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Sam Monreal is a strategic advisor, the Founder and Head of Sales of Pitchstack, and the Director of strategic partnerships at Opcity, oversees enterprise sales efforts leading to growth from $30M to over $4B in transactions in 2.5years with a successful exit to News Corp subsidiary Move, Inc. in 2018. He is also an amazing author, art collector, real-estate investor, and a dad to a 7-year-old daughter. This guy is a ‘sells machine', knows more about sales & how to scale things through sales. He has written, Why Startups Fail, and The Ten Commandments of Scale. Sam is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the intersection of tech & real estate and has been involved with multiple technology firms resulted in over $1B in successful exits as a part of the leadership in those companies as a Sales marketing and branding expert. He's leader and owner of firms with over 600 employees in central Texas with 49 products successfully launched, scaling high productivity and efficient prospecting organizations, and mastery level proficiency in complex negotiations and deal closing. Sam grew up from a poor family and had failed so many times. He filed bankruptcy twice and failed 13-14 businesses, but Sam is hyper-motivated by the need to provide the utmost value to the society. Sam believes that his calling is helping more people in homes, doing his best for the society. He lives intentionally in all areas of his life, truthful with himself, and show up his best version. He describes himself as an ‘intropreneur', the guy that takes someone else idea and executes it. But what was so hard for Sam is building a full and end solution and held the whole journey 100% accountable. Moreover, he learned to pull his ego from the shelf and be part of the bigger journey, process, and the greater good and not having the name on the side. Sam believes that though they are working on different areas, they belong to one culture, in the same team, and in the same mission. Despite being a successful leader & negotiator, he still learning how to be more patient, be a better trainer, be a better leader, and really his own world through leverage. According to him, the best entrepreneurs really understand the power of leverage. Sam used problems as opportunities to figure out new things. He learned of not making a judgment of the people based on your perception of them but allowing them to prove who they are. Sam emphasized of being selfish enough, be honest with yourself about what is going to drive you and the things that you want and stop focusing the money and focused on the mission and the money just comes. Some Questions I Ask: Tell me about that epic piece of artwork over your left shoulder. (03:15) What it looks like for you before all of these massive exits? (08:13) How do you know when it's time to stop & packed it up? (11:12) Do you think that every entrepreneur needs an entrepreneur or that integrator to be successful in vice versa? (18:24) Why the first hundred clients are the hardest? (24:22) What is the couple of top points in The Ten Commandments of Scale that you think is imperative? (27:53) How did you continue to push through the challenges in life after all the failures? (38:35) How did you learn to focus on mission & not the money? (50:28) Sam's one message about finding the path for growth and rich life. (01:06:37) In This Episode, You Will Learn: The primary reason why Sam doesn't accept the client. (28:36) The two biggest things that most companies struggled with. (31:08) The common misconception in the industry. (31:42) One of the most impactful moments in Sam's career recently. (32:22) Sam and his team mission. (35:44) One of the hardest things about scaling the company. (36:02) A unique place for an entrepreneur to get to. (41:42) The three common things that most startup companies make them fail. (43:04) The most important thing in becoming an entrepreneur and being successful at it. (45:04) The why & the mission attached to that why. (45:45) Be selectively selfish. (53:18) The tough things for people who excel in business. (56:27) Ayahuasca and the plant-based medicine experiences and the lessons that Sam learned. (58:30) The importance of practicing acceptance. (01:01:39) Quotes: “Only buy things that you can't live without and it will make your life better if you see them every day.” “Not every idea is going to land, and not every idea is going to be a great idea.” “The best entrepreneurs are aggressively lazy.” “It's not because nobody sold it yet, & nobody's paid for it and nobody's willing to buy it doesn't mean it's not saleable.” “If you keep your eye on the future state, all now slips away.” “Cash flow over ego, it is not that important if I'm right, it is not that important if I'm important.”
In this episode, you will learn: Sam's brief bio. What Sam learned after coming from a failed business. Where Sam gets his business. Sam's horizontal income and what percenter he is. What Sam does to stay healthy Sam's fitness routine. How Sam quit drinking alcohol. Sam shares what going through a divorce is like. Sam's five past and future greatest hits. Plus so much more! Sam Monreal is a passionate and results-oriented sales and marketing expert with nearly two decades of experience in diverse corporate, real estate and start-up environments. Sam’s multifaceted background includes managing a multi-million dollar portfolio of investor assets at Charles Schwab; managing one of AT&T Wireless’ national advertising campaigns, and closing several of the largest technology deals in industry history at AllClear ID. Sam was Director of Sales at the Heyl Group Real Estate Team (which was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America) and a Partner and the VP of Business Development at rokrbox, an organization that he grew more than 4000% in a single year. Rokrbox now has nearly 60 employees and handles over 15,000 online real estate leads every single month. Sam’s latest adventure is PitchStack, a sales consulting firm that builds sales and inside sales teams for real estate organizations and startups through his Fractional VP of Sales program. Sam is the author of Leveraged Lead Generation and Conversion Secrets. He has appeared on stage at multiple international real estate conferences and regularly appears on podcasts as one of the nation’s foremost leading experts on inside sales and lead conversion.
Learn how to create and convert leads like today’s top real estate teams and start generating more business! Today, on the 500th episode of Real Estate Rockstars, we welcome two industry authorities on managing inside sales departments and converting leads: Sam Monreal and Dale Archdekin. They join Pat to discuss the launch of 3 courses designed to teach agents the absolute best ways to generate and convert leads in the real estate industry. Listen as they share highlights from each course, including the most important thing to do with a new online lead, the truth about lead-conversion scripts, and how to build an inside sales department from the ground up. Tune in and hear how you can implement the strategies top agents use successfully to grow their business year after year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sam Monreal on Effective Lead Generation Techniques "Many people look at online leads as a burden and not an opportunity" Sam Shift Mindset from Bothering to Helping People "We have to work twice as hard to stand out with internet leads." STEPS TO EFFECTIVE INTERNET LEAD GENERATION Get People while Still Online Use Pattern Interrupts Great Scripts Make the Difference Shift Mindset to Helping People Be Proactive vs Reactive Schedule Lead Follow Up About Sam Monreal: Passionate, driven and results-oriented sales expert with over a decade of success in diverse and complex corporate and start-up environments Specialties: Experiential Marketing, Event Creation, Event Curation, Social Media, Social Media Management Systems, Privacy, Data Breach Response, HITECH, HIPAA, Notification Law, Credit Monitoring, Identity Protection, Notification Requirements, Negotiation, Compliance, Advertising, Marketing, Branding, Complex Sales Strategies, Health Care, Corporate Sales, Start Ups, Finance, Residential Lending, Commercial Lending, Consumer Credit, Six Figure Deals, Seven Figure Deals, Closing, New Business Creation, Client Retention, Sales Methodologies, Lead Generation
Are you ready for the impending real estate lead bubble and the ramifications that will follow? Sam Monreal, VP of Business Development at Rokrbox, eats, drinks and breathes real estate lead conversion. And while he is not here to preach doom and gloom, he is, however, very realistic about the state of online lead conversions for real estate agents and real estate teams. More importantly, he is sharing a success formula you can put into action now to convert online leads at a higher rate and prepare yourself for when the real estate lead bubble pops. Get ready to convert more leads and make more commission dollars with the help of Sam Monreal! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices