054: Lead Generation and Hunger Equal Massive Success–Taso Tsakos

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Toby Salgado

Hunger and Motivation laid the foundation for Taso’s success.  In this episode he shares:

  • How he started his business with expired’s
  • Why he went from residential to commercial
  • How he landed the founder of 24 hour fitness as a customer
  • Why its important to learn how to read a Profit and Loss statement
  • How he took 24 hour fitness from 30 locations to 437 locations
  • Why you need to pick a niche
  • How he found an underserved market and attacked
  • How he built his farm
  • How he has taken technology and built out multiple lead generation channels
  • Why to be consistent with your marketing platform
  • Why you need to analyze all your deals and track the origin of that deal–know where biz is coming from
  • Intimately know your expenses
  • Know what marketing things you can do that dont cost you any money–just time
  • Know that on average it will take 18 months to break even on your marketing expenses
  • Why most agents do not go out and create a geographic farm
  • Why you should probably start buying some leads from Zillow
  • How to increase your closing rate
  • How to dominate your farm
  • Taso shares tactics of penetrating a farm
  • How he does buyer lead generation
  • Why you should be an advisor to your clients instead of a sales person
  • Why you should begin networking with other agents

Book:  The Millionare Real Estate Agent by Gary Keller.  Get a free copy of the book from audible at www.audibletrial.com/superagentslive

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