Go beyond financial basics with these success tips from our resident financial expert, Brooke Upah. She sits down with Angela to share her insight into creating long-term financial stability. In this episode, you'll learn more about cash flow and savings, quarterly taxes, monthly P&L evaluations, setting up an S-corp, growing a team, saving for retirement and investing in real estate. 

If you missed the first episode with Brooke all about financial basics, you can find it here. 

Join Dylan as he talks to Roger Wheeler, Kyle Clarkson and Tami Hicks about the concept of Survival/Business/Legacy. Everyone begins in the "Survival" stage when starting their real estate business - just trying to pay the bills and generate leads. Over time, you move to "Business" (building systems, team, sustainability) and then "Legacy" (leveraging your business to help impact others, pass on what we learned and created to others, and the doors a healthy business opens up for life).

Learn from these three top agents as they discuss their journeys through these three stages. There is a lot to learn in this episode about business building and what crafting a legacy looks like for different entrepreneurs. 

This week's winning thought is a little different from previous weeks. What are your winning thoughts?

Your journey of growth is entirely yours to own. No one can force growth in you until you decide you want it for yourself. So decide to grow. Decide where and how you want to grow. Determine what you don’t yet know and what you need to know and seek out that knowledge. But more importantly, determine what you already know that you need to practice, live, deepen and actualize and then do it - slowly and one day at a time.

Welcome to the Winning Thoughts series! Each week, join Dylan as we discuss an idea, story or concept to help you improve in thoughts, words, actions, and ultimately, in life. Tune in every Monday for a new idea to help you get your week off to a great start. 

Open houses are back and better than ever! Join Angela Fisher as she talks to Kyle Clarkson, Jennifer Harman and Jacob Simon about hosting killer open houses. In this episode, we discuss the market shift bringing back open houses, the difference between resale and new construction open houses, the purpose of open houses (promoting the listing vs. generating leads), the prep work that goes into hosting a great open house, the marketing before, during and after every open house and "conversations to convert" with potential leads. 

Hear from Jared Van Cleave, Kyle Clarkson, and Ethan Hokel on the fundamentals of building a healthy real estate team. In this episode we discuss good and bad reasons to start a team, the benefits and challenges associated with a real estate team, and explore three very different approaches to team building. 

This week's winning thought is: You are a product of your habits. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. If you want to be beautiful, make beautiful choices. If you want to be excellent, make excellent choices. And make them habitually. 

Welcome to the Winning Thoughts series! Each week, join Dylan as we discuss an idea, story or concept to help you improve in thoughts, words, actions, and ultimately, in life. Tune in every Monday for a new idea to help you get your week off to a great start. 

Create value for your people and build top-of-mind-awareness with these 3 vertical videos. Join Hunter and Abbie as they discuss enhancing your storytelling with the green screen effect - even going beyond market updates. We also discuss how to share an open house via vertical video to market your listings, share your insight and build proof of success. To wrap up, we talk about creating videos to show your client events. This includes a behind-the-scenes look on your Stories and creating a video to post later to build your brand and show your client care.

We share tips and tricks for shooting each video and discuss the value they add to your marketing and how you can share these in multiple marketing channels. 

Stay tuned for our October video drop!

Resources Mentioned for Our C21SRE Agents:

- Our agents can find the September social media calendar here or in the Canva library if you are a team member.

- Hunter's Capcut tutorial + vertical video course can be found here (7th video down).

- Green screen effect tutorial can be found here. 

If you could pick the brains of the top real estate agents in your market, what would you ask them? Join Dylan de Bruin as he sits down with top agents, Megan Hill Mitchum (17 years experience, ranked #3 in Iowa*), Jenn Clark (23 years experience, ranked #15 in Iowa*) and Gina Swanson (8 years experience, ranked #8 in Iowa*). In this episode, you'll hear how these three powerhouse agents got their start in real estate and how they built up the business they have today. You're sure to learn a lot, laugh a bit and want a mimosa by episode end (listen for the champagne pop!). 

*Rankings are provided by Century 21 Real Estate LLC  and rank Individual Producers in the state of Iowa by AGC. These rankings reflect YTD 2022 transactions with a close date of 07/31/2022 and a paid date of 08/02/2022.

What's happening in the real estate market right now? Join Dylan de Bruin, Tami Hicks, Kyle Clarkson and Roger Wheeler as they discuss the national and local real estate markets. In this episode, we discuss rising interest rates and what major groups are predicting for the next year, the normalizing of home price appreciation, the impact on affordability, and predictions for inventory and sales volume. Listen now to stay up-to-date on market activity so you can be the confident expert for your clients and have strategic and informed conversations. 

You can download the market data packet here to follow along with the discussion.

This week's winning thought is: Say no. You have to say no a lot. Everything you say yes to is saying no to something else. Whatever you say no to, gives you more time to say yes to what matters.

Welcome to the Winning Thoughts series! Each week, join Dylan as we discuss an idea, story or concept to help you improve in thoughts, words, actions, and ultimately, in life. Tune in every Monday for a new idea to help you get your week off to a great start.