Agents
Big Wins At 1st Class Real Estate! We’re excited to announce that 34 new agents joined the 1st Class family in November!
Training
We added right around 100 hours of new coaching and training videos inside of our 1st class Skool account just this month. Agents always have access to tons of FREE coaching and training by the very best
SWAG
Our agents get massive discounts on everything from signs, banners, apparal, pens, posters etc. These customizable yards signs are just $14.95! Even shopping local you'll not find anywhere that comes close to this.
Marketing
Marketing is a breeze at 1st Class with our fully built out Marketing Portal. All of our agents get access to hundered of pre built out and fully customizable marketing templates. Everythng from social media posts, business cards, letterheads, notecards, buyer and seller guids etc.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
CRM: Lofty
This year we have tested out multiple CRM's to find the perfect CRM for our current agents and one that will help us go out there and get more agents to join 1st Class. We've tried and tested Brivity, KvCore (Now BoldTrail), Perfect Storm and Wise Agent. After working with all of these companies we have decided to go with Lofty. We feel Lofty is not only one of the easier ones to use, but they are very dedicated to making their CRM the best and are constantly updating and making improvements. Agents can now do their own lead gen, paid or free, right inside of the CRM as well as have an A.I bot act as their assistant to answer those incoming leads as they come in. Agents can also send out automated Home Values and Market Reports to all of the current home owners inside of their CRM, along with their past clients. They now have completely customizable websites for all agents. The built in transaction management system is a game changer as well as the goal tracking system. We could go on and on about everything they provide and we will be doing dedicated weekly webinars for our agents on how they can maxamize Lofty.
Lead Gen: AgentBid
AgentBid has chosen 1st Class to be their beta for their new platform. This is an amazing oportunity for our agents to be able to wake up everyday with opportunites already in the pipeline. Agents can now easily share referrals across the country and locally. Through the app agents can claim referral opportunties as they come in. We will be loading up this app with leads for all of our agents.
OUR MODELS
ENTREPRENUER MODEL
PARTNER MODEL
WHAT'S NEXT FOR 1ST CLASS (Maybe..)
ZILLOW FLEX
As much as i'm not a fan of Zillow, and not because of the reasons most agents are, this is something we are looking into. Personally, I believe Zillow has completely ruined the real estate industry. No longer do agents go out and meet people, build relationships and master their craft. They'd rather just buy people's information. However we do realize that it does help keep consistant business for some agents.
ISA
We have met with several ISA's and are contemplating going this route for our Partner Agents. Our thought is having an ISA call all of the incoming leads that come in and hand them out to agents as they're ready to buy or sell. That way agents spend more time on appointments and less time having to follow up. Also, my thought is we will have all of our Partner Agents enter in all of their S.O.I into their CRM and our ISA's will call them on the agents behalf. That way agents can be working with their own sphere without feeling like they're bothering them..
1st Class actually has a copywrite on being the first virtual brokerage. Personally i'm not a huge fan of being virtual, but it also makes a lot of sense and it becomes much easier to grow. We've had our office for a couple years now in High Ridge, but agents just aren't really coming in to use it. I'm a firm believer in having an office and believe most agents should be in an office everyday, until you get to the point to where you're out on several appointments a day. If agent's aren't going to use it though we can use that expense for more staff or leads for our agents.