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- 0:00when I came across Karen Gandhi from Toronto
- 0:02Canada my life was a mess
- 0:05I had a ton of transactions
- 0:07I was doing 40 or 50 deals a year
- 0:09and I couldn't give up control
- 0:11Karen came in she was like an angel on stage
- 0:15and I was like I need her to coach me
- 0:18I took the plunge
- 0:19and it absolutely changed my business forever
- 0:22leaving me in a much better place
- 0:24allowing me to currently put on eight listings
- 0:27with no stress I know everything's taken care of
- 0:30because of her coaching and her systems
- 0:32that she helped me implement my business
- 0:34while maintaining that control that I thought I needed
- 0:37but giving me the time freedom
- 0:40and the delegation
- 0:40freedom to do the things that I do best
- 0:43and that serve my clients
- 0:45Karen was able to dive into my business
- 0:47help me almost immediately
- 0:49which has allowed me to put eight listings
- 0:51on the market with limited stress
- 0:53because of the system she helped me create
- 0:55I cannot wait for you to hear exactly what she's doing
- 0:59and if you're nearing that point of burnout
- 1:02watch this video first and by the end
- 1:04you'll feel like you have a little sense of
- 1:06of safety
- 1:08and she will absolutely change your business forever
- 1:10let's go
- 1:11we have the one and only Kiran Gandhi from Toronto
- 1:14Canada here to talk all things systems
- 1:18I talk to agents all the time
- 1:20and Kiran personally changed my life when she
- 1:23coached me personally
- 1:25and gave me systems to the madness
- 1:28after doing 40 or 50 transactions a year
- 1:30so Karen welcome to the show
- 1:33and let's just start off with a little bit of
- 1:36of your story and and how you got here okay
- 1:39amazing thank you so much for having me
- 1:40I love it when people like you you know
- 1:44previous clients they actually implement what I teach
- 1:47and then they see the results at the end of it
- 1:49because so many of us are just
- 1:51you know notoriously
- 1:52just consuming content and looking out at things
- 1:55but never actually putting it into practice
- 1:57so that's really great
- 1:59um my story goodness
- 2:01where do I begin
- 2:01so I've been in the industry for about what
- 2:0313 years now
- 2:04and if we're speaking about systems specifically
- 2:07it came as a result of having been a realtor myself
- 2:10for six years and having scaled from
- 2:13you know a few hundred thousand dollars to $1 million
- 2:17in GCI with my team at the time
- 2:19but doing it like a chicken with my head cut off
- 2:22having absolutely no structure bending out
- 2:25wanting to quit the business
- 2:27so it's not something very glamorous that I did
- 2:29because I really just had the desire to
- 2:31but it is something that I did
- 2:32back in the day when I was selling
- 2:34because unless I did that
- 2:37I wasn't gonna be able to sustain the business
- 2:41grow the business
- 2:42and live the life that the business is
- 2:44supposed to cater for me
- 2:46and not be a slave to the business
- 2:48so I think for me at the time
- 2:50I had to take a step back and zoom out
- 2:51and really take a look at the bigger picture
- 2:53and ask myself OK
- 2:54is this how I wanna continue operating
- 2:56is this like
- 2:57if I continue like this for the next two to five years
- 3:00where am I gonna be how much hair am I gonna lose
- 3:03how much sanity am I gonna lose
- 3:06and so so that one breaking point right
- 3:09and I think
- 3:09as the markets have shifted across the country and
- 3:12and world technically um
- 3:15like tell me about that one breaking point
- 3:18where you realize like
- 3:19I just can't do this and I
- 3:21I believe it was in the 200 300,000 dollar GCI range
- 3:25yeah when you did it
- 3:26so tell me about that breaking point
- 3:28cause I think a lot of agents
- 3:29feel like they're getting close to that
- 3:31at least the successful ones
- 3:34it's interesting right
- 3:34we get into this business thinking there is no ceiling
- 3:37thinking that we can have
- 3:38we have the capacity to make unlimited amount of money
- 3:41and getting into it we don't always realize oh
- 3:45we there's no real like
- 3:47acknowledgement of the fact that there's gonna be a
