Friday, August 29, 2014

Keller Williams Realty, Inc. Ranked in America’s Top 10 Workplaces

Provided By: http://www.kw.com/kw/pressrelease.html?pressReleaseId=341

AUSTIN, TEXAS (May 16, 2012) - Keller Williams Realty, Inc. announced today it has been recognized as one of America’s Top 10 Workplaces, according to the first annual National Top Workplaces list compiled by Workplace Dynamics.

“Our culture is our strongest asset and the reason that so many people want to be with us," Mary Tennant, COO of Keller Williams Realty shares. “Imagine what it would be like to work in a culture every day with people that you feel love, kindness, caring and humor with. Imagine working in an environment where there is a passion for every single person to succeed at the highest level."

“If this award proves anything, it’s that we only succeed when our associates do," added Mark Willis, CEO. “We are proud to be in business with the best who are lifting us up each day and proud to be fulfilling our mission of building careers worth having, businesses worth owning and lives worth living."

The list of National Top Workplaces is based solely on employee feedback surveyed from 805 companies of more than 1,000 employees, which included over half a million survey responses. According to survey results, Keller Williams’ ranking was based on its overall culture and high levels of organizational health including training, benefits, compensation, and work-life balance. “Put simply, the most successful companies appear to be the ones that employees believe in," said Doug Claffey, CEO at WorkplaceDynamics.

For more information and the full list of the Workplace Dynamics Nation’s Top Workplaces, please visit http://topworkplaces.com/stories/americas-top10-workplaces.php

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About Keller Williams Realty, Inc.:
Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the second-largest real estate franchise operation in the United States, with almost 700 offices and more than 75,000 associates in the United States and Canada. The company has grown exponentially since the opening of the first Keller Williams Realty office in 1983, and continues to cultivate its agent-centric culture that emphasizes access to leading-edge education and promotes an economic model that rewards associates as stakeholders. The company also provides specialized agents in luxury homes and commercial real estate properties. For more information, or to search for homes for sale visit Keller Williams Realty online at (www.kw.com). For more information about KW Worldwide, visit (www.kwworldwide.com).

Friday, August 22, 2014

How To Convert For Sale By Owners Into Listings

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FSBO Myth: “Hiring an agent will cost me money.”  Truth: Hiring the right agent will actually help you net as much or more money in your pocket.”   Want to know how successful real estate agents ‘crack the code’ of For Sale By Owners and convert a high percentage of FSBOs into a sold listing for their real estate business?   In this recorded webcast from Keller Williams Team Leader and Coach, Kevin Ward, Kevin shares his with you how top realtors help FSBO’s understand the truth and inspire them to hire them as their listing agent.   For the real estate agents that are willing to master the proven FSBO scripts and are committed to daily prospecting of For Sale By Owners, this can be a great ongoing source of free real estate lead generation.   Watch and learn from one of the true masters of converting For Sale By Owners into listings for real estate agents. For a copy of Kevin’s FSBO Scripts and more real estate career training videos go here: http://kevinnow.com/video-library/fsbo/


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Monday, August 18, 2014

Dozen Deadly Secrets

Provided By: kw.com/careers

What are the Dozen Deadly Secrets? They are 12 fundamental truths that, believe it or not, most real estate professionals either don’t know or ignore when charting their careers. And, yes, they can be deadly—if you don’t realize their value.
Wherever you are in your real estate career, however successful, however driven, you owe it to yourself to think about the Keller Williams® advantage. As you read these 12 essentials, think about how your present situation stacks up to where your career could go with Keller Williams® . Then, get in touch with us — we want to hear from you!
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Secret #1

Your real estate career is about you, and your success, not your company’s.

A good realtor is the key to the business success. A consumer survey conducted by the National Associations of Realtors® determined that 86% chose a real estate firm because of the individual agent. That fact is proven time and time again, every time an agent switches from one brokerage to the next, their clients follow. The clients switch because of a good relationship with their agent. YOU are the reason people want to do business with you, NOT your company. You can build a successful career on that fact alone.
At Keller Williams®, we believe that a successful career in real estate is the result of hard work by a motivated realtor. Your image, professionalism and enthusiasm will drive your sphere of influence. In short, your career is up to you!

Secret #2

Your real estate career success is not democratic.

– This is your career, not a democracy.
– You have some great ideas for building business. But nobody’s going to listen.
– You’ll never build your career when somebody else is running your business.
Keller Williams® is more than a real estate company. Keller Williams® is a realtor success company. And Keller Williams®’ Agent Leadership Council seeks to empower everyone to get involved in the decision-making process of the company.

Secret #3

Successful teamwork can drive your career achievement.

