TOP STORY: Ready...set...dial!
MAPS Institute is bringing you a new productivity boosting challenge, Power Hour!
The idea is simple. Each morning between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., every member of the Keller Williams Realty family starts the day with an hour of focused lead generation. The results are simple too: you close more deals and make more money.
Watch the daily warm-ups hosted by VP of MAPS Institute Dianna Kokoszka in your market center every morning to gear up for Power Hour. These videos include new scripts, new prospecting ideas and new tools to get you into action.
Does that mean you should cut short
your three hours of prospecting?
No way!
It just means that for one of those three hours, you’ll be smiling and dialing along with Keller Williams leadership and associates across the United States and Canada.
Click on the player to the right to learn all about what Power Hour is from with Dianna Kokoszka.
Be one of the first to tell your fellow agents, “I do…do you?”!
Power Hour kicks off new video contest craze!
Get in the director's seat
Have you ever dreamt of seeing yourself or your team
on
the big screen?
Now is your chance! Three new video contests mean that the fame that you crave is within reach. Get out your camera and enter one, if not all of these contests:
#1 - Power Hour
The Challenge: Set up the tripod and share your best lead generation ideas that come out of Power Hour with your Keller Williams family.
#2 - Why KW?
The Challenge: Grab a camera, round up some colleagues/actors, and create a fun and lively video that tells the Keller Williams story and could be used across the country to attract talent to our team. Click the player to the right to watch Craig Owen, regional director of the South Texas Region, explain how to create your "Why KW" video.
#3 - Family Reunion
The Challenge: Create a commercial for to promote Family Reunion 2009 to other Keller Williams associates and potential recruits.
Click here for official rules and prizes for all three video contests.
We know you have talent, now it's time that the Keller Williams family knew it too!
Two great new features to keep you at the top of your game
1) Mortgage expert, David Reed, pens new column for THIS WEEK@kw
We are pleased to bring you a new weekly column, Financing Solutions with David Reed. Drawing upon his 18 years experience in the mortgage industry, Reed addresses real estate topics with candor and conviction.
Click here to visit Reed's Website, www.cdreed.com and read his full profile.
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2) Client-focused content for your blog or newsletter
Keep your eyes open for this icon. Each week, we will provide you with new content that you can copy and paste into your blog or other client communications - strengthening your status as your local market expert.
Below is Reed's first column, written to clear-up misconceptions among buyers.
Financing Solutions with David Reed
Overcoming the misconceptions about the "credit crisis"
You’ve watched the news and read about it in the papers. You know, the “credit crisis” and how buyers need 20 percent down in order to buy a home? And even if you found a buyer with 20 percent down, lenders aren’t making loans anyway. So, why bother, right? Wrong!
We’re right smack in the middle of what just might be the biggest disservice ever perpetrated on potential home buyers. It seems the press just can’t get enough of all the gloom and doom in the housing industry. The fact is that mortgage money is as available today as it was a year ago and loans are being made this very moment with little or no money down. And, no, platinum credit isn’t required. You just need to know where to look. Who are these lenders? They’re right down the street.
Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans are exploding onto the mortgage scene; recent estimates are that one out of five mortgages are FHA loans. FHA loans never went away, their reemergence is a result of the collapse of the sub-prime market. FHA doesn’t technically have a minimum credit score, although, in practice, lenders won’t approve an FHA loan with a credit score below 500. But that’s a far cry from the notion that an 800 score is the only thing lenders care about.
The best part? FHA only requires 3 percent down. 3 percent. And that 3 percent can come in the form of a gift or grant. FHA borrowers only need to have $500 in a transaction. All the while, FHA mortgage rates are as good or better than their conventional counterparts.
Low or no down payment, extremely competitive rates and easier qualifying. No wonder FHA is moving up the charts!
Please contact me if you would like more information about FHA loans or help getting into your first home.
KWLS listings now available on Zillow
Thanks to a newly formed business relationship between eAgentC and Zillow, your listings are now searchable on the popular search engine, increasing your exposure to potential buyers.
Each listing Keller Williams Realty feeds to Zillow includes a description of the property with multiple photos and contact information for the listing agent. Also included are links back to the Keller Williams Website where Zillow users can find more information and connect with a Keller Williams associate to guide them through the home buying and selling process.
Take advantage of this new partnership by entering your listings into the KWLS today!
Hold on tight; here comes August!
In just two months, Austin plays host to a trio of unbeatable events
It is time to ensure your seat at two of our most powerful educational events and an exciting concert!
Mega Camp and Masterminds are being held just across the road from one another during the same week. And while you are here, why not experience a little Austin culture and support KW Cares as they rock the night away with America.
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Mega Camp, August 25-27, is the exclusive event where top producers and Keller Williams Realty leaders converge for an extraordinary week of learning and networking.
Masterminds is your chance to strategize on systems and solutions that will position you for success this year. With a focus on collaboration and learning from each other's "been-there-done-that" wisdom.
Host an incREDible FUNdraiser
Is your market center planning an incREDible fundraiser for KW Cares? Head over to the KW Cares Website buy incREDible t-shirts for your market center and for information about planning an event for KW Cares.
Now, when you buy 12, you get one free!
"Free" has a nice ring to it
Register today for the latest free MAPS coaching calls
Mon., May 12 11 a.m.-12 p.m. CST |
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Wed., May 14 11 a.m.-12 p.m. CST |
Beth Torrence |
Click here to see our entire free call schedule.
Each of these sessions is a $49 value, but MAPS is offering them
to you for free!
Market Center Leadership Corner
Time is running out...
Only 35 days left to upgrade your market center Website!
If you have not yet upgraded your eAgentC market center and/or business center Website, you still have time! We have extended the deadline until June 9. Please review your upgraded site, in order to ensure that it best represents your market center.
IMPORTANT: If you do not take action before June 9, your Website will be automatically replaced with a default Website template. At that time, you will be unable to access old content, images or links to import into your upgraded (new) Website.
Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to upgrade your eAgentC Website.
Email us at mcupgrade@kw.com with questions.
Breakthrough to Mastery instructor material now available
Train your team!
Attention team leaders, productivity coaches, market center faculty and master faculty!
You can now offer training and skill-building exercises on the new Breakthrough to Mastery Agent Guides in your market center or region and help agents succeed in challenging markets.
Download the newly released Instructor Guide for the series—for free! This instructor supplement offers a variety of training techniques to meet the needs of your agents. In addition, you can also download the free accompanying PowerPoints.
Debora Murray, Regional Director at Gulf States, says “I have taught Gaining Mind Over Market two times at opposite ends of the region and agents loved the section ‘Become a Student of the Market.’ They especially got into calculating the affordability index in their market!”
KWConnect videos are available for each of the guides too.
Click here to watch the Breakthrough to Mastery supplemental videos on KWConnect.
Comments or questions for THIS WEEK@kw? We want to hear from you!
Contact us at marketing@kw.com.