- 3:49so much work to do like
- 3:51how much it takes to put up a listing on the market
- 3:55how much goes behind working with buyers
- 3:57and whatever your specialties
- 3:58but like
- 3:58just the amount of work that there is included
- 4:00and the fact that we're capped at our capacity
- 4:04there is you know
- 4:05that unlimited um
- 4:07potential remains a potential
- 4:09because we're not able to tap into it
- 4:11due to the fact that we're operating inefficiently
- 4:13and not like an actual business
- 4:14so for me that breaking point
- 4:15I mean
- 4:17it's nothing it wasn't like a big thing
- 4:19but it was me running around
- 4:21and my mom calling me and asking me hey
- 4:24so it's four PM my time and she's asking me
- 4:26so like how's your day
- 4:26what you have today to eat
- 4:28cause you know
- 4:28moms care about that stuff
- 4:31and
- 4:32and I honestly couldn't remember
- 4:33so I was driving and I pulled up my car
- 4:35and it was just a moment of
- 4:37what am I doing with my life
- 4:38I wanna like I'm making money
- 4:40I know I'm capable of so much more
- 4:42I'm trying to implement all these new things
- 4:45these marketing strategies
- 4:46these you know
- 4:47things for my listings that I wanna do
- 4:49but it's costing me my own health
- 4:51my own well being and everything else around it
- 4:54so I think that was
- 4:54like a point where I had to just step back and be like
- 4:56no I cannot operate like this anymore
- 5:00yep and so
- 5:02you know a lot of people talk a ton about that's like
- 5:05when you start a team or you start a brokerage
- 5:08your story is a little bit different
- 5:09while you did start a team
- 5:11it wasn't necessarily like
- 5:13you know get as many buyers
- 5:14agents and throw internet leads at them
- 5:16and hope that they produce and kind of leverage them
- 5:19so talk to me a little bit about the process
- 5:21and you know obviously
- 5:23what you've shared with me is the finished product
- 5:25but what did you do in that moment
- 5:27to do things a little bit differently
- 5:29which you're so great at doing anyways
- 5:32but what what did that look like when you had that aha
- 5:35like I can't do this anymore like the money is great
- 5:38I wanna be more what was what was that process like
- 5:43I mean there's no one right way to scale this business
- 5:48or to grow in this business
- 5:49and you're right
- 5:49most people at that point are just like okay
- 5:51I need to hire let me you know
- 5:53take a step back before I answer that question
- 5:55I did try that before I hit my breaking point
- 5:57but the issue is because I was so busy
- 6:00because I didn't really know
- 6:02what the right hire for the business was going to be
- 6:05at that time I just did what everybody else does
- 6:08let's bring an admin let's bring an advice agent
- 6:10but I failed not once not twice
- 6:12three times and the reason I failed was because I
- 6:16you can't expect somebody to come in
- 6:19into an absolute like mess and chaos and
- 6:24and somehow grow that like
- 6:26you need an operations person to be able to do that
- 6:28for that kind of skill set
- 6:29so I failed at that point
- 6:30so I was like okay
- 6:31you have to be very intentional with um
- 6:34growth when it comes to like
- 6:36you know human resources
- 6:37you have to really ask yourself
- 6:39where am I bending out so for me
- 6:41I never had the desire to have like
- 6:42a massive team or anything
- 6:44it was more so just okay
- 6:46here are the things I'm doing on a day to day
- 6:48that are absolutely just you know
- 6:51killing me and taking up so much time and energy
- 6:54all I really need is
- 6:55is somebody to take care of these things
- 6:58and for me that hire wasn't an admin
- 7:00it wasn't a buyer's agent
- 7:01it was a licensed agent who was the right personality
- 7:07who could work with clients
- 7:08but also enjoyed doing the back end work
- 7:11and needed an opportunity to grow within their own
- 7:14career so they're not fully tied to me
- 7:16they still have their independence
- 7:18but working with me and my business
- 7:20and helping me out with my listings
- 7:23it paid them it paid them a flat fee
- 7:25it gave them the incentive to be able to work with
- 7:28leveraging that listing
