Tag: brokerage

Episode 97: Recruiting Productive Agents with Chase & Nate

Episode 97: Recruiting Productive Agents with Chase & Nate

Recruiting productive agents is on most brokers top priority list these days, but the task is not getting any easier.  In this episode we dive into who tends to make a good agent and then how to find them.  Next we discuss the typical interview questions which yield the best results with bringing new agents …

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Episode 74: Why a West Texas Broker Buys a Franchise

Episode 74: Why a West Texas Broker Buys a Franchise

This episode sheds a lot of light on the advantages of a brokerage joining a real estate franchise system like United Country Real Estate. We are joined in the studio by professional farm & ranch broker Monty Edwards of Sudan, Texas as he discusses his decision to franchise and the advantages he has experienced over …

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Episode 73: Beans, Bullets and Band-Aids with Russell Hughes

Episode 73: Beans, Bullets and Band-Aids with Russell Hughes

If you have listened to Russell Hughes on one  of our previous podcast shows, then you already know he is a wealth of information.  This is another great show where we dive into the current status of import/export of consumer goods and products, warehouse space shortages and the industrial boom we are experiencing right now. …

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Episode 72: How to Win in Google Search Rankings

Episode 72: How to Win in Google Search Rankings

We are joined in the studio by United Country Real Estates technology expert, Jim Nowak as we discuss how Google ranks websites and how we can win the ranking game. Jim offers great insight into the way Google web-crawlers find and rank websites and then offers multiple strategies into ways that office owners can get …

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Episode 69: Adding Auction Services to Your Brokerage with Kevin Jaquay

Episode 69: Adding Auction Services to Your Brokerage with Kevin Jaquay

Long time broker and recent auctioneer Kevin Jaquay joins Trina and Shawn in the studio for an in-depth discussion about adding auction services to a real estate brokerage.  Kevin is a franchise owner with United Country Real Estate | Auction Services and has three offices in the State of New York.  We discuss the opening …

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Episode 68: Bad Bidders List and Standardizing Commissions with Mike Brandly

Episode 68: Bad Bidders List and Standardizing Commissions with Mike Brandly

As the auction industry heads more and more towards online bidding platforms, the experience with unscrupulous bidders will unfortunately become more prevalent.   In this episode we discuss this issue with Mike Brandly and his recent blog post regarding the challenges to creating a “Centralized Bad Bidders List”.   We also talk about the recent movement of …

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Episode 65: Right of First Refusal with Shane Terrel

Episode 65: Right of First Refusal with Shane Terrel

The dreaded “right of first refusal” can be found in real estate transactions across America.  Often times we see it in non-urban land sales like Farms, Ranches, Recreational properties and it can be a challenge when working with sellers that have already committed to the agreement, but now want to get the “most” out of …

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Episode 58: The Advantages to Joining a Franchise

Episode 58: The Advantages to Joining a Franchise

Ever wonder why independent real estate companies choose to join a national or regional franchise system??  Well we get to the bottom of it in this spectacular episode with premier auctioneer and real estate broker Johnny Horton from Longview, Texas.  Johnny takes us through the advantages of joining a nationwide real estate and auction franchise …

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