Building Your First Real Estate Team

If you have been working successfully in real estate for years, you could be getting to the point where you have more leads than you have time in the day to work with them. When you get to the point where your leads opportunities are more than you can handle personally, it can get overwhelming.

You may continuously be changing the roles that you are performing in your real estate business, which can lead to fatigue and burn out. At the end of the day, there is only so much that you can do as a one-man team.

If it sounds like you are getting to this point in your career, it may be time to start thinking about putting together your first team to support your business. Recruiting and hiring an intelligent, motivated and hardworking group of individuals can help split up the workload, and give you time to focus on the work that you want to do or need to do.

So how do you go about hiring the right initial teammates for your real estate business?

Define Your Goals

Before you start looking for anyone on your team, you need to define your goals and the problems that you want to solve. Are you trying to grow and expand your business to increase your revenue and income? Do you need to give yourself additional free time and get out of the office more? Start with a precise definition of your goals before you hire anyone.

Hire an Assistant

Hiring an assistant or administrator is the most critical first hire of your business. They can help you handle the day-to-day affairs so that you can focus on making money and growing your company.

Get a Buyer Specialist

If you have leads on buyers that are falling by the wayside because you don’t have enough time, it is critical that you hire a buyer specialist. This position must be filled by someone who can give interested buyers the time and attention that they need so that you can close more deals.

Get Lead Generation Support

When you are flying solo in the real estate business, there is a chance that you could be taking on more leads than you can handle. Many agents will then typically focus on the hottest leads, while their others get thrown on the backburner.

Hiring someone to perform lead support or listings for your business can be a great way to distribute the workload so that you can manage more leads at once.

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A guide to your advanced real estate marketing tool kit.
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MLS Lookup
Automated Postcard Campaigns
Social Posts
Team Designs
Preset Brand Color
Headshot Library
Other BB Plus Benefits
Using MLS Lookup
Create marketing for your listing in seconds
  1. Find a marketing template you love.
  2. Enter your listing’s MLS number in the left sidebar.
  3. Watch as your listing’s information and photos instantly populate the item.
  1. Double check for accuracy.
  2. Download for free, share on social media, or use our printing and shipping services.
  3. Create marketing for your listing in seconds.
Select a template and try the MLS Lookup!
Using Automated Postcard Campaigns
Take care of your sphere marketing for the year with just a few clicks.
  1. Choose a postcard set.
  2. Customize your postcards with your information and special message.
  3. Upload your contacts’ addresses or purchase a mailing list.
  1. Purchase your direct mail campaign.
  2. Sit back and relax! Each postcard will be automatically sent at the right time throughout the year.
Create your Automated Postcard Campaign!
Setting up team and two-agent branding
Market as a team.
  1. Visit your BB Plus profile using the waffle icon in the top right corner.
  2. Upload your teammate or team’s information, headshot, and logo.
  3. Open your desired marketing template and select two-agent or team in the left sidebar.
  1. Whatch your teammate or team's information instantly populate the item.
Try team branding by editing a template!
Selecting your preset brand color
Say good bye to “Frankenstein” marketing.
  1. Visit your BB Plus profile using the waffle icon in the top right corner.
  2. Click the Edit Primary Brand Color widget.
  3. Select your brand color with the color picker or enter the Hexcode and click Select.
  1. Moving forward, every customizable marketing template you edit will automatically load with your brand color.
Using your headshot and logo library
Put your best look forward.
  1. Visit your BB Plus profile using the waffle icon in the to pright corner.
  2. Upload additional headshots and logos.
  3. Click Update to save changes.
  1. Edit your favorite marketing template and click on the headshot or logo image slot to pull up your library of images and select.
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Eye-catching, exclusive marketing material and print collateral branded for you.
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