New Agent, Massive Sales: The Real Estate Success Formula

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Jan 30, 2025
In this episode of the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience, Tom and Jason Pantana talk with Hannah about her real estate success formula for creating massive demand and closing sales with confidence. She opens up her playbook for social media, creating connections, conversion, and so much more.
These are strategies that will work for agents at any level – a true real estate success formula – so watch or listen now!
If you're a brand new agent or you just feel like a brand new agent when it comes to a new year,
there is no better conversation to be in right now than the conversation with this gal
sitting to my left. I have been able to watch her content evolve from a brand new agent just
four and a half years ago-ish to an absolute rock star today generating a lot of transactions
in a marketplace that she was brand new in. Hannah, I am so excited to have you on the show.
Thank you. Stoked to be here.
I know you two know each other. I have just been fangirling all of your content.
We were talking before we got jumping in here. By the way, for my friends that are watching,
veteran, brand new agent, 30 years in the business, anywhere around the world,
what we're going to talk about today is totally relatable. But at the ripe old age of 24,
is that accurate? How many transactions did you do last year?
We did 59 last year.
59 last year. Of course, now you've lived in that area your entire life. You were raised with
everyone. Everyone knows you. No, I moved there three and a half years ago.
Let's unpack this. You've been a client for how long now?
About three years.
How did you first get introduced to us or the concept of real estate?
I was career searching my last summer between college years.
How to Manage Your Money, a millionaire video came up. I watched it and YouTube serves you
more videos. It served me more of your videos. I watched them and I was like, I think I can do this.
At 20, how do you say to yourself, I think I can do this?
Did you have any idea what you were getting into, knowing what you know now?
You never know fully, but your videos were so helpful to peek behind the curtain and see what
it was like. I was like, if these people can do it, I can do it too.
Right. You're very motivating.
Thank you. Tell them who you are. Tell them where you're from. Give them that context,
which I should have done in the very beginning. Then I want to go right through the journey of
the very beginning. What did you do that worked? What do you do that didn't that got you to this
point? Because now half of all your business is coming from YouTube and Instagram. Take us back.
Who are you? Where are you from? Give us context.
I grew up outside of Seattle, Washington area. I went to school in Eastern Washington at Pullman,
Washington State University. I got a finance degree. I was looking to see what I was going
to do with my career. I just said, I've got to do something that doesn't have a ceiling. That's why
I settled on real estate. I didn't want to go back to my hometown. I moved to where my boyfriend
grew up, which was Vancouver, Kamas, Washington. That's where I'm at right now. Still very similar
to where I grew up in Seattle. It's just a little warmer. Everything's a little closer. I'm closer
to the airport. I literally started from nothing. I knew no one. I hadn't been in a professional
career. I had sold no houses. I was 21 years old. I looked a little bit younger.
Versus now?
Yeah. I've got a couple of years on me now. I've got a couple of gray hairs after a couple of years
in business. At 24, yeah.
Yeah, at 24.
We all know how that is.
I literally started from zero. I set big goals for year one because I knew I could do it. I think
my first 12 months, I did $14 million. My first full calendar year, I did $18 million. Then,
I did $21 million, $22 million. Then, last year, I did about $40 million. It's just been a fun
journey. I try to do old school and new school. Social media, but I also doorknock and I open
a house.
First of all, congratulations. Literally, before we started, I was like,
just how proud I am of you and just watching your journey. I know you are as well.
Many in our ecosystem have got exposed to you through Jason and the ecosystem, et cetera.
Take us back to the very beginning though. When you said, okay, I'm launching this career.
Besides learning the MLS and understand the contracts and don't get sued and make sure
things get done right, how did you begin to announce yourself in a marketplace where you
know no one? Take us back to the very beginning. Hey, I want to reintroduce myself to the
marketplace. Hey, my license has been inactive for a while and I'm jumping back in. You know what?
I've been selling homes for a long time, but I really don't communicate much to the marketplace
and I need to announce myself. How did you do it?
