Validate Your Course Before You Build It
The graveyard of online courses is enormous. And it's full of good ideas that never sold. Entrepreneurs can disappear for three months to build a course.
Bellamy House is led by a real estate strategist, entrepreneur and author, dedicated to helping professionals grow for themselves and the clients they serve.
The graveyard of online courses is enormous. And it's full of good ideas that never sold. Entrepreneurs can disappear for three months to build a course.
I talk to entrepreneurs and Realtors every week who tell me they're drowning. Too many emails. Too many invoices. Too many little fires that eat the whole afternoon. And when I ask if they've thought about hiring a VA (whether a person, or an AI Agent), I get the same answer almost every time...
The most expensive thing you can do in business is ignore the people who have already paid you. Acquiring a new client costs five to seven times more than keeping an existing one. That's not a motivational stat I made up. It's from decades of sales research.
A meaningful divide is forming in real estate. (And nearly every other industry, but that's not our forte.) On one side are agents who are integrating AI into their daily operations. On the other are agents who are ignoring it or worse, dismissing it as a trend.
Two agents with equal talent and work ethic can be in the same office, in the same market, under the same broker. One steadily increases production year after year. The other stays busy but never quite breaks through.
The honest truth is, most agents don’t hit a ceiling because of talent. They hit it because they never transitioned from activity-based income to system-based business.
Here are the four markets currently at the top of my Airbnb acquisition list and why they’re compelling to me.
This is not meant to be a rigid schedule, but a model for you to aim for each workday. When your calendar starts to feel chaotic or you struggle to maintain your plans, this model gives you something to compare against.
Teams are often sold as the answer to almost everything in real estate. More support. More leads. More structure. Less risk. Nervous about starting? Join a team! Don't know where to begin? Join a team!
I began my real estate career fresh out of college at 22 with absolutely no idea what I was doing. And not just on a sales level, but on a, I-have-never-been-in-the-workforce-at-all-level.
Most new real estate agents are told to “generate leads” as quickly as possible. While lead generation matters, chasing leads before developing foundational skills often creates more problems than progress.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), has only been in existence since the late 1990s. In the years since, SEO followed a familiar and easily repeatable playbook: keywords, backlinks, metadata. Today, discovery is no longer limited to links and Google Searches.