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Sales Performance Secrets with Kimberly Mackey on The Build Better Podcast

Sales Performance Secrets with Kimberly Mackey on The Build Better Podcast

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Tired of constantly stressing over sales? Sometimes contracts come easy, and sometimes it feels like you can’t breathe because you’re so thirsty! New home sales is a volatile and stressful world to manage – but with some practical, tried and proven strategies, it is possible to bring some predictability to your business. TuneContinue Reading

Head-to-Head: Focus + Intensity = Results

Head-to-Head: Focus + Intensity = Results

(If you would like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Tug, the video transcription is at the bottom of the page.) Attention Builders, if you are in firefighting mode far more often than you would like, this video is a MUST-SEE! Learn how Tug Huddleston, of Red Door Homes of North Central Florida, wentContinue Reading

Sales and Marketing Power Hour: Selling to Active Adult Buyers in the Current Market

Sales and Marketing Power Hour: Selling to Active Adult Buyers in the Current Market

If one of your buyer demographics involves Active Adults (so, all of us), even if you are not selling in an age-restricted community, this is the conversation for you. Co-hosts, Carol Morgan, MIRM (Denim Marketing), and Kimberly Mackey (New Homes Solutions Consulting) have pulled together three of the top industry experts, Todd Warshauer, from 55Places.com,Continue Reading

Head-to-Head: Becoming a Rock Star Sales Leader with Alan Beulah

Head-to-Head: Becoming a Rock Star Sales Leader with Alan Beulah

(If you would like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Alan, the video transcription is at the bottom of the page.) If you are a veteran sales manager in the home building industry, have you ever wondered how you stack up? Maybe you are a General Sales Manager and aspire to take it toContinue Reading

Guest Vlog: Leah Fellows Asks “Is Your OSC Program On Track?”

Guest Vlog: Leah Fellows Asks “Is Your OSC Program On Track?”

We are pleased to offer something we haven’t done in a while on our blog–a guest vlogger. Please welcome Leah Fellows, with Blue Gypsy, Inc. New Homes Solutions’ Guest Vlog welcomes Leah Fellows with Blue Gypsy, Inc. Leah breaks down everything you need to know to answer the question, “Is your OSC program on trackContinue Reading

Sales and Marketing Power Hour with Kevin Oakley: Are You Measuring the Right Stuff?

Sales and Marketing Power Hour with Kevin Oakley: Are You Measuring the Right Stuff?

(If you would like to read the discussion between Kimberly, Carol and Kevin, the video transcription is below.) You hear it all the time. Homebuilding is a numbers game, but what numbers and what do they mean? Kevin Oakley, from Do You Convert stops by The Sales and Marketing Power Hour to help hosts, CarolContinue Reading

Head-to-Head with Roland Nairnsey: Avoiding Market Whiplash

Head-to-Head with Roland Nairnsey: Avoiding Market Whiplash

(If you would like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Roland, the video transcription at the bottom of the page.) Are you starting to experience Market Whiplash? Listen in, as Roland Nairnsey, from New Home Sales Plus and Kimberly Mackey go Head-to-Head. We will dive in HEADfirst into what you can do, right now,Continue Reading

Get Traction with Kimberly Mackey

Get Traction with Kimberly Mackey

Click HERE to listen to the ANewGo Podcast Kimberly Mackey of New Homes Solutions is on the Podcast, A New Go of New Home Sales! with John and Anya, this week to talk about current market temperature, salespeoples’ state of mind and how to measure the right metrics for predictable sales. So let’s get someContinue Reading

Head-to-Head: Take 2–The Top 10 NEW Mistakes Salespeople Make with Leah Turner

Head-to-Head: Take 2–The Top 10 NEW Mistakes Salespeople Make with Leah Turner

(If you wouild like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Leah, the video transcription is at the bottom of the page.) It is always better to learn from the mistakes of others. For the second year in a row, Leah Turner, from Melinda Brody & Company Mystery Shopping stops by to share with KimberlyContinue Reading

Selling Homes Predictably with Kimberly Mackey, Guest Speaker

Selling Homes Predictably with Kimberly Mackey, Guest Speaker

          Click here to listen to the podcast (47:41) on DoYouConvert.com Recently, Kimberly Mackey sat down with Kevin Oakley, the Managing Partner of Do You Convert  on the award-winning, Market Proof Marketing Podcast. They discuss a multitude of topics, including why builders can’t move forward to improve their sales numbers until theyContinue Reading

