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The Truth: Top 7 Easily Avoided Reasons Most Agents Fail

Real Estate Training & Coaching School

Real Estate Training & Coaching School

Business News, News, Careers, Business

4.4705 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to America's #1 Daily Podcast, featuring America's #1 Real Estate Coaches and Top EXP Realty Sponsors in the World, Tim and Julie Harris. Today we're discussing the 7 top reasons that most real estate agents actually fail out of the business. According to the National Association of Realtors, 87% of licensed Realtors FAIL out of the business in 5 years or less. That means only 13% survive. Why is this and how can you be part of the 13% not just surviving but thriving? Reason #1:   Absolutely no accountability of any kind. Most agents were previously either in school (lots of accountability) or were a W2 employee working at a 'normal' job (daily accountability).  Now you're in a 1099, independent contractor world. Most agents become immediately TOO independent and can go months without knowing what to do, when, or how to do it. Sporadic work equals sporadic income. IMPORTANT: Join #1 Real Estate Coaches Tim and Julie Harris's Premier Coaching now for FREE. Included is a DAILY Coaching Session with a HARRIS Certified Coach. Proven and tested lead generation, systems, and scripts designed for this market. Instant FREE Access Now: YES, Enroll Me NOW In Premier Coaching https://members.timandjulieharris.com/ Reason #2:   Confusion about where close-able, motivated buyer and seller leads actually come from. This starts when new or newer agents have a couple of fairly easy deals right out of the gates, almost always friend or family deals. That makes it easy to believe that all your deals will always come easily and always from people who already trust you.   Once that runs its course, agents wait too long to become proactive or start spending money they don't have on things that won't work or won't work quickly enough. Close-able leads come from people who clearly need your help. Refer to our podcast, Real Estate Agents 90-day Money Making Plan, and the countless other podcasts we have regarding proactive lead generation! Reason #3:   Relying on luck, hopium, and speculation instead of sales skills. Stop spending your hard-earned money on things that are not directly related to closed transactions.   Reason #4:   Not leading with profit. Your product is profit. Every day, you make the decision to run a not-for-profit organization or a for-profit. Which one depends on the actions you're taking. Refer to our podcast about your success schedule. Activities that lead to profit in real estate are Proactive Lead Generation, Furiously Fast Lead Follow Up, Prequalifying, Presenting, Negotiating, and Closing. The whole list is dependent on one activity: Proactive Lead Generation.   Reason #5:   Lazy lead follow-up, overly complicated communication methods. If you're not using lead follow-up scripts, buyer and seller pre-qualification scripts, and furiously fast in your follow-up, you are on track to be part of the 87%. If you're ending any day with leads you've not CALLED, you're a lazy lead follow-er-upper! Reason #6:   No business plan, no business coach, and little exposure to success. Influencers on Instagram and YouTube don't count. Birds of a feather flock together...if you're hanging out with a bunch of new or unproductive agents, you feel like that's normal. Instead, follow and emulate the successful!  Reason #7:   Failure to save and failure to pay taxes. Glenn Sanford, the founder of the fastest-growing Real Estate brand in the world, said that agents are historically terrible at those two things.  IMPORTANT: Join #1 Real Estate Coaches Tim and Julie Harris's Premier Coaching now for FREE. Included is a DAILY Coaching Session with a HARRIS Certified Coach. Proven and tested lead generation, systems, and scripts designed for this market. Instant FREE Access Now: YES, Enroll Me NOW In Premier Coaching https://members.timandjulieharris.com/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio starring award-winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris.

0:10.2

This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS authentic real-time coaching experience.

0:18.2

What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads,

0:21.8

make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your host, Tim and

0:28.3

Julie Harris. Three, two, one, and we're back. We've got a great show for all of you today.

0:35.1

And what we're going to be sharing with you today are the top seven reasons why a lot of agents needlessly struggle and oftentimes fail out of the real

0:42.1

estate industry. Now, we're sharing these points with you, obviously, so you can avoid these things.

0:46.1

But then as you are kindly welcoming in new agents into the industry, maybe you can pass this

0:51.2

information along to them as well. If you're a broker, you're an office manager, you're a team leader, feel free to print out the notes. Now, the notes for

0:59.0

today's podcast with all of our podcasts are actually down in the show description. So if you're

1:04.0

on iTunes or if you're in Stitcher, Spotify, where I think we're on now 40 different

1:08.4

podcast listening widgets and of course YouTube, Just scroll down and there are the notes and just cut and paste them and use them as you as you need.

1:16.6

But please do share this information with many other agents as you can so they don't need to suffer and they can actually stay in the business long term.

1:26.6

Because the fact is, it's not that difficult to stay in this business long term because the fact is, is it's not

1:28.4

that difficult to stay in this real estate industry for a long period of time, provided you

1:33.2

avoid these seven top reasons.

1:35.5

That's right.

1:35.8

So first, a quick fact for you.

1:37.4

According to the National Association of Realtors, 87% of licensed realtors do actually fail out

1:42.4

of the business within five years or less.

1:45.0

Now, what that means is only 13 percent survive. Why is this and how can you be part of the 13

1:51.2

percent, not just surviving, but actually thriving? So we're going to give you some reasons.

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