The truth is, most realtors aren’t on a team. They’re in a group, and their careers suffer as a result. Yet unfortunately, few real estate professionals know the difference.
Teamwork is actually a high-level productivity concept that is only understood by like-minded achievers with a desire for everyone to win.
At Keller Williams®, we believe in TEAM. Together Everyone Achieves More. More success, more listings, more closings, more earnings, more respect, more fulfillment. We believe that when we work in partnership, we benefit from each other’s success.

Secret #4

It’s your career. As a professional, you have a right to see ‘The Books.’

We believe honesty breeds success. Keller Williams® has paid out millions of dollars in profit sharing to its hard-working associates. The books are open to see. Because we believe that the financial stake will empower our associates to learn more about the business and make suggestions for our improvement.
At Keller Williams®, our associates might not be shareholders, but they are definitely stakeholders!

Secret #5

Your company doesn’t care about your long-term success, or future.

In fact, we’ll bet that nobody from your company has met with you about your long-term financial planning or wealth-building strategies.
Because the company’s success has little to do with your success, long-term.
Keller Williams® cares about your career, and your future. Keller Williams® has, over the past 14 years, built a proven system that enables participating associates to build their income portfolio. The system is proven; it works. However, since nobody else in the real estate industry supports their associates in the same way, one can only assume that they don’t care. Keller Williams® stands alone as the only real estate company that’s serious about helping their associates plan for the future.

Secret #6

A successful real estate agent deserves to share in the company growth.

Building financial wealth for a realtor must be a cooperative enterprise. It requires both the company and the associate to work together for success, in a mutual effort designed to maximize rewards. This is how the Keller Williams® profit-sharing system is designed.
Where’s your company going? Is it as successful as it should be? Because if it isn’t, it’s time to change companies.

Secret #7

You’ve worked hard. You deserve your fair share. But most companies don’t want to give it to you.

Smart realtors know, sooner or later, that they need to address the issue of equitable compensation. It’s not what you pay your company; it’s what you receive for your payment. It’s not what you gross or even spend; it’s what you net. But you can’t grow a business or career by cutting expenses. At some point you’ll have to invest money if you’re going to grow.
At Keller Williams®, you can truly be a ’100% real estate agent,’ you can actually take home more than the commission you earn. It’s the best career compensation program you can find.

Secret #8

Your company makes your decisions for you.

The fact is, most real estate companies are designed so that their realtors work for the company, really, and are essentially treated as an employee.
Most real estate agents don’t have say in how their company operates. But this isn’t about telling you what you can or can’t do. The issue is that there are company decisions being made daily that could dramatically affect your career! You may not even be aware of these discussions and decisions.
As a successful realtor, we believe you want to be in an independent relationship within a supporting organizational structure. At Keller Williams® Realty, we provide a clear path for you to build your own business career within the company, with substantial income opportunities available to everyone.

Secret #9

It’s your career, but you’re probably building wealth for others.

At Keller Williams®, we put the agent’s career first. Because the company is best served by building the agent’s career first, and putting the agent’s image ahead of the company’s. In this way, we all profit.

Secret #10

Your company’s training may not be designed to bring out your excellence.

The fact is, most realtor training is geared toward mediocrity. Most companies are out of touch with the needs of top aspiring agents. They don’t take the steps necessary to help them compete effectively in today’s market. Most are not keeping pace with what the top mega agents are learning and sharing. And, sadly, most companies are reluctant to invest in the career training of their agents because they have no business opportunity for them. Because of this, they fear they will eventually lose their agents, which they do.
At Keller Williams® , we provide a training and education program unparalleled in the real estate industry. Through Keller Williams® University, you will receive the skills and tools to develop your career and reach your goals—and helping you do that is our goal.

Secret #11

Choose your business partners wisely. Your real estate career depends on it.

In this ultra-competitive business world, a successful realtor must know the answer to one basic question: “Who’s on my side?” Sounds easy to know, doesn’t it. Yet if you don’t look closely, you’ll never know the answer.
In today’s real estate industry, who speaks for the hard-working agents? Where are the “agent’s rights” organizations? Do you belong to a realtors’ union? What this all means is that you’ve got to be your own organization. You’ve got to seek the best opportunities for your career. (Which, by the way, you’re doing right now.) You need a real estate organization that you can trust for support and resources. You need Keller Williams®.
Further, Keller Williams® believes that in the real estate business, your money is a vote for the direction you want your career to go. The commissions you pay had better be to an organization that cares about your success, as much as they care about theirs. After all, it’s your money. That’s what Keller Williams® believes. That’s the Keller Williams® difference.

Secret #12

Your real estate company doesn’t want you to discover Keller Williams® Realty.

