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Far too many agents are 100% reliant on someone else for your business. Your team leader, Zillow homes.com, maybe pay per click through Google, whatever. But if you're relying on some outside entity or someone other than you for your lead flow, then you can run into problems. Today I'm going to break down exactly how you can break the chains. Because honestly, whoever controls your lead flow controls your income. So. So let's break the chains. I'm going to show you exactly how to take control back so you can be in 100% control of your business and how much of it you get. Let's go. The Massive Agent podcast. We lead generation tips and strategies to get you more leads and sell more homes. I love to buy houses. I like to sell houses. It takes brass balls to sell real estate. Wait a minute. The leads are weak. You're weak. I've had better. Oh, have I got your attention now? Here's your host, Dustin Brome. What is up, guys? Welcome to episode 416 of the Massive Agent podcast. I am your host, Dustin Brome in Salt Lake City, Utah. Getting close to Christmas. Dangerously close to Christmas. Hope you guys are having an awesome pre Christmas build up to Christmas lead up to Christmas. Yeah, I hope you're enjoying this time of year. It's fantastic. So.
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Guys, I've been, this is something that, what I'm going to talk about today, I've been passionate about for years and something. I don't know, I don't even know why, I don't know why this week of all weeks I'm bringing this up and why I, I felt compelled to talk about this. But I see so many agents that are depending on somebody else for their business. Look, whoever controls your lead flow controls your income. That maybe that's a team leader. If you're, if you're a team member and you just get all your business from the team, that's cool. Well, what happens if it dries up? You're screwed. You out of business. It's not, it's not safe. There's no security in it whatsoever. If you're relying on Zillow or realtor.com or Facebook ads or Google PPC or whatever, you have to take control back of your business. And I'm going to show you how to do that today. But first, I told you last week, I think for a couple weeks I've been, I've been telling you this is coming. It's here. I've been working my ass off to build something for you and it's available today. So first off, I'm.
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This is actually very relevant for today's show. If you are an agent who's depending on someone else for your business and you don't have control over how many clients you get, this is for you. Okay? If you, if you're spending hours and hours on social media and you feel like you're doing pretty good stuff but you get no results, this is for you. If you're. If you have an inconsistent business and you get a big. It's ups and downs, you get a big spike of business and then it dies off and your income is just doing this all the time. I built this for you. All right? Now I'm hosting a free masterclass to show you exactly how to fix all this. Because it's. It does not have to be this way in 2026 and beyond. It does not have to be this way. I'm going to teach you the simple formula that top agents around the country are already using to turn views and followers into conversations and closings. All right, I'm going to break down the entire five new clients a month formula and strategy. So I built a free masterclass. It's called the Clients from Social Masterclass. It won't last forever, but. Go. I'm hosting this thing totally free, but you can register for it over at clients from social.com clientsfromsocial.com go, go check out these. Wow, I'm struggling. Go register and save your spot for my free Clients from Social Masterclass. If you want to finally take control and be able to get 5, 6, 7 new deals every single month from social and be able to count on it and have it be consistent and you can, if anything, you can just, you know, crank up the volume increase. How nice would it be to have a business you can count on every single month and it doesn't cost you money. You're not paying for it. You're not hoping that Zillow doesn't, like, look, if you're, if you're getting Zillow leads, that's fine, but what happens if they're like, okay, we're going to increase the price Now, I've seen so many teams and agents over the years just get priced out, and they were, they were super reliant on Zillow, but you didn't spend time to build a brand, and you can go out of business that way. Like, I've seen a lot of agents who are doing really, really well. And then an algorithm change happened, a price increase happened, and they get pushed out of business because they don't have a solid base. I'm going to teach you that base. I'm going to teach you the proven formula to get five deals a month from Social every month. Clients from Social.com go register. Now, as we get into, into the, the meat and potatoes of today, is your business yours? I mean, ask yourself, is your business yours? Do you fully control it now? It's, oh, look, it's okay. I'm not telling you that you're screwed forever or that you're, or you're a bad person or whatever. If you do rely on some outside force, it's okay. And it's actually very common. It's also not optimal. And so I'm going to show you today, I'm going to break this down in a way where if you are reliant on, you know, the teat of Zillow or your team or whatever, I'm gonna, I'm gonna teach you the importance