RE/MAX Real Estate Center

Take a moment to consider what you do on a daily basis. The essence of your activities can be divided into three areas: real estate, law and entrepreneurship. Real estate agents, of course, provide a wide variety of real estate services which include the showing and listing of homes. Agents also function in the realm of law when we fill in blank contracts, choose which addenda to include in an offer or draft language to be included on a blank addendum. Lastly, agents are entrepreneurs and will only find lasting success if they treat what they do as a business.

RE/MAX Real Estate Center was founded to provide professional, focused, consultative services in the three areas most critical to your success. The unique combination of talents possessed by Eirik Olsen, our Broker/Owner, as a real estate professional, attorney and entrepreneur with a master’s degree in business, are of critical importance to the agent wishing to take his/her business to the next level.

Because our consultative services are focused on the experienced agent, we spend little time handholding, and much more time providing immediate, effective advice in the areas that will define your success.

Those agents who have joined us from such offices as John L. Scott, Windermere and Coldwell Banker have done so, quite simply, because at RE/MAX Real Estate Center they get more and pay less. More individualized attention, more flexibility and respect to allow you to run your business as you see fit, the power of RE/MAX, no pressure to use affiliated escrow and mortgage services, and fee structure choices that create an unbeatable value proposition! Contact Eirik today to hear the details.

Billions of Impressions Support You

With more than 120,000 Associates promoting themselves and their listings worldwide, the RE/MAX name makes billions of impressions every year. When you align with RE/MAX you both add to that power and immediately begin benefiting from it.

TV Primacy Means Everyone Knows You

RE/MAX's share of voice in U.S. real estate advertising on national television in recent quarters has been about 50 percent. (Source: Nielsen Monitor-Plus/Ages 25-54 GRPs unequivalized.) That means at RE/MAX you’re backed by as much advertising as all our competitors combined. On your first day with RE/MAX, everybody knows you.

Over $1 Billion a Year Spent Promoting Your Brand

When you add up the TV, print, radio, billboards and other promotional efforts by RE/MAX International, its regions, brokerages and Associates, the total spent annually promoting RE/MAX exceeds $1 billion. When your customers connect your name with RE/MAX, you directly benefit from those ever-increasing impressions.
Enhance Your Luxury-market Presence

If the luxury market is already your specialty or you’re pursuing a greater share, The RE/MAX Collection signage, support materials and national-luxury-home-advertising discounts (The Wall Street Journal, duPont Registry and Unique Homes) can enhance your ability to serve high-end clients. Earning a Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist designation also takes on extra power with RE/MAX, which boasts the industry’s largest number of CLHMS designees. CLHMS coursework can be pursued via the RE/MAX Satellite Network.

Compound Your Repeat Business

Adding the power of RE/MAX to your existing client base or sphere of influence pushes the potential of your repeat and referral business dramatically higher. At RE/MAX you spend less time and effort going after expensive-to-get new business, as repeats and referrals become an ever-greater share of your overall business.

Take Full Control of Your Referrals

Unlike other national networks, at RE/MAX your referral business isn’t viewed as a company profit center. There’s no cut for a middleman. Referrals travel directly between Associates. And because of the high-caliber agents, such referrals more often result in closed transactions.

Web Roster Promotes Your Strengths

Supporting the agent-to-agent referral system is a comprehensive Web-based roster that enables you to customize your biographical details to be more readily found – and, in turn, to more easily identify recipients who best click with the customers you refer. It’s one more example of the strength of a brokerage-management concept designed for highly productive agents by highly productive agents.

At RE/MAX Real Estate Center our educational programs are dedicated exclusively to the experienced agent and include:

1) full access to RE/MAX Satellite Network and Agent Training on Demand;

2) lead generation and business development training mentored by our Broker through Brian Buffini’s “100 Days to Greatness” program and

3) individual, focused consultation in the areas of real estate, law and business from our Broker/Owner.

Because our focus is on the educational needs of the experienced agent we, as an office, spend little time teaching brand new agents what a Form 17 is, or how to do an effective search on the NWMLS site, and therefore have more time to devote to helping you grow and improve your business.