Sales and Marketing Power Hour-Making Movie Stars Out of Your Camera Shy Team

Sales and Marketing Power Hour-Making Movie Stars Out of Your Camera Shy Team

Industry gurus have preached the power of video for years and 2020 brought the importance of videos even further to the forefront, yet your team is still struggling to produce them. It is understandable. Perhaps it is rooted in fear, perhaps it is laziness, perhaps it is a lack of understanding. Whatever it is, nowContinue Reading

Head-to-Head with Bassam Salem-Making Artificial Intelligence Sexy and Personal

Head-to-Head with Bassam Salem-Making Artificial Intelligence Sexy and Personal

(If you would like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Bassam, the video transcription is at the bottom of the page.) Are you terrified that technology will replace you? Is it all happening so fast that you can’t wrap your head around it? How do you fit in? Artificial INTELLIGENCE is SMART! On thisContinue Reading

Sales and Marketing Power Hour-Selling Homes with Nothing to See

Sales and Marketing Power Hour-Selling Homes with Nothing to See

Welcome to the first Sales and Marketing Power Hour of 2022 and our move to Wednesday. Happy Hump Day! We kicked off 2022 with a BANG! SOLD OUT? Waiting on your next community to open? Dr. Seuss tells us that “the waiting place is a useless place.” Do homebuilders still need model homes in today’sContinue Reading

Head-to-Head: Build Your Sales Force Inside and Out

Head-to-Head: Build Your Sales Force Inside and Out

(If you wouild like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Keith, the video transcription is at the bottom of the page.) If you are like most homebuilders, the anatomy of a GREAT salesperson remains a mystery to you. Keith McKinney, from New Home Star, dropped by to go Head-to-Head with Kimberly Mackey, along withContinue Reading

Head-to-Head with Angela McKay: Getting It All Done!

Head-to-Head with Angela McKay: Getting It All Done!

In this edition of Head-to-Head, Angela McKay, from Oneil Interactive discuss how to fit EVERYTHING in! Ok, that’s not entirely true. There is no way to get everything done, but we help you to figure out some priorities for both work and home life, and the best part is that you already have the tools.Continue Reading

The Sales and Marketing Power Hour: Annual Lasso Round-up

The Sales and Marketing Power Hour: Annual Lasso Round-up

When we say, “Power Hour,” we mean it! Take a look at this incredible line-up who joined hosts Carol Morgan, from Denim Marketing and Kimberly Mackey, from New Homes Solutions for our annual partnership with Lasso CRM for the end-of-year Round-up. Each year, Lasso CRM asks the top experts from the new home industry toContinue Reading

Sales and Marketing Power Hour: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Sales and Marketing Power Hour: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Ghandi told us to “be the change we want to see in the world.” The conversation must start somewhere about what our company and industry cultures attract for future growth, competitiveness, and better service our surrounding markets. In this episode of the Sales & Marketing Power Hour, we reached out to two industry experts, TeresaContinue Reading

Head-to-Head: FUTURE VISION with Meredith Oliver

Head-to-Head: FUTURE VISION with Meredith Oliver

(If you would like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Meredith, the video transcription is at the bottom of the page.) You know you are in for a great time and a lot of FANtasitc information when Meredith Oliver stops in to help us prepare for 2022. We discuss everything from what event planningContinue Reading

Head-to-Head with Jeff Shore: Through the Buyer’s Eyes

Head-to-Head with Jeff Shore: Through the Buyer’s Eyes

(If you wouild like to read the discussion between Kimberly and Jeff, the video transcription is at the bottom of the page.) What fun Jeff Shore and Kimberly Mackey had taking a deep dive into looking at the homebuying process “Through the Buyer’s Eyes.” You’ve heard it again and again, but homebuying is about relationshipsContinue Reading

Sales & Marketing Power Hour: HOW RUDE! Dealing with Negative Social Media Comments

Sales & Marketing Power Hour: HOW RUDE! Dealing with Negative Social Media Comments

If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all…is what we all wish we could say to rude comments! Instead, we will put on our big girl and big boy pants to discuss what we can say professionally in this SMPH with Courtney Steward of Denim Marketing. Watch now to learnContinue Reading