What’s Good for Your Agents…

by | Jun 17, 2025

On the first day of work, most managers encourage a new agent to start building their sales database.

Over time, this database becomes a powerful source of leads, opportunities, and income.

A small or incomplete database hinders a new agent’s chances of experiencing success, and a robust database that’s never worked produces equally disappointing results.

A database that grows stagnant through neglect is the biggest disappointment of all—both for the new agent and for their prospects who were inconsistently engaged.

What’s good for your agents is good for you.

If you don’t have a recruiting database you’re consistently working, you can’t expect to be successful.

And you’ll feel guilty about instructing your agents to do something you’re not willing to do on your own.

 

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Unlock the secrets of effective real estate recruiting. Revised to include actionable frameworks for sharper execution and to help you turn psychological theory into a repeatable recruiting system.

The Attrition Variables

The Attrition Variables

While these attrition constants still have the greatest influence, there are some emerging attrition variables worth noting. People also tend to leave companies when: They feel like they’re not doing as well as others in their peer group outside the company. They feel like they’re not as far along as they should be at a certain point in life.

The Attrition Constants

The Attrition Constants

If you’re not focusing most of your retention effort on these issues, you’ll miss the mark. If you’re not focusing most of your recruiting effort on exploiting these weaknesses among your competitors, you’re missing the best opportunities.

The Persistence Mindset

The Persistence Mindset

A leader equipped with this mindset can have a profound effect on the life and career of each individual they engage. It works because an agent is getting a real-time glimpse of what it would be like to work on your team. But it only becomes believable when it is persistently applied over time.