Help-U-Sell Direct Savings Real Estate is tied for second place in our top producers list for March.It might still be cold in some parts of the country, but spring arrived early for many of our Help-U-Sell offices.
2) Help-U-Sell Direct Savings Real Estate, in Waynesboro, Va., tied for second place with 12 closed sides. Four were seller sides, two were buyer sides and three were dual-sided transactions.
2) Also with a dozen closed sides, Florence, Ala.’s Help-U-Sell Quad Cities Realty closed seven seller sides, one buyer side and two dual-sided transactions.
3) York, Penn.’s Help-U-Sell Hometown Realty rounds out the top three with 11 closed sides: four seller, three buyer and two dual-sided transactions.
Congratulations to all of our top offices and the ones who almost made our competitive list for March!
In the past few weeks, two opinion articles touting the merits of the smaller, broker-centric business model have appeared on renowned real estate news websites, AGBeat and Inman News. We couldn’t agree with these sentiments more. Help-U-Sell Real Estate’s business model has been broker-centric since the company’s founding in 1976. We believe that it’s the best real estate model because:
1) it’s more efficient.
2) it creates agents who have had more transactions and, therefore, more experience which enables them to better serve buyers and sellers.
3) it’s more cost-effective.
4) it creates a more manageable workload for agents.
5) brand consistency is better controlled when one person (the broker) is in charge of all advertising and marketing.
The entire staff of one of our most successful offices, Help-U-Sell Direct Savings Real Estate in Waynesboro, Va.
Most importantly for us, however, a broker-centric model enables our offices to offer consumers choices, ultimately saving the consumer money compared to the old-fashioned agent model. That model, while slowly fading away, seems to exist only to support the inefficiencies of that old business model.
We also encourage you to read the two articles, if you haven’t already, and leave your comments as to how the broker-centric business model works for you.
We’re just back from the 2012 Help-U-Sell Success Summit, and the REALTORS Conference & Expo leading up to it. By all accounts, both were a great success! We loved seeing our brokers from all over the country. Several of them (Kim and Mike Zelena, Leigh Anne Losh, Kyna Baehr, and Walt Hippauf) drove hundreds of miles to be with us in Orlando.
Thank you to everyone who spent time at our expo booth. Your testimonials to prospective franchisees are more powerful than just about anything we can say to them or show them. A special thank-you to Dan Desmond, who made the trek from storm-damaged New Jersey to help out at the Expo and to attend the Summit.
We hope all who attended the Success Summit got some great takeaways. The hands-on approach and interactive discussions about OMS and website requests and your fee structures taught us, too. We also talked about partnering with a wonderful charity that gives food to the hungry and about adding a potential vendor to our program. As we get closer to finalizing those partnerships, we will keep you informed.
Those of you who couldn’t make it this year, please mark your calendars and start saving now for the 2013 events in San Francisco. The NAR dates are Nov. 8-11, and we will have our Success Summit immediately following. We’ll provide more information in the months to come.
Meanwhile, enjoy a few photos from the Expo and the Success Summit.
Help-U-Sell Real Estate's booth at the Realtors Conference & Expo in Orlando Chris, Dee and Kendra working the Help-U-Sell Real Estate booth at the Realtors Conference & Expo Tracy Jacobs of Help-U-Sell Quad Cities Realty takes notes during the Success Summit. Ron McCoy teaching about Instagram during the Help-U-Sell Success Summit
3) Help-U-Sell Direct Savings Real Estate, located in Waynesboro, Va., closed five buyer sides, three seller sides and one double-side for a total of 10 sides.
3) Help-U-Sell Honolulu Properties also finished with 10 sides, making the top producers list for the third month in a row. (Also, congratulations to Richard Cricchio for being named one of Hawaii’s top Realtors by “Hawaii Business” magazine!)
Congratulations to everyone for a great May! Keep up the good work this month!
