Real Estate Training Articles and Videos

Contact Creates Contracts

In this short sales session, real estate business consultant and author of Why Winners Win, Gary Pittard, explains why staying in touch with clients is good business. Contact creates contacts. You must go out and meet people. This is the beginning of relationship building and salespeople who sit waiting for business to walk in the . . .   more →

How To Make Less Profit

Real estate business consultant and author of Why Winners Win, Gary Pittard, acknowledges that this title is a negative one, but success is not always about doing the right actions: it is just as important to stop doing certain actions. Real estate businesses are notorious for ‘following the herd’. They offer clients few, if any, . . .   more →

Your Path to Mastery

People who choose Sales as a career have three options when it comes to shaping their careers: 1. Do as little as possible and hope for success; 2. Put in the hours but not the study; 3. Work at becoming great. In this short sales session, real estate business consultant, Gary Pittard, says that we . . .   more →

Profit and Your List-To-Sell Ratio

One of the most important factors in your agency’s success is the list-to-sell ratio. In this short leadership session, Gary Pittard, business adviser and author of Why Winners Win – what it takes to be successful in business and life, explains that if you want more profit, without increasing your expenses, you must do more . . .   more →

Choices

At every stage of life, in both our business and our personal lives, we have choices to make. We can choose to be positive, or we can choose to be negative. We can choose to work or to be lazy. In this short real estate sales training session, Gary Pittard explains that we have more . . .   more →

Leadership Skill and the Mirror Principle

Your team is a mirror of you. Dynamic leader, dynamic team. Lazy leader, lazy team. In this short real estate leadership session, real estate sales trainer Gary Pittard discusses the importance of leadership skill and its effect on team performance.

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How Today’s Winners Achieve Massive Success

If you want to achieve massive success in real estate sales, you must do the actions that mediocre people will not do. In this short sales session real estate sales trainer, Gary Pittard, discusses the actions that can make a huge difference in your listings and sales performance. Get more listings, and you will make . . .   more →

A Major Law of Marketing

There are many laws of marketing, some more important than others. In this short leadership session real estate trainer, Gary Pittard, discusses one law that many real estate businesses violate every day – and it costs them profit. The remedy is not difficult, but it could give you a competitive edge, and many more . . .   more →

Focus on the Important

You can be busy and yet not accomplish very much. Being busy does not mean being productive. In this short sales session real estate sales trainer, Gary Pittard, highlights the important activities that get results and advises that they be performed at the expense of lesser-urgent tasks. Time management gives you the opportunity to accomplish . . .   more →

Accountability

Real estate agency owners and leaders often complain that it is difficult to get salespeople to perform winning actions that lead to results. They have also been known to complain that it is hard to get salespeople to focus. When salespeople are not held accountable for their actions, their level of winning actions is . . .   more →

A Brilliant Future

Everybody wants to be successful, but how many are willing to do what it takes to get there? In this short sales session real estate sales trainer, Gary Pittard, shares 5 steps to a brilliant future. Follow them and you may be amazed at how better life goes for you.

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Price Stock to Sell

It doesn’t matter how good your real estate marketing may be, if the property is overpriced it will not sell. So much real estate agency profit is lost through advertising properties that have little hope of selling. In this short real estate sales training session, real estate trainer, Gary Pittard, reminds us that price is . . .   more →

Future and Immediate Sellers

Are you having difficulty finding real estate home owners who are selling now? Successful real estate prospecting requires a lot more than just asking people if they want to sell. It requires skillful questioning that uncovers sellers’ true plans. In this short real estate training session, Gary Pittard will help you find more ‘now’ sellers . . .   more →

Language is Important

If you want to sell more properties, get more listings, and earn a higher income, you must become the best presenter you can possibly be. The best presenters are careful about the language they use. They choose their words carefully, never resorting to jargon when speaking with clients.

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The Best Leadership Tool Ever

Whether you are interested in the leadership of a real estate agency, or the leadership of any other business, like most leaders you may be looking for good leadership tools, tools designed to help you lead your team to higher results and therefore more profit for you.

Real estate sales and leadership trainer, Gary Pittard, will . . .   more →

Ten Reasons Salespeople Dont Get Listings

Salespeople often come up with all sorts of reasons why their results are low. Real estate sales trainer, Gary Pittard, believes that most of these reasons are not reasons: they are excuses. And as long as we continue making excuses, we continue justifying poor performance, thereby keeping our incomes low.

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Pretend To Be Poor

Real estate sales and leadership trainer, Gary Pittard, says, “I have seen many people go broke because they spent more money than they earned. While their credit lasted, they pretended to be rich. But the day always comes when it’s time to pay the piper. Out the back door go the big spenders”.

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The Magic of Numbers

“Sales is a numbers game”. We’ve all heard this saying, but have you ever thought just how important the numbers really are? In this short sales session, real estate sales trainer, Gary Pittard, shows why the numbers aren’t just important – get them right and they’re MAGIC! Improve the numbers and you improve your sales . . .   more →

Five Signs Of A Poor Leader

None of us is the perfect leader, but there is no doubt that some have mastered the art of leadership better than others. In this short leadership session, real estate sales and leadership trainer, Gary Pittard, points out five signs that indicate poor leadership. Forewarned is forearmed. Being aware of the signs of poor . . .   more →

The Entry Level to Success

I was talking with some winners, real estate agency business owners, at one of our Winning Ways seminars. They mentioned hearing some industry speakers who all shared one common theme: “Work hard“.

One of them said something telling: “Work hard? That’s the entry level to success. If you want to be successful at anything, . . .   more →

Where Has The Year Gone

At the halfway point, have you ever found yourself uttering these words: “Where has the year gone?” If so, it is highly possible that you have wasted a lot of time during the first six months of the year. Real estate sales trainer, Gary Pittard, offers strategies to ensure that you make up for . . .   more →