Ep. 3222 - First $1,000: “CRM Makeovers” for Real Estate Agents
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s First $1,000 segment, meet the HubSpot whiz who charges Realtors $500 for a three-hour CRM detox—merging duplicates, tagging leads, and automating follow-ups before lunch.
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| 0:50.7 | Today's featured storyteller works full-time in marketing operations. |
| 0:58.0 | They spend a lot of the weekday elbow deep in HubSpot. HubSpot is a tool, a database, |
| 1:04.0 | customer relationship, management, etc. But after watching his realtor friend drown in a sea |
| 1:09.6 | of duplicated contacts and unread follow-up tasks, |
| 1:13.1 | he realized something. |
| 1:14.7 | Real estate agents don't need a six-month tech overhaul. |
| 1:17.5 | They need a three-hour rescue mission that makes their phone ring tomorrow. |
| 1:21.5 | That is, in fact, what real estate agents want, or at least that's what he discovered. |
| 1:25.0 | So we packaged that rescue as a flat fee CRM cleanup sprint. |
| 1:29.5 | CRM, of course, meaning customer relationship management. In a single morning session, he logs into |
| 1:34.6 | the agent's HubSpot portal, or maybe it's some other database, I'm not sure, merges duplicate leads, |
| 1:40.0 | tags, contacts by their buying stage, writes and automated, hey, just checking in, email, |
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