There are so many opportunities to get ahead if you’re willing to take the first step. How can you boost your business using social media while being active in your local community? What should you be sharing on your social platforms? On this episode, Brie Stephens, an award-winning Realtor from the Lake Life Realty Team at Keller Williams, shares advice on maximizing your social media content to reach your market. Takeaways + Tactics Use social media for your lead generation. Creating consistent content is key, so make sure you choose a few big platforms and post to them regularly. Connect with your local community online. You’re not only boosting local businesses by doing this, but benefit

A lot of entrepreneurs fail to scale their businesses because they believe the dangerous myths surrounding recruitment and stepping out of production. Is it true that to scale our business we must recruit more agents - and what is the overall cost to our business as a result of this growth? Once we get out of production, is it true that we should be removing ourselves completely from daily operations? On this episode, CEO of Beer Home Team, Dan Beer shares the 6 myths that hold us back from scaling. Takeaways + Tactics Stop obsessing over agent count. Too many entrepreneurs believe they need to take on a lot of agents to grow. That’s simply not true - or feasible - in the early stages. For a

Jeff Cohn has been in the business for 13 years is known for abnormal results, obsessive tracking, and a relentless drive to be elite in every area. He is the founder of Omaha’s Elite Real Estate Group, Nebraska’s #1 selling residential team. Last week, Jeff revealed that he is leaving Berkshire Hathaway and launching his new business, KW Elite, and expanding 100 locations across the country in 2020! In this episode, Brian picks at Jeff’s insights of what his vision is for the future of real estate since he is on to bigger and better things. In this episode we talk about… 2:30 – How advancement in technology is challenging the individual real estate agent’s role in the transaction. 6:12 – Bi

Less than one month after missing out on the $5 billion acquisition of a tech company, Warren Buffett got more bad news. Buffett’s real estate brokerage, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, lost one of its biggest stars to rival Keller Williams Realty -- in its own backyard. The new office for the departing CEO of Omaha’s Real Estate Group, Jeff Cohn, and his 35-person team is just a 15-minute drive from Buffett’s five-bedroom home in Omaha, Nebraska, according to HousingWire. “We believe that having a one-stop-shop solution for the consumer is the future, and going into this next decade, it’s imperative that we’re serving our clients at the highest level,” Cohn said in a Facebook video. “Withi

Keller Williams’ driving passion and purpose to keep agents at the heart of every real estate transaction has impelled the company to invest $1 billion in the most innovative technology the industry has ever seen. That’s one of the main reasons that Jeff Cohn and his team – the No. 1 team at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices – have joined Keller Williams. Cohn’s company, Omaha’s Elite Real Estate Group, is a force. The 35-person organization went from 70 to over 700 unit sales in just six years, and has collectively sold nearly 5,000 homes for a staggering $1 billion in sales volume. Cohn blasted into real estate in 2006 as the Rookie of the Year in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. In the year

Berkshire Hathaway’s residential brokerage just lost one of its biggest stars to its chief rival Keller Williams. In its own stomping grounds of Omaha, Nebraska, no less. Jeff Cohn and his 35-person team, Omaha’s Elite Real Estate Group, plan to join Keller Williams in January, the company said. Cohn’s team is No. 1 at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, with 617.5 transactions last year, according to research firm RealTrends. Those deals were valued at more than $100 million. Before readers write off this top agent in Nebraska, consider this: With a population of 466,000, Omaha’s median sales price last year was $179,000 last year, up 5.3 percent year-over-year, according to Zillow. And the ma

It was announced Tuesday, December 10, 2019, at the FutureCon.Tech Conference in Las Vegas that Keller Williams will be launching a new Market Center in West Omaha - KW ELITE - in January 2020. Native Omahan Jeff Cohn, founder of Omaha’s Elite Real Estate Group, will lead the new venture. He and his team of 35 agents and staff, who are currently the nation’s #1 selling residential team at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Ambassador Real Estate, will be making the transition in January 2020 and launching a technology-driven office. A modern and consumer-friendly design is underway for their 10,000 square foot campus at the Advent Building at 17838 Burke Street. The high-tech office will be a o

While the ‘broker shop’ would have us believe working from franchise hubs is the best way to get great results, satellite offices also offer amazing opportunities. Where should we be buying office space - and how can moving to a satellite office impact our company’s culture? Can operating from a secondary location allow us to do more within our communities? On this episode, founder of the Hermes Realty Group in Atlanta, Matt Hermes shares the benefits of satellite offices. Takeaways + Tactics Buy offices in local hotspots with lots of visibility. This makes it more likely for you to get walk-in customers from within the local market. Use a smaller space to entrench a stronger culture. By hav