I honestly just burned all my bridges and was like, I'm a real estate agent and I'm going to
be amazing here in Clark County, Washington. I was very consistent with posting videos all the
time. I was on my stories every day and I was very active. I did an open house every Saturday and
Sunday for that first year and I got to know the market really well. I feel like a lot of agents
who are born and raised in an area, they rest on their laurels and they are like, oh, I was born
and raised here. I know everything. Why didn't? I studied the map all the time. I studied the MLS.
I went to the neighborhoods. I found out who the developers were. I found out about the parks. I
found out what's coming soon. Most agents, they don't do that. I gained the knowledge and I had
the brand exposure and the marketing with all the video. When you do the two together, it's like
magic. Yes. Yeah. It's confidence. Yeah. It's confidence. That's what it is. People, when
you're young and you're confident and good in business, it's undeniable. People like working
with you. I agree. Yeah. Back to the beginning of Instagram, I assume, did you go Instagram first
or YouTube first? Instagram. Okay. You're on Instagram and it's a week into real estate.
What were the stories about? Hey, today I'm sitting at my desk. What was the context?
Yeah. It was whatever I was doing, literally anything. I look back at some of them now
because the memories will come up and they're cringy. Sure. But I was sharing what I was doing.
I was sharing what was real. Right. I wasn't trying to sugar coat it too much. Yeah. Tell
them the story of getting started. What kind of stories? Yeah. Give us an example.
Cringy or not, I'd love to hear what were you compelled to share at that point in your career
because I think a lot of agents don't know where to start. Yeah. Just going out and door knocking
or setting up for the open houses or even getting stuff at the grocery store or here's this new
development I saw down the street. Who was following you at that time? Who was following
me? Yeah. Not a lot of people. Yeah. But were they locals or were they Seattle friends?
Lot of people from growing up for sure. I tried the strategy of you go on hashtags for your local
area and you just comment on those people's posts. What do they call that strategy again?
A dollar. The $1.81 strategy. Yes. That. Yep. And that's how I got some local people into my
feed. And I actually did transactions with a couple of people who I did that. Yeah. Very,
very smart. Yeah. So for the person that didn't get that, unpack that strategy one more time
because I think it's still just as relevant today and not as many people do it. Yeah. So I'd go on
hashtags or locations for like Vancouver, Washington, Camas, Washington. And I'd literally
just scroll through the most recent posts and comment something just what, like, Oh,
your dog is so cute. Or I love that bakery too. Something like that. And a lot of times it
wouldn't, it wouldn't hit. They wouldn't follow back. They wouldn't connect, but sometimes it
would. And it just took one or two to make a couple of sales and, you know, pay my bills that
year. Right. Did you find you were in that strategy being very specific about the people that you were
following? Or is it just sort of like, I kind of like her energy. So, you know, like I would follow
that person. It was more that. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's always the more natural way. I like
working with people who are good fit. It just makes everything flow better. So, you know, so,
so walk us through the evolution of your content. If the early days, I'm going to get into door
knocking and all the other stuff. And you know how much I respect you for that. Yeah. Walk us
through the evolution of your content. The beginning, it was cringy. You know, you were,
you were trying to figure it out, but you were doing it. So we love it. What was the next step?
What was the next step? Did there become a show? Did you have some donkeys? What were the
unicorns? Like walk us through some of that. My first content was, it was called hanging with
Hannah. And it was like a weekly show where I would just give real estate tips and it was more
for me to practice and just get exposure. I look back and the tips weren't super good.
So I retired that show at some point. And then I went to more vertical, like short for short firm
about like the area or, you know, tips, things that were coming soon. And that got more traction.
And then I finally got on YouTube because of Jason's videos. YouTube is a place that feels a
little bit more daunting. It feels like, I don't know. It's just, it's something Jason's mentioned
before. It feels like it's for the professionals. It's the big leagues, you know? It's, could it be
that because it's more of a search engine? Yeah. And I don't feel that way anymore,
but that's how I felt starting. Cause I think a lot of people, I'll comment on that. A lot of folks,
I think have a fear of getting on video in front of their existing networks on social media. And I
would say that you should seriously look at YouTube because you're building an audience
who's searching for your content. And so you can literally speak it and the audience will show up
based upon the messaging you put out. I'm a massive, I'm a massive believer in the power
of YouTube right now. Anyways, please continue. So, so stories and reels and kind of anything goes,
then you create a show called Hanging with Hannah. What was next?