- 7:29while still being able to run your own business
- 7:31and for me that was a sweet spot
- 7:33so you know
- 7:34we created the role of like a listing coordinator
- 7:36PSA who's a licensed agent that you can bring on board
- 7:40and again you know
- 7:41we for me
- 7:43that was like the perfect fit
- 7:44it was exactly what we needed
- 7:46mm hmm and I mean
- 7:48people are always like can I shadow you right
- 7:50and my problem is like yes
- 7:53you can shadow me but that adds another task to my
- 7:57my day and my business yeah
- 7:59because I don't have the system in place to
- 8:01to get that set up
- 8:03and I think the key point in your strategy that I have
- 8:07I have uh
- 8:08now incorporated as a listing coordinator
- 8:11and there's more right
- 8:13I've only I've only dug in to
- 8:15to the very tip of the iceberg
- 8:16but if you feel like you're at that point where you're
- 8:19like can someone just look at my business
- 8:21like her link's below just do the thing
- 8:24press it schedule a call
- 8:26she can probably solve a lot of your problems
- 8:29and the cool part about her is she's done it right
- 8:33so talk to me a little bit about how you did that
- 8:36because I'm sure it wasn't just like
- 8:37oh listing coordinator
- 8:38this is perfect I have this listing coordinator now
- 8:41I can just call him up and say hey
- 8:44got a new listing go
- 8:46so talk a little bit about kind of
- 8:48your strategy behind that
- 8:49you've talked to me about the endless
- 8:52you know nights and time and like
- 8:54your strategy of implementing this
- 8:56and how it wasn't just like
- 8:58let's test it and see
- 8:59and I want to incorporate a little bit
- 9:02because this is the modern day VA problem right
- 9:06we just we're like oh we need a VA
- 9:08it's only gonna be $3 an hour or $5 an hour
- 9:10whatever it is cool I'm gonna get a VA
- 9:13and then we'll figure out what to do later
- 9:15what you did change the game and LED to your success
- 9:18so let's talk a little bit about that yeah
- 9:21so we have to and and again
- 9:23like we built out sopes before sopes became cool
- 9:26this is years ago and
- 9:29we didn't even know it was an SOP
- 9:30when we were creating it
- 9:31because nobody was teaching this stuff honestly
- 9:33like
- 9:33I think that's the gap I found when I was an agent
- 9:35I was like okay this is great like I can go coach this
- 9:37that the other
- 9:38like
- 9:38I looked at everything and systems were being taught
- 9:40but not in the way that I needed it
- 9:43so we just and you know mind you
- 9:45we're already really busy
- 9:46but what we had to do was spend
- 9:49you know sometimes a whole day working and at 10
- 9:5211 o'clock go to the office
- 9:53put up a whiteboard and create SOS
- 9:58which meant we wanted to create a process
- 10:02that anybody who can read English
- 10:04can follow the instructions
- 10:06and conduct the task
- 10:08without us having to explain ourselves
- 10:12without us having to give instructions
- 10:15or train anybody right
- 10:16I mean there's always gonna be some level of training
- 10:18required of course
- 10:19when you're like on boarding somebody
- 10:20but the goal was to create a process
- 10:23that they can rely on
- 10:24now this obviously solves a few issues number one
- 10:27you don't have to manually train
- 10:28people over and over again
- 10:30and I mean like minuscule steps
- 10:31steps that most people don't even think about putting
- 10:34in their process
- 10:35most people when it comes to listings or buyers
- 10:38just have a little checklist that they
- 10:39let's be honest don't use um
- 10:41this was very different
- 10:43we took it like we broke it down to
- 10:45let's think about the first thing we do
- 10:48the moment a client calls us
- 10:51to come in and do an evaluation okay
- 10:53what's the first thing we do
- 10:54what's the second thing we do
- 10:55every little thing so we wrote it all down
- 10:58how can I now if somebody
- 11:00somebody else is to do this task
- 11:01how do we support them with that task
- 11:03without personally supporting them with the task
- 11:05do we record a tutorial video
- 11:07do we give them a step by step document
- 11:09do they need an email do they need a resource
