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Opening The Gates To More Listings

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Dec 5, 2024 • 47min

Episode 144: Ross McKenzie

Today's returning guest is the visionary founder of self-employed brokerage Isla-Alexander and co-founder of Open Moove, a groundbreaking tech startup aimed at revolutionising the way home movers and property professionals interact. With a mission to transform the property industry, Open Moove delivers innovative solutions that streamline the home moving process for estate agents, mortgage advisors, and conveyancers. In addition to building Open Moove, he is also the founder and CEO of Isla-Alexander, the dynamic estate agency and finance startup based in Cardiff. Isla-Alexander focuses on delivering personalised service, leveraging technology to enhance the property journey for clients. While Open Moove is disrupting the tech side of the real estate sector, Isla-Alexander remains at the forefront of providing exceptional, relationship-driven estate agency services.He has a passion for innovation and his commitment to reshaping the property industry through technology and outstanding service, with the home mover at the forefront of everything both businesses do. You do not want to miss this episode to learn from one of the very best who is leading the wave of new thinking across the industry.
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Nov 28, 2024 • 54min

Episode 143: Ross D'Aniello

Today's returning guest is the Managing Director of Chartwell Noble and has decades of experience in the luxury and country homes sector in Worcestershire and the surrounding counties. He has sold some of the region's finest and beautiful country homes and is a retired member of RICS and a former RICS Registered Valuer, bringing deep expertise to property valuations and knowledge of specialist and historic properties. He is a force behind the traditional and tech-driven approach of Chartwell Noble, ensuring that they stay ahead in the industry whilst maintaining the highest of standards. A mentor champion with "Agents Together", he is committed to elevating estate agency standards and is a highly experienced valuer of country, rural and high end properties. You definitely want to check out this conversation if you are looking to learn from someone that has launched a brand new estate agency and has gone on to list high value homes, at decent fees, and with upfront payments.
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Nov 21, 2024 • 54min

Episode 142: Simon Cowie

Today's guest is the MD of By Design Homes Warwickshire and is an expert in selling premium properties. Having worked in design previously, Selling Sunset inspired him into becoming an estate agent and over the past three and a half years, he has gone from selling £180,000 properties to £5,000,000 luxury homes. We discuss his success from investing significant funds from the outset, using direct mail, social media, and video to help win listings and sell more houses that other other agents have failed to do so. If you're looking to get into the higher end of the market or just improve your existing offering to sell more houses and get higher fees, you do not want to miss this episode.
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Nov 14, 2024 • 55min

Episode 141: Ben Marley

Today's returning guest is the founder of Geocale and is on a mission to achieve top-ranking Google profiles for estate agents. Prior to this he spent several years in the review space and was Commercial Director at The Estas, so knows just how important reviews are to estate agents. He is also a mentor at Agents Together, providing valuable mentoring from his vast experience. If you are wanting to rank higher on Google, get more reviews, and be the agent that is called out to more living rooms, you definitely do not want to miss this conversation.
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Nov 7, 2024 • 55min

Episode 140: Neil Fenning & Dan Salisbury

Today's guests have hit the self-employed world of estate agency by storm over the past four years, having left behind the corporate world. With decades of experience between them, they have gone on to sell sell almost 500 properties and did £1,000,000 revenue in 2023. They have leveraged social media, been massive in their community and started their business selling houses for their friends. There is so much to learn in this conversation from two guys who are right at the top of the game and only seeming to be heading in one direction! Do not miss this episode if you are wanting to hear from a couple of world class performers, who are on the ground day in & day out achieving phenomenal results.
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Oct 31, 2024 • 41min

Episode 139: Steve Eakins

Today's guest is the Key Partner Director at Lumon. In this conversation, we discuss currency exchange and the impact it can have on the business of an estate agent. From understanding how currency exchange works for the benefit of buyers and sellers, putting more deals together, potential additional revenue streams, and ultimately improving the revenue and profit of an estate agency. This is a different episode to usual and had lots of valuable information that was completely new to me and I genuinely think could be incredibly impactful for the estate agents that take action from what they learn in this chat.
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Oct 24, 2024 • 56min

Episode 138: Steve Carroll

Today's guest has been much more than just a participant in the real estate, sales, and digital arenas across more than two decades, he’s been a trailblazer. His track record speaks volumes: he turns insights into actions, and has transformed not just individuals, but businesses and entire industries. He's held top-tier leadership positions with three of the world’s top media companies, including international giants REA Group and News Corp, leading hundreds of staff, and real estate professionals in three different continents through change and towards greater opportunity. His portfolio covers a broad spectrum: from tech-savvy business plans to innovative sales techniques. Whether you’re a leader, an employee, an agent, a property manager or a real estate consumer, he understands what people are looking for, even before they do. Over the years, he has facilitated real estate conferences across the world, presented at the largest real estate events in Australia and coached thousands of leading agents and agencies through his Agent Profile Masterclass. Since 2019, he's been included in Australia’s top 50 most influential leaders in real estate for his contribution to the industry and his work for the children’s charity Hands Across The Water. Having spent the summer touring the UK and speaking with some of the top figures across the industry, we discuss some of his key learnings and also what we can learn from his years of networking with some of the top performers in the Australian real estate market as well. You do not want to miss this conversation if you are wanting to take away some incredibly simple yet very effective things to do that will help you to create more opportunities.
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Oct 17, 2024 • 57min

Episode 137: Tom Kirk

Today's guest is Chief Executive Officer at Preston Baker and also a Football League Referee. He has significant experience in both a variety of Estate Agency models and PropTech since starting in the property industry at the start of 2009. In this no holds bar conversation we discuss Purple Bricks, instant gratification, the pressures of being a referee and so much more. Don't miss this episode if you're wanting to hear someone who has an incredibly infectious attitude when it comes to this amazing industry.
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Oct 10, 2024 • 53min

Episode 136: Heather Staff

Today's guest is the Co-Founder of the multi-award winning Street and Spectre. The CRM platform (Street) streamlines operations, empowers agents to work more efficiently, and ultimately helps deliver better results for their clients and Spectre is the market-leading prospecting tool for estate and letting agents. Street is transforming the way estate agents manage customer relationships and the process of moving home, whilst Spectre provides unparalleled on-market and off-market data that is proven to help agents win more instructions and grow their market share.
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Oct 3, 2024 • 53min

Episode 135: Rowan Waller

Today's guest is Sales Director at College and County. He has been in the industry for 20 years and has worked in the corporate world, independent estate agency, and ran his own business for just under 10 years. Not only, that he's also an Amazon UK best selling author and is fluent in Spanish! Take a listen to episode to hear a raw and authentic conversation where todays guest is very honest and open with their views. You will get another side to the story that we don't hear enough of as estate agency is certainly not a walk in the park.

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