
Bellator Real Estate & Development has been recognized by RealTrends as a top brokerage in the US by volume. See where we stack up in each category below:

Not only is it important to know that a smart business is one that is sustainable, but it is also important to inspire yourself, motivate yourself and plan for yourself, so you have a smart business. YOU are the only person that can inspire, motivate, and plan for YOU and YOUR business!
I hope the bullet points below inspire and motivate YOU to start preparing for a smart business in 2022:

Are you efficient with your time & activities building your business?
Are you spending time on the activities that produce the highest results for you?
To answer those questions effectively, you need key pieces of information that REALTORS® often overlook when the prospect of a sale is on the horizon.
In order to know your return on investment (ROI) for any part of your business – your time calling clients, your marketing dollars, your social media posting – you must know how your clients reached you. How are you going to know if that advertisement in Lagniappe brought you any client...

Raise your hand if you were licensed and selling real estate 10 or more years ago.
If you were, you may remember Buyer Seminars. Not everyone hosted or put them on, but they were a common part of the real estate marketing experience not that long ago.
If the name isn't ringing any bells, agents would advertise the seminar, held after hours at the office or at a local coffeeshop, and give a presentation on a particular aspect of the home buying process with a time for Q&A afterward. They would have food and drinks available and sometimes lenders would even be sponsors for it. It was a simple concept, a simple concept that can be adapted to today's Zoom-favoring environment and can actually help you gain listings. How?

Are you looking for listings? If you – like most agents along Alabama's Gulf Coast right now – answered yes, then let us introduce you to a powerful Ninja Selling concept that may help you do just that.
Real estate reviews allow you to give overviews of the real estate market in the area without necessarily having to price a home in the process. Think: How many homes have come on market in their neighborhood since I last spoke with them? How many have sold? How long did it take to sell? Are sales prices going up? It's not a CMA — just pull the stats for a particular neighborhood.
Generally, these are done on property anniversaries for former clients, but people are interested in what's ha...