- 11:11so it's tedious it's a lot of work
- 11:14but what that did was it once that's built
- 11:17you have such a sigh of relief right
- 11:19because now
- 11:21the person taking over is relying on the system
- 11:24there's communication between you and your coordinator
- 11:27happening through the system
- 11:28there's communication between you
- 11:29and your clients happening through the system
- 11:31your clients are always in the loop
- 11:33everybody knows where everybody's at in the process
- 11:35nothing slipping through the cracks
- 11:36and now
- 11:38God forbid
- 11:39even if this person was still live with leave
- 11:41which you know
- 11:42ours didn't because she loved the process
- 11:44it worked out magically um
- 11:48if they were to leave
- 11:50somebody else can come in and there's a system
- 11:52and that's the fear
- 11:53most people have when they're hiring right
- 11:55I'll put all this energy into one person training them
- 11:57and then they leave anyway
- 11:58like I hear this all the time
- 11:59so there's that fear of delegation
- 12:01there's that fear of like
- 12:02turnover when it comes to staff
- 12:04and that was the thing that changed the game
- 12:07because now I can have 10 listings on the go
- 12:10and it doesn't matter
- 12:10because I know where every single listing's at
- 12:13I know what's being done what hasn't been done
- 12:15who's doing what it's
- 12:16it's on a dashboard yep
- 12:19and that's key
- 12:20because I don't care if you're a broker owner
- 12:22you're a team lead
- 12:23you're a solo agent trying to implement this
- 12:26like the retention pieces is massive right
- 12:30there's so much that goes into a training process right
- 12:34even if you're teaching your baby agents how to
- 12:36you know
- 12:37put it their first listing on or have their first buyer
- 12:40you know from consultation to
- 12:42to close and and hopefully be on that
- 12:45and so this this system works
- 12:48for everybody right like it can be an onboarding system
- 12:52it can be a listing system
- 12:53it can be a conversion system
- 12:55and as she's developed
- 12:57like she said SOS before SOS were cool
- 13:01I mean yeah
- 13:01you have to go in and tweak it from time to time
- 13:03when they change the interface
- 13:05or they change something at the board
- 13:06or something like that but I mean
- 13:08ultimately how long did it take you to build that
- 13:11that specific system out for you
- 13:15to have something
- 13:15where you could hand it off to somebody and
- 13:17and go I mean
- 13:19time for us it took us a while
- 13:20I'm gonna be very honest with you
- 13:21because we had no guidance
- 13:22we were just winging it but I don't know
- 13:26a matter of a couple months maybe because it did
- 13:29you know per system
- 13:30I say and you made a really good point once it's done
- 13:33the framework's done
- 13:34but I wanna add that you have an opportunity
- 13:38you have an opportunity
- 13:39once you've built out your process
- 13:41to actually look back at it and ask yourself
- 13:43how can I make this better
- 13:45so you you know we've worked together
- 13:47so I gave you some like
- 13:48custom notes and custom for sale
- 13:50so we have like a custom elite listing system that I
- 13:52you know I wanted to do for my clients
- 13:54but the more you incorporate
- 13:56the harder it gets to like
- 13:57manage your day to day operations
- 13:59but the cool thing with the system is
- 14:01now you can actually look back OK
- 14:02this is this is what the journey is
- 14:04this is what the client journey is
- 14:06this is their experience how can I add to it
- 14:09how can I put the cherry on top
- 14:11like what is going to be the thing that wows them
- 14:13because
- 14:14that directly translates into client satisfaction
- 14:17and repeat and referral business down the line yep
- 14:20I just did my first custom yard sign
- 14:22and every time I go to the house
- 14:24someone's staring at it
- 14:25which is exactly what I want them to be doing
- 14:27and so you can
- 14:29you can make it really customized and cool
- 14:32and who wants to get you know
- 14:34top notch commission and have no questions asked right
- 14:37we all have those agents
- 14:38I've done a ton of videos lately about agents
