Summary: Guests on this episode: Mark Spain of Keller Williams Mark Spain is an Atlanta native and a University of Georgia graduate from the Terry College of Business. With his 2006 sales, Mark Spain broke the $1 billion sales mark for lifetime sales—he is believed to be one of only 100-200 Realtors in the nation to achieve this, out of well over 1 million Realtors. The Mark Spain Team consistently ranks as the #1 Real Estate Team in the prestigious Atlanta Board of Realtors. Mark’s Team has held this #1 position for eight consecutive years. In 2012, the Mark Spain Team was once again named one of America’s top real estate professional teams by The Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends magazine in its annual Top 1000 Real Estate Professionals list. Ranking No. 20 nationally for most transaction sides with 512 closings, the team moved up an impressive 12 spots on the annual list from the previous year. With his 2012 sales performance, Mark placed as the #2 Keller Williams Agent Worldwide, out of 80,000 Keller Williams agents. Prior to his move to Keller Williams Realty, Mark was with RE/MAX where he consistently ranked as one of the top 25 RE/MAX agents in the world. Mark Spain earned every award available within the company, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 and being one of the youngest agents to be inducted into the RE/MAX Hall of Fame. Mark and his team have adjusted to the changing real estate market and have expanded into the short sale and foreclosure prevention arena. Wanting to help educate consumers and distressed homeowners on their rights and options, the Mark Spain Team created www.GreaterAtlantaForeclosureHelp.com. The site offers tips on avoiding foreclosure, includes details on how a short sale differs from a foreclosure and offers free reports to help inform troubled Georgia homeowners. Jon Hardison of HaMedia Group Jon Hardison is a head geek, creative director & designer at HaMedia Group, a full service marketing firm catering to the real estate industry. Art and creativity has always been in his blood. In the last few decades, he’s done everything from animation to professional photography to typesetting and pre-press management. He is a self-described perfectionist, and has been known to spend weeks obsessing over the kerning of a font for a print piece or a dot smaller than a single pixel sitting just a tad wrong in a photo on a client’s website. He is also the founder of a new startup, RealSimpleWebs.com which aims to enable real estate agents and brokers to take control of their web presence in a collaborative learning environment. He is happily married to a spunky co-owner of HaMedia, adores his boys, the two-legged and four-legged variety, never leaves home without his Canon DS, still watches cartoons and spends every free moment passionately obsessing over the industry he’s been trying to help for the last decade.
