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Social Media Won't Get You Listings in 2026 — Here's What Will

Real Estate Training & Coaching School

Real Estate Training & Coaching School

Business News, News, Careers, Business

4.4705 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Most real estate agents are spending three or more hours a day on social media and walking away with zero listings to show for it. If that is your reality right now, this episode is the wake-up call you need. In this episode of Real Estate Coaching Radio, Tim and Julie Harris break down why social media has become one of the most dangerous traps in a real estate career today. YouTube changed its algorithm without telling creators. Instagram wiped out follower counts overnight. And the agents who invested months building beautiful content found their videos buried, suppressed, and invisible — not because they failed, but because the platform changed the rules without warning. Tim introduces the concept of "building your mansion on land you don't own" — a principle from the bestselling book Harris Rules — and shows exactly why social media has become the modern-day version of that mistake. The platforms own your content, own your audience, and can change the rules any time they choose. And now with AI flooding every platform with infinite content, the already-slim odds of winning at social media have effectively collapsed. What you will learn in this episode: how the YouTube and Instagram algorithm changes of 2025 and 2026 quietly buried agent content, why most agents are misreading where their leads actually come from, what the sunk cost fallacy is doing to your business, the rich versus famous trap that keeps producers stuck in low-ROI activity, and why old-school relationship-based prospecting is now the most AI-proof strategy in real estate. This is exactly the kind of straight-talk coaching that separates serious agents from those who will spend another year grinding out content for an algorithm that does not care about their business. Agents inside the Libertas group at eXp Realty get this level of clarity every single week. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp and Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.

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0:00.0

Most agents are spending three hours a day on social media and getting zero listings from it.

0:05.6

The ones producing business from social aren't posting more. They are posting smarter.

0:10.6

There's a specific formula for social content that builds trust, establishes expertise, and generates more listing inquiries.

0:18.2

We're going to talk about how to handle that today.

0:22.4

Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award-winning real estate coaches and number one international

0:27.4

best-selling authors Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors

0:32.5

looking for a no BS authentic real-time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money,

0:40.5

and have more time for what you love in your life.

0:43.0

And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris.

0:46.5

So we're going to hopefully reframe a lot of what social media is for you.

0:52.1

And at the end of listening today's show, you're going feel, I think, a huge sense of relief because social media will never feel like this unsolvable black box to you anymore. And I wanna start out by talking about a really important concept, and it'll make it all make sense. Jules and I will talk about this throughout the show. You never wanna build your mansion on land you don't own. You've heard us say this before. Many of you, thousands of you are longtime listeners to our show. And you've read our book, Harris Rules. Hold on. Book pitch. It's right here on my desk. Meanwhile, back on the screen. Harris okay? You can get that everywhere, Barnes & Noble, every all major booksellers have it.

1:31.3

And of course, Amazon.

1:32.3

All right.

1:33.3

So in Harris Rules, there's a chapter called Never Build Your Mansion on land you don't own.

1:37.3

The concept is, is if you're building your mansion, which is your business and your future

1:43.3

and your family's security and all the things on land

1:47.5

you don't own then what happens when the person who owns the land wants the land back

1:53.3

well guess what they're also going to get the mansion they're going to take your business

1:57.2

they're going to take your future they're going to take your family security and I'll

2:00.3

give you guys an interesting example because this actually happens. Some of you don't

2:04.6

know this, but there's things called land leases. Julie and I own some condos in Laguna Beach. This was

2:10.5

years ago. And these condos were on land leases, but they were on a hundred year land leases.

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