- 14:40just saying all the things that they do and
- 14:43you know how
- 14:44how busy they are
- 14:45and all of the different things that they do
- 14:47within a transaction right
- 14:50it's really not any different than somebody can chat G
- 14:52b t or find a checklist that Karen alluded to online
- 14:57you have to make it different
- 14:58and the system allows you to do that
- 15:00whether it's a template whether it's it's just an idea
- 15:04right you're going into a listing and it's like okay
- 15:07like I'm up against the best listing agent in in town
- 15:10I'm gonna drop in a custom listing sign
- 15:13I'm gonna drop in you know
- 15:14some staging and things like that
- 15:16and you're upping your value
- 15:17and when it's all said and done
- 15:20no one's asking for commission reductions
- 15:22because they see the value
- 15:23it's demonstrated
- 15:25and it was all built on the back end of a system
- 15:28absolutely
- 15:28and you can go on and customize it and change it
- 15:31so that's that's incredible
- 15:33and so talk about how okay
- 15:35you got this going like come on
- 15:38300,000 to 1 million like you had it
- 15:40you implemented it pretty quickly right
- 15:43and you put it in
- 15:45and so talk to me a little bit about that
- 15:47and then how you went into okay
- 15:50now how can I build a system for these buyers
- 15:52and how can I build an open house system
- 15:54and and all of the things that you offer
- 15:56talk about those next steps
- 15:58and kind of how you scale to be
- 16:00what I think is one of the
- 16:02the best in the business system
- 16:05systems trainers there is in our industry
- 16:07thank you you're too kind
- 16:08no honestly
- 16:09I think once you um
- 16:11build it out and you set so and I you know
- 16:14you always start with the thing
- 16:15that's your biggest pain point
- 16:16listings were the biggest pain point we had
- 16:18so that was the first one we tackled
- 16:20but once you do that you start realizing
- 16:21hang on a second what's my second time suck
- 16:24I'm also doing leases for investor clients
- 16:27and they don't wanna work with anybody else
- 16:29but they're taking so much of my time
- 16:30let's do that next okay
- 16:32I wanna work with buyers let's do that next
- 16:34hey we're investing a lot in online leads
- 16:36do we have a process for that
- 16:37what happens when an online lead comes in
- 16:39what communication do we send out
- 16:40do we have market reports that we're sending out
- 16:42do we have videos for this
- 16:43like you your brain starts to just be like
- 16:47there's so much opportunity
- 16:50within the business to
- 16:51become structured and streamlined
- 16:53because you see the results of building out one system
- 16:55right
- 16:56like most most agents
- 16:58don't really have a process for these things
- 17:00they don't really have like
- 17:02okay when a new lead comes in sure
- 17:04they'll call sure they maybe for the first 72 hours
- 17:06but what about after that
- 17:08what communication is being sent out
- 17:10how are you inviting like
- 17:11there's so much that you can do
- 17:13and I think it really helps optimize your business
- 17:16and that's exactly what we did right
- 17:17we had to I mean
- 17:18I had all these creative ideas and I was just like
- 17:20I wanna do this I wanna do this
- 17:21I wanna do this
- 17:23and all I kept hearing from everybody else was like
- 17:25okay sure
- 17:25if you have the time to do it
- 17:26do it but it's on you so like
- 17:29I gotta find a way to do this
- 17:31gotta find a way to do all these things that
- 17:32I wanna do because I wanna do them
- 17:34and I know that they create such safety for clients
- 17:40and I think this is the biggest things
- 17:42anybody that's looking to work with you
- 17:44and and this applies whether you're a new agent
- 17:46whether you're an experienced agent
- 17:47like somebody is looking to hire you
- 17:49out of a pool of hundreds of thousands of agents
- 17:51that are out there where very crowded space right
- 17:54if you have your ducks in a row
- 17:56and if you have a system
- 17:58for everything that you do in your business
- 18:01your clients are gonna sense that
- 18:02they're gonna feel that energy
- 18:03they're gonna feel safe with you
- 18:05they're gonna feel like okay
- 18:06this person knows what they're doing
- 18:07so if you're new agent
- 18:09and you build out systems early on
- 18:12your your clients potential clients
- 18:14they're not gonna
- 18:15wonder how long you've been in the business
- 18:16they're not gonna question it
- 18:19because the structure implies
- 18:22that you know what you're doing
- 18:25and I think that's the that's the most beautiful thing
- 18:28and and you know
- 18:29I think that's priceless
- 18:31yep absolutely
- 18:33and one of my favorite things about you
- 18:34there's a lot of real estate coaches
- 18:36there's a lot of gurus out there
- 18:39that either did it for a very short time
- 18:42and then decided they were more of the teaching kind
- 18:45and kind of took advantage of family members
- 18:47or whatever you know
- 18:49what they had already built
- 18:51but the fact that you were in it right
- 18:52and the fact that you had that
- 18:53that breaking point tell me about
- 18:56you know scaling to 1 million GCI and like
- 18:59what was the decision to be like I
- 19:02this is bigger than just my business
- 19:04and kind of stepping out of that
- 19:06that transactional role
- 19:08tell me about that decision and kind of
- 19:10kind of what you've
- 19:11you've built since within your coaching
- 19:13so I think the biggest thing is just like
- 19:16you realize what's possible
- 19:18we don't see what's possible for us
- 19:20when we
- 19:21running around like a chicken with a head cut off
- 19:23we don't realize the opportunity that exists
- 19:26within this business and for me
- 19:28it was just like
- 19:29I was very clear that this isn't the path
- 19:31I wanna continue going down on
- 19:33because I would have hated what I'm doing
- 19:34and I would have left the business
- 19:36I wouldn't have been able to explore
- 19:38further opportunity within the business
- 19:40had I not had a systems mindset
- 19:42like I'll give you an example
- 19:43because of the things and the structures that we built
- 19:46I was once just you know
- 19:48and this is like after my uh
- 19:50real estate career was like
- 19:51officially sales days were over
- 19:53I was traveling to a different city
- 19:54and I saw a building and I was like
- 19:56this is a really cool building
- 19:58like people should invest here
- 20:00long story short I teamed up with somebody else
- 20:01we ended up doing I think
- 20:0362 sales in that building
- 20:05and I help the builder build out systems
- 20:07cause I'm like OK
- 20:08you guys are not doing this right
- 20:09let's do it again
- 20:11like there's gotta be a process for this
- 20:12you know your clients are unclear about this
- 20:14this this
- 20:15this this
- 20:15so once you once you build out processes
- 20:19because you can take a step back and breathe now
- 20:21and you can you have structures that are operating
- 20:24and now your business is something very tangible
- 20:26that's running without you constantly present
- 20:31you have breathing room
- 20:32you have space to explore more opportunity
- 20:35and more opportunity leads to growth directly to GCI
- 20:38growth directly to other things that you can do
- 20:41yep and I think that that's that's the key is
- 20:47once you get to that breaking point and it's just this
- 20:50right it's I'm doing this onto the next thing
- 20:52onto the next thing and you're doing it
- 20:54a lot of agents tell me like well
- 20:56I have to do it right
- 20:58I'm a control freak is is a word that I hear a lot
- 21:01oh yeah
- 21:02and and
- 21:02and tell me a little bit about how
- 21:05you maintained control
- 21:06because I know that your business
- 21:08was extremely important to you
- 21:10on the sales side
- 21:11but but tell me like you've cracked the code right
- 21:15you're able to maintain control through your system
- 21:18and tell me about kind of that freeing feeling that
- 21:20that you had at that point
- 21:22it's insane it's so great because okay
- 21:27so you know
- 21:28somebody asked me this question and
- 21:29and I think it applies here is like
- 21:31you know what's the biggest thing holding
- 21:34top producing agents or good agents back
- 21:37when it comes to building systems
- 21:39and the reason is exactly what you said
- 21:41it's a fear of delegation
