Tom has worked with some of the most successful agents and teams in the industry. He’s guided them through challenges and fears to achieve their ultimate goals. So how do you achieve top producer status? Here’s his blueprint based on the actual strategies that top producers use. So, cue that energetic and inspiring Tom Ferry voice in your head: “are you ready to crush your goals, overcome the fears that hold you back, and be the best version of yourself?” Spoiler alert: you’re going to need a plan. 90% of Top Producers have a real estate business plan. 81% have a yearly marketing plan. If you want to be a top producer, you need a plan too. What’s in a plan? Define exactly what success looks like for you, your team, and your business. Create overarching goals and then determine how to prioritize your time, every day, to accomplish the things that will ultimately drive your success. You need dedicated time each week to review the critical components of your business: Your business plan needs to answer: Perhaps you need better tools at your disposal to boost the pipeline and build better relationships. When your goals are bigger you need to make sure you and your agents have more opportunities to work with, and that you can leverage technology to streamline workloads and prioritize time. The right platform can provide you with the tools to operationalize your processes and save major time with working your database. When you’re reviewing all the important aspects of your business each week, it allows you to be hyper aware of how each area is functioning. For your unique business needs and goals, take some time to rank your business priorities based on the amount of time you need to spend on each one of them. 75% of Tom Ferry’s top producers make their business decisions based on data. This means they’re evaluating each aspect of their business and seeing what is working and what needs improvement. In other words, they’re tracking every effort. If you’re using a predictive CRM, this can be a much simpler task. When digital marketing efforts are tracked, conversations and website actions are automatically logged in the system, it’s easy to get a snapshot of your business as well as team member performance. Out of the top producers that were analyzed: When you’re tracking your marketing efforts, you can budget effectively and fuel what works for your pipeline and your business. Tom Ferry’s top producers typically spent $3000-$5000 per month on marketing campaigns to generate leads. The majority prioritized their lead generation efforts as follows: As the leads pour in, it becomes critical to make sure they’re managed effectively. With a healthy marketing budget, the right lead generation system, and digital advertising, it is typically too much lead volume to manage on one’s own. This is why most of his top producers have a team. They divvy up roles and responsibilities so everyone is leveraging their unique skill set, no prospect falls through the cracks, and the real estate company is run like a true business. Diving a little deeper into building a team like a top producer, the average team size is around 3-5 members, and 94% of these teams have defined roles and responsibilities. This means there that people are hired for specific tasks that suit their expertise and personality. So what do you need to consider when you’re building this team? Map out your team structure. Determine what tasks to delegate, how many people you’ll need, and what your hiring timeline will look like. You can’t build a dream team with the wrong people! Take your time assessing the needs of the role. Thoroughly vet candidates to make sure they’re a good fit for the job and your own company culture. This goes back to your team structure. Divide responsibilities into specialized roles. Here are the most common team member roles among the top producers: Make sure you have the right structure, processes and tools in place to make communication and information sharing simple for your team. A CRM with the right tools can help facilitate teamwork and maximize productivity. If you’re not tracking the results of your hires, you’ll have no way of knowing who is performing and who needs assistance. Use a CRM that allows easy access to an overview of your entire business and helps you easily track you team’s progress to align with your goals. Do you feel like you have what it takes to become a top producer? This isn’t the kind of thing that happens overnight. It’s about following this blueprint, creating a solid plan for your business, and empowering your plan with the right tools and technology to achieve success.How Top Producers plan
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