.

Well, in all honesty, the, the legal environment that we're facing some of the the legal environment and the, the restrictions that some of the things that are going on legally are, are placing on us as, as multiple listing services. That is a challenge. I think that, you know, we're really trying to.

To accomplish moving in, in real time with the marketplace and providing brokers and agents with real value. And it's always difficult, especially when it comes to a policy standpoint and a rule standpoint, I think a lot of times, not so much necessarily at the brokerage level, but at the agent level, there is not a lot of education that is being done as to what the multiple listing service.

What it does, what some of its requirements are, why those requirements are there. So that's always a difficulty that we face is that educational piece and throw COVID into that and our inability to get in front of people, you know, as effectively. Zoom's great. But. I'm a firm believer. Real estate is about relationships and most of those relationships are built face-to-face and, you know, sometimes one-on-one even, and COVID really, really put a Kirk in our ability to do some of the things that I really think that we needed to do to keep, you know, our brokerages and our agents kind of in the same ballpark as what it is that that is going on in the industry.

Our difficulty always lies in the fact that there's such a high turnover amongst our members. And when I go out and speak, it's not all that surprising when I ask people, how, how many of you have been are newer into the business and have been in the business for less than seven years to have 50% of the...

Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi everyone. And welcome to another episode of brokerage insider. This is the podcast where we interview the leaders in real estate and real estate technology. My name is Britt Chester, and I'm the host of today's episode. I'm also the director of client success here at Tribus. We're one of the largest independent prop tech companies in real estate and provider of custom brokerage technology to small, medium, and large brokerages all over.

And today on the show, we're going to be talking with red Oak Realty, CEO and owner, Vanessa Bergmark. But that's a thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. That's I'm really excited to jump right into this. I know you and I have worked a little bit together in the. Today, we actually get to kind of talk about where we are in the industry where red Oak is positioned in a lot of other exciting things.

I think the first thing I kind of want to talk about is Inman connect, where you and I also just kind of met in person for the first time. I love to hear kind of your thoughts on the conference and as we're returning to conferences, kind of what that's like. So if you wouldn't mind let's, let's start with the panels you were on, what you talked about and kind of your thoughts around.

Well, I think it's funny that we've worked with each other probably for about two years. And I spoke to you quite often in your former position and had never met with you in person. And I think that's the great part about it. And then connect is the, the meeting people in real life, right? So we know them in the social and digital media world.

We've known them, you know, you were in Colorado and we were working on projects and PR together, but I never really met you in person. The relationship is it goes up a notch and the network goes up a notch when you actually have that human interaction. So that's something that I've always gotten from connect.

I've been there going there for probably, oh God, I think it's gotta be at least 12 years and at least 10 years of, of doing panels and, and, you know, being on stage and being in those conferences and, and, and engaging with the audience and coming up with content. So do I think it's going to stay the same?

Well, interestingly enough, I thought the format I've been to a couple of conferences since. I guess the pandemics are technically over, but since we, you know, got out of lockdown and I think what's interesting is they feel very much the same. You know, we're wearing masks, we've got some social distancing and some weird plexiglass and things like that.

But on a whole, I don't think the content has changed too much. And I don't think. The, the values that you're taking away from the conferences has really changed. So I have, I was actually surprised to see that it was very much the same as it had been pre pandemic. I think the bigger question is how will they change moving forward?

To me, the content at, at all of these events has been somewhat secondary to the relationships that are formed. You know, after the content has been shared and spread and, you know, th th the dinners or the grabbing drinks, or the meeting up in the hallway, all those things are really aware of the. Is built.

And I think that in my own career and within my own brokerage, I can say so many of my very strong relationships have come from the halls of those conferences in connecting. How do you think the content could change? One of the things, and one of the things I really had as a takeaway was we kind of have an opportunity to maybe explore new ground within the content.

And so you know, in the past, you know, everything has been focused on real estate and it's been focused in marketing. And I think the keynote speakers are all. That's...