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Building a great real estate team can render exceptional benefits for your business, especially in the starting stages. But building a team from the ground up is no easy task, and can either be a smart idea or a money pit. It takes time and due diligence to build a team that will help expand your networking and investment opportunities. We bring you 5 simple tips that will help you build a successful real estate team.

1. Evaluate Your Needs
   To get started on building a successful real estate team, you have to first identify the driving need or goal. Whether you're trying to increase your revenue, ensure you consistently have access to opportunities, allocate more time for yourself, or you need someone to handle your general tasks, you need to understand why you're setting up a team so you can align that with your hiring decisions. It's also important to pinpoint skills and characteristics that you excel at, as well as your weaknesses or areas of improvement.

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Starting a new career in real estate can seem daunting at first glance, especially to a new agent. But what makes great agents truly awesome at their trade starts with a great mentor to help them through the early career bumps along the way. 

This is why Homesale Realty puts such a premium on helping new agents get acclimated to their new lifestyle through solid mentorship. Learn more about the importance of teamwork and how to be an effective mentor.

• Listen to Your New Colleagues
  Sometimes when we're starting out in any new endeavor, we simply need to talk out our frustrations, fears, and expectations, which is why it's so important to have someone who is a good listener.  Good listeners also can process information for the speaker and help them come to a logical conclusion of their thoughts.
  
  More often than not, if we are allowed to "talk it out" to someone willing to take the time and listen, we can learn and draw our own conclusions about whatever is going on around us. A great mentor is always a good listener and is available to help their mentee vocalize the things that they are thinking about.

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Your brand isn't just what you say about yourself, but also what others say about you. The importance of personal branding as an agent is twofold:

• First, it gives you the opportunity to define your value and find your ideal clients.
• Second, it protects your reputation from misinformation in a fast-paced digital age.

Why Homesale Realty? The real estate industry is busier than ever before. No matter where you're based, odds are there are dozens of agencies at work in your local area. Homesale Realty helps you stand out and increase the odds that customers will seek you out when they want to buy or sell a home.

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Starting a new career in real estate can be a challenge, but it also requires getting your financials in order. You're essentially starting your own business, which comes with its own share of troubles. Fortunately, this is why Homesale Realty is the most successful in getting new real estate agents started in their careers. 

Here are our suggestions for setting yourself up for financial success as a new agent.

• Establish Some Savings
  Depending on whether you're starting with your own business or if you're working for an experienced agent, you'll want to have some savings set aside while you get your new career started. Most financial advisors would recommend that anyone have at least 2-6 months of living expenses saved up in case they run into a financial bind.
  
  For a real estate agent, especially starting out, your first paycheck might be two or three months after your first sale. Real estate isn't exactly like selling a car, and you may not realize your commissions until well after the paperwork has been signed, and the mortgage process has begun in earnest.

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Social media is a terrific way to find new customers and stay in touch with those you've served in the past. Since most of your new customers are bound to find you online, cultivating an active digital presence makes a lot of sense. By posting regularly, you can foster trust and build a true rapport.

That said, it takes a certain level of social savvy to use these tools to their utmost. Social media is always changing, and that means learning and re-learning the best ways to use it. If you stay ahead of the curve, you'll attract business more easily.

Social Stories represent one great innovation many real estate agents aren't using yet.

• What Are Social Stories?
  Humans are storytellers by nature. One of the best roles of social media is to enable that impulse, letting people weave tales about their lives as events happen. Social Stories is the name given to a set of Facebook and Instagram features that help facilitate this. They take the form of photos or short video clips, a maximum of 15 seconds long. Story content is available for only 24 hours.

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