Friday Freebies: Brand recognition can be crucial to real estate business success - especially if you’re planning to start your own brokerage. We know that building a brand from the ground up and maintaining it can be hard in the dynamic Real Estate Industry, so we’ve put together some tools to help you along the way. Use these selected downloads to increase your brand recognition and independent brokerage branding success.

Not achieving your real estate blogging goals? You may be guilty of making some of the most common blogging mistakes without even knowing it.

Whether you’ve just begun or are a veteran real estate blogger, it’s important to always make sure you’re giving your audience the information they crave in a timely and proper manner. Living by these blogging rules will help you hit the mark every time.

Live by these 8 real estate blogging rules:

Real estate success doesn’t always come easily and sometimes it can be tough to stay motivated when you feel like you can’t catch a break. It’s easy to advise others to learn from past mistakes or let the tough times roll off your shoulders, but not so easy to actually do them when you’re feeling discouraged. If you’ve had a rough work day, week or even month, don’t let it impact your positive mindset - find inspiration from these images instead!

5 Images to Increase Real Estate Motivation (all found here):

Do you know who the average real estate client was in 2015?

If not, we’ve compiled a few statistics reported by the National Association of Realtors Field Guide to Quick Real Estate Statistics and their Infographic: 2015 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers to help you out. It’s important to understand your potential clients, so you can effectively market to yourself, generate more real estate leads and close more deals.

Here are the stats:

Your favorite Agent Insights series is back for a 3rd edition!

We launched our Agent Insights guest blog series to provide industry insights and advice that can only come from experience. Our guest blog posts from seasoned, successful real estate agents and brokers have been a smashing success - so we've created a 3rd edition that highlights our reader's favorite content.

Enjoy!

Our eBook includes: