AUSTIN, TEXAS (May 16, 2012) – Keller Williams Realty, Inc. announced today it has been recognized as one of America’s Top 10 Workplaces, according to the first annual National Top Workplaces list compiled by Workplace Dynamics.

“Our culture is our strongest asset and the reason that so many people want to be with us,” Mary Tennant, COO of Keller Williams Realty shares. “Imagine what it would be like to work in a culture every day with people that you feel love, kindness, caring and humor with. Imagine working in an environment where there is a passion for every single person to succeed at the highest level.”

“If this award proves anything, it’s that we only succeed when our associates do,” added Mark Willis, CEO. “We are proud to be in business with the best who are lifting us up each day and proud to be fulfilling our mission of building careers worth having, businesses worth owning and lives worth living.”

The list of National Top Workplaces is based solely on employee feedback surveyed from 805 companies of more than 1,000 employees, which included over half a million survey responses. According to survey results, Keller Williams’ ranking was based on its overall culture and high levels of organizational health including training, benefits, compensation, and work-life balance. “Put simply, the most successful companies appear to be the ones that employees believe in,” said Doug Claffey, CEO at WorkplaceDynamics.

For more information and the full list of the Workplace Dynamics Nation’s Top Workplaces, please visithttp://topworkplaces.com/stories/americas-top10-workplaces.php

About Keller Williams Realty, Inc.:

Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the second-largest real estate franchise operation in the United States, with almost 700 offices and more than 75,000 associates in the United States and Canada. The company has grown exponentially since the opening of the first Keller Williams Realty office in 1983, and continues to cultivate its agent-centric culture that emphasizes access to leading-edge education and promotes an economic model that rewards associates as stakeholders. The company also provides specialized agents in luxury homes and commercial real estate properties. For more information, or to search for homes for sale visit Keller Williams Realty online at (www.kw.com). For more information about KW Worldwide, visit (www.kwworldwide.com).

Keller Williams Realty’s brokerages have, once again, dominated the newly released REAL Trends 500, an annual industry ranking published by REAL Trends, Inc., a leading source of analysis and information on the residential brokerage and housing industry.

What do you want out of life?  What do you want out of a career?  Are you there yet?

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Watch this video completely before answering that question!

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1. Does your broker’s commission split ever reach a capping point, allowing you to take home 100% of your commissions?
2. Does your broker offer regular & topically relevant classroom training geared towards helping you build your business?
3. Does your broker encourage you to build your own brand instead of theirs, so that your future business increases in value?
4. Does your broker set you up with your own free lead generating agent websites?
5. Does your broker offer proven, customizable mentoring and coaching programs?
6. Does your broker offer a health care program?
7. Does your broker offer a nation-wide network in which you can give and receive agent-to-agent referrals without the broker getting in the middle and taking a referral for their trouble?
8. Does your broker offer 24/7, on demand, video based training in relevant topics outside of simply expireds, fsbos and door knocking?
9. Does your broker believe in and promote a your listing, your leads concept or do you pay referrals to your broker for the leads that you are generating?
10. Does your broker offer a compensation plan that can provide passive income for you that could fund your retirement?

Did you know that if you were at KW your answer would be YES to all 10 questions?  Would you like to learn more about a professional career at KW?

Contact us about scheduling a confidential conversation today!

At KW it’s all about you!

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (November 17, 2011)—Keller Williams Realty Coeur d’Alene announced today that they have officially launched a new division of the growing company, Luxury Homes by Keller Williams.

“Luxury Homes by Keller Williams is an exclusive, elite and sophisticated group of real estate consultants worldwide raising the bar for service in the upper-tier home market,” said Ben Fairfield, CEO of Keller Williams Realty Coeur d’Alene.  ”This important addition to our organization allows us to make available to our luxury home clients the industry leading technology & marketing that have made Keller Williams Realty the nations’ second largest and fastest growing real estate company when they are buying or selling luxury property throughout the North Idaho panhandle or anywhere across the country.”

“Keller Williams Realty International has set the barrier to entry high for agents who want to be certified as a Luxury Homes by Keller Williams agent,” said Fairfield.  ”Agents must have a successful and specific track record in the sale of luxury homes which in our market is the top 10%.  Luxury agents must also successfully complete a certification course through the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing, the premier independent authority in training and certification for real estate agents working in the luxury residential market.”

“We look forward to giving clients in the upper-tier home market a fresh, sophisticated and proven solution to selling luxury property in today’s real estate market.”  To search luxury homes throughout the North Idaho panhandle visit (www.kwluxuryhomes.com)

Keller Williams Realty Coeur d’Alene specializes in residential, luxury, waterfront and commercial sales throughout the North Idaho Panhandle. Keller Williams Realty Coeur d’Alene is made up of over 125 REALTORS® with offices located in Coeur d’Alene and Sandpoint, Idaho.  Each Keller Williams Realty office is independently owned and operated.  For more information, or to search for homes for sale visit Keller Williams Realty Coeur d’Alene online at (www.kwcda.com).

Are you thinking about a career in Real Estate? Have you been looking for a job that gives you freedom & flexibility as well as an unlimited income potential? If so a career in real estate might be for you!

If you are in the Coeur d’Alene, Hayden, Post Falls or Sandpoint areas of North Idaho and you want to pursue a career in Real Estate the process is fairly simple. First you need to sign up and register for the Idaho Pre-License Classes. You have a few options in regards to real estate schools in the Coeur d’Alene, ID area. These are outlined below along with a complete list of the State of Idaho Pre-Licensing Requirements.

