Death of the Traditional Real Estate Agent: Rise of the Super-Profitable Real Estate Sales Team

We've all heard the stats and stories about how tough it is to make a profitable living in real estate without high (and often devastating) lifestyle costs, but what do you know about the super successful agents, those netting $500,000, $1 million, $3 million, or more a year selling real estate? What do you really know about how they think, what they do, and how they approach the business, most often rejecting the industry norms that enslave the average agent? The fact of the matter is, if your real estate business depends on you, you don't really have a business-you have a job. In stark contrast, these mega agents have true businesses built on turnkey systems and well-organized teams. There is no stopping this trend. More and more teams will come, garner more market share, and get paid premium fees at the same time working less and playing more than the typical agent. Inside these pages, we'll introduce you to sixteen of these super successful, highly profitable real estate team leaders who share the secrets of their rise to the top 1 percent of the entire industry, how they did it, and how you can copy your way to your own megasuccessful real estate business.

Craig Proctor is founder and CEO of Craig Proctor Coaching, an international real estate success coaching organization that has improved the lives of over thirty thousand real estate agents around the world via Proctor's quantum leap real estate success system. This system is based on Proctor's own highly successful real estate career that spanned over twenty years and eight thousand homes sold and is uniquely positioned to deliver real, current, and proven solutions to real estate agents and brokers, empowering them to build highly profitable businesses that deliver exceptional customer service without high lifestyle costs. ? Todd Walters is a Platinum coach with Craig Proctor Real Estate Coaching as well as CEO of Optimus Real Estate Brokers, Inc., Georgia's fastest growing real estate company. Named among the top 20 agents in the United States by NAR and top 10 RE/MAX worldwide, Todd was featured in the Billion Dollar Agent, Lessons Learned, and Real Estate Rainmaker: Guide to Online Marketing, before retiring from selling at age thirty-nine with over five thousand real estate transactions. Debbie Renna-Hynes began her real estate career in 2003, following twenty-five years teaching high school. Now CEO of the Renna Hynes Team with Keller Williams, Debbie is a multiple-award winner, including Realtor Associate of the Year in 2007. Recently featured on the cover of Top Agent Magazine, she ranks as one of the top agents in her board within KW and in the New York State. She volunteers with the Rochester General Hospital TWIG Association and Veterans Outreach Center and is the financial sponsor for Artistic, an art show for autistic children through Autism Speaks.