Real Estate Training Articles and Videos

Aim High

In this short sales session, real estate business consultant and author of Why Winners Win, Gary Pittard, illustrates how Adam McMahon, from Dignam Real Estate in Thirroul, NSW, Australia, lifted his performance from ordinary to extraordinary. Adam now produces fees in excess of $1.4 million, but earlier in his career he had difficulty getting past . . .   more →

Make Reality Your Ally

In his book, Put Your Dreams to the Test, Dr John Maxwell said, “When people’s talent does not match their dreams and they fail to recognise it, they will be forever working but never winning.” In this short real estate sales training session, Gary Pittard, business adviser and author of Why Winners Win – what . . .   more →

Three Steps to Profit

Gary Pittard, business adviser and author of Why Winners Win – what it takes to be successful in business and life, says, “Some things in life are non-negotiable. Three of them are the steps to profit.” Although the three steps to profit that Gary explains do not exact a high price, they are compulsory . . .   more →

Try Something Different

Are you happy with your results? I hope that with the end of the third quarter of the year looming, you are happy with your progress to date. And if you are, congratulations. Keep doing what you’re doing.

If you are not happy with your results, may I suggest that you try something different?

Stop doing . . .   more →

Hiring – Don’t Be a Heart Buyer

Desperate hirers are not good hirers. When we become desperate for staff we make rash, and often wrong, decisions. We hire with our hearts and not our heads. In this short leadership session, real estate business adviser and trainer, Gary Pittard, explains the importance of keeping our pipelines of potential winning team members full, so . . .   more →

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 →

Incompetence Comes First

What is your attitude to failure?

I fear that our school days did not equip us with a healthy respect for failure and its role in the pursuit of success.

At school we learned that getting things wrong is bad. We were taught to commit seemingly endless facts to memory for regurgitation at exam time. Then . . .   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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Plan, or Slump: It’s Your Call

Welcome to another new year.

Personally, I’m not fond of resolutions but I know many people are. I’d prefer commitments to resolutions, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Before we look forward into the new year, let’s spend some time thinking about the year that is now behind us.

How was this last year for you?

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Fun

We all like to have fun, but you can have too much of it, and too little.

Too much fun

Salespeople occupy their positions for one purpose: to make sales.When there is too much fun in the office it can often be at the expense of results. Leaders tread a fine line between balancing results while . . .   more →

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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In Search of the New

I like technology as much as the next person. I consider myself an ‘early adopter’. But there is one trap for the unwary: you can become so occupied with the search for the new that you can take your eye off the basics.

At a recent real estate training conference, there was one theme common . . .   more →

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 →

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 →

Stock Pricing – It Pays To Be Aware

Rarely will salespeople say, “My listings aren’t selling because they are overpriced”, yet this is the reason why properties do not sell. In this short leadership session, real estate business owners and brokers are advised to take the focus off the market and put it onto the real reason why their agencies’ properties are not . . .   more →

The Hard Way


When it comes to success, there is the easier way, and the hard way. Note that I said, “easier“, and not “easy“. Success is never easy, but some routes to success are easier than others.
Many choose the hard way. This is the way with no . . .   more →