Alright friends, the real estate market has shifted, and is continuing to shift as we head into the fall. We are starting to see more listings on the market, and things are starting to feel a little more “normal.” What does this mean for Realtors? It means we are going to have to do a little more work than maybe we had to do the last couple years to market and sell a listing. Things like circle prospecting, marketing your open houses and not forgetting about pre MLS marketing. Things like staging your listings, whether they are luxury listings or not, presentation, photos and marketing that have not been quite as critical are now going to play much more of a role in creating interest in a home. Looking for pocket listings and off market homes for sale is also something you need to be thinking about for success in this shifting market and making the absolute most out of your listings. Listings are like gold, they are crucial for your ability to market and build your business around, and with the market cooling off now is the time to really get back to the basics of real estate. Getting out and pounding the pavement, door knocking, calling, flyers, in addition to keeping up on your social channels are all going to be key. This week Beth is going to get into all of her tips and tricks to absolutely rock a listing. Let’s dive in!

Okay friends, it’s time for another birthday celebration! It’s Beth’s birthday this week, so in her honor we are taking time to celebrate her on the show this week! We talked with Beth about her favorite birthday memories from childhood and adulthood, and where her love of celebrating birthdays comes from. We laughed, we cried, we had a great time. This episode is super fun and we hope you enjoy it. Let’s dive in!

Okay, Bus Bench Babes,The BPR Experience team just attended the Tom Ferry Summit 2022 in Dallas, Texas this past week, and we are fired up to get back to work! In this week's podcast episode we are going to give a recap of what our big takeaways are, and what we thought about the conference this year. Last year was a lot about real estate marketing, and videos and Reels for Realtors, and this year with the market shifting towards neutral there was a lot more about getting back to the basics of real estate, and selling houses. We learned a lot of information about the fall market, where real estate is headed in 2023 and what this means for your business. We are so excited to share this with you, so without further ado let’s dive in!

Alright friends, as much as we love the State Fair here in Minnesota it’s also sort of the unofficial end to summer. Not sure about anyone else, but we are still over here wondering where the summer went! Time really seemed to fly by this year and we’re still trying to squeeze in some of our favorite summer things. Change of seasons also tends to mean a shift in the real estate market, but we’ve seen a little less of that in recent years here in Minnesota. The real estate market has cooled slightly, but we are still experiencing a lot of buyer demand in spite of the rising mortgage interest rates. When you couple that with rental prices and rental demand being extremely high there are still not a lot of signs that we are headed for a major downturn. In fact it still looks far more likely that we will see home prices continue to rise. We know a possible recession is still being thrown around, and understand some of the fears around that, but the market conditions in real estate are not setting up for a major fall. We still have buyer demand, sellers are sitting on equity, and there is not enough supply in a lot of areas. This week’s show is going to break it all down, update you on the facts and figures and make sure you’ve got all the info you need to be an educated buyer, seller or Realtor. Let’s dive in!

If you are running a brand, a business, or you’re a solopreneur, these days it can feel like all you are doing is writing or creating content ideas. We feel you! The creative work that now goes into running a successful online brand is a lot. Between social media, emails, and the emergence of video we are constantly looking for new and creative ways to package our content, and stay relevant in the online space so that we can try to break through the noise, and show up and best serve our clients with valuable information. So with all the work that can go into writing one post, or coming up with one video we obviously want to get as much mileage as we can out of everything we create. Repurposing content across multiple mediums and platforms is the best way to work smarter instead of harder, so you can spend more time working with clients and growing your business. On today’s show Kristi is going to share with you how to take one single idea and use it in 10 different ways so that not only do you not have to come up with 10 completely separate pieces of content it gives you a much higher percentage chance of that information actually finding its way to your targeted audience. Alright, if you’re ready let’s dive in!

Just about everyone has had to be brave or courageous at some point in their lives, and recently we had bravery come up a couple times in our personal lives for different reasons, and it got us thinking, what does being brave or courageous look like? A lot of times being brave gets attributed to doing something physically dangerous or frightening, but as women many of us will do things that aren’t physically dangerous and yet still require courage and we don’t give it a second thought. Maybe you are afraid to go ask your boss for a raise, to start your own business that you’ve always dreamed of, to quit your job and be a stay at home mom, or maybe it’s being vulnerable with a friend or partner. As women there are many ways that we display courage in business, as mothers and in our personal lives that don’t result in medals or trophies, but we do them nonetheless. In this weeks episode we are talking all about what bravery and courage looks like to us, and we’d love it you’d reach out to us on social, in our DMs or in an email and tell us what bravery and courage looks like to you. Let’s dive in!

One question we probably get more than any other right now is “Do you think the housing market is going to crash?” With inflation remaining high, and the stock market continuing to see a lot of volatility there has been no shortage of speculation that the real estate market is going to be the next domino to fall. Real estate has been on a historic run of appreciation over the last couple of years and at some point that does have to slow down, but in spite of the fact that it makes for good click bait, it doesn’t mean a real estate crash is what’s to come. What looks much more likely to happen is a shifting market from a sellers market to a more neutral market, and with time we see a shift back into a buyers market. On this week's podcast episode  Beth is going to look at some of the facts and figures that are out there and give you her take on why the real estate market in 2022 is different from 2008, and why it is in fact still a good time to buy a house. Let’s dive in!

It’s Kristi’s birthday this week, so of course we are having a birthday celebration episode for her! Woot woot! Kristi turned 40 last year, and this year we are checking in on what her first year in her 40s was like. Kristi’s year has truly been an emotional rollercoaster. What started out with a 40th birthday bash as we were coming out of the pandemic, and getting ready to welcome a new baby in 2022, turned into a series of losses for Kristi that rocked her to the core. We talk about motherhood, recurrent miscarriage, marriage, and surviving what turned out to be a very difficult year as a mamapreneur. We also dove into what growth has looked like for her this year, what she’s looking forward to most during her next trip around the sun, how she’s working on staying grounded through it all.

You might need a tissue or two for this one, but we hope you will find some inspiration in it and join us in celebrating one amazing woman! Happy Birthday, Kristi!  Let’s dive in.

We are just going to come right out and say it, repeat clients are the best clients. It doesn’t matter what business you’re in, working with people you know and like makes business so much more fun. In addition to making work feel like you’re just going to see friends it also maximizes your marketing ROI. Whether it’s real estate, or another industry it’s all about relationships, and if you want to increase your marketing ROI you want every relationship you build to become one where they come back to you again and again. But how do you get clients to become friends and work with you again and again? The first thing you’ve got to do is keep in touch. And we don’t mean some phony mailers to try to reel them in for the next sale, we mean checking in about what they’ve actually got going on in life, and keeping up with what they are doing and forming a genuine relationship. If you can actually create an authentic connection you won’t even have to sell them anything. For us it’s all about quality over quantity. This week we talk about how to actually build relationships that last and give you some ideas on how to keep in touch. Let’s dive in!

If you know us at all you know we love the Gram. It is probably our favorite social platform out there. With that being said there are also many ways we can be using it that will better serve our time, and our mental health. Having a strategy around how you use the app can make all the difference in how effective your brand, and your marketing are.This week Kristi shares her 10 things to stop doing on Instagram to help you get better use of your time, and effort on the app. Let’s dive in!