Ep. 501: Embracing Failure: The Key Catalyst for Personal Growth and Success

 Success and Failure: Two Sides of the Same Coin What makes successful people different from most others who fail isn’t that they don’t make mistakes—it’s that they’ve learned to fail well. Failure is the key to success—we hear it said all the time, typically when some well-intentioned but nonetheless unaffected supporter is trying to… Read more »


How to Hire Incredible Team Members | 4 Tips

 How to Hire the Right Person When determining how to hire the right candidate, you should have a clear picture of what you are looking for, a consistent method for evaluating applicants, and questions whose answers you won’t find on a resume. In this Silver Dollar episode of Stay Paid, we’re sharing the hiring… Read more »


Ep. 478: Be a Business of Purpose and Profit (with Giveback Homes)

 Add Purpose to Your Profit and Watch Your Business Grow Discover how participation in a philanthropy encourages goodwill and builds trust in your business and how to best select a charity to which you can offer your authentic and active involvement. This week on Stay Paid, cofounder Caroline Pinal shares with us the story… Read more »


Refreshing Advice for How to Recruit and Retain Insurance Agents

 Don’t Confuse Multilevel Marketing with Recruiting Building a successful team requires leadership. To recruit and retain top producers, you must look for disciplined agents and remain invested in their development. This week, we speak with Raza Begg, executive director for Experior Financial Group. He and his wife Imrana, also an executive director, are the… Read more »


8 Last-Minute Gratitude Ideas for Thanksgiving

 Expressing Gratitude to Clients: Gift Ideas That Leave a Lasting Impression Letting your clients know you appreciate them is not only a kind and considerate gesture but also a powerful way to build strong relationships. Thanksgiving is only a week away, and if you’re still looking for a way to let your clients know… Read more »


Finding Inventory: Strategies That Are Working in Today’s Market

 How to Find Listings in a Low-Inventory Market Knowing where to look and how to speak knowledgeably about the current housing market will enable agents to capture listings and sell homes to investors and buyers who need to move. In this episode of Stay Paid, we’re speaking with Stephen Acree, team lead at Acree… Read more »


How to Best Use Facebook Ads to Generate Leads

 Running a Successful Facebook Ad Campaign To effectively run Facebook ads that generate leads, it’s critical to target a well-defined niche audience. You may be inclined to think that the broader your Facebook ads audience is, the more leads you will generate. In fact, experts like Arturo Johnson will tell you that the key… Read more »


5 Steps to Claim and Utterly Dominate Your Local Market

 How to Select a Market for Your Real Estate Business Use data to find the ideal market for your real estate business. Then employ a hyperlocal social media marketing strategy to establish yours as the preferred brand. This week on Stay Paid, we talk with Charles Weinraub, host of the Handsome Homebuyer podcast and… Read more »


Agents! You’ve Got the Inside Scoop to Retire Rich

 How to Buy Properties with No Money Down With the proper education, real estate agents can capitalize on their unique access to sellers and properties to find and fund lucrative investments. The hope of many real estate agents is to own a sufficient number of rental properties to sustain them through retirement. But being… Read more »


How to Get the Right Clients to Find You

 Practical Steps to Niche Your Business To compete against the large houses, independent financial professionals should niche their services. Find a specific group of people with a specific problem, and work to solve it better than anyone else. In today’s Stay Paid episode, we ask our guest, Dominique Henderson, how financial advisors can generate… Read more »


6 Video Marketing Tips For Real Estate Agents

  Guest blogger Andre Oentoro promotes videos as marketing tools that excel at immediately capturing and keeping your audience’s attention, engaging them for longer periods, and enhancing recall. The internet and advent of third-party platforms like Zillow have forever changed how people look for available properties. While people most often find their real estate agent… Read more »


Ex-MLB Player and Ponzi Scheme Victim Builds RIA, Shares Secrets for Success

 Staying in Touch with Clients Should Be Every Financial Advisor’s Top Priority While it may seem like a simple task, many financial advisors underestimate the power and importance of regular communication with their clients. After Kevin Thompson suffered a career-ending injury as a professional baseball player, he used his earlier experience as the victim… Read more »