Confession: We recorded this episode twice. It was originally called Prospecting 101 and none of us were passionate about it. In fact, when we recorded it the first time..the three of us looked at each other from across our zoom screens and just straight up confessed..."I'm not feeling this.." So we re-grouped and revisited this topic in a way that felt right to us. Prospecting/Finding Clients is 100% something you need to be 100% in to. If you do it in a way that doesn't feel right to you,...

We are so excited to have Stevie Hahn Rutherford on Call Before Showing Podcast to talk all things real estate: -how she became a REALTOR -her 'WHY'  -how she juggles content creation for YouTube and Instagram, selling homes, and her real life. Plus, she spills some major tea about changes in her business recently that surprised us all. You're gonna love this one, ya'll.

This week, Alex and Christine sit down with Kristine Axelson of Pivotal Coaching to discuss all things manifesting. How do you do it? Where do you start? Kristine takes us on an uplifting journey to finding our most authentic selves and living out our ideal lives through small practices and mindset shifts that can allow us to approach everything in a more positive way. Whether you're looking to transform your morning routine, put a positive spin on everyday struggles, or manifest gajillions...

Oh yikes, it's the thing none of us want to do but it is sometimes very neccessary..breaking up with a client, firing them gracefully..HOW DO YOU DO IT? When do you do it? Do you text or call or email or send a carrier pigeon? We get in to it all in this episode! Also...we want to introduce our NEW partner: Coffee & Contracts! Coffee & Contracts is a monthly marketing toolkit subscription that will up your marketing game in a big way. We have a special for you - go to...

We've all had 'em..A listing that just won't sell! On today's episode, we talk through several strategies you and your sellers can consider when you have a listing that isn't selling BEFORE you do a price reduction.

This one..well, it's a doozy. It's a fun journey. Today's episode is a quick deep dive into the lives and personalities of your hosts of Call Before Showing, Alex, Alison, and Christine! We go from favorite ways to get clients to our most embarrassing moments, Disney adults to where we met our spouses..Enneagrams and Zodiac Signs to if we sleep with a top sheet or not. We had so much fun recording this one together, we hope you enjoy listening and laughing with (at?) us. 

2022..what a year for real estate pros. In this episode, Alex, Christine, & Alison dive in to their year highlights and challenges, reveal if they hit their goals or not, and what they are looking forward to accomplishing in 2023. 

There are SO many ways as a REALTOR to market yourself to your neighborhood, but is neighborhood marketing / farming the right fit for you? On this episode of Call Before Showing Podcast, Alex, Alison & Christine explore many pros and cons of Farming the Neighborhood you live in and brainstorm some creative easily executable ideas for agents who want to explore farming their neighborhood! What are your thoughts? Is Neighborhood Farming one of the pillars of your business? 

One thing is for sure, real estate pros are always on the go! What should you have in your car kit to ensure you are ready for anything that pops up? Today, Alison and Christine discuss just that - and even added some new things to their car kits after recording because the ideas were flowing. :) What did we miss or what did we not discuss that is an essential where you are? We'd love to hear!

A slow season in real estate is full of opportunity - are you taking advantage of it? In today's episode, Alex, Alison & Christine discuss their 4 P's of how to take advantage of a slower season to set yourself up for success in the busier times. 

Finding the right real estate brokerage for you is probably the most crucial decision an agent can make. Are you asking the right questions? Do you know what you need in a brokerage at this stage of your business?    In today's episode, we talk about what questions we think are valuable to ask during an interview, what we wish we knew or would have asked when we were interviewing at brokerages, and ways to identify if a brokerage is right for you. We hope you love this episode as much as we...

A lender can make or break a transaction and finding the right lender for you and your workflow and clients is like finding a pair of jeans that fit JUST right. Today, we are talking with the lender that fits just right with our host Alex Londono - Gina Myers of the Gina Myers Team with Cross Country Mortgage. Gina talks to us all about her journey into the mortgage business from commercial real estate development, her philosophy on what makes a lender stand out, how we as agents can...

