Kevin Kauffman and Fred Weaver

Next Level Agents: The Kevin & Fred Show - Interviews with the best and brightest minds in the real estate industry

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Interviews from the best and brightest minds in the real estate industry. We cover topics like Investing, listings, buyers, brokerage, technology, entrepreneurship and so much more. Brought to you by KevinandFred.com

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Kevin Kauffman and Fred Weaver

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Business

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www.nextlevelagents.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

POSITION YOURSELF IN TODAY'S ONLINE WORLD. Business Tip: Differentiate yourself from the competition! 11.04.2019

🔴 Today’s real estate customer has more information than ever before. The first step you must take to differentiate yourself from the competition immediately is to be THE source of information and position yourself as the go to source for all things real estate.  This episode will explain the 3 steps to positioning yourself in today's online world. 1️⃣ Move from interrupting the consumer to infor...

PUSHING PAST THE FIRST OBJECTION. Business Tip: Internet Leads 08.04.2019

This week’s podcast is a listen in on a training we did for the team called “Pushing past the first objection” As sales people (everyone , and I mean EVERYONE is in sales).. we get rejected often. And its important to learn to push past the first objected so we can get further down the “sales cycle” Let us know what you think and please don’t forget to review us on iTunes or where ever you’re list...

DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR OWN SUCCESS. Business Tip: Learning From Failure 04.04.2019

💬 We’ve all heard the classic saying before.. “you don’t succeed your way to success, you fail your way to success”. Or maybe you’ve heard it said another way: “fail forward” ... But have you ever wondered why people say that ? It’s easy to write it off as just another cliché but it’s so much more than that. Take a moment and dive in on this video as we talk about ✅ why winning is the worst teac...

GETTING TO YES. Business Tip: Close More Often and With Better Skill | A Podcast for Real Estate Agents and Realtors 01.04.2019

Getting to yes.  Why learning to close more often and with better skill is vital to improving your real estate sales business.     Kevin Fred talk here on one of their favorite topics:  how to close.    Let us know what you think of this episode. 

AVOID THIS FATAL MISTAKE. Business Tip: The Costs of Overpricing 28.03.2019

Can you afford to over price your listing ? 🚫 So many agents make the fatal mistake of telling their clients “what they want to hear” in hopes of getting lucky or wearing they client down over time and trying to convince them to drop the price. ✅ But it doesn’t have to be this way. In can be so much easier as a listing agent... ✅ if you know the secrets to getting listings that are priced to se...

THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE: Tracking Your Appointments 25.03.2019

We're back with another special episode for you. We got such great feedback last time we did this, so we are giving you another sneak peek into Growth Summit, a weekly coaching call Kevin & Fred provide for their team. This one is all about the single most important activity in real estate: tracking your appointments. Listen in and let us know what you think!

WHO AND WHAT SELLS THE HOUSE ANYWAY? Business Tip: Avoid Common Mistakes to Dominate Listings in Your Market 21.03.2019

🌧🌧🌧 It’s spring time baby.  Let the listings rain down...    That’s right, it’s the magical time of year where the sellers are seemingly coming of out hiding...   And like always , I see Inexperienced agents make so many common yet very avoidable mistakes when interviewing for a listing...    A few of things to keep in mind, as agents we ...   ✅ We interpret the market.  We don’t set the market. ...

WIN BY NOON. Interview: Todd Bookspan 18.03.2019

Have you ever finished your day and realized that it was entirely spent reacting to crises and other people’s problems without accomplishing your most important priorities for the day? I can remember countless days when I woke up with great intentions to complete my essential tasks only to be derailed by issues that were urgent in the moment but not important to meeting my long-term objectives. As...

ARE YOU WEIRD? Business Tip: Embrace the Weird and Crazy 14.03.2019

“The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.” The first time I read that quote (By Peter Diamandis) it hit me hard...it really caused me to think. 🤔 Maybe you’ve been told: ✅ that’s crazy it will never work ✅ we’ve always done it this way ✅ you can’t do that... If you’re anything like us... you’ve heard em all... and you want more from your business. More from life.. L...

CHRIS HELLER THE HOME SELLER. Interview: Chris Heller 11.03.2019

On today’s episode of Kevin & Fred’s Next Level Agents Podcast, Kevin sits down with his friend, real estate leader Chris Heller. Formerly the CEO of Keller Williams Reality Inc. and President of Keller Williams Worldwide, Chris is now the CEO of mellohome, sister company to loanDepot. On the podcast, Chris shares the not-so-secret way he was able to get his start in real estate investing. After r...

ARE YOU NEW TO REAL ESTATE? Business Tip: Tips for New Agents 07.03.2019

Are You An Agent Open Minded About Growing Your Business? As a Team Leader who's helped agents Sell Millions In Real Estate Some of the top questions we get asked are... … Kevin and Fred, how did you ... ❇️ Help a brand new agent sell 72 homes in his first year? ❇️ Help an agent that was closing 6 transactions to 24 transactions in under 12 months? ❇️ Help an agent sell 30 homes in a new city she’...

MOTHERHOOD AND MASSIVE SUCCESS. Interview: Keri Shull 04.03.2019

Ranked as one of the top teams in the DC Metro area, Keri Shull and her team sold 321 Homes in 2017 and has sold over $2 Billion in real estate. Keri's passion for helping people move with ease came from watching her family and personally experiencing both amazing and terrible transitions. Watching her mother struggle to find the right home sometimes with the wrong agent inspired her to help famil...

WHAT ARE IBUYERS? Business Tip: Be More Human. 28.02.2019

i know. i know. iBuyers are all the talk of the “disruption” of realtors. But what if it doesn’t matter ? What if you can make money and run your business and not have to worry about who is moving your cheese ? Check out this weeks video as we dove further into this subject affecting us all in the industry.

HOW DO YOU PROPERLY SEND REFERRALS? Business Tip: Real Estate Referral Strategies with Proven Success 21.02.2019

What is the proper way to send a referral?  (assuming you want it to be successful)  How do you make sure when you're sending or even receiving a referral that you're doing justice to the process.  Well, let us speak from experience as many referrals that we've given out over the years.  I screwed this up recently, right? I have a friend who's in commercial real estate (and we get asked all the ti...

FINANCING 101. Behind the Scenes to Our Business: Growth Summit 18.02.2019

This week we are giving you a sneak peek behind the scenes to see how we do things with our team. This is an example of a weekly coaching call we do with our team. This past week we reviewed Financing 101, part 1. Listen in and let us know what you think!

YOU CAN'T BARGAIN FOR WHAT YOU REALLY WANT. Business Tip: Go For It 14.02.2019

Have you ever realized something was worth more than you were willing to pay for it AFTER it was too late? ✔️ I have too, in fact I think everyone has. 👀 I see so many people miss out on truly amazing experiences and opportunities in life and business because they tried so haggle on the price. The cost in terms of money, time, effort etc... 👀 Listen to this episode to dive deeper into this lesso...

The Flywheel of Success. Interview: Ben Riehle 11.02.2019

In the 12 short years since Ben Riehle bought his first rundown house as an incoming college freshman, he has gone from sleeping on (and manually renovating) rotting floors to founding and becoming CEO for the vertically-integrated Apex Real Estate Network which employs 30 people in 3 states, deploys $7.5m in investments, manages over 300 properties, and brokered $50m in real estate sales last yea...

What the SHIFT is Going On with Real Estate?! Business Tip: Navigating a Changing Market 07.02.2019

As usual, the things have changed and only a handful of people are paying attention... There is still time to adjust for 2019. You can overcome a slow or even shifting market by focusing on the things that matter most when times become uncertain, even if you’ve never been through a softening market before. If the market SHIFTs, a few things to remember ✅ if you lead generate like the average agen...

NEGOTIATION. Interview: Greg Markov 04.02.2019

Greg has been a national instructor for the Real Estate Negotiation Institute since 2008. A graduate of Harvard’s Negotiation Institute, he is well versed on the latest in the wide-ranging topic of negotiation and persuasion. During his time with RENI, Greg has also developed lots of content, and trained new instructors. One of the most appreciated aspects of Greg’s classes is his relevant “from t...

DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH ONE TEAM MODEL. Business Tip: Be Open Minded About Your Team Structure 31.01.2019

🛑 “you’re not following the model” listen if you’ve been in real estate for a while like I have you’ve probably heard that, at least a time or two. And regardless of what the “coaches” say, There isn’t just one model... 🚫 The notion that everybody should run their business exactly the same to achieve success is absolutely absurd. ✅ The truth is there are many different ways to have a very succe...

WHAT IS "SUCCESS IN BUSINESS?" Interview: Roland Frasier 28.01.2019

Co-founder and/or principal of four current Inc. Magazine fastest growing companies (2 e-commerce and 2 SaaS). Serial entrepreneur who founded, scaled, and sold over almost 2 dozen different businesses ranging from consumer products to industrial machine manufacturing companies with adjusted sales ranging from $3 million to $337 million. Currently growing DigitalMarketer.com and NativeCommerce.com...

WE START EVERY DAY UNEMPLOYED. Business Tip: Earn It Every Day. 24.01.2019

✅ Maybe you’re like I was, tired of not having a consistent flow of buyers and seller in my real estate business. 😳 Tired of not knowing when the next paycheck would come. 🤔 Once I realized the real estate business wasn’t about actually selling real estate, everything changed for me. ✅✅✅And it can work for you too. IF you will learn how to look at your business differently, and follow a plan...

THE ZILLOW GUY: FOCUS FIRST ON YOUR CUSTOMER AND NEXT ON YOURSELF. Interview: Jay Thompson 21.01.2019

Jay recently retired from his role at Zillow as their director of industry outreach. He's also a former real estate agent and brokerage owner.  At Zillow, he was worked as a liaison between the agent/broker community and Zillow.  Many of you know him as "The Zillow Guy", I, however, think of him as "The Phoenix Real Estate Guy" and I can't wait to have this chat with him.

DOES IT MAKE THE BOAT GO FASTER? Business Tip: Focus On What's Important 17.01.2019

🛶🛶🛶 Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?  This question was born out the story of an ordinary guy achieving something extraordinary. In 1998, consistently failing to medal or even make the final of major regattas, the Great Britian Men’s Rowing Eight decided to fundamentally change the way they worked and how they worked with each other.  Their focus became purely about performance, the results the...

LOOK AT THINGS DIFFERENTLY. Interview: Mark Martin 14.01.2019

With 20 years in business, Mark has earned The Lifetime Achievement award with Re/Max, he’s on his second tour on Zillow Agent Advisory Board.  $85.0 MM this year in total sales- $35.0MM in Austin and $50.0MM nationwide in referral network (You’re going to love learning about this network of his). He has not personally listed or sold a home in over 2 years. Mark is also the President of Dirk Zelle...

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