I got on YouTube and YouTube is where I started making more long form content that was very
educational. I do a lot of like hard research for those videos. I dig into the county records and I
pull up data and statistics and history and it really attracts those STEM based clients who are,
you know, they're, I like working with them and they usually have good budgets and they, you know,
purchase or sell in the areas I want to work in. And so that was really the next iteration of my
videos. And I, I love that. That's still what I'm doing today. I love it. I love it. So if you were
looking back and you said, knowing what I know now, what would you have done differently?
I probably would have gotten on YouTube sooner and then this isn't video related,
but I would have hired sooner. In what respect? Just getting help with a TC and an assistant.
I should have got them sooner. Yes. Yeah. So, so before we talk about some other stuff,
you and I are talking off camera about, um, I think it was maybe like November, December,
I'm looking at Ruby, my chief of staff, Shannon Gillette was at my apartment. We're doing this
mastermind. Yeah. Her and I and my wife are sitting there, petting my dog, sitting on the
ground and Shannon's like a total love bug. Right. And, uh, and the entire time her phone is just
going and she, you can kind of see her like, and I'm like, you created that. Yeah.
Right. You, you've created such a persona in the marketplace and, and Hannah kudos to you
because you've done the same. Your phone is going off all the time with people saying,
I want to work with Hannah. Yeah. Knowing what you know now about what you've created,
is there an adjustment you would have made to build maybe a different type of brand
or do they have to get to you? I have to draft this listing today. It's already late. I still
have to create that post for the open house. I have to prep for this call. I need to figure
out how to negotiate this deal. I'm still behind on email. I'm falling behind on my phone. I'm
I can't do it all myself forever. Um, but when consumers, potential buyers and sellers,
when they really trust you, they also trust those potential team members. And as long as I hire,
it's going to be great. The two ladies that work for me now, they're amazing. And I make sure to
give them that credit. And when you give them that credit in front of your clients, they feel
confident about that. Yeah. Yeah. So, so go back to, and then you jump in. Cause I'm like so curious.
I just want to ask a million questions. I have a million too. I'm not saying it's a mistake,
but I think a lot of people leave a lot of money on the table because they become very myopic and
I'm only working my database. I'm only doing referrals. I'm only doing social. I'm only doing
YouTube. I'm only doing X. I'm only doing expireds. And my response is, why don't you just
serve as many clients as you can and, and have multiple modalities of communication. So, so it
warmed my heart when you said, yeah, I do all this social, but half my business comes from door
knocking and open houses. But, but you're Hannah and you're everywhere. And Oh my God, like I see
you on Instagram. That's what fuels it. Yes. So tell me why you do it. Because you can't have a
one pillar business. Like I think of the tech talk stuff going on right now. Right. The folks
who formerly noticed tick tock gone turned off as of today, you know, the, the folks who were
getting 90% of their business there, what are they doing right now? And that's why I'm never going to
put all my eggs in one basket. And when you do old and new together, you, you beat the market.
People who just work by referral when the market's down, they're down when the market's super up,
they're up. But like, I'm always doing solid. Yes. So that really is the key. I think something
that resonated with me earlier that she said, I agree, Hannah, I think the fact that you were
willing to become a student of the market, you said for the YouTube channel, it takes a lot of
effort to prep those shows. But you said even before that, when you were a brand new agent,
you were out there doing the grit work of going to caravans, going to previews, doing open houses,
learning your marketplace, engaging in local businesses, feeds on social media,
and doing all that grunt work. And I would make the argument that because you have that knowledge,
I think a lot of people say, I want to do video, but what do I make my videos about?
