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Become Google Great | KW Clients’ Choice | 3.7.18
https://michaeltritthart.com/event/clientschoice_mar7/
Host: Keller Williams Clients’ Choice
Date: Wednesday, March 7
9:00 am – 2:00 pm Become Google Great
Learn numerous sites and tools, all from Google that will give you a marketing edge. Become a better search engine optimized real estate agent.
Become….Google Great!
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm KWFR Recap & HomeKeepr Best Practices
Cost: No cost to attend
RSVP: Tosh@coloradohomegroup.com
Location: Keller Williams Clients’ Choice 1283 Kelly Johnson Blvd, C/S, CO 80920
If you’d like to schedule a workshop at your office, click here for more information!
Tech Presentation from KW Family Reunion 2017
Here is the full tech presentation from KWFR 2o17. Technology Workshops are important now, but will be imperative once the main part of the rollout occurs. I have already booked several sessions, but there is room for more. Contact me now for details on hosting a session.
Underestimate Keller Williams at Your Own Risk – INMAN NEWS
Transparency, Sharing & Peer Teaching Core to Company’s Success
![Sue Adler, CEO, The Sue Adler Team Courtesy: Keller Williams](http://inmannews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sue-Adler-square.jpg)
![Chris Heller, President, Keller Williams Courtesy: Keller Williams](http://inmannews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ChrisHeller-square.jpg)
The commission split that Keller Williams offered agents is a hybrid of that offered by traditional franchises and 100 percent commission organizations. The Keller Williams agent/Keller Williams Realty receives a 70/30 commission split from the first dollar of gross commission income (GCI) generated. The agent was responsible for paying a franchise fee to the international office each year, which was capped at $3,000. The agent was also responsible for paying a fee to the market center, referred to as company dollar. The company dollar was also capped, at a level that varied by region, with areas with high average home prices having a higher cap to account for the general higher cost of doing business in such areas.
- 25 percent of the first $2,990 in market center profit is contributed to the profit share pool
- 35 percent of the next $8,250 is then contributed to the pool
- 50 percent of any profit above $11,240 is also contributed to the pool
![Ben Kinney, CEO, The Bem Kinney Real Estate Team Courtesy: Keller Williams](http://inmannews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ben-Kinney-1-square.jpg)
Keller Williams Realty Tops 100,000
Keller Williams, the largest real estate franchise in North America by associate count, announced that as of the end of April, 2014, its worldwide associate count has broken the 100,000 mark at 100,575.
![KW_Announcement_100K_KW_Blog_840X439](http://blog.kw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/KW_Announcement_100K_KW_Blog_840X439.jpg)
“One hundred thousand is such an important milestone for us because it signals that we are on the verge of becoming the largest real estate company in the world!” said Vice President of Growth John Davis. “Of all the numbers we track, associate count is by far the most important to our model, and we can clearly see that our growth trajectory far surpasses the industry and what any other company in our industry is doing. It’s this growth that has driven our offices to record-breaking profitability and massive productivity gains for our agents.”
During the first quarter of 2014, Keller Williams has already grown by 2.8 percent while membership in the National Association of REALTORS® has shrunk by 2.4 percent. The company’s growth has now outpaced the growth of NAR for 21 consecutive months (every month since July 2012), according to membership numbers on NAR’s Website.
In 2013, NAR as a whole grew by 5 percent. According to public filings by the other major franchises in the industry, RE/MAX grew by 4.7 percent, Century 21 by 3.5 percent and Coldwell Banker by 3.3 percent. During the same time period, Keller Williams experienced 18 percent associate growth.
“Our leadership team and our entire associate base are fired up right now,” said Keller Williams CEO Mark Willis. “Our continued growth over the last few years proves that our models, systems and people are unmatched in the industry. Our leaders are proving that if you believe in a goal and work relentlessly toward it – you can make it happen!”
Last year, Keller Williams announced that it had become the largest real estate franchise by associate count in North America, as well as its intention to grow to No. 1 in the world by associate count, followed by closed units, and then by closed sales volume.
At the end of 2013, KW also announced:
- Transactions were up nearly 20 percent to 644,000 units
- Sales volume was up almost 30 percent to $158 billion
- Commissions earned increased by 30 percent to $4.2 billion
- 95 percent of KW offices were profitable at the end of the year
- Being named the No. 2 training organization across all industries by Training magazine.
Posted on May 7, 2014 by adminkwblog
KW Honolulu Officially Opens
Personal note: I had the opportunity to come out and train the core group of agents on eEdge technology in January, 2014. What a smart, motivated group of agents and the leadership/ownership at the office/regional level is amazing. They will have tremendous success in helping their clients and achieving their personal/office goals. I look forward to coming out and training again in the near future.
Article from Bill Cresenzo
Keller Williams Realty is opening a full-service franchise in Honolulu this week, with Kevin Miyama, the immediate past president of the Honolulu Board of Realtors, leading a group of 140 agents he and co-leader Colette Ching have been quietly recruiting for the past eight months.
Miyama and Ching, a Hawaii native who started her career here and has spent more than 25 years in California with Coldwell Banker and Keller Williams, will open a 7,000-square- foot office at 1347 Kapiolani Blvd., on Wednesday.
“We kept it on the down low for quite some time,” Ching said. “We basically do all of our reruiting before we open our offices.”
Miyama has has spent the past two-and-a-half years with Prudential Locations, where he was a business coach. Before that, he spent nine years at Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties as an assistant area office manager.
Miyama said that his former boss, Prudential Locations CEO Bill Chee, knew about his plans to leave, but Miyama said that he did not recruit from Prudential because of a non-compete clause.
“I just respected Bill and what he had done for me, and I stayed within the confines of my non-compete clause,” Miyama said.
Keller Williams already has an office on Maui. It had a satellite office on Oahu that closed last August, Miyama said, adding the new office is the company’s first full-service franchise on Oahu.
The franchise now has 114 listings. About 35 of its agents are newly licensed, Ching said.
Bill Cresenzo covers residential real estate and transportation issues for Pacific Business News.