Summary: <br> <a href="https://www.monikastrand.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Monika Strand</a>, realtor with Compass and author goes back to beginning of her career in real estate. Monika describes the special way she does open houses and how its brought her success. Next, Monika talks about her book “Welcome Home”, who she wrote it for and what’s the best way agents can utilize the book. Monika also discusses the importance of showing kindness to the kids of the family you’re working with. Last, Monika describes what differentiates her from her competition.<br> <br> <br> <br> You can buy Monika’s book <a href="https://www.monikastrand.com/shop" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Welcome Home” here</a> with a 20% when using the code KeepingItReal20 until September 1st 2022. <br> <br> <br> <br> If you’d prefer to watch this interview, <a href="https://youtu.be/9Z0KHgRSQYg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here to view on YouTube!</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Monika Strand can be reached at <a href="mailto:monika.strand@compass.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">monika.strand@compass.com</a> and <a href="tel:+1-510-754-7437" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">510-754-7437</a>. <br> <br> <br> <br> This episode is brought to you by <a href="http://www.realgeeks.com/keepingitrealpod" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Real Geeks</a> and <a href="https://pages.followupboss.com/real/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">FollowUpBoss</a>. <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.compass.com/agents/monika-strand/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Transcript<br> <br> <br> <br> D.J. Paris 0:00On today’s episode we discuss a revolutionary new Closing gift for your clients that have young children. 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. Their 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 onto our show.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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 Paris. I am your guide and host through the show and in just a moment, we’re going to be speaking with top producer and also closing gift expert Monica Strad. Before we get to Monica just a quick reminder to please tell a friend about our show. It helps us continue to grow and reach more and more real estate professionals. So think of just one other agent in your office that could use the knowledge and wisdom of someone as amazing as Monica, who you’re about to hear and let them know about our show, send him over to our website, which is keeping it real pod.com. And also please leave us a review whatever podcast app, you might be listening to this on my voice now or maybe it’s apple, podcast, Spotify,