And if you're asking the question, what do I make my videos about? I would make the argument,
you haven't done the work of determining what you have to share. But I think because you've
done the work of determining what you have to share and what's relevant for your audience,
they see the natural appeal and benefit of working with somebody like you. Because I watch your
videos. You are very well, like every time I show one of your videos, I'm like, look how prepared
she is. I was just going to say, there's such a difference between making videos that just
market you as a person and are funny and relatable versus making videos that actually show that you
are a practitioner of your work. And I want people to hire me because I'm good at what I do,
not just because they know me. I want them to feel so confident about it. And because I do those
together, like I have this momentum that's unstoppable and no one else is really doing
that in my market. See, I love that. And I'm thinking about our great client, we're in his
town right now, Ken Pozek here in Orlando. And he has done a very similar practice. He's far on,
he's done remarkably well. And you talked about like being able to transfer and delegate to
agents. And I look at what Ken has done in terms of creating trust for his brand. And now he's got
40 plus agents on the team and they're all remarkable, just slaying in the marketplace.
I just think what you're doing is not only to your point, attracting an audience who
wants to work with you because they just see the benefit of it, but you're also creating a brand
that is truly, it's not going to be a fad brand. It's not going to be, I mean, there's a lot of
folks who have success on Instagram temporarily or TikTok or YouTube temporarily, but what you're
doing is just got a longevity to it, which I massively applaud. So what's new, what's next for
25? 2025, we are shooting for a higher average sales price and higher profitability, which is
what matters and going to bring on a couple more people, hopefully an agent and a videographer on
staff. Good for you. So give us the total makeup of the team then fully, fully baked with a couple
more salespeople and a videographer. So right now I have a full-time assistant and transaction
coordinator and then hoping to bring on a partner agent to work with me on the business and then a
full-time videographer. Okay. So that'll be four people plus myself. All right. All right. So
earlier when you said you chose real estate because you really felt like there would be a
sort of a ceiling that you could do whatever you wanted. Yeah. Sitting here at 24, let's go 10
years. When's your birthday, by the way? March 1st. Oh, my little sister too, Michelle. That's awesome.
All right. Okay. 25 soon. I'm still 24 though today. All right. Almost a quarter century. Congrats. Coming
right up. So let's play a game. It's 10 years out and you're 35. Yeah. Where do you see yourself?
That is a hard question. I've spent a lot of time reflecting on that recently.
I still don't know a hundred percent, but I think I'll probably still have my real estate business.
I'll just be less involved in the day-to-day selling aspect and more visionary. I love
building, construction, development. So I feel like I have something to give the world. Yes. In that
department. Yes. All right. How effective are you as a salesperson? I'm effective. Okay. Okay. I like
it. What is the objection that you get that you get excited when you get it? Because you got
like 16 ways to handle it. I don't even know. I don't get that many objections. Oh. My clients
like working with me. Yes. They just say, yes, yes, yes. And we go. I have a question. But first,
so Hannah, wow, that fee seems large for... I mean, I'd heard that fees were adjusting and I was
under the impression there. I mean, I'm not, I love what you're doing. I love everything about
you, but I just, I was just told that the fees were going lower and that seems like the same or
higher. Yeah. Real estate fees are negotiable and this is just the fee that we've set in order to
have a high level of professionalism and, you know, pay our staff well and give you a great
experience. So if, you know, if it's not right for you, if this isn't a good fit, I'm welcome to,
happy to refer you to someone else. Have you said that to people? Yeah. And how do they respond?
A lot of times they still end up working with me. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Just because they,
they know that I can deliver the results that they want. Right. Have you screwed up on a
transaction yet? Not majorly. Not majorly. Hold on, let me check my phone. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
And I'm not implying anything other than that's how we learn. Right. So if you looked back over
your storied career, what would you say would be the three or four most important things? If
someone was listening right now and they were like, Hey, I'm five years in the business. I'm
15 years in the business. And I'm looking at Hannah and I'm like somewhere between inspired
and dare I say, bitch, like what you've done? What they're like right now in Zillow going,
damn. And she's got the reviews that she's got. She's got the sales. Like there's it's undeniable.
