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You may take lengthy minutes selecting the perfect words for your blog, but in the long run, research suggests you could be better off investing that time into choosing images. In this episode of Stay Paid, we share five ways you can use images to raise your blog's click-through rate, increase the time visitors spend reading your articles, boost social sharing, and improve readers' retention. Join us to discover how many images you should include, and where you should place them, to get better results; the must-have image you need to include in every blog and how to optimize its effect; and AI and more traditional tools that will help you create blog images, pictures for social media posts, and videos. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources Blogs · 11 Blog Images: Best Practices for Adding Great Pictures to Every Post (from Orbit Media) · Understanding Copyright: How to Safely Incorporate Internet Images into Your Marketing Tools · InVideo: creates videos from text · Giphy: grab animated .gif files · Meme Generator (free version) · Pexels and Unspash: Free images You can get free resources, including e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. 0:00 Introduction 0:57 Blogging trends 3:53 Impact of images 3:47 #1: Use as many images as possible 5:42 #2: Use charts and graphs 6:48 #3: Include faces in every post 9:25 #4: Place quotes over images 9:59 #5: Embed videos into your blog 13:12 Bonus tips 15:09 Action Item Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing Best Practices for Using Images in Your Content

Krystopher Benyamein, from Estate of Grace, shares lessons from scaling Mt. Everest, emphasizing the importance of finding passion in your work. He discusses innovative ways to capture buyer leads, reframing social media thinking, and the impact of recent legislation changes on real estate competition. The podcast also explores the premiere of a POV documentary and the importance of marketing consistency for business success.

Bullying, gossiping, slacking off—these are just a few examples of the types of conduct that, if not stopped, can bring down morale, slow productivity, and, ultimately, affect your entire business. In this Stay Paid Silver Dollar episode, we discuss five different types of employees that have the potential to derail progress and ruin what you've built. We point out the signs to look for and suggest ways to rein in the troublemakers so they contribute to, rather than detract from, all you're trying to achieve. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources · Entrepreneur blog: 5 Types of Toxic Employees and How to Deal With Them (Infographic) · FREE e-book: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Facebook Marketing You can get more free resources, including additional e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. 0:00 Introduction 0:57 The danger of toxic employees 1:44 Responsibility to address the issue 2:45 #1 The hot mess 4:09 Correction 4:32 Expect greatness 5:17 #2 The slacker 6:40 The high cost of low productivity 7:30 Correction 8:40 #3 The martyr 9:19 Correction 10:26 #4 The socialite 10:59 Correction 12:50 #5 The sociopath 13:46 Correction 15:13 Action Item Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing

This time on Stay Paid, we speak with Jacki Semerau Tait, an agent, coach, author, and speaker, and staunch proponent of relationship marketing. Most agents know that garnering referrals is superior to constantly chasing new leads, making building relationships with their SOI preferable to cold calling, sourcing internet leads, door knocking, and other approaches to lead generation. Even so, not all understand how to implement and sustain an effective relationship marketing strategy. This is where listening to Jacki's interview will help. Join us to discover a simple approach to effectively managing relationships with everyone in your database regardless of its size, the highly feasible routine that will produce at least one appointment every week, and what you should do to organically connect and network with other agents you may not have considered working with before. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources · FREE e-book: Getting Started with Relationship Marketing · FREE printable: 12 Month Pop-By Printable Bundle You can get more free resources, including additional e-books and printables as well as lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. 0:00 Introduction 0:57 Jacki's business bio 2:21 Living a life on purpose, in purpose 4:58 The basis of relationships 6:41 Building relationships at scale 10:00 Touchpoint strategy 13:32 10 call a day, 5 days a week 16:24 "Shortcut" fees 18:01 Building a referral agent network 19:21 Coaching for relational agents 23:06 Where to focus in this market 27:34 Action Item Making Relationship Marketing Work for You

In this Silver Dollar episode, we're sharing eight robust tools (plus lots of examples) that will bolster your efficiency, allowing you to squeeze more from each 24-hour day. These tools will relieve you of the burden of the minutiae that robs you of precious hours, freeing you to provide best-in-class service to your clients while also reclaiming your sanity—we mean, weekends. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources · Original source: Best CRM Software of 2024 · FREE e-book: How 5 Top Producers Generate Referrals You can get more free resources, including additional e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. 0:00 Introduction 1:27 #1. CRM 5:06 #2. Integration tools 6:22 #3. Calendar management 8:06 #4. Graphics software 10:35 #5. Freelance sourcing 11:45 #6. Social media automation 13:01 #7. Organization tool 13:49 #8. Marketing automation 16:06 Action Item Follow Stay Paid: https://www.tiktok.com/@staypaid_podcast https://www.facebook.com/staypaidpodcast https://www.instagram.com/staypaidpodcast Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing 400 Medicare Apps in One Month—WHAAT?

