Why Real Estate Agent Success Is Dependent On Relationships & Connection • Kevin Van Eck

Kevin Van Eck, the Executive Vice-President of Innovation and Education with @properties and Christie's International Real Estate, talks about his transition from a paramedic to a real-estate agent. Kevin discusses the power of connecting with people and how real estate is a relationship industry. Next, Kevin emphasizes how technology is moving so fast (AI) and why agents should be up to date all the time to be more competitive in the market. Last, Kevin discusses the agents' role in neutralizing and navigating the emotions of their clients. If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube! Kevin Van Eck can be reached at (312) 208-1430 and [email protected] This episode is brought to you by Real Geeks. Transcript D.J. Paris 0:00Today we're going to be speaking with somebody who leads 1000s of top real estate agents across the country every single day and find out what he's telling his agents to do. Stay tuned. This episode of Keeping it real is brought to you by real geeks. How many homes are you going to sell this year? Do you have the right tools? Is your website turning soft leads and interested buyers? Are you spending money on leads that aren't converting? Well real geeks is your solution. Find out why agents across the country choose real geeks as their technology partner. Real geeks was created by an agent for agents. They pride themselves on delivering a sales and marketing solution so that you can easily generate more business. There agent websites are fast and built for lead conversion with a smooth search experience for your visitors. Real geeks also includes an easy to use agent CRM. So once a lead signs up on your website, you can track their interest and have great follow up conversations. Real geeks is loaded with a ton of marketing tools to nurture your leads and increase brand awareness visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod and find out why Realtors come to real geeks to generate more business again, visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod. And now on to our show. Hello, and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the largest podcast made by real estate agents. And for real estate agents. My name is DJ Parris. I'm your guide and host through the show. And in just a moment, we're going to be speaking with Kevin Van Eck from add properties and Christie's international real estate before we get to Kevin just wanted to let everyone know if you're not following us on social I really want you to and not because I want to have a big follower count. Although I guess I do want to have a big follower count. But that's not the reason I'm saying this. Because you know, you don't owe me that. But I feel like I owe you more content. So what we've started doing is clipping our episodes, including this one. And what what that means is we're finding short form sick 45 to 62nd clips of bite sized information extracted from the full episode that you guys can absorb every single day we're publishing these daily or every weekday that's not on the weekends. I'm a little too lazy to do that on the weekends, but during the week they were publishing one of these every day and we publish th...