If you were to say to somebody, boy, my advice, not knowing you would be these three things,
what would those three things be? The first is that you have to be a practitioner of your work.
You have to know what you're selling and you have to do it better than anyone else. So make sure you
study up, um, be confident. Confidence comes across to people. And if you're not confident,
people won't want to work with you. And, um, just be decisive. When I first started my first year,
I knew I was going to reach my goal. I like told myself, congratulations,
like I'm going to do this. And then I just had to figure out a way to get there.
Yes. Yes. Okay. So what's the number three? Uh, I thought that was three. Okay.
I thought it blended into number two. I apologize. So, so how do you prepare? If I'm listening to
this and I'm like, Hannah, I've been doing this forever. I'm 35 years in a minute. What do you,
what do you mean? Like, how do you prepare when you're creating content or
understanding the market? I know the market. Like what's your process?
I just dig in. And I, you know, when I'm making videos, I make a script of all the things I want
to talk about and I go find the data or I find the assets, the photos I get on the County website.
Like I just set some time aside on my calendar and do the work. Yes. Yes. What do you think?
I think she's very task oriented. I think it's a really power, a superpower of hers.
I was wondering, was there ever a time where you weren't confident in what you were doing
or what I'm guessing is you were probably like, I'm new and I'm going to make sure that I shorten
this learning curve as fast as possible by doing X, Y, and Z to get myself to this next level.
Was there a time where you were lacking in confidence and what did you do about it?
Definitely the first year is hard. Cause like I hadn't owned any houses or really seen any,
and no one trains you really in real estate. Your broker doesn't really train you to train yourself.
And so I played fake it till I make it a little bit and I just figured it out as I went. And if
I made a mistake, I made sure to make it right. That's good. So you were a straight DNF student?
Oh yeah, totally. No, straight A's. High achiever.
I had a feeling. So do you think that that translated? You think it translated nicely?
I think so. Yeah.
Okay. And then you went to college. What did you study?
Finance.
Finance. That certainly helped. Why finance?
I've always liked numbers. Truth be told, I really didn't learn a lot about finance. I
haven't really retained that stuff, but...
But it certainly helps going in this business.
I wanted a business degree, so I just chose one and it's like, okay.
Concentration in finance.
You know, there's an old joke about people that go into real estate that most of them
never got into the business because they love math. And the joke is most people don't know math,
except for what's 2.97% of $494,000. And they're like, bang. They know that number instantly.
So your three piece of advice, three was decisive, two was confidence, and one was preparation.
How do you generate confidence? There's a lot of people right now that,
you know, here we are, we're still kind of in the first stage of the new year.
And the last couple of years have been rough for a lot of people.
They have.
And we've watched a lot of people excel, but we've watched, I mean, if you look at 1.5 million
agents in the U.S. and another 185,000 in Canada and another, you know, 3 million agents throughout
Europe, we've watched a lot of people go through sort of the post-pandemic hardship. You did
nothing but accelerate. But having empathy for the person that maybe took some bumps and bruises
during that time, if they had to turn it around, what would you say are like two things from a
marketing or door knocking or open houses or whatever it may be, what would you say would be
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I would definitely go back to open houses every single weekend. That's a great way to get into
momentum and literally just talk to people, see houses, see what the market's like. I did two
every weekend when I first started. Even if people say open houses don't work in my market,
they get you into momentum. So I'd be doing open houses and then...
But two a weekend is the key. One a month doesn't get you into momentum.
One a month doesn't do anything. And that first year, I only got a handful of deals from the
open houses, but if I had just skipped that one open house where that person came in,
I wouldn't have gotten it. So I had to be doing it every Saturday and Sunday.
So the gas station's got to be open every weekend, if not every day versus once a month.
Yeah.
Okay. And what would number two be?
Number two would be... It's like what I did, just be a practitioner of your work. Go study
everything. Go drive around. Just know what you're selling. So many agents, they just don't know.
Okay. I'm going to ask her 7,000 more questions. You're going to jump in here?
Okay. So let's jump in. Yeah.
