TOP STORY: Seize the buyers market with new lead generation tool
Your First Home:The Proven Path to Home Ownership to launch at Family Reunion
Written by Gary Keller, Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan, the writing team that brought you MREA and MREI, Your First Home is a resource for aspiring home owners and a business building tool for you.
Providing first time home buyers with the information they need in order to confidently enter into the home buying process, this hardcover book is exclusively for Keller Williams associates and the perfect gift for potential first-time home buyers in your database.
The first book in the new Keller Williams Realty Guide series, Your First Home is drawn from the real-life experiences of hundreds of thousands of first-time home buyers, this book provides proven, practical guidance on how to:
- Determine how much home they can afford
- Secure the best financing
- Finance their new home, even with less-than-perfect credit
- Craft a winning offer and negotiate with sellers
- Spot serious issues at inspection
- Close on their new home and maintain it
Click here for sneak peek into the first pages of this new release!
This product will be available at Family Reunion in the KWU Bookstore
for $12/copy or $100/10 copies.
A paperback edition is also available to consumers in bookstores for $16.95.
Deadline to sign-up to receive your 1099 online is Jan. 25
You can now sign up to access your 2007 Profit Share 1099 online via the Keller Williams Realty Intranet (KW.com).
By signing up, you:
- Make sure your 1099 arrives in time for tax time;
- Have immediate access to your 1099 at any time;
- Make corrections to your 1099 more quickly and easily; and
- Help save trees by saving paper!
Click here to opt-in now and receive your Profit Share 1099 online.
Or click here for step-by-step instructions for requesting your 1099 online.
This year will mark KW Cares’ 4th Annual Silent Auction.
Be sure to stop in and show your support for our Keller Williams family by placing your bid on your favorite item.
This year's auction will begin Saturday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. in room B-403.
Some of the newest additions include:
- 50" LG Plasma HDTV
- 1 CT Diamond Necklace
- 1/3 CT Diamond Earrings
- Palm Treo and accessories
- KW Connect Sales Meeting Resource Library, Volume 1 signed by Gary Keller
- Click here to see more items up for bid!
KW Cares will also be hosting the Red Hot live auction immediately before the Red Bash on Sunday. Enjoy some appetizers and refreshments as you bid on some of the best items KW Cares has to offer!
Brand new KW Cares t-shirts and umbrellas
will also be for sale in the silent auction room!
Fact: The average real estate agent, with two years experience, makes $12,850 a year.
How can you be better than average?
If you want to increase your income and your productivity, you won’t want to miss the free telephone coaching sessions MAPS has scheduled in January.
These sessions help you become more productive and profitable.
80/20 Rule for Administrative Assistants |
Wed., Jan. 23 11 a.m. - 12 pm CST |
Mimi Patrick |
The 80/20 Rule states that 20% of your activities will produce 80% of your results. |
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Pricing to Sell in a Shifting Market |
Mon., Jan. 28 11 a.m. -12 p.m. CST |
Kirk Nace |
The key to being successful in a shifting market is to be flexible. |
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Scripts and |
Wed., Jan. 30 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. CST |
Mike Kranz |
Improve your skills, improve your business! |
Sign up for one of these coaching sessions to improve your skills. Each of these sessions is a $99 value, but MAPS is offering them to you for free!
Leave the line behind at Family Reunion
New no-wait ordering in the KWU Bookstore
Keller Williams University is launching more than 10 new Agent Guides at Family Reunion 2008, and the first of a new series of Keller Williams Realty Guide Books, Your First Home will be released.
To avoid long lines at the KWU bookstore, stop by the Exhibit Hall, fill out an order form (as shown here), drop it in one of the drop boxes located throughout the bookstore, and then head off to class.
Market Center Leadership Corner 
Team Leaders: Help your associates win: Get in Gear with Your Sphere!
Get ready for the first challenge of 2008 — Get in Gear with Your Sphere. On Jan. 28, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon in your time zone (three hours), MAPS is challenging all TLs to get their agents to call their spheres of influence to either get an appointment or get a referral.
A set appointment will generate two points for the market center and a referral will generate one point. The market center with the most points wins! Team leaders can report their results by clicking here.
Winners (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) will be announced in an upcoming edition of THIS WEEK @ kw and certificates will be given at Family Reunion. Who will live up to the challenge and be the number 1 market center?
Remember, you and your associates have just one day, Jan. 28, to Get in Gear with Your Sphere!
You could become your market center’s ProManage/Top Producer® expert
Does your market center need an in-house specialist to answer ProManage/Top Producer questions? Now you can be the one your colleagues turn to for answers.
Don’t miss your chance to sharpen your market center’s effectiveness.
Register today for Certified ProManage Instructor Training: April 7–9.
The three-day Certified ProManage Instructor Training (CPIT), based on the popular training guide and KWConnect course, Your Business Is Your Database: A Guide to Contact Management, gives you the training and resources you need to teach live training courses and hands-on computing workshops to other agents.
Comments or questions for THIS WEEK @ kw? We want to hear from you!
Contact us at marketing@kw.com.
