Elevate Podcast

Episode 82: Dave Stewart – Transparent and time saving transactions

In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Samantha McLean catches up with industry gamechanger Dave Stewart. Dave is the AREA award-winning brain behind Market Buy, an online offer management system that is making it as easy for consumers to buy houses just like their buying their groceries. On her last trip to Melbourne, Sam sought him out to find…

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Episode 81: Kul Singh – The latest rental research and The ‘Real Ideas’ Prize.

In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, realestate.com.au’s General Manager of Rent, Kul Singh joins Samantha McLean to analyse landlord habits that may surprise you, share his tips on how you can stand out as the go-to property manager of choice and he also gave us an exclusive look into The Real Ideas Prize. realestate.com.au's groundbreaking new competition that aims to reimagine the…

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Episode 80: Tom Panos – Advice for the current market, Whats happening at AREC19, The Leadership Diaries

In this weeks edition of the Elevate podcast as part of our series, The Leadership Diaries, Samantha McLean talks to real estate coach Tom Panos about  AREC 2019. The two-day extravaganza is not far away and we got Tom, who is once again hosting this year, into the studio to give us the inside scoop of what you can expect from the…

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Episode 79: How to growth hack your business like Uber and Facebook with Anton Babkov

The importance of knowing every minute detail of your business, and especially where you might be lacking, goes without saying if you're going to be successful. In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Anton Babkov, CEO of Rexlabs, gets into the nitty gritty of the North Star Metric (NSM) and he shares how Silicon Valley giants like Uber and…

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Episode 78: Pancho Mehrotra on motivation and how your mindset determines your outcome

Having the right mindset can either make or break your chance of success at achieving your goals. In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Pancho Mehrotra, CEO of Frontier Performance, breaks down the science of motivation, decision making and the difference between the wrong kind of stress and the right kind of stress to help you achieve whatever you…

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Episode 77: Reducing waste in your business – John Knight

In a changing market, you might be thinking you need to cut costs. But that’s not necessarily the case, says Business Depot CEO, John Knight. It is better, he says to think about cutting waste and getting as productive as possible.

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Episode 76: How’s the market? With special guest Nerida Conisbee, Chief Economist at realestate.com.au

“How’s the market?” It’s a question agents get asked a lot, not just by clients but by friends, family and the community. This week REA released their Demand Index for the last quarter of 2018 showing clearly that different areas are experiencing very different conditions. Our guest this week is Chief Economist at realestate.com.au Nerida Consibee who is the author…

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Episode 75: Leading with heart and innovation: Peter Baines OAM

While you might not be familiar with the work of Peter Bains OAM many of you will clearly remember where you were when you heard about the Bali Bombings in 2002 or the Boxing Day Tsunami in Thailand in 2004. The identification of victims of both of those disasters fell to those who were first on the ground, in many…

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Episode 74: Christmas special with Rik Rushton – 2018 in review and thriving in 2019

2018 is a year that has delivered winds of change travelling as fast as a Glenn McGrath Bouncer - cricket metaphor intended! It started in January with John McGrath ‘getting the band back’ together and this week’s guest Rik Rushton at the same time released a book called “The Power of Connection”. In this podcast, Samantha McLean takes Rik along…

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Episode 73: Cameron Nicholls – Setting up and succeeding in a competitive market

One of the questions we get asked most at Elite Agent is about how much it costs to go into business in real estate on your own, Cameron Nichols of Nicholls and Co did just that about four years ago, at the age of 27. Although he’s had his ups and downs along the way, Cameron has carved himself a…

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Episode 72: Keller Williams – From Training Company to Tech Company with Angie Ponsell

This week our guest, Angie Ponsell is from Keller Williams in Atlanta, Georgia. Angie Ponsell has been with the company for all of her 17 years in real estate and she says Keller Williams has always been more of a training company than a traditional real estate ‘franchise’. But under the stewardship of industry legend Gary Keller the company is…

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Episode 71: First National Group CEO Ray Ellis – global trends and industry predictions for 2019

In this week’s edition of the Elevate podcast, Samantha McLean talks to Ray Ellis, CEO of First National Real Estate network, about the NAR 2018 which is held in Boston. Their important takeaways, new expo trends, and lessons Australia's real estate industry can learn from the National Association of Realtors plus, the future of First National taking into account the…

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Episode 70: Compass, Leonard Steinberg and the future of real estate

Compass are a name on everyone’s lips right now, whether it’s to do with technology, attracting top talent, making acquisitions or simply raising capital. For this week’s edition of the Elevate podcast, we are in a New York State of Mind with Samantha McLean meeting Chief Evangelist of Compass Real Estate, Leonard Steinberg who talks about how they attract top…

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Episode 69: Gina McCartney’s tips on lead generation and conversion, maintaining balance in leadership + marketing predictions for 2019

In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast as part of our series, The Leadership Diaries, Samantha McLean talks to Gina McCartney, Executive GM of Marketing and Events at realestate.com.au, about digital marketing, lead generation and conversion plus her own leadership journey, some marketing predictions -- and what's next for the Edge (Elevate, Match and Reach) product series.

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