
Opening The Gates To More Listings
Opening The Gates To More Listings with Simon Gates is a podcast designed to help estate agents find more listings and increase the profitability of their business.
There will be a variety of different guests across the industry being interviewed to share their knowledge on how to achieve this.
Latest episodes

Mar 13, 2025 • 1h 1min
Epsiode 171: Simon Leadbetter
Today's returning guest for an unprecedented fifth time is the founder of We Are Unchained, a strategic marketing consultancy that helps businesses grow faster by enhancing their market insight, strategy, activity, and talent.Over his 8 years experience in the estate agency industry, he has worked with Countrywide, Fine & Country, Keller Williams, and Knight Frank.He's also a mentor at Agents Together, Propertymark Trust Ambassador and Fractional CMO for Lemon and Lime Interiors.With over 30 years of marketing experience across multiple sectors, from startups to FTSE100, he has turned failing marketing teams around, and educated hundreds of people on the science and art of marketing.His mission is to make quality strategic marketing and practical advice accessible to every business, whether they need a virtual CMO, a one-to-one mentor, or a marketing trainer.In this episode, we discuss the third and final edition of the results from part one of the Voice of The Agent 2025, covering topics such as marketing, Net Promoter Score, lead sources and the portals. If you've not already read part one of the report, please do contact me for a copy of it and I will happily share it with you.You can also message me if you are interested in completing part two of the survey and sharing your voice to help shape the industry.Any insights shared will help define the future of the UK property market.

Mar 10, 2025 • 1h 6min
Episode 170: Mat Steinwede
Today's guest has gone from homeless to the #1 agent for McGrath and has an incredibly inspiring story to share.He is a world-class Sales Specialist, High Performance Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur and Founder of the 31 Minute Movement.With over 23 years’ experience dedicated solely to the real estate industry across the Central Coast, he has one of Australia’s best track records in property sales.His achievements have seen him recognised by global sales leaders and a thought leader and emerge as an in-demand high-performance speaker.Outside his passion for Real Estate, he is an author and founder of the 31 Minute Global Movement which helps people who want to unlock their true potential and live their best life.By sharing his inspirational journey of growth he motivates and empowers others in their quest to achieve outstanding life success.This is not just a conversation about real estate, but a lesson on life and what to do if you want to achieve the things you desire, both professionally and personally.

Mar 6, 2025 • 52min
Episode 169: Lee Woodward
Today's guest is the Chief Education Officer of Lee Woodward Training Systems and has over 30 years of experience in the real estate market.He is a designer, producer, editor and presenter of multimedia education for progressive real estate agents, leaders and businesses and also author of The Complete Salesperson Course and multiple books.Renowned for bringing a fresh perspective to the challenges faced by real estate professionals, his gift is to take a problem, visualise the solution, drill down to the detail and create a system or method that transforms the challenge into an actionable opportunity.In this episode, he will inspire you to think and act differently to drive your future and smash your business goals.

Mar 3, 2025 • 57min
Episode 168: Roger Black MBE
Today's guest is a retired athlete who competed internationally for Great Britain and England.During his career he won medals at the Olympics, World Championships, and European Championships.He was given an MBE in 1992 for services to athletics and was given an honorary degree at Southampton University in 1995.Today, he is now partner of BackleyBlack ltd, which is a performance based training company that combines the experience of two of Great Britain's finest Olympic athletes with the simple goal 'To transfer Olympic performance into the workplace'.He is also an ambassador for eXp and has been working with agents up and down the country in recent years.If you are looking to understand more about how to implement an Olympic mindset into your estate agency business and learn from someone who has achieved incredible results in their expert field, you do not want to miss this conversation.

Feb 28, 2025 • 55min
Episode 167: Kirsty Franks
Today's guest is the Founder and Ceo of Frank Marketing.Frank Marketing specialise in growing market share and driving sales for estate agents and other property professionals, so we have the right person to come on the podcast. She is also Group Marketing Director for The Property Franchise Group and is also part of the committee for Women in Estate Agency.We have a great discussion around marketing and the importance of it, plus being consistent and knowing your client avatar. We also chat about juggling work and your personal life, the WIEA conference and so much more.Take a listen to this conversation to hear from one of the most highly thought of figures in marketing within the estate agency industry.