of, and the solution to, you know, getting business for yourself. Because if any of those things dry up, you want to be able to, to sustain and, and thrive. I mean, if you're on a team, that's totally cool. There's a lot of wisdom in that. But do you want to be on the team forever? Do you see yourself on that team that you're with for the next 10 years or one day? Do you want to go solo? Well, if you want to go solo, you've got to start thinking about brand building. You have to start thinking about the formula on Social that gets business. You need to start thinking about creating a referral machine. So the people in your sphere of influence, in your network that already know you, they start to refer you more and more and more. And that's what we're going to talk about. So, unfortunately, I've been in real estate for what, 14, 15 years. One of these days, I'll have a definitive answer for you. Okay, I got, I got my license in, in 2018. No, that's not right. That's when I started my podcast. It was, oh, my gosh, I've got to go back and look. 2011. Yeah, it was 2011. I got my license in 2011. So whatever. That's like 15 years now almost. See there, a definite, a definitive answer. I've been in real estate for, for a long time. I've, I've personally seen what happens if you become too reliant on any one, one thing, like early on in my career, this small team. And if you're watching me on YouTube, the team air quotes that I was with. We got, we invested in Trulia. Now. True, this was before Zillow and Trulia merged. So there was Trulia, there was Zillow. We did Trulia leads and same thing. And we got reliant on it. And then all of a sudden, you know, it was bringing some business for us. But then at a certain point they, they came and they're like, hey, if you want the same package, it's actually going to be X amount. It was like a 50% increase. And we're like, we can't afford that. That doesn't make any sense. Like that. That makes these not even worth it for us anymore. And so all of a sudden that lead source went away and we had it. We struggled that next year to make up for it because we got too reliant. So I know how that is. And you maybe have seen this in your own business where maybe it's Facebook ads. You've been doing Facebook ads for years and they every. They just keep increasing in cost, increasing in. Because Facebook's evil. I mean, that's a separate conversation. But the, the reason that those ads keep going up is because the demand keeps going up that there's more and more people competing for that limited ad space for that limited real estate in your newsfeed. So as it becomes more competitive and there's more demand, of course the cost goes up. That's supply and demand. Pretty simple. That kind of crap, if you're too reliant on it, crushes businesses. So, team member, relying on your team, Zillow, realtor.com, homes, homes.com, op City, pay per click with Google Meta ads, they can raise their prices at any time. And just all of a sudden you can't afford it anymore, or you're paying the same amount, but you're getting half as much. This happens all the time and it will continue to happen. So expect it. I remember one time I was at Exposure at the time and Dave Ramsey, the Dave Ramsey elp, the endorsed local provider company or a platform that's part of the Dave Ramsey deal where they endorse a local real estate agent and they push business to the agent for a referral fee. Right. Well, something happened where Dave Ramsey didn't like exp or exp. Something about exp he didn't like. Maybe it was the business model. I don't know if there was like a personal thing with somebody at exp. I have no idea. But Dave Ramsey woke up one morning Basically, and decided that the ELP program is now closed to EXP agents. And so I watched so many of my friends overnight just have a huge part of their business just shut off overnight. Like literally they woke up to an email. Usually when shit happens overnight, it's not literally overnight. This was literally overnight. They woke up to an email that's like, oh, by the way, we've decided that we have to part ways because you're with exp. Blah, blah, blah. I'm paraphrasing. But that was basically it. And everyone's just like, what am I going to do? There were some. There was one of my friends, 65% of their business came from Dave Ramsey's ELP program. And that's just gone. So do you want. Do you like being in this position? Do you like being beholden, being reliant on someone else? I'm not saying that you shouldn't do those things. Like, it's totally. It makes a lot of sense to supplement where your leads come from with some of those sources. But if you're paying for leads at all, whoever controls your lead flow controls your income. So this whole episode today, and the reason why I did that, why I hosting that free masterclass, is I want to make sure that you're the one that controls your lead flow so that you control your income and not someone else or some algorithm or, you know, executives at some other company. Now, the key here is to understand what your most valuable asset is. I believe your most valuable asset is your network. Not just the people that you know, but the people who know you. Now, if that's true, and I mean, let's just assume for a moment that that is true, that that is the most valuable thing that you, as a realtor, or as a business person in general, as an entrepreneur, the most valuable thing you have is your network, the people who know you. And of course the people that you know, that's also great.
