Executive Times September 2017

Executive Times September 2017

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Realty Executives Wisconsin Region Conference September 6 th | 8:00am - 12:00pm Milwaukee County Zoo Peck Welcome Center

WRA 2017 Annual Convention September 12 th & 13 th Potawatomi Hotel & Casino

Lake Country Mastermind

September 13 th | 9:00am - 10:00am Milwaukee Street Traders

2nd Annual Chili Cook-Off

September 21 st | 12:00pm - 1:00pm Each Office Location

Anniversary Tina Ferlindes Sue Patti Barb Breitenfeldt Kent Breitenfeldt Jeff Stockhausen Dave Rosenlund Sally Flath Laura Glosemeyer Jesse Garcia

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North Shore Mastermind

September 26 th | 9:00am - 10:00am Fiddleheads Coffee - Cedarburg

Rising Star Mastermind

September 27 th | 9:30am - 11:00am Brookfield Lower Level

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Experience The Freedom Adam Zastrow I’ll never forget my first bicycle.

It was a beautiful, green Huffy and to me it symbolized all the independence and freedom that a young boy could ask for. My world would never be the same. Every day became a new adventure. No longer confined to my own yard, I was suddenly able to go places and do things that were previously impossible.

As I woke up each summer morning, the only questions on my mind were, “What adventure do I want to go on today? Where do I want to go?” Riding that bike to the baseball field with friends or racing to the neighborhood pool became regular occurrences that helped define my adolescence. Whenever we got bored, we searched for scrap lumber and raided our dads’ tool boxes to build our own bike ramps or we explored a new trail in the woods on the outskirts of our neighborhood. The possibilities that bike represented to me became endless.

Now, thirty years later, I’m watching my own children cruise around our neighborhood on their own bicycles, in search of their own summertime adventures. A wave of nostalgia hit me earlier this summer as I taught our youngest child how to master the art of balancing on her two-wheel bike. It only took her a couple days to figure it out. I can’t help but smile, as I watch her ride around our block with her sisters and friends. There is nothing like the feeling of freedom that comes with riding a bike around the neighborhood on a sunny, summer day. It’s as if anything is possible.

Sadly, in my adult life, I spend far more time pedaling hard on stationary, exercise bikes at the gym than on the real thing. Sure, it helps me burn away some calories and work up a good sweat. But it’s nothing like racing around the town with my childhood friends on that green Huffy in the summer.

It’s no coincidence that a core philosophy at Realty Executives Integrity is to provide our Sales Executives the independence and freedom to run their own business. This founding principle is our promise and commitment to each member of our team. We treat our Sales Executives as business partners who deserve respect and support, and a whole lot of independence.

Sometimes, as I converse with agents who work at other brokerages, I get the strong sense that their business feels more like sweating on a stationary exercise machine in a gym instead of riding bikes with their friends in the summer. They may pedal hard, but feel like they’re going nowhere. They are stationary, confined in their approach to business. They are treated more like employees instead of entrepreneurs.

Thankfully, our Sales Executives experience the freedom to build a business that reflects who they are and where they want to go in life. As a Sales Executive, you’re in control of your brand because it’s YOUR business. Rather than the company taking center stage, your name becomes the brand as you build a business of your own design. Your name is featured on your yard signs. You receive all the leads on your listings. You can customize your own website and build your own team. You are encouraged to wake up every morning and ask yourself, “What adventure do I want to take today? Where do I want to go with my business?” It’s as if anything is possible.

My daughters have been repeatedly asking me to go bike riding with them. Truth be told, it’s been over 10 years since I had my own bicycle. I think that needs to change. Who knows? Maybe I can even find a green Huffy for sale.

Adam Zastrow Performance Coach Realty Executives - Integrity

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REALTY EXECUTIVES HAS THE HIGHEST-RANKING CEO IN REAL ESTATE ACCORDING TO OWLER CEO Faceoff: David Tedesco is Owler’s highest ranking real estate leader for the second quarter in a row.

Realty Executives is proud to announce that David Tedesco has been ranked the no. 1 leader in real estate according to community-based business insights platform, Owler.