IDAHO PRE-LICENSING REQUIREMENTS

1. Must be at least 18 years of age.

2. Fingerprints and Background check.

3. High School Graduate, High School equivalency certificate, or GED.

4. Two 45-hour Idaho Salesperson Modules.

The two 45-hour modules are provided at both the North Idaho College Workforce Training Center in Post Falls, Idaho (http://workforcetraining.nic.edu/) or at the North Idaho Real Estate Academy in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. (http://northidahorealestateacademy.com)

Once your two 45-hour Idaho Salesperson Modules are completed it’s time to study for your Idaho Real Estate Salesperson Exam as well as the National Real Estate Salesperson Exam!

For more information about getting your real estate license please call Ben Fairfield directly at (208) 667-2399, email at bfairfield@kw.com, or stop by Keller Williams Realty Coeur d’Alene at 1450 Northwest Boulevard Ste. #301, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814. For more information on the state requirements and modules visit the Idaho Real Estate Commission Website at http://irec.idaho.gov/licensing.html

For most entrepreneurs and independent business owners, fourth quarter is a time of reflection on the past year’s successes and an opportunity to put together a solid business plan for the next 12 months.

As you might imagine, Gary Keller, co-founder and chairman, Keller Williams Realty, Inc. goes through a rigorous planning process. Below is an email exchange between him and Todd Butzer, regional director, North Central on creating the “Master Plan.”

—–Original Message—–
From: Todd Butzer
To: Gary Keller
Subject: planning question
Gary –

I am pretty sure you go through a specific planning ritual this time of year.

Wonder if you would mind sharing any part of it?

T

Todd Butzer

Regional Director

North Central Region

—–Original Message—–
From: Gary Keller
To: Todd Butzer
Subject: RE: planning question
hey !

i work from a simple concept:

1. i start with the end in mind: i envision my life at the end of it and ask myself what i want to have done. i then mock up a simple 5 year look (in

kind of a grid form with the years to the left and along the top the categories – like health, giving, john, mary, mom, business, writing,etc…) at what i should be doing to be on track and then i look at the first year.

that creates my goals for the year.

2. i then take each goal and ask one question: what is the one thing i can do that by doing it everything else that could also be done to accomplish this would either be easier or unnecessary?

3. last, i go to my calendar with that answer for each goal and i time block out the year to make sure those things get done. first, i time block all my time off – vacations, days off, short days, etc., so that i make sure they don’t get left out. if i intend to work hard then i’ll need this time to renew. next is, my meetings with the people who report to me. next, i make sure i have my time to plan out every week. (i’ve done this so long on a sunday night that i don’t even block it anymore), usually an hour a week on a sunday. then it’s all about work. so, for example, if lead generation is your number one business action then you time block it for 5-6 days a week for 3 -4 hours a day before noon. for me it’s writing so my goal is to just make sure that gets done – then i’m open to the possibilities of everything else.

my motto is “until my number one priority on my list is done each day all else

is a distraction”! ALL ELSE! as such, i guard my time when i’m on a priority task fiercely and without apologies. it’s my life and i answer to no one as to my time. doesn’t always make me highly visible or highly social, but that isn’t the goal when i’m doing what i want my life to be about.

hope this helps. feel free to share.

onward……

garykeller

Be sure to join us in Coeur d’Alene, ID at Keller Williams Realty Coeur d’Alene for the 2012 Business Planning Clinic with Keller Williams Realty International Master Faculty member Bruce Hardie! Join us November 1st from 9:00-4:30 for one of the most sought after business planning workshops in the country! Register for this FREE event that’s open to ALL agents from ALL companies at http://busplanclinicbrucehardie.eventbrite.com/

In February of 2011 Keller Williams Realty International unveiled eEdge, a lead-to-close agent platform that includes lead management, contact management, a marketing library, and a paperless transaction system.  This system was designed by and voted in by the agents of our great company through the Agent Leadership Council or the ALC.  The creation of eEdge has been the talk of the online forums and it has been called by many, including InmanNews, a game changer in our industry.

So it comes as no surprise that InmanNews just awarded Keller Williams Realty the 2011 “Most Innovative Real Estate Website or Service Award” during their 2011 I.  This is another awesome example of what happens when a company partners with agents in the creating and implementation of technology as well as the operations of the offices!  Congratulations Keller Williams Realty and all of our industry leading associates!

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To agents who have experienced Keller Williams Realty it came as no surprise that Keller Williams Realty dominated REALTOR Magazine’s 2011 Franchise Report!  The report outlined the fact that 54% of REALTOR members were affiliated with a national or regional franchise.  Due to difficult market conditions most franchise companies have or are currently experiencing severe contraction.  RE/MAX Real Estate has seen a net loss of 700 offices over the course of the last two years & CENTURY21 Real Estate has lost 901 offices over the same time period.  While this severe contraction is common place REALTOR Magazine notes “one notable exception is Keller Williams, which has continued to see a net growth in agents and numbers of offices.”

In fact, this comes on the heels of recognition from REAL Trends, Inc., a leading source of analysis and information on the residential brokerage and housing industry.  In their annual REAL Trends 500 report, an industry ranking report, Keller Williams Realty was shown to represent 24% or 119 of the top 500 offices ranked by closed transactions and 28% or 138 of the top 500 offices ranked by closed volume.  The number of Keller Williams Realty offices ranked on the list surpassed all other major franchise players – with twice the number of brokers represented (by closed transactions) and almost three times the number of brokers represented (by closed volume) compared to Coldwell Banker, currently the largest real estate company in the U.S. by agent count.