Big things are coming

When I founded IA I had three principals that I wanted to base the business on. 

• Remote Working 
• Own Branding 
• Better Pay 

I think that we have nailed all of these, but there were a few other things that I wanted, and had failed to figure out. 

• Even better pay – “how can I get to the ‘holy grail’ of commission shares?” 100% payment to salespeople?
• Shares – “how can I make salespeople shareholders?” So the salespeople in the business own a share of the business they work in if they want to. 
• On-going referral payments for salespeople that are referred into the business. I know that referrals are a highly successful way of finding people who are going to be a right fit.  

If I could do that and have really high standards for support making sure that salespeople are assisted with great administration people and systems at every point of the business so salespeople can do what they do, without being encumbered by administrative tasks that fall outside what is expected in a usual office environment. That would be something.

It has taken me a while to get it all together. Like… a year. 

I am not getting into that story right at this moment.

However this is what I will say. I am honoured (and really excited!) to announce that I have been appointed to head New Zealand for eXp Realty, a global real estate platform that has values and aspirations so close to my own, to ‘our’ own, that once I met the people involved and heard their story, this partnership had a sense of inevitability to it.

Full credit to our sales team, and our administrative team. We caught the eye of a Nasdaq listed global giant in real estate and they wanted to know more.

I can’t wait to share this journey with you. I am already learning more about myself, the good and the bad, the strengths and weaknesses, than I would have thought possible in a short time. I am not as clever or as tough as I thought I was!! 

On one hand this is an end, on another hand, this is a beginning. And the most remarkable thing, at the same time, so much remains the same, because those with brands keep their brands, and those with our brand can keep that as well. In some ways, this change will happen and nobody will even notice.  

But watch this space. 

Big things are coming to the New Zealand Real Estate scene, you have a front-row seat.