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If you have ever bought or sold a home, then you probably dealt with a real estate agent. How was that experience? Did you get an inexperienced person who couldn’t convince someone to buy something? Or perhaps you had an experienced professional who could sell anything?

To be a good salesperson, one must have certain personality traits and the ability to convince others. However, there are many other qualities that help make someone successful in real estate.

The author will discuss how to turn a small real estate business into an empire.

In this article, you’ll learn about the importance of sales leads. The four-minute mile relates to real estate agents because they both have a hard time being accepted at first. Dr. Joyce Brothers is relevant because she was once an expert on psychological issues but became really popular when she started making appearances on TV shows like Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett.

Big Idea #1: Becoming a better agent means understanding the how, what and why of motivation.

When faced with a big project, most people are so driven to get started that they fail to realize how important good planning is for the outcome. To find long-term focus and determination, you need to understand why you want something. This is the secret weapon of all high achievers: they define motivating purposes that help them maintain perfect focus. You can witness this power when you see how much work people do on their last day before vacation because it’s their purpose for doing it!

However, you can’t motivate yourself every day to do your best work. You need something that will drive you constantly and consistently so that when the going gets tough, you’ll be able to persevere. That motivation should come from intrinsic motivators, such as striving for self-improvement or working toward a goal that’s meaningful. Extrinsic motivators are goals that can be reached but don’t provide long-term motivation because they’re not personally important enough. So think about what intrinsic motivator drives you and use it to help push through difficult times in your career.

If you want to achieve something, it’s important to set goals. These should be big and ambitious ones that are hard to reach. That way, if you don’t meet them, at least you’ll have tried your best. It’s better than setting small goals because then if you fail, it won’t matter as much since they weren’t very high anyway.

Instead of setting smaller goals and then reaching them to set bigger ones, you can just aim for a major goal. Then when you reach that first goal, the next one will automatically form as well. For instance, if your first goal is $5 million in property sales and the second is $10 million after that, once you reach the second milestone it’ll be easier to keep going because there’s another one waiting for you already.

Big Idea #2: A strong real estate strategy works from the ground up, and to succeed, you need leads, listings and leverage.

Realtors have three things they need to do in order to be successful: find clients, get them to sell their homes and then help them buy a new one.

Real estate is a numbers game. That means you need to maximize the number of leads you get so that you can increase your sales. If we look at this process in reverse, there are no contracts without listings and there are no listings without leads. Everything boils down to lead generation because it allows us to pick the best ones and focus on converting those leads into sales. On the other hand, too few leads will eventually mean lagging sales and failure.