Sorry. My curiosity is just kicking in.
I want to go back to YouTube for a little bit. So what percentage of your business
is coming off of YouTube? And I guess we can add Instagram into the mix.
I'd say probably 50%.
Okay. And when you started your YouTube channel, which is, by the way, incredible,
you did 59 sales last year. Okay. So we're talking 30 plus or 30-ish transactions.
What are you seeing early 2025? Is it trending nicely for you?
Yeah. No. And the way YouTube works is you gain momentum, you get more videos,
you get more subscribers, more people watch them.
How often are you posting videos on YouTube?
Once a week.
And how long are the videos roughly?
Seven to 12 minutes is kind of the average. So it's like-
Why do you choose that target?
It's just what people can sit down and watch and get through. And it's just what's performed best.
Do you study the fall off times and how long do they watch?
Yeah, I do. I don't meditate over it too much because the most important thing is
just getting the content out. Yeah. It's the consistency. I never miss. I've missed one or
two uploads in three years and I can just stick to once a week. I could just do that forever.
I got three months of videos loaded up in there. We're just ready to go.
Already ready to rock. What's your style or is there a specific format you follow for the video?
I do this first and then it goes to this and then we transition to that.
So I do a hook for five to 10 seconds and then I do the channel intro.
Yeah. A little theme song.
Yep. Theme song. And then I'll do another intro to the video. Hey, welcome back to the channel.
And then I get into the content and then I close with a call to action.
Like what?
Text, email, or DM us and Dubai Realty Group would be happy to serve you.
Okay. You said that really fast. Like you've said it a few times.
So give us an example of a hook. What have you found to be one of the most effective
hooks to keep people engaged so they understand what it is I'm watching and why I should care?
So you just, you want to say it really fast. Like, you know,
these are the top five reasons why people are moving away from Vancouver, Washington.
Did you see how she just went on YouTube mode right there? Hector,
my producer was like, because she went like this, like these are the top five.
And so you want to say it with like some authority and you just want to be like,
these are the top five reasons why people are.
Unless you're Caitlin.
Yeah, but I'm not. So no, no, it's not your job.
So when I watch your videos, one of the efficiency gains that I think stands out
that a lot of people could probably adopt is you are not out in the field filming these videos.
You're generally in your own setting in your office or studio. You have a, it may be a nice
camera, but it could just be a webcam that's pointed at you. It's not a glorious set per se.
And I think a lot of, I think a lot of people get intimidated by YouTube. You mentioned being
intimidated by it before yourself and they think, well, it's got to be, you know, DSLR cameras.
I'm going to be in the field. The editing is going to be time intensive and cumbersome.
Yours involves you talking directly to the camera, which leads to a few questions. One,
are you doing a teleprompter or just, are you doing, you're just doing it?
How many takes do you do? I just run it all the way through and like my laptop is down
at the table that you can't see. And so I'll look in between like, oh, I want to talk about this.
And then what do I want to talk about next? Yeah. The editor cuts it out. And I'd say 50%
of my videos are just me sitting on the couch in my office. It's easy. I can get a lot of
information out. We do do videos in the field, but less of them. So it's a good mix. Yeah.
I notice all your stuff on Instagram. That's probably where I watch you the most. And that
seems to be always in the field. Yeah. I try to share people what I'm doing during my day
and give them like a real life glance. Yes. So, so your, your regular YouTube show is like a new
show, right? Essentially bringing you news about what's going on in the marketplace, historical
facts, new construction, what's going on when you're, when you're uploading the video, is there
anything specific you're doing from an SEO standpoint to try and get watched? Do you email
to your database to get more traction? You know, like the, like a lot of people create content and
they struggle. They're like, I'm not getting any views. And then I'm like, well, when you upload
it, what do you do? And when you, once you have it produced, what do you do? They're like, well,
it's on YouTube. I'm like, I emailed the Tom Ferry show to like 300,000 people a week, every week for
like the first five years. Like, how did you get so many views? I'm like, I emailed it to 300,000
people every week and not everybody watched, but enough did. So, so what do you do to get the views?