Feb 26, 2025 • 54min
Episode 166: Simon Leadbetter
Today's returning guest for an unprecedented fourth time is the founder of We Are Unchained, a strategic marketing consultancy that helps businesses grow faster by enhancing their market insight, strategy, activity, and talent.Over his 8 years experience in the estate agency industry, he has worked with Countrywide, Fine & Country, Keller Williams, and Knight Frank.He's also a mentor at Agents Together, Propertymark Trust Ambassador and Fractional CMO for Lemon and Lime Interiors.With over 30 years of marketing experience across multiple sectors, from startups to FTSE100, he has turned failing marketing teams around, and educated hundreds of people on the science and art of marketing.His mission is to make quality strategic marketing and practical advice accessible to every business, whether they need a virtual CMO, a one-to-one mentor, or a marketing trainer.In this conversation, we discuss more of the results from part one of the Voice of The Agent 2025, covering topics such as the rental market, opportunities for letting agents, agent concerns, competitors, company resources, marketing, and portals. If you've not already read part one of the report, please do contact me for a copy of it and I will happily share it with you.You can also message me if you are interested in completing part two of the survey and sharing your voice to help shape the industry.Any insights shared will help define the future of the UK property market.

Feb 24, 2025 • 51min
Episode 165: Linda Stringer MNAEA
Today's guest is a self employed estate agent with eXp covering Sheffield & Rotherham.She has been in the industry since 2010 and has worked in the corporate and independent sectors.We discuss self-employed estate agency, video, social media, women in estate agency, and growing a team, plus lots more.Don't miss this episode if you want to hear some of the secrets behind the success of someone that has the majority of their business coming from recommendations and social media.

Feb 20, 2025 • 58min
Episode 164: Jo Bourne
Today's guest is Director of Impact ctmd Limited and uses her 30 plus years of experience to help businesses and individuals grow.This includes providing consultancy, people development and training across all aspects of customer service, estate agency, conveyancing and the house moving process.Having worked in the corporate space and hybrid model over the years, she has a wide range of experiences that we discuss in this conversation.She is also a mentor with Agents Together and discusses the importance of collaboration within the industry.If you are looking for an episode that is going to give you lots of practical tips on how to be a better estate agent, this is certainly one you don't want to miss.

Feb 17, 2025 • 1h 5min
Episode 163: Clare Yates MNAEA
Today's guest is the owner of CY Training Works and specialises in helping estate agents and law firms to grow their business, and increase revenue through enhanced customer service.She is an award winning consultant with years of experience behind her and a proven track record within the property industry.Her role of helping law firms and estate agents grow their business is done training them on how to win more new business, improve customer relationships and create clients for life.She is also a mentor for the amazing charity Agents Together and I would 100% recommend checking this out if you think you could benefit from having a mentor or mentoring someone yourself.If you're wanting to hear from one of the most highly respected people within our industry and someone who has come highly recommended as a guest, have a listen to this episode and you will hear lots of practical advice on how to improve your business.

Feb 14, 2025 • 1h 7min
Episode 162: Simon Leadbetter
Today's returning guest for an unprecedented third time is the founder of We Are Unchained, a strategic marketing consultancy that helps businesses grow faster by enhancing their market insight, strategy, activity, and talent.Over his 8 years experience in the estate agency industry, he has worked with Countrywide, Fine & Country, Keller Williams, and Knight Frank.He's also a mentor at Agents Together, Propertymark Trust Ambassador and Fractional CMO for Lemon and Lime Interiors.With over 30 years of marketing experience across multiple sectors, from startups to FTSE100, he has turned failing marketing teams around, and educated hundreds of people on the science and art of marketing.His mission is to make quality strategic marketing and practical advice accessible to every business, whether they need a virtual CMO, a one-to-one mentor, or a marketing trainer.In this conversation, we discuss some of the results from part one of the Voice of The Agent 2025, covering topics such as house prices, transactions, marketing budgets, fees, and the prime market. If you've not already read part one of the report, please do contact me for a copy of it and I will happily share it with you.You can also message me if you are interested in completing part two of the survey and sharing your voice to help shape the industry.Any insights shared will help define the future of the UK property market.
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