2024 Recruiting Brochure BHHS Starck Real Estate & Mag Bussey
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to meet with you and discuss your career plans.
It is exciting for me to consider the possibility of you joining our team. I have been watching your career and your accomplishments are impressive.
Making a move from your current brokerage is a pivotal business decision. It is important for you to make the right decision for the right reasons. My goal is to understand where you are in your career and where you want to go. Then we can discuss the tremendous potential of Starck to help you reach your goals. I believe that the opportunities for your growth at Starck are limitless.
As you will see in the following pages, Starck has a system for success. We have combined three processes into a seamless Broker experience.
· First-class marketing support
· Outstanding technology
· Ongoing development and training
Our mission as a company is to transform the lives of our brokers and their clients. We are committed to an aggressive growth plan and it shows in the substantial investments we have made in our training, marketing, and technology. Starck has a long and remarkable story. By joining our team, you have the opportunity to become part of that story.
Sincerely,
Local Roots, Global Reach
Starck is a family run brokerage with almost 60 years of experience serving the Chicagoland area. Our senior management team is easily accessible and on a first name basis with all our brokers. Starck has almost 600 brokers in 18 off ices throughout the Chicago area, Rockford and Northeastern Wisconsin.
We are part of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network of companies. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is the number 1 brokerage in the United States* and is led by Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO. The Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network has over 50,000 brokers and 1,450 off ices worldwide.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is positioning itself as “Real Estate’s Forever Brand.” As Warren Buffett stated, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is built to last and “will be heretomorrow,nextweek,nextmonth,and100yearsfromnow.”
Our mission is to transform lives and we specialize in empowering the success of our brokers. We are seeking brokers who want to achieve higher levels of performance and refuse to be average. Starck Real Estate invests heavily in its brokers with its Broker Productivity System. This unique and proprietary approach to real estate leverages our outstanding Academy of Growth, our Creative Studio, and our cutting-edge Technology platform that assists our brokers in delivering superlative customer experiences.
You will often hear Starck brokers praise our culture. This culture is based on Starck’s core values of being caring, charitable, and knowledgeable, and to act with integrity. These values embody our mission statement of transforming lives.
Starck gives you the support you need to be your best.
Starck Broker Productivity System
We combined the 3 main elements of real estate success—Marketing, Technology, Training—into a proprietary system that is easy to access, easy to use, and will make you a more productive, fulfilled and successful broker.
Giving Back is a Core Value
Our 500-plus brokers support a wide array of charities and are actively involved in their communities. Starck Real Estate as a whole is in the top 15 supporters nationwide of Sunshine Kids with Cancer. Giving back to the communities who support us is the right thing to do!
Here are some of the groups that we support:
Adopt-A-Family
American Cancer Society
Chicago Vets Ruck March
Cookies For Kids’ Cancer
Des Plaines Food Pantry
Diaper Bank of Northern Illinois
Family Health Partnership Clinic
Friends of the Library
Friendship House
Goodwill
Habitat For Humanity
Heartland Blood Center
Kiwanis
Lazarus House Shelter
Lions Clubs International
Lurie Children’s Hospital
Make-A-Wish
McHenry County Police Charities
Realtors® Against Homelessness
Salvation Army
Special Olympics Illinois
Sunshine Kids
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Toys For Tots
Tri-City Family Services
Wheeling Township Food Pantry
Women’s Crisis Center
Woodstock Christmas Clearing House
Various Food Pantries
Numerous Faith-Based Organizations
The Starck Creative Studio
Starck has a full-service Marketing Department with experienced marketers and designers who are ready to help you stand out from the crowd.
• Custom Personal Marketing
• New Home Development
• Digital Marketing
• Traditional Marketing
• Fast, Friendly Design Service at No Charge
• National Marketing Resources from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
• Custom marketing pieces upon request
• Free portrait photo by a Professional Photographer
Luxury Collection
Distinctive homes require a specialized marketing approach that targets affluent buyers effectively. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Luxury Collection offers a comprehensive global marketing platform that utilizes an elite network of powerful relationships and state-of-the-art digital tools to bring together buyers and sellers of luxury properties.
• Beautifully designed listing presentation materials
• Every luxury listing receives free professional photography, printed Luxury Collection branded brochures, and a distinctive Luxury Collection yard sign installed
• A wide range of advertising alternatives including The Wall Street Journal, DuPont Registry and Unique Homes
• Luxury listings priced $1 million and above are featured on The Wall Street Journal’s website MansionGlobal.com
• Prestige, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices’ proprietary luxury home magazine, features luxury listings and is distributed to over 20,000 of the most affluent homes in the US
StarckisoneoftheChicagoarea’sfastest growingbrokerages,with91brokersjoining our team in 2021, a 14% increase. 14%
Starck Advantage Gives You a Competitive Edge!
We call our new property marketing system Starck Advantage because it is designed to make your life easy while delivering high quality listing marketing materials next business day. Our Creative team and in-house print shop give you professionally designed and printed marketing materials that make you look like a star!
Every listing and every open house get a full suite of marketing assets at no cost:
• Professional Photography
• Color Brochures
• Just Listed eCards
• Open House Flyers
• Open House eCards
Automated Listing Program
Digital Advertising That Gets Results
Hathaway HomeServices Automated Listing Program powered by Digital, combines the network’s existing marketing platform with CHALK’s technology to automate digital branding and listing ads.
Thousands of buyers will see your home online through Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices automated listing program. Our digital advertising targets actual buyers in your market who are actively looking for a home like yours. CHALK Digital’s platform is always on and will identify, target, and reach the right audience to give your home maximum exposure. Interested buyers will be retargeted to keep your home top of mind in their home search.
AutoFlow Makes Your Business Grow
Hathaway HomeServices Automated Listing Program powered by CHALK . The program network’s existing marketing platform with CHALK’s innovative technology to automate and listing ads.
works:
At the heart of the Ninja selling system is AutoFlow, a way of staying in touch with your most important contacts on a regular basis using multiple channels of communication—print, email, and social media.
will automatically receive a listing ad campaign approximately 24 hours after CHALK data feed from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. shown to potential homebuyers within a 15-mile radius of the listing on social media, websites and mobile devices.
Our Creative Team developed a proprietary marketing program based on Ninja principles that keeps you top of mind with your important contacts with three touches per month. Without having to press a button each of your designated contacts will receive 36 touches per year all for just $2 per month, per contact.
The best part about AutoFlow is that it is automatic. You set it, and forget it!
buyers and sellers who visit a network agent’s webpage on www.berkshirehathawayhs.com will be retargeted with an ad that appears on the social media platforms and premium websites visited by the potential client.
ads are executed automatically with no action required from the network agent, network agents receive retargeting from their personal landing pages, if the agent’s landing page is not available the consumer will be directed to the listing’s landing page. who click on the company-paid listing ads will be sent to the listing detail page on
Your listings have a global presence on BHHS.com and on StarckRE.com where over 26 million visitors* search for their next home in 12 languages each year. All listings are syndicated to the 70 top real estate search engines including Zillow.com, Trulia.com, Realtor.com, and Homes.com. All public listings are included in a full IDX search on BHHS.com. Every listing in the MLS can be viewed in 13 languages.
FEATURED WEBSITES:
World Class CRM Technology
Starck offers you kvCORE, the #1 rated CRM real estate platform that maximizes