We definitely focus on SEO. That's where the majority of the views come from. Once you get
the SEO and once you're ranked high, it's, you're kind of on the throne. Right. And so we still
focus on, you know, the nitty gritty stuff, but not as much as we used to, cause I'm already at the top.
And then we do email it out every week on its own email. That's something I introduced this year and
it's been great. Do you email it out when it's published or do you wait a bit? We wait a couple
of days. Okay. Cause that's, I've been hearing a lot of others do that too. Like Kim was talking
about that too. Kim Posek, where he's not going to publish a link to a YouTube video until he's
given YouTube sufficient time to figure it out for itself. Yeah. In terms of how to go to fetch
those views and how to rank that video. He doesn't want to give it an external source of traffic
that throws it off the scent of how do I rank in the search results? Smart. So I think that's super
smart. I funnel all my YouTube viewers into my email subscription list. So most of those people,
they are all the same group anyway, so it's not a big deal. We also get all of our videos on like
a monthly content recap. That was an idea from you. I do that. And then I do a weekly newsletter
with local events, open houses, listings, and then our video of the week goes at the top. So
it sees the emails multiple times. That's good. Have you dabbled with any AI to streamline? I'm
not great at AI. Like we, we use chat GPT, but I know I could use it more. Reason I'm asking,
and I'm just one YouTuber. Cause the professor is about to start talking. You told me to.
So there are some other channels. Malcolm Lawson, do you follow his channel by chance? I do. Yeah.
He does a nice job on YouTube. So he's been using Haygen where he's been creating like scripted
avatars of himself talking. And it's one of the first examples of somebody on YouTube that I've
seen actually giving informative videos that are completely AI generated. And so he created a
secondary channel. I think he's going to get momentum. I really, I think if it's good enough
and it answers the right questions, if you really understand your niche in terms of who am I making
content for, who am I, what questions am I answering for them? Yeah. I think it can perform.
And, and the reason I bring it up is because I find there's different types of YouTubers.
There are some YouTubers who in real estate, they love to go see properties. They want to show home
the sort of their element. Like I think about like a Dwayne Carpenter, he's really great in the house
talking about the property. It's what he does best. The challenge with that is you got to have
the listings. You got to have the time to go film the videos. So when I look at your strategy where
it's tips and advice, you just have to put yourself in the, in the work and the habit of getting the
information. You can just scale so fast. I'm wondering, are you thinking about how AI can scale
it? Are you thinking about having more than one channel and going super, super niche on certain
topics? I think I'd rather go the more than one channel route. I do need to dive into the AI more.
Yeah. And there's something to be said about banging out a whole bunch of videos in the office.
Like I can do three or four, maybe even five in like an hour and a half. And that gives me content
for like a month. Cause you can't, you can't do that with one channel. Cause you really need to
give it the breathing room between the uploads. Yeah. Yeah. I love what Ken Posick does with his
local news thing. Like I would love to do that someday. Yeah. Just be phenomenal. Yeah. 2025
someday. We'll see. We'll see. Get that videographer first. Yeah. All right. So Hannah, as we get near
wrapping this up, um, I just want to say from the entire ecosystem, one of the, one of the things
that just warms my heart is watching like a 45 year old, a 65 year old, a 72 year old start.
But what really inspires me is when I see a 22, a 23, a 25, cause it just makes me think like
the future of real estate and housing and buyers and sellers is in really good hands.
Yeah. So I'm just really proud of you. So from, from myself and the entire community,
thank you. It's been a fun journey. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. So,
Hey, make sure you follow Hannah on Instagram and check out our YouTube channel. Go to Rizzolo page.
You'll see all the numbers. It's kind of bananas. So we're super proud of you. We're gonna have a
great, uh, next couple of days. Thank you for watching me at my grandmother's condo in, uh,
is your grandmother's beach condo in Orlando, which doesn't actually have a beach. Yes,
but Hey, make sure you follow this gal. Thank you so much for watching.
We'll see you on the next show. Take care.
