Straight-talking advice for new and veteran agents navigating today's real estate market

Success as a Real Estate Agent For Dummies helps you create leads, close deals and everything in between. This updated edition covers changes to interest rates, inventory, and the impact of recent class action lawsuits on agent compensations. With tried-and-true tactics and fresh ideas from one of North America's top agents, this book contains all you need to know about the real estate business. Inside, you'll find tips and tricks on selecting a company that works best for you and your goals, marketing yourself and your listings with influence, and communicating effectively with clients. The actionable content in this Dummies guide is your ticket to thriving in a wide market.

• Gain insider advice on how to flourish as an agent in all real estate markets
• Understand how real estate is changing, and what those changes mean for you
• Find, secure, and sell more properties with optimized listings and outreach
• Get fresh ideas for improving your results in residential and commercial sales

For new licensed real estate agents, those switching careers into real estate agenting, or seasoned agents looking to refine their prospecting and selling skills, this book is a valuable source of information and techniques.

A proven plan for peak sales performance-and a better life!

In The Champion Real Estate Agent, renowned sales trainer Dirk Zeller shows you how to dramatically boost sales and achieve all your professional goals. But there's much more to being a champion agent than just selling. Zeller's proven program not only turns you into a top sales performer, it gives you all the tools to build your real estate business and create a secure and prosperous future for yourself.

Full of inside tips, expert advice, and real-world examples from Zeller's many years as a champion agent and trainer, this comprehensive career guide presents a complete system for managing your business and time-so you can earn more money and enjoy more of life.

Don't just get into the real estate game; become an all-star when you learn how to:

Supercharge your sales and commissions

Use Zeller's unique referral strategy to turn effort into income

Develop trust and credibility with customers

Design a custom business plan that fits your life and goals

Generate multiple streams of income

This ultra-complete book shows realty agents what it takes to be successful, as measured by high earnings and business satisfaction. On my scale of one to 10, this excellent book rates a solid 10.--Robert J. Bruss, nationally syndicated real estate columnist

Incorporate effective time management and transform your life

If you always feel like there's not enough time in the day to get everything accomplished, Successful Time Management For Dummies is the resource that can help change your workday and your life. Filled with insights into how the most successful people manage distractions, fight procrastination, and optimize their workspace, this guide provides an in-depth look at the specific steps you can use to take back those precious hours and minutes to make more of your workday and your leisure time.

Modern life is packed with commitments that take up time and energy. But by more effectively managing time and cutting out unnecessary and unproductive activities, you really can do more with less. In this complete guide to time management, you'll find out how to manage email effectively, cut down on meetings and optimize facetime, use technology wisely, maximize your effectiveness during travel, and much more.

• Find out how to accomplish more at work and in life, all in less time
• Organize your professional life and workspace for optimal productivity
• Learn to put an end to procrastination and successfully handle interruptions
• Get specific insights into time management in various functions, from administration professionals to executives

If you're looking to take back your time and ramp up your productivity, Successful Time Management For Dummies is the resource to help get your there in a hurry.

Newly Expanded with More Expert Advice to Help You Build a Winning Real Estate Career

Welcome to the world of real estate sales, and the start of an exciting new career Your destiny is now in your hands. Along with endless opportunities, flexible hours, and the freedom to chart your own path, you also have the potential to earn fabulous amounts of money. All you need for total success is preparation. Revised and expanded, Your First Year in Real Estate contains the essential knowledge you need to start off right in today's vastly changed real estate market, avoid common first-year missteps, and get the inside edge that will take you to the top.

Real estate expert Dirk Zeller has compiled the industry's proven secrets and strategies that will enable novice agents to hit the ground running and excel from day one. You'll get the insider's guide to:

- Selecting the right company
- Developing valuable mentor and client relationships
- Using the Internet and social networking to stay ahead of the competition (NEW )
- Setting--and reaching-- essential career goals
- Staying on top in today's challenging real estate climate (NEW )
- And so much more.

Concise and thorough, Your First Year in Real Estate is like having the top coach right by your side.

Discover the ultimate success habits for a healthy and prosperous life

Whether we like it or not, a big part of what we do in life is governed by habits. Even more importantly, habits can lead us to think and feel in certain patterns. Since habits are so powerful, it's worth paying attention to the ones that are most effective. Inside, bestselling author Dirk Zeller provides tried-and-true advice on creating, building, and cultivating winning habits to achieve success.

Success Habits For Dummies is a gold mine of startling insights and practical pointers on achieving success. No matter what your station in life, it can quickly put you on the road to the success you want and deserve. With wit, warmth, and loads of practical wisdom, Dirk Zeller helps you:

• Discover how habits determine 95% of a person's behavior
• Get to know how the people who achieve most in life take deliberate steps to ensure their goals are met
• Make a practical plan to perform at your maximum potential
• Maintain a growth mindset that makes you capable of change

Everything that you are today, and everything that you will ever accomplish, is determined by the quality of the habits that you form. By creating good habits and adopting a positive behavior, you too can become successful and live a prosperous life.

Nearly 100 million Americans (one out of three) purchase goods and services over the phone each year. Telephone Sales For Dummies shows both new and seasoned sales reps, from realtors, insurance agents to telemarketers, how to create pre-call plans and effectively prospect via the phone. Packed with techniques, scripts, and dialogues, this hands-on, interactive guide assists readers with making cold calls, warm calls, and referral calls, helping them plan and execute openings to create interesting dialogue; ask key questions; develop persuasive presentation techniques; work within the No Call Law parameters; leave effective and enticing voicemails that get results; get past screeners and get quality referrals; find hot leads; and create callback scripts that close the sale.