From Team Leader to Brokerage Owner: Jeff Cohn On the Evolution of His Business

Level Up - From Agent to Entrepreneur

The best leaders in real estate create a world so big that their people can build their own empires inside it. Whether it’s building a brokerage or going after ancillary businesses, thinking like entrepreneurs retains top talent, improves the service we give the consumer, and ultimately, it makes our organizations more valuable.

Why did Jeff Cohn decide to switch from running a team to owning a brokerage? What ancillary business can we add to our businesses for passive income?

In this episode, the owner of KWElite and host of The Team Building podcast returns to talk about the evolution of his business.

"If the businesses we’re in aren’t generating more income in less time, with less energy, we should look for a different business to run or change the way we’re doing business." -Jeff Cohn

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

• Why Jeff Cohn chose to build a brokerage
  Teams are great for getting newer agents but what happens when that agent wants to build their own big business?
  
• The untapped potential of joint ventures in real estate
  There are 3 ways to win monetarily with ancillary businesses, but what’s the most valuable and passive one?
  
• The ancillary business with a $12 million potential
  Why is insurance such a perfect-fit ancillary business for a real estate organization?

Guest Bio

Jeff Cohn is a nationally renowned speaker, host of The Team Building Podcast, and owner of KWElite, a tech-powered Keller Williams market center in Omaha, NE. As founder of Omaha’s Elite Real Estate Group, now kwELITE, he led his team from 70 to 700 transactions in 6 years, and was awarded the #1 team in unit sales in the world at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices in 2019. Since beginning his real estate career in 2006, Jeff’s team has closed over 5,000 sales, totaling over $1 billion in volume. Devoted to ongoing learning throughout his career, Jeff has forged strategic relationships with industry leaders across the country, listened to thousands of hours of podcasts and read hundreds of books, providing him with a vast knowledge base. Jeff is considered a foremost real estate expert due to these efforts, and as founder and CEO of Elite Real Estate Systems, a coaching company, offers the annual Team Building Summit, monthly workshops, and weekly coaching calls. As a credit to his extensive know-how, Jeff speaks frequently at various events throughout the US and Canada.

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