As with all businesses, the real estate business is experiencing massive change. The trends are clear. Successful companies will treat their agents as stakeholders, and give them a say in how the business is run, as well as a decent share of the profits.
Most real estate company owners know about Keller Williams®, its innovative strategies and nationwide growth. Some, perhaps, have discussed changing their company to meet this new competitive force. Yet most have discovered they can’t compete! They’re boxed-in by their old thinking and business decisions. Therefore, they’d prefer you not discover Keller Williams® superior training, consulting, leverage, profit sharing, agent support and overall team environment.
Most people, realtors included, find a time in their lives when their current situation is no longer working for them. They have grown beyond it. It’s time for a change. Time for success, for a career with real growth.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Culture The KW difference!

Provided By: KW/careers

RED Day

Renew, Energize and Donate is an initiative dedicated to celebrating Keller Williams' year-round commitment to improving our local communities. Each year, on the second Thursday in May, tens of thousands of associates participate in a wide range of projects, devoting their time to renewing and energizing aspects of the neighborhoods in which they serve. Projects are chosen by each individual market center based on a need they see within its community. Recognizing her leadership in guiding the culture of our company, RED Day is held in honor of Mo Anderson, Vice Chairman of the Board, Keller Williams. It's an entrenched part of our culture and displays the extraordinary effect a company can have when individuals come together to work as a team for the greater good of everyone.  Watch Video
 

Wealth Building

In keeping with the philosophy that agents are partners and stakeholders in the success of the business, Keller Williams Realty has created a distinct wealth building platform through which our leadership teams and office owners reward those who have contributed to a market center's growth by attracting productive associates to the office. In the United States and Canada we do this through profit share; and across the world, through growth share.  Watch Video
 

KW Cares

KW Cares is a charity created by and for Keller Williams associates and their families. It's here to help any agent who's faced with hardship as a result of a sudden emergency. The charity is the heart of Keller Williams culture in action – finding and serving the higher purpose of business through charitable giving in the market centers and communities where Keller Williams associates live and work.  Watch Video

Monday, August 11, 2014

Technology

Provided By: kw.com/careers

Innovation with Purpose. Technology with an Edge.

To succeed in today's global real estate market, you have to stay on the cutting edge of marketing and technology. And at Keller Williams, our agents' brands come first – YOU come first. We lead the way in the real estate industry with unmatched productivity-enhancing tools.

Leads

Our goal is to connect consumers with the information they want, and with you, as quickly as possible. With our agent websites, app, market center sites and international sites, there are more than 100,000 websites in our lead generation network, giving you presence and power in online searches.
We aim to make you the premier resource for consumers looking for real estate online in your market because you are the expert.
 

Listings

The Keller Williams Listings system, or KWLS, allows us to syndicate listings across the globe. The KWLS guarantees that our associates maintain ownership and control of their listing data and get maximum exposure for their listings online.
 

My Listings, My Leads

You work hard for listings and deserve all the leads that come from them. That's why wherever your listings are marketed on the KW network and listing syndicates, all the leads go to YOU.
 

Leverage

eEdge is Keller Williams revolutionary lead-to-close software solution and gives you a strong competitive edge with buyers and sellers.
And when it comes to Marketing, you'll have the power of the Keller Williams name as an asset to your business. At the same time, we recognize the need you'll have to customize and localize your marketing approach. We deliver proven, world-class marketing systems that allow you to quickly and easily follow-up with potential and past clients.

Friday, August 8, 2014

Why KW?

Provided By: kw.com/careers

Tap into the real estate industry's brightest minds and top producers

Gary Keller has often said that Keller Williams is "a training and coaching company that also happens to be in the business of real estate." That's why a total commitment to training and coaching is at the heart of what sets us apart.
We take your career seriously. We don't believe in learning for knowing's sake; we believe in learning for earning’s sake. That’s why no matter where you are in your career – whether you’re just starting out, or you're already a power producer — our training curriculum gives you real strategies and tools that you can put into practice immediately.
Gary Keller's also written several New York Times best-selling books including The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, which has sold more than 1,300,000 copies worldwide, and The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, a No.1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller. Check them out at KellerInk.com.

Keller Williams University (KWU)

Keller Williams University provides an industry-leading curriculum addressing every aspect of success in real estate. Multimedia training is offered online via KWConnect, so the skill-building tools you need are always ON.
 

MAPS (Mega Achievement Productivity Systems) Coaching

MAPS Coaching, led by Dianna Kokoszka, offers a breadth of skill-building, discipline-focused, high-accountability programs that keep you on the right track. MAPS Coaches are experts on industry best practices, the models of MREA and Keller Williams systems, putting them in a unique position to guide you to the next level.
 

Events

In addition to classroom training and self-study, you can join all your KW colleagues at some of the most dynamic events in the real estate industry. Our Annual 'Family Reunion' Convention, Mega Camp and our Masterminds Programs give you the tools you need for the results you want.