A successful agent uses the right resources.
We’ve compiled the best of the best for you here.
1. Technology & Services
We believe utilizing great technology is the key to success. We’ve compiled the top tech solutions that we have seen make a real impact on our Agent Partners’ businesses. We have special discounts available to our JVM Agent Partners – reach out to us at agentsupport@jvmlending.com to learn more!
Reach150 is simple and powerful way to automate the collection and leveraging of referrals and recommendations. Check out our JVM Reach150 page as an example. If you don’t have a tool like this, select one, and get started RIGHT AWAY! It’s a game changer.
**JVM Agent Partner Discount Available!
Competitors include: TestomonialTree, RealSatisfied, SocialSurvey
Revaluate uses artificial intelligence to finds leads in your database that are likely to move in the next 6 months. You can this data to improve marketing efficiencies, target prospects and substantially increase ROI from old dead leads and portfolio customers. Revaluate’s patented software can be used just as effectively to target a geographic farm list as your own database.
**JVM Agent Partner Discount Available!
Don’t lose out on listing and new homebuying opportunities with your past clients! Homebot sends monthly home value updates to all your clients and keeps you apprised of potential new listing opportunities. Homebot’s buyer nurture tool offers great insights to your buyers and is personally tailored to them
Homebot’s buyer resources are only available to agents co-branding with a lender, so let us know if you are interested! We offer a discount to waive the set-up fee for our JVM Agent Partners.
Give ListReports any address in the U.S. and they’ll send you everything you need to win a listing, sell a home, or educate a buyer. Creates 25-piece marketing kits with built-in lead capture for your listings or any listings you are representing – great for both buyers agents and listing agents! Using ListReports also gives you inside-access to the nest.me platform – a home search tool done right.
It’s fast, easy, automated and best of all, it’s FREE – let us know if you would like us to add you to our account!
Back At You is the leader in social media automation in the world of Real Estate. Auto-post localized content, automatically post every new listing, and generate leads through auto-posting to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn!
**JVM Agent Partner Discount Available Here!
MyOutDesk is a virtual assistant company that allows you to hire a full time resource, 100% dedicated to serving your needs in your Real Estate business. They have 3 main categories including administrative, marketing and prospecting resources. We personally have started leveraging them and it has been a very positive experience!
For information contact Chris Vodanovich at (408) 205-1515.
Competitors include: Up Work, 247 Virtual Assistant, Phone Animal
Phone Animal provides you with a fully trained ISA (Inside Sales Agent) who is supported by Phone Animal and working 40 hours a week for you. Their ISAs can do both outbound prospecting and inbound conversion. Whether you’re looking to fill your pipeline with qualified seller leads or looking for help with converting incoming leads for your business, Phone Animal is one of the best options out there!
**JVM Agent Partner Discount Available!
CINC is a powerful real estate platform that keeps you seamlessly engaged with your clients throughout their entire home buying and selling journey.
**JVM Agent Partner Discount Available!
Competitors include: BoomTown and Real Geeks.
Calendly helps you schedule meetings without the back-and-forth emails to check availability – let your clients choose the best meeting time on your calendar for themselves! It’s super simple to set up and use, and people love it.
There is also a free 14 day trial and very low cost after. Give it a go!
Competitors include: Doodle, You Can Book-Me, NeedToMeet
Don’t you wish you had an easy way to add a lead or client into a personalized nurture campaign and have it do your work for you? Ok, so it’s not that easy, though with a bit of upfront work, you can be an email and text follow up HERO!
It’s a great tool that we use at JVM and recommend it to all.
Breakthrough Broker has what seems to be an endless supply of templates for anything you can think of real-estate-related for FREE. It’s actually remarkable. Once you set up your free account it applies your branding to everything you open. Then you can download and leverage your new, personalized, marketing piece in any way you choose.
Corefact is a one-stop shop for every stop of your real estate marketing journey: from open house signage to direct mail with lead generation technology and single property websites. Their print materials and online tools have been perfected over the past decade to help agents win listings, build their brand, and dominate the market. Whether you’re a solo agent, part of team big or small, or owner of a huge brokerage, Corefact has amazing options for you.
