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Which business should you be running?

There are about fifteen ways a real estate agent generates business. Most coaching picks one and sells it to everyone who pays. We do the opposite: we start with you — your experience, how you're wired, your hours, your money, your timeline — and find the two that fit.

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Quick answer

How do I choose a lead-generation strategy?

Match the strategy to the agent, not the other way round. Every lead source asks for something — money, hours, a thick skin on the phone, comfort on camera, patience for a long payoff. The right two are the ones whose demands you can meet for a year without forcing it: usually one that can produce business inside 90 days and one that compounds over three years. The intake on this page scores your answers against all fifteen and suggests the pair; a conversation with Jerod turns it into a plan.

How to read the lanes

Each lane carries two badges. Paid means it needs a monthly budget to run; Unpaid means it costs time, not money. Short, Mid and Long describe how long it usually takes to carry real weight: under 90 days, three to twelve months, or a year and more. None of these is a promise. They're the honest shape of the work.

The five families

Prospecting — you go to them.

The oldest lanes in the business and the fastest. They run on conversations you start: calls, doors, open houses, a neighborhood you farm. They reward consistency and a skin that doesn't bruise easily, and they punish anyone who does them in bursts.

Calling

Picking up the phone and starting conversations — with your sphere, with past contacts, and with people who don't know you yet.

  • Unpaid
  • Short
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Door-knocking

Walking a neighborhood with something useful in hand, and meeting the people who live there.

  • Unpaid
  • Short
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Open houses

Hosting someone else's listing for a weekend afternoon so the buyers who walk in meet you.

  • Unpaid
  • Short
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Farming and direct mail

Choosing one neighborhood and showing up for it — by mail, in person and online — until you're the agent people there think of first.

  • Paid
  • Long
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Advertising — you pay to be found.

Money in, attention out. These lanes can turn on quickly and turn off just as fast when the budget stops. They work best for agents with a budget they can sustain and a follow-up system that answers in minutes, not hours.

Search and social ads

Paying search engines and social platforms to put you in front of people who are looking — and answering them in minutes.

  • Paid
  • Short
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Online portals

Buying leads or placement on the big listing websites where buyers search for homes.

  • Paid
  • Short
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Radio, TV and billboards

Paying to put your name and face in front of a whole market, repeatedly, until it's familiar.

  • Paid
  • Mid
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Content — you become the answer.

Slow to start, hard to copy once it's built. Video, podcasts, social and local search put you in front of people at the moment they're looking for help. They suit agents who are comfortable being seen and patient enough to publish for a year before judging the result.

Video, podcast and social

Publishing useful video, audio and posts so people get to know, like and trust you before they ever call.

  • Unpaid
  • Long
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Local search and reviews

Being the agent that shows up — with real reviews and real answers — when someone in your area searches for help.

  • Unpaid
  • Long
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Relationships — people send you people.

The business you already have and the people who already trust you: past clients, your sphere, the professionals who serve the same clients, other agents, builders. Usually the cheapest lanes in money and the most demanding in follow-through.

Database and client events

Staying genuinely in touch with the people who already know you, and giving them a reason to gather.

  • Unpaid
  • Short
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Business referral partners

Building working relationships with the professionals who serve the same clients you do.

  • Unpaid
  • Mid
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Agent-to-agent referrals

Earning referrals from agents in other markets who send you their clients when those clients move here.

  • Unpaid
  • Mid
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Builder partnerships

Becoming the agent who knows the builders, their communities and their contracts — so new-construction buyers want you beside them.

  • Unpaid
  • Mid
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Rooms — they come to hear you.

Seminars, webinars, community work. You teach, host or show up, and the room does the qualifying. They suit agents who are comfortable in front of a group and willing to give real information away.

Seminars and webinars

Teaching a room — in person or online — and letting the people who show up choose to work with you.

  • Paid
  • Mid
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Community and sponsorships

Showing up for the place you live — events, causes, local groups — so people know you before they need an agent.

  • Paid
  • Long
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The eight questions

The intake asks about eight things, because these are what decide which lanes fit:

  1. Experience — what you did before, and the network it left you.
  2. Wiring — phones, doors, cameras, rooms; structure or improvisation.
  3. Lifestyle — hours you actually have, evenings and weekends.
  4. Budget — what you can spend each month without strain (a range, not a number).
  5. Runway — how many months you can wait for the first closing (a range).
  6. Target — what you need the business to produce this year and in three (a range).
  7. Database — how many people already know and trust you.
  8. Market — where you work, the price band, how much is new construction.

Find your two lanes.

Six minutes. Money questions in ranges only — exact numbers belong in a conversation, not a form. Jerod reads every one and calls you back within two hours during business hours.

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Agents who want the plan built with them start with PREB Coaching, or build it inside My Home Connection by REAL Broker LLC.