If you didn't catch our interview with the Girls with Grit the first time, you're in luck! Founders Lauren Rocco, Jamie Tulak, and Tara McCarthy tackle the struggles of the 2023 housing market that continue to dog agents in 2024. Tune in to hear the Golden Nuggets you may have missed, and get ready to look at current market challenges in a different light. Listen to discover tactics for becoming "5-Mile Famous" and dominating your local market, niches that—regardless of market conditions—will always need to buy and sell, and how to approach client events so they become your #1 source of new leads. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources · The 2024 Girls with Grit Collective Annual Conference is scheduled for April 21–24 in Nashville, Tennessee. · Bonus episode: 12 Client Appreciation Events Inspired by Top Agents and Producers · FREE e-book: How 5 Top Producers Generate Referrals · FREE e-book: Lead Generation for Real Estate Agents You can get more free resources, including additional e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. 0:00 Introduction 2:24 Business biographies 8:15 The 3-part mission of Girls with Grit 13:30 4 hot real estate niches 15:36 Tips for your messaging 19:05 Strategies for keeping in front of audience 21:23 CRM of preference 23:28 Lead gen: being 5-mile famous 24:40 The issue with online leads 27:52 Lead gen: client events 30:31 How do you get started after relocating? 34:02 Girls with Grit conference 36:20 Action Item Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing The Girls with Grit Share Timeless Lead-Gen Strategies [Repost]

What's the difference between the winners and losers, great and mediocre, and high achievers and those who scrape by? What enables our top sales professional to close 1,200 sales a year while the rest average 400–500? Join us this week to find out the only two things keeping you from achieving more of what you want. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources You can get free resources, including e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. 0:00 Introduction 0:57 What makes a winner? 4:46 #1 Work ethic 7:32 Success happens when you do the work 9:01 #2 Belief in a vision 11:45 Belief comes from effort 14:40 Action Item Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing THE MINDSET OF A WINNER // It comes down to 2 things

This week, we speak with Ramon Casaus, founder of author, podcast host, ROC Real Estate Partners, and creator for Broke Agent Media (BAM). He believes that as the industry evolves, listing agents will have the advantage. In fact, he's already made the decision to work exclusively with sellers. He also thinks that as competition increases, real estate professionals will need to partner with "big money" to survive. ROC recently partnered with PLACE, a multibillion-dollar real estate tech company, which has enabled his team to sell 500 homes a year. Join us to better understand the power of expired listings to grow your business faster and easier, find out a brilliant tactic to start conversations with disheartened sellers that instantly builds credibility, and discover more about PLACE and how it fixes two of the problems brokerages have never been able to solve. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources · Book: No Permission Needed: There Is a Mentality Before There Is a Reality by Ramon Casaus · Instagram: @ramon.casaus · FREE e-book: Lead Generation for Real Estate Agents You can get more free resources, including additional e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an advertising program designed to provide a means for ReminderMedia to earn a small fee by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. 0:00 Introduction 0:40 Ramon's business bio 1:38 About No Permission Needed 3:51 Quality of expired listings leads 6:06 Framework for calling expired listings [Golden Nugget] 10:04 Finding expired listings to pursue 12:03 Using cold reading to break through 16:18 About PLACE | Ancillary services 21:50 Why partner with PLACE? 24:01 A combo of confidence and humility 26:56 Thoughts on the industry 28:08 Thoughts on joining a team 30:51 Action Item Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing Expired Listings: The Cash Cow of 2024

When it comes to customer reviews, there are only two things to remember: to get reviews, you need to ask for them, and to attract business, you need to respond to them. When you realize that 98% of consumers read reviews and nearly all report having their purchasing decisions influenced by them, it's not difficult to imagine your business disappearing from the radar if you aren't actively requesting and managing consumer feedback. In today's Silver Dollar episode, we review the latest research on customer reviews and identify what you can do to attract and retain more business. Join us to find out which channel produces the greatest number of local reviews, the three most influential aspects of them, and the best way to get more. 💥 Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources · Blog: 5 Reliable Ways to Get Oodles of Local Business Reviews · Stay Paid: Ep. 210: How to Respond to Haters You can get free resources, including e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library. 0:00 Introduction 1:47 Review-dependent industries 2:41 Top review sites 4:18 Most trusted review sites 6:23 What prompts a review 8:23 Best ways to ask for reviews 11:56 The ROI of responding 12:48 Influence of reviews 13:49 Key takeaways 15:28 Action Item The Best Ways to Ask for Customer Reviews Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing

Entrepreneur Charles Mohr shares setbacks and success stories, emphasizing the importance of commitment to a larger purpose. Three key qualities for sustaining a vision are discussed, along with lessons from ADAPT Container Homes in addressing housing affordability and environmental challenges. The episode highlights resilience, adaptability, and innovative community development models.