Selling the OC = reality TV gold! On this episode of Call Before Showing, real agents recap Selling the OC..We dive in to our favorite moments, weigh in on some of the drama, dish on what seems real, what drama seems completely manufactured, and more!  Disclaimer: Our recap / thoughts about this TV show are based solely on the cast actions as portrayed on the show, not based on their character as people and real estate agents in the real world. We are very aware that production plays a HUGE...

Have you ever contemplated starting a team? Today, we talk to our co-host Alex & her teammate Cooper from Rise & Bloom about what steps they took to start their team together, including writing a Standards of Practice for the real estate team, what benefits they have found from having a partner in this business, and more! 

The amazing Kelley Armstrong is back! In this episode, we talk about all things SYSTEMS! We LOVE her tips about streamlining so many parts of her business, including her gifting system, buyer system and seller system. She also shares how she creates systems from the ground up, including a few book recs!

Our listeners asked us anything and we answered..most of them! We dive in to some podcast behind the scenes, talk about our favorite moments of the past year of podcasting, and dive in to LOTS of questions about being a REALTOR right now.  This was such a fun episode to record and we are so grateful for you listening. This is our last episode for a bit- We will be taking a summer break and will be back in September! 

Buyers are buying properties sight unseen more than ever, so today we dive in to how to sell real estate to sight unseen buyers. We go through how we prep sight unseen buyers in our buyer consultations, how we show property to out of town buyers, how we can better serve sight unseen clients through marketing pieces about the area they are moving to, and more! We even dive in to if we've had a client buy a house they hated- the big fear! Thanks for listening!

Buying and selling a house for yourself as a real estate agent is HARD. On today's episode, we discuss how easy it is to become your own worst client when navigating the market as an agent buyer or seller. Oh, boy, do we have some funny moments in this episode. We hope you enjoy!

Have you ever had a moment where you wanted to quit real estate? Sally Sheard did, and after a year where she struggled, she dug deep and implemented two things into her business and grew her sphere and her business by over 200%. The two things were: completing a challenge within her brokerage to have 100 cups of coffee with 100 different people in a year, and reading and implementing many ideas from the Ninja Selling system. In this episode, we talk through how she found 100 people she...

On today's episode, we talk about how to sell new construction as a REALTOR to include selling track built and semi-custom homes, to selling fully custom homes with Jessica Deleo from Sunday Homes. She has so many great tips about how to be of value to your clients throughout the home building process and also shares a bit of her story building a custom home of her own! Thanks for listening!

Today, Alex and Christine talk with Tracie Gulit of Tracie Gulit Homes about hiring an assistant and creating systems to avoid burnout as a real estate agent. We explore how to determine you are ready to hire an assistant, how to find talented people who can be a member of your support team, how to determine what tasks should they do and how to systematize what you do so that they can take it off of your plate, how to face the fear of being responsible for someone else's livlihood, and more!...

Today's episode gets a little spicy with Alex, Alison and Christine discussing taboo topics of real estate..Is it unprofessional to have alcohol in photos? What about marijuana? Should you have a luxury car as a REALTOR? Should you set offer deadlines or allow overlapping showings? Should you put your clients in your car? iPhone or Android? We dive in DEEP on this episode, share some amazing advice, and have a lot of laughs. Enjoy!

Why does a REALTOR need a website? Can't we just use our brokerage website? What information needs to be on a REALTOR Website? Does it need to have a property search function? In today's episode, we dive in to ALL of that with Michelle Nemirovsky from Oak & Keys. Oak & Keys provides beautiful templates for Squarespace websites for REALTORS, website set up and more. Michelle also talks about some new projects the company is working on to bring women who are curious and passionate...

Alex, Alison & Jessica Deleo explore the realities of becoming a new parent while also being a full time REALTOR. This follow up episode to our Realtor Maternity Leave Episode from February 2021 dives in to Alison & Jess's expectations vs reality of birth, early days of parenthood, whether their maternity leave plans worked or not, and figuring out their lives as new members of the #realtormom world. We talk about our experiences as moms but everything we talk about is applicable to...

You passed your real estate exam and you have your real estate license in hand! Congratulations! What's next? What do you do in your rookie year of real estate? On today's episode, Alex, Alison & Christine discuss what you should make your priorities in your first year of real estate.  We talk about everything we did right, lots of things we did wrong, and everything in between.