Owler just released their quarterly CEO Faceoff, a head-to-head matchup comparing crowdsourced business insights on leaders in their real estate competitive set, and Tedesco is at the top of the list with a rating of 97 percent.

This is the second time in a row that Tedesco has led this ranking, also heading up the list with a rating of 100 percent back in April.

For more information on Owler’s CEO Faceoff, visit their website (www.owler.com) or Realty Executives’ Owler profile.

In addition to being the CEO of Realty Executives International, Tedesco is the founder and CEO of True North Companies, an

David Tedesco will be speaking at RISMedia’s 2017 Real Estate

investment firm that owns a number of businesses in the

CEO Exchange in September.

healthcare, aerospace, and entertainment industries. True North Companies acquired majority ownership of Realty Executives in 2014 and has since been focused on growth, technological advancements and system improvements.

In addition to replacing the entire management team, the firm has refined the brand, replaced third party vendors with a suite of proprietary technology tools, and achieved best-in-class customer service.

“We’re much more nimble and forward-thinking than we were in the past. We’re flexible, inexpensive, and have technology equal to or better than anything out there. We’re continuously making investments in new tech and have built a system that’s focused on delivering tools that best support the most productive real estate agents in the country. And as a part of the much larger True North Companies, we’re very strong financially and totally debt-free,” Tedesco told RISMedia’s Real Estate magazine earlier this year.

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Welcome New Executives!

Please Welcome Jenna Stadler to the Cedarburg Office. Jenna can be reached at (262) 391-6372 or Jenna@housetohometeam.com

Do you know someone who would make a great Executive?

Let our Career Development Team know! makeyourmove@realtyexecutives.com

INTEGRITY

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Our Charitable Organizations At Realty Executives Integrity, we believe community support and outreach is incredibly important. We actively support five charitable organizations: Habitat for Humanity, Lindsay’s Voice, Unite4Peyton, JR’s Pups-n-Stuff and Hope Street Ministries. Each

Hope Street

organization connects personally with a member of the

• We are a home to men, women, and children whose lives have been

company.

affected by the toxic environments they grew up in or by their own poor choices.

We make it easy for our Executives to support these charities by allowing them to make donations directly from their closing checks. Outside of financial contributions, our leadership team and Executives donate their time and energy to work events associated

• We are a refuge, a safe place where vulnerable people can rediscover what it feels like to believe that something good can happen, especially to them.

• We are a nuturing community in which our residents can live, learn, and develop new habits that will help them flourish.

Learn more at www.HopeStreetMinistry.org

with these charities as well.

JR’s Pups-N-Stuff Dog Rescue Habitat for Humanity (MKE)

• JR’s Pups-N-Stuff began with one goal in mind - to save animals from life threatening situations.

• Build and renovate homes for families in need of sustainable

• Built by a network of foster parents in the Milwaukee Metro area.

housing

• “The little rescue with a big heart.”

Learn more at www.JRPupsNStuff.org

• Mission - bringing people together in homes, communities and hope • “We envision a world where everyone has a decent place to live.”

Learn more at www.MilwaukeeHabitat.org

Unite 4 Peyton • Unite 4 Peyton was created to give hope. Hope to families - Spinal Muscular Atrophy families. We know that we can not find the cure

Lindsay’s Voice (Trees of Hope) • Lindsay’s Voice was created as a way to celebrate the life of Lindsay (Wenzel) Lopez, a 32 yr old wife and Mother, who lost her 14-month battle against Leukemia on Nov 22, 2010.

• Mission - raising awareness for Leukemia, Lymphomas, and blood Cancers AND raising funds to support patient services and ongoing research locally.

•“Until there’s a day that nobody has to hear the words, ‘It’s Cancer’, we continue to fight.”

Learn more at www.TreesOfHopeWI.org

ourselves, but we can help children and families maintain a quality of life.

• We wanted to help, in what seemed to be a helpless diagnosis for many families. We wanted to make a difference in the lives of those diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

• SMA is a motor neuron disease. The motor neurons affect the • vol-untary muscles that are used for activities such as crawling, walking, head and neck control, and swallowing. It is a relatively common “rare disorder”: approximately 1 in 6000 babies born are affected, and about 1 in 40 people are genetic carriers.

Learn more at www.Unite4Peyton.com

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