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How to scale your commercial real estate business without chaos. Oct 15, 2025

CRE Success Principle: Every process you document is an investment. Systems don’t just save time; they create consistency, accountability, and predictability, which builds the foundation for scalability.

 

If you’ve built a strong foundation in ...

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How to handle people problems as a commercial real estate principal. Oct 08, 2025

CRE Success Principle: A high performer with a poor attitude may deliver revenue, but they’re killing morale. No deal or individual should ever be bigger than the values you believe in.

 

When I talk to commercial real estate principals, the big...

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Execute or Escalate: the leadership phrase that changes everything. Oct 01, 2025

CRE Success Principle: Indecision can be more damaging than mistakes. People grow faster, and you will free up more time, when others know it is better to act or escalate than to just sit on a problem and do nothing.

 

One of the biggest challen...

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A smarter way to grow your commercial real estate firm. Sep 24, 2025

CRE Success Principle: Training without follow-through is often just a sugar hit, whereas intentional goal setting, consistent accountability and ongoing coaching can truly shift results.

 

Commercial real estate principals wear many hats. They’...

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Avoiding shiny objects and staying on track. Sep 17, 2025

CRE Success Principle: When professionals connect with peers in a structured group, accountability rises, insights multiply, and results compound.

 

In commercial real estate, opportunity is everywhere. New ideas, markets, and approaches to busi...

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Coaching that gets results in commercial real estate. Sep 10, 2025

CRE Success Principle: Many professionals tie their importance to how busy they are, but real leadership comes from creating leverage. Make it your job to eliminate, automate, outsource, and delegate until only the highest-value work remains on yo...

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Residential real estate agents should think twice before entering the commercial market. Sep 03, 2025

CRE Success Principle: Long-term growth comes from leaning into what you do best – whether it's retail leasing, investment sales, tenant representation or something else – not chasing shiny objects outside your lane.

 

When I was invited to join...

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How to use the Function Funnel to increase commercial real estate efficiency. Aug 27, 2025

CRE Success Principle: If you’re earning $200,000 a year, your effective hourly rate is $100 an hour. Every task that you do that could be done just as well by someone earning $10 or $20 an hour is costing you money and slowing down your growth.

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The strategic pivot behind CRE Success Agent Accelerator. Aug 20, 2025

CRE Success Principle: Training alone doesn't create results. It's the structure of consistent accountability, with clear goals, regular check-ins and peer support, that transforms knowledge learnt into meaningful outcomes.

 

Over the past two y...

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Why boomerang clients are the best compliment in business. Aug 13, 2025

CRE Success Principle: The way you act when an employee or client leaves you has the biggest influence on whether they ever return.

 

In big companies, boomerangs are employees who leave, gain experience elsewhere, and return to the fold.

Large...

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"I never prospected,” said the million-dollar agent. Yeah… right. Aug 06, 2025

CRE Success Principle: When inexperienced agents copy the habits of established top performers, without understanding the effort that contributed to the success they now enjoy, the newer agents tend to miss the hard but necessary parts that make s...

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The five things I give an F about (so I’m not just about business). Jul 30, 2025

CRE Success Principle: Leaders who stay connected to the people, passions, and pursuits that matter to them outside of work tend to lead with more clarity and energy.

 

It’s easy to start the new financial year by setting another revenue goal. B...

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