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Notes on growing a brokerage

Practical, no-fluff thinking on recruiting, retention, and coaching - written for brokers and team leaders who’d rather be recruiting.

Retention The Quarterly One-on-One That Keeps Your Best Agents Home Your best agent is being recruited right now - and the broker who wins is not the one with the biggest split, it is the one who made her feel seen las Sep 21, 2026 · 3 min read

Recruiting Stop Recruiting Everyone - Build the Persona of Your Ideal Agent First Most brokers are recruiting blind, and wondering why the wrong people keep walking through the door. Before you reach out to a single agent, you need Sep 20, 2026 · 3 min read

Technology AI Is a Lousy Closer - Here Is How to Use It Right Every brokerage owner I talk to is either afraid of AI or over-relying on it - and both mistakes cost you agents. Here is the line you cannot afford t Sep 19, 2026 · 3 min read

Leadership Stop Recruiting Until You Fix This First Pouring new agents into a broken system is not growth - it is expensive chaos. Here is what to fix before you make another recruiting call. Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read

Coaching Before You Coach Anyone, Ask This One Question Most brokers hand agents a production goal and call it a plan - but if you have never asked your agent what success actually means to them, you are bu Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read

Retention The Quiet Quit: How to Spot an Agent Who Is About to Walk Before They Do By the time an agent hands you their resignation, they made that decision weeks ago - here is how to read the signals before you ever get to that conv Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read

Recruiting Stop Recruiting Strangers: Clone Your Best Agents Instead You already have the blueprint for your perfect recruit - you just have not looked closely enough at the agents already crushing it on your team. Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read

Technology The Leaky Bucket Problem: How to Stop Losing Agents Before They Ever Say Yes You are probably working harder on recruiting than you think - and losing more prospects than you realize. Here is how to fix the leak before it drain Sep 14, 2026 · 3 min read

Leadership The Quiet Engine: Behind-the-Scenes Systems That Actually Grow a Brokerage Every brokerage has a front stage and a back stage - and the brokers winning right now are obsessed with what happens backstage. Here is what they are Sep 13, 2026 · 3 min read

Coaching Your Split Is Not Your Value Proposition - Your Coaching Is Every broker thinks a better split wins the agent. It does not. The broker who wins is the one who makes the agent better. Sep 12, 2026 · 3 min read

Retention Why You Should Date Your Agents (Retention Starts the Day They Sign) Most brokers treat the hire as the finish line - but that is exactly where the real work begins. If you want agents who stay, produce, and refer their Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read

Recruiting The Golden Rule of Recruiting: Right Message, Right Agent, Right Time Most brokers are shouting into a crowd when they should be whispering to one person. Here is why precision beats volume every single time in recruitin Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read

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