- 21:42and why does that like let's peel that back
- 21:44fear of delegation because they're afraid
- 21:47that the person that they put in charge of that task
- 21:49will not be able to complete it to a certain standard
- 21:52and if you're somebody who has standards
- 21:55it may may turn you into a control freak
- 21:57it may turn you into somebody
- 21:58who just is so afraid to out delegate
- 22:00because they're afraid that the quality of
- 22:02whatever it is that they're doing
- 22:03will not be up to par
- 22:07the system mitigates that
- 22:09because now you are communicating your standards
- 22:12into the process so I'll give you an example
- 22:16hiring an ISA right
- 22:17we recently just helped a really big team
- 22:19build out their ISA processes
- 22:21so many people could benefit from hiring an ISA
- 22:24because it would directly help them with qualifying
- 22:27leads and again
- 22:27freeing up time
- 22:28and it's usually like not such an expensive hire
- 22:30but a very valuable one at that
- 22:33so this is a top producing team
- 22:36and what we did was okay
- 22:37let's take a step back and let's
- 22:39let's build out a process for your ISA
- 22:41let's train them on your objection handling
- 22:45let's train them let's give them a manual and videos
- 22:48and everything else that they need
- 22:49and set them up for success
- 22:52and the process entailed recording calls
- 22:56transcribing those calls you know
- 22:58using AI to help build out Q&A
- 23:00like there's so much opportunity within that
- 23:03but you're able to hire and grow
- 23:08much more effectively without impacting the standards
- 23:12or the voice of your brand
- 23:13or the quality of your brand
- 23:15or the perception of who you are as a business
- 23:17it stays intact
- 23:18because the only reason it wouldn't stay intact is
- 23:21and you'll find out very quickly
- 23:23is if somebody isn't reading or following instructions
- 23:27which can happen right like
- 23:28I mean there's you're not immune to it
- 23:29but you just reduce the risks so tremendously right
- 23:34and as you're dialing it in
- 23:35you know right
- 23:36cause you're still in the process
- 23:37you're still maintaining that control
- 23:38you're still in communication with your clients
- 23:41and you know
- 23:42as simple as like
- 23:43a text message gets sent out that you're like oh
- 23:45that was in a group text and not not here right yeah
- 23:49make sure you're focusing on the system and do this
- 23:51but it helps you find and and sift through a successful
- 23:57you know
- 23:58listing coordinator or buying coordinator or ISA
- 24:02quickly right
- 24:03as opposed to well
- 24:05I'm busy this person has some good experience
- 24:08like let's throw them to the wolves and you
- 24:12you just don't know no right
- 24:13and so you still ain't maintain that element of control
- 24:17but instead of just you know
- 24:19picking out from a hat
- 24:21like hiring a VA or hiring somebody
- 24:23you put something on indeed and you get 20 applicants
- 24:27you can start to understand okay
- 24:29like this is a system let's try them out
- 24:32especially in your system because there's no contracts
- 24:34it's not like we're hiring so for a listing coordinator
- 24:37it's like a house by house contract
- 24:39yeah right
- 24:40yeah and and you can see but then you're able to OK
- 24:44who's work who do I work well with
- 24:46who takes my information and understands it
- 24:49and implements it the best
- 24:50you go with that person versus
- 24:53you know trying it you know
- 24:56kind of throw them in the wolves help me build this
- 24:58you know help me I'll help you build this and then oh
- 25:02that didn't work out something happened
- 25:04yeah right
- 25:04we had a gap in the system
- 25:05or we had this on to the next yeah
- 25:08I can promise you from experience
- 25:11hiring somebody with this system is
- 25:14is as simple as that
- 25:16and you'll spend far less time hiring and firing
- 25:21and training
- 25:22when you have this system completely dialed in
- 25:25and that's exactly what Karen is offering uh
- 25:29we are about to launch a you know
- 25:32an intensive program where she's gonna
- 25:33help you build out all of these systems
- 25:36it's a six week process
- 25:38she's going to give you all of the information
- 25:40for you to take this and go
- 25:42so talk a little bit about what that
- 25:44cohort's gonna look like
- 25:45and and obviously the link will be below
- 25:47but you can
- 25:48you can tell them where to kind of start following you
- 25:50and and even get a little FOMO
- 25:52if they're not ready to commit
- 25:54of course so I mean
- 25:56you know you made a really good point
- 25:57right like
- 25:58I mean it's so expensive to hire an amateur
- 26:00it's so expensive to hire without
- 26:02and the commitment level
- 26:04when you're hiring somebody without processes
- 26:06full time and training them
- 26:07investment is so high
- 26:08and the risk is really really high too
- 26:10whereas with the system that we use
- 26:12there's really no commitment unless unless
- 26:14you know except for the one that's in front of you
- 26:17so you're really able to find the right people
- 26:20and the risks are significantly reduced
- 26:23so as far as I see
- 26:24it's a win win situation for everybody involved
- 26:26and I mean
- 26:27that's exactly what we wanna do and break down
- 26:30I mean it doesn't have to take you months
- 26:31and months and months like it took me
- 26:33because I was building something from scratch
- 26:36and what I wanna help everybody else do is
- 26:39take advantage of everything that we've already built
- 26:42tried out tested and you know
- 26:44applied hundreds and hundreds of times
- 26:47and let's put that
- 26:49let's implement that and set that up in your business
- 26:51so each week if it's a six week cohort
- 26:54each week we're going
- 26:54to look at a different area of your business
- 26:56and it won't just be me speaking at you
- 26:58because you've had enough of that you
- 27:01you hear people speak at you all the time
- 27:03this is different
- 27:04this is actual let's roll up your sleeves and do this
- 27:10let's roll up your sleeves and actually implement
- 27:13and build because that's what you need
- 27:16and the beautiful thing is
- 27:17we already have the templates
- 27:19we already have the structures we have the framework so
- 27:22you know it helps you like
- 27:24you're 75% of the way there with this
- 27:27with the with the workshop
- 27:29you just need to fill in the gaps and personalize
- 27:31the other 25% yep
- 27:34million dollar GCI course
- 27:36and it's not gonna cost $1 million
- 27:38so whether you're watching this on replay or you are
- 27:42you know watching it right when it comes out
- 27:45the next one starts this week
- 27:47and there will be more to come
- 27:48so definitely check her stuff out
- 27:51Karen Instagram probably the best place to find you
- 27:53what's your Instagram handle
- 27:54oh it's a at Karen Gandhi with 2 underscores
- 27:58but I'll send you that information
- 28:012 underscores 2 underscores
- 28:03thanks so much you've personally changed my business
- 28:06allowed me to delegate
- 28:08allowed me to release some control um
- 28:10and really higher smarter and scale faster
- 28:14so I appreciate you so much
- 28:16do you have one last parting word for
- 28:19for those agents that might be just stuck
- 28:23uh you always say stuck
- 28:24unless you do something differently and
- 28:26and unfortunately like
- 28:27there's no way for me to say that in any nicer way
- 28:30if you're stuck you have to take two steps back
- 28:34in order to be able to take those 10 steps forward
- 28:36you have to zoom out unless you do
- 28:38nothing's gonna change
- 28:39and you might continue doing this for the next 5
- 28:4410 years and then look back and ask yourself
- 28:46is this you know is this what I really want
- 28:48so you have to in order to get unstuck
- 28:50you have to plug yourself out of the daily grind
- 28:54zoom out take a look at the bigger picture
- 28:56and decide that you wanna do things differently
- 29:00and run an actual business
- 29:02there's no time like the present
- 29:03when I met her almost a year ago uh
- 29:06I was in that position she told the story
- 29:09I saw myself in it I took action
- 29:11it changed my business forever so uh
- 29:14look her up and we'll see you on the next cohort
- 29:17sounds good thank you so much for having me
- 29:19this is great yep