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Attention Agents: Double Your Income in 2015!

Looking to improve your real estate career? I'm here to help you make a smart decision when it comes to growing your business, improving your bottom line, and choosing a place to work in real estate sales. If you'd like to learn more about working with The Lars Group, contact me at (704) 800-1200 or Lars@LarsRealEstate.com.

Thanks for joining us again. Hopefully you saw our last blog, and were able to pick up a copy of "Dominate your day, Win your week". This is a great resource for anybody who wants to succeed in business and we hope that it is making a great difference for you and yours.

Today we are issuing a call for your help. We are in the fortunate position to have too many opportunities coming in through our front door. We have yard sign calls, internet leads, and appointments that we can't service with the amount of agents we currently have.

This is why we are currently looking to hire 2-3 quality buyer specialists to join our team. If you or somebody you know is interested at all, we would love to chat with you about joining our team. We are looking for someone who is an achiever and someone who is looking to ear a significant income in real estate.

We are so confident in our team and the systems we have in place, that the people we hire will earn $60,000 minimum in their first 12 months working with us. If you don't earn that much on commission alone in your first year, we will pay you the difference. There is no other team that can make that claim or that offer, but we can get you plugged in and productive quickly. After 12 months of working with us, every one of our agents this year will make more than 6 figures.

If you have any questions about the position, or about our team, feel free to visit our website RealEstateCareersInCharlotte.com.

How Can You Increase Your Productivity?

How Can You Increase Your Productivity?

Welcome back to our training blog. This is where we like to provide info for local agents on how to better their business. Today, we have got a great topic that we are very passionate about: How the decisions you make every day with your time impact your productivity and the amount of money you earn in real estate.

We have a tool that we use every day called "Dominate your day, Win your week!" This is a daily reminder tool that can help you succeed in the real estate business. There are 3 sections to this tool:

1. The Top 6
The first sections is a list of time management strategies. The key here is approaching every day with intention.

2. Positive Focus, Go Big
As you are going through your day, it's important to keep a positive focus, and capture all the positive moments throughout your day. By the end of the day, you should remember 10 great things from that day, but the end of the week, you will have 50. Instead of focusing on the drama that comes along with the real estate industry, you can intentionally seek out those positive things for yourself.
You also have to "Begin In Gratitude." Be thankful for what you have, and that will allow you to see things more clearly and positively.

3. Notes/Insights for the Day
Write down any key takeways or insights. What have you learned about yourself from going through this exercise?

You can download the PDF by clicking here.

We would love for you to take advantage of this tool. Give us a call or send us an email if you'd like us to send over a copy. There's no agenda here, we are just trying to help more of you succeed by learning from our past experiences.

Social media tools to grow your business

Referral Marketing Tips and Resources
Today's topic is one that is near and dear to my heart, referral marketing. Most of my business comes from referrals, especially referrals through social media. There is a way to do this kind of marketing efficiently, and there is also a way to waste a lot of time doing things that don't work. Many agents in Charlotte spend their time on social networks constantly updating and bombarding followers with news that most of the time gets ignored or even blocked due to excessive posts.

I have a very simple strategy for generating interest from both buyers and sellers in Charlotte who are connected with you via social networks. We subscribe to a service here called keepingcurrentmatters.com, a service that not only provides up-to-date and current information on the real estate market, but it also provides easy-to-use graphics that you can share with all of your clients via social media. Our team views this material at least once a month to remain up-to-date on the market.

We then take those handy graphics from the site and post them to our various social media pages so that people in Charlotte are up-to-date on all of the latest trends. This service only costs $20 a month, but more than pays for itself when you use it correctly, especially on social media. They give you great tools on how to generate actual buyers from social media sites. These simple tools, which link to your site, really start the conversation with potential buyers by grabbing their attention with information and reeling them in with supplemental facts and knowledge.

If you have any questions about your business, please give me a call. Let's grab a cup of coffee and talk about whether we would be a good fit. There is no obligation, just simply a preliminary meeting that could hopefully lead to a mutually beneficial partnership.

Until next time,

Lars Hedenborg and The Lars Group