14 Oct 2023 12:00
Feast or Famine | Adapting & Succeeding in a Down Market
The market is coming down, you can't deny it. Eventually we will all have to figure out how to sink or swim. How can you adapt to succeed in a down market? The money isn't gone, it just isn't where you think it is.
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Transcript:
What's up? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our episode of the Real Estate Marketing Dude podcast. I think we just had 8% interest rates. The market is slow. What are you going to do? Hey, if you're a real estate broker or you're a team leader, it is fucking recruiting season all day, every day. Because every single time the market shifts, agents are who are spoiled about how easy business was.
00:01:40:23 - 00:02:01:20
Unknown
They weren't really looking at their brokerage for support. But when things shift like that, the number one thing all agents industry I look in is who's going to help me navigate the mess that we're in, the slowness that I'm experiencing. And if you're in the business of recruiting, this is today's episode is going to be how to feast and famine, feast or famine in a changing market.
00:02:01:20 - 00:02:17:00
Unknown
This is going to be on how you feast because it's markets like these that are honestly the easiest time to recruit. It's very difficult to recruit when everyone is doing well because what's the purpose of recruit? Hey, I'm doing well. I don't need you right When you're getting your ass kicked, you're like, Should I need some help? I need a coach.
00:02:17:00 - 00:02:36:16
Unknown
I need to switch brokerages. Maybe I'm with the wrong people. Maybe I'm with that. What my predictions are going to be, I've never I've been roasted for 20 years. I've never seen 8% interest rates before in my career. So this is new to me as well. But what I know is that people are hurting right now and people are looking at what am I going to do next?
00:02:36:16 - 00:02:56:10
Unknown
And they're scared. 90% of the real estate agents out there have never seen a shift like this. So if you're a team leader or broker owner, the chances are you've been in the business longer than most of the people you're trying to recruit early. Usually that's how it used to work. Today you have people in the business for two years and all said in their coaches and their influencers and all this other stuff, but we need to go back to the basics.
00:02:56:10 - 00:03:15:05
Unknown
This is a very healthy thing with the right mindset. So without further ado, I want to go ahead and introduce our guest. We had him on about like the Kova days, if I'm not mistaken, a couple of years ago, years ago now, three years on, his name is Mr. Jim readily jumped. Hello. Hey, man. Thank you for having me back on the program.
00:03:15:05 - 00:03:31:15
Unknown
Always a pleasure, Mike. What are we going to get into today? Let's talk about recruiting because it's recruiting season, As you mentioned, I just saw a stat that was 90% of all the agents operating today have never been in a market with 5% interest or greater. And so when you look at that, you know, you've got a lot of agents who are exiting.
00:03:31:15 - 00:04:00:02
Unknown
The latest numbers show that about 80,000 agents have already exited this business. Now we've got a double whammy hitting the market. We've got a whammy of, you know, people just not ever experie