RE/MAX Satellite Network (RSN)

RSN, in its own studios, creates and broadcasts (via an association with DISH Network) award winning educational materials exclusively to RE/MAX agents. Through RSN, agents can obtain designations, earn continuing education credits, learn about technology and listen to hours and hours of presentations from top industry educators and motivational speakers. Examples of RSN courses include:

• Dominate your market by setting yourself apart from the competition
• Top Producer: Getting more listings
• ABR Designation Classes
• How to field a championship team
• Brian Buffini’s 100 Days to Greatness
• Top Producer: Remote connectivity
• Introduction to commercial real estate analysis
• Listing Presentations: Nail it every time
• Seniors real estate specialist designation class
• Top Producer: Managing your clients and time
• Selling a home in a buyer’s market
• Excellence in email
• Setting the stage: How home staging can boost your business
• Generate online referrals
• How to sign the buyer
• Successful relocation representation

Agent Training on Demand

The name says it all! Streaming video, available 24x7 from anywhere in the world providing titles such as:

• Harnessing the Power of the RE/MAX Brand
• TV Home Tours
• Building a Team
• Blogging for Fun and Profit
• Pre-Listing Appointment
• Think Outside of the Box
• Generate Consistent Income
• Enjoying Consistent Growth
• Becoming an Expert
• Attracting Business

Brian Buffini’s “100 Days to Greatness”

“100 Days to Greatness” is a proven methodology for the generation of a consistent stream of highly qualified and valuable leads. Eirik Olsen, our Broker/Owner, has dedicated himself to teaching the essentials of lead generation and, as evidence of this commitment, has become a certified “100 Days to Greatness” mentor. Eirik will start a new “100 Days” class every few months so that any agent wanting to take advantage of this tremendous educational opportunity will have the opportunity to do so in a timely manner.

Individualized and Focused Education and Consultation

The cornerstone of our business practice and philosophy is our attention to your individual needs. The experienced agent comes to us in many shapes and sizes. The needs of one successful, experienced agent may be vastly different from another. Because no two agents are alike a cookie-cutter approach to you from your brokerage is never acceptable. At RE/MAX Real Estate Center we understand that the needs of an agent must be addressed on an individual basis and, more importantly, we have the ability to live up to our commitment to supporting those needs by our capability in the key areas that define your success.

Experienced agents generally fall into two categories as it relates to marketing:

1) those who do all of their marketing themselves in an effort to retain control and contain costs and

2) those who leverage the talents of marketing professionals to complete tasks in an area that is not within their core competency. RE/MAX Real Estate Center, through RE/MAX Design Center and our association with Creative Solutions (www.realestateflair.com) provides a full array of real estate marketing services, allowing you the flexibility to choose the cost and your level of involvement in your marketing efforts.

Design Center

RE/MAX Design Center, offered free of charge to all RE/MAX agents, provides hundreds of high quality, completely customizable and professionally designed marketing pieces. Design Center is available to you 24 hours a day and is, literally, all you need to professionally market yourself, your services and your listings.

After customizing your marketing piece you can, through Design Center, print your material to your own printer or to a professional printer, e-mail to your clients or even post to your website.

Creative Solutions

For those agents wishing to leverage their marketing efforts, RE/MAX Real Estate Center has associated with Candi Pike of Creative Solutions.

Candi will work with you individually to: create customized monthly mailers for your sphere or farm; photograph, write marketing remarks and create all marketing pieces for your listings and will even create a brand for you to build your business upon.

The Office

Our office is fully equipped with the technology you need to efficiently run your business, including: a wireless and hardwired internet connectivity, two state of the art multi-function (i.e. fax, scan, color printing) machines, a high speed T-1 internet connection, a large screen flat panel TV in the conference room for watching RE/MAX education materials or showing listings to your clients.

Your Own Web Site

All RE/MAX Real Estate Center agents are provided, free of charge, their own website at www.yourname.realestatecenter1.com.

Web Presence

When your listing “goes live” at the NWMLS, it simultaneously appears on www.remax.com, www.realestatecenter1.com and www.realtor.com as well as all other sites pulling listing information from the NWMLS. With more than 2.75 million listings from virtually all of the MLS’s across the U.S., remax.com attracts an average of 2.6 million unique visitors a month – each one of whom is a potential buyer for your property.

LeadStreet

LeadStreet is a powerful web-based tool that, in addition to providing free leads to RE/MAX agents, is a robust system for:

• Listing Management – Enhance your listing on www.remax.com to include additional pictures and descriptions that are not allowed on the NWMLS site.
• Contact and Lead Management – Seamlessly manage your database of clients and incoming leads
• Email Marketing Campaign Manager – Easily set up a “drip” email campaign to keep in touch with your sphere.

RE/MAX Mainstreet

Mainstreet is RE/MAX’s members only, intranet site that offers downloads, message boards, eMarketplace, RE/MAX University, marketing information and much more.

Toolkit CMA

Toolkit CMA is a high quality, web-based, CMA tool which is provided free of charge to all Real Estate Center agents. Toolkit CMA allows you, via its direct connection to the NWMLS, to create an attractive, professional CMA presentation package for your clients in a matter of minutes.

While real estate, law and entrepreneurship define the broad categories of what you do, your ability to generate a consistent stream of leads will decide your level of success. RE/MAX Real Estate Center is committed to providing you the tools necessary to creating a consistent, never-ending supply of high quality leads. All that is required of you is a positive attitude and the desire to succeed; we are happy to provide the rest.