**JVM Agent Partner Discount Available!
Divvy is a rent-to-own program that lets your clients rent their dream home while Divvy helps them save for a down payment. They can buy the home from Divvy whenever they’re ready, or walk away and cash out their savings. Divvy’s mission is to make homeownership accessible to everyone.
Utilize JVM’s partnership with Divvy: JVM Lending + Divvy
Revive’s goal is to help as many homeowners as possible maximize the value of their home by performing renovations prior to selling with no upfront costs. When Revive renovates homes, their clients receive on average 150% return on investment.
Utilize JVM’s partnership with Revive: JVM Lending + Revive
2. Consultants & Coaches
Real Estate coaches come in every flavor depending on your emphasis, strengths and goals. Here is a list of a few coaches that we have had the privilege of working with personally over the years:
3. Real Estate Focused Facebook Groups
Facebook Groups lets you engage with a community of like-minded professionals and share ideas, insights, knowledge, and more.
4. Books
There are literally thousands of books that can benefit agents and assistants alike when it comes it real estate sales. Here are a few of our favorites that are slightly outside the real estate box but enormously beneficial and inspiring.
The below books changed the way we do business at JVM. They will help you grow your business too to heights you never thought possible.
If you are trying to build a lasting, sustainable business this book is a necessity. It completely turned around JVM Lending, and it will save you an enormous amount of time, it will help you grow like you never thought possible, and it will make you vastly more profitable. The key is to create systems and processes for everything you do.
This book is all about selling in the post-internet age, and how selling has changed from manipulation to providing help and information. Everyone is in sales now days, and everyone needs to understand how to sell softly. This book is invaluable for assistants as well as full-time salespeople.
Most business owners are held back by limiting beliefs without realizing it. This book explains why and what to do about it. According to the author and many renowned business coaches, business success is usually more about mind-set than anything else.
This is an autobiography by a former Hollywood “super agent” and it is one of our founder’s all-time favorite books. Why? B/c by telling his story, Mr. Ovitz shows everyone how they cannot help but to be enormously successful – by always doing their homework/research, by always sharing valuable info and gifts, by always showing up, and by always connecting with anyone and everyone.
If anyone plans to market in any way, this book is an absolute necessity. It is fascinating and eye-opening as it explains how to tell your story in a way so potential customers will both notice and listen.
If you have a team of two or more people, this famous book is a must-read. You and your team will function far more productively and harmoniously after your read it. Guaranteed.
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5. Blogs
Blogs are everywhere and can be a great source of education and entertainment. Here are a few we like here at JVM:
JVM Lending
Our popular blog is written daily by JVM’s founder, Jay Voorhees. The articles are always short and sweet, with an interest rate update and mortgage/real estate industry insights. Subscribe here to have our blog delivered to your inbox each day:
RISMedia
A wide array of real estate trends and topics from tech to economics
Morning Brew
Easy, 5-minute news recap delivered to your inbox every morning.
6. Real Estate News Sources
These are a few news sites we check daily to get the latest on what’s happening in the real estate industry.
HousingWire
Housing Market, Real Estate, Mortgage Trends
Keeping Current Matters
Be a trusted real estate expert, with relevant and shareable content
Inman News
National Focus
REtechnology
National Focus
7. Credit Repair Referrals
If you have clients who need help repairing their credit in order to buy a home, we have some fantastic contacts you can refer them to.
Ken Strey
Scorewell, Inc
(O) 925-478-5213 (F) 925-478-2749
kenstrey@scorewellinc.com
www.scorewellinc.com
Mike Garcia
Credit Security Group
Sr. Credit Analyst/FICO Expert
(O) 214-475-1663 (F) 866-226-4470
Mike@CreditSecurityGroup.com
creditsecuritygroup.com
8. Order Co-Branded Marketing Materials
Need marketing materials? We can create co-branded Property Financing Flyers, Homebuyer’s Booklets, Seller’s Guide Booklets, and more! Click the button below to submit your order and our team will start working on it right away.
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