From 42 to 75 Agents in One Year

From 42 to 75 Agents in One Year: A Recruiting Case Study

Broker-owners ask me all the time whether a recruiting system really changes the numbers. Here’s one answer, in the client’s own words.

Jeremy and Lindsay Sinnes own John L. Scott Yakima in Yakima, Washington. They started 90 Days to Recruiting Success, Recruiting Insight’s 12-week coaching program, at 42 agents. A year later they sent me this note:

“When we started the recruiting training with you earlier this year, we had 42 agents. We recruited 17 new agents this year and bought a boutique brokerage, adding 16 additional agents. We grew to 75 agents and now have a 25% market share.”

The numbers

MeasureResult
Agents at the start42
New agents recruited17
Agents added through an acquisition16
Agents at year end75
Market share25%

What broker-owners can take from it

Recruiting alone grew the company by 40%. The 17 recruited agents, on a base of 42, are growth that came from daily recruiting, before counting the acquisition.

Count organic and acquired growth separately. Both matter, but they’re different engines. Knowing which one is working tells you where to put next year’s time and money.

An acquisition is only as good as the system that keeps those agents. Bringing 16 agents in at once is the start. Keeping them is the same daily work as keeping everyone else.

Congratulations to Jeremy, Lindsay and their team.

See how the program works: 90 Days to Recruiting Success.

From 42 to 75 Agents in One Year

Want help applying this in your brokerage? Book a 30-minute conversation with Mark at calendly.com/mjsession.

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Mark D. Johnson

Mark D. Johnson, MBA, is Managing Partner of Recruiting Insight and the former CEO of the nation's 35th largest brokerage firm, which he grew roughly fivefold to $8 billion in annual sales. A real estate broker since 2000 and a California licensed broker, he is adjunct faculty at Chapman University and South Orange County Community College District, and author or co-author of six California real estate textbooks and the book Up In Your Business. He coaches broker-owners, managers and recruiters on recruiting, retention and leadership.

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