Building a Business Plan in Real Estate
Many Real Estate agents do not understand the importance of a business plan. They do not look at their role as being an independent contractor. When you are essentially running your own business, you need to have a plan! When I was in Real Estate, I was very scattered. I was doing Real Estate in between jobs and then part time when I had a job. It wasn’t until the last time I was unemployed that I really took Real Estate seriously. I realized it was very easy to get off track and I knew that staying on track was essential if I was to take this seriously. The first step that I knew I had to do was to conduct a business plan. Without a business plan, I knew that I had no direction.
So where you start with the business plan, you may ask? I found a business plan online that I was able use that was very helpful. The idea of it was to calculate your bills every month and see how much money you needed every week, month and then year. After you figured out how much you needed to make, you then devised a plan as to how you were going to get there. This part included figuring out ratios. How many buyers and sellers would you have to meet with to reach your goal? How many closings would you have to make to reach your goal etc..
Once you got that far, it was then very important to figure out a plan to enable you to reach that goal. In this part, you need to then figure how many phone calls, how many meetings and how much marketing you need to do to get there. It is again very important to keep ratios in mind. How many people do you have to call to get one appointment? How many fliers do you typically need to send to get a response from someone?
After you have come up with your business plan and you know then what you need to do in order to reach your goals mentally and financially, then it is time to take action. This will make your days, weeks and months much more structured and you will also have a clear path toward reaching your goals. Goals are much more easy to reach once you set a clear path to get there! Become an Ownacondo.com Real Estate agent and get started today!
Hiring Chicago Real Estate Agents
OwnACondo.com is hiring Chicago real estate agents more than ever. In January and February of 2009, OwnACondo.com hired a total of 16 Illinois Realtors bringing its total to more than seventy-five. The need is there more than ever states Brian Kuzdas, founder and CEO of OwnACondo.com. We’re getting fifty to seventy five leads a day from all the advertising we’re doing and frankly, it’s hard to keep up.
Recognizing the need in the marketplace to service renters that want to become owners, OwnACondo.com initiated a Chicago rent-to-own program with more than 400 outdoor impressions. There are park benches , neighborhood billboards and expressway billboards all over Chicago identifying the “rent-to-own†program. People are calling at a pace we’ve never seen before, says Mr. Kuzdas. The phone is literally ringing every five minutes.
We need to hire Chicago real estate agents yesterday. We’re giving more than ten to fifteen people to our agents per week to service. It’s just too much. The amount of care and service each of these clients needs exceeds our realtors. Though a good problem to have, its something that has to be fixed over the next six weeks. OwnACondo.com plans to hire more than fifty realtors over the next two months and strengthen their marketing campaign on top of it. We’re becoming one of the giants in the industry right now. We have to have one of the busiest offices in all of Chicago if not Illinois right now.
For Realtors that want to join OwnACondo.com, they can go to the website and click on career opportunities or call 877.627.5543. OwnACondo.com is like no other real estate firm out there. It has a culture that is all about service and high energy. As other companies are retracting and closing the doors,  OwnACondo.com is marketing and investing in this marketplace, while expanding with its second office over the next few months.
I can’t believe how fast we’ve grown in so little time mentions Mr. Kuzdas. Just a few short years ago we had a staff of ten. Now we have a hundred people in this machine we call OwnACondo.com. Not only will OwnACondo.ocm be hiring Chicago real estate agents, but for Miami, new York and Los Angeles as well. They expect to have offices in all three cities outside of Chicago over the next eighteen months. Mr. Kuzdas emphasizes that the success in the ownACondo.com brand comes from the specialization of just focusing on one thing. He firmly believes OwnACondo.com has the best condo realtors in the world. After spending a few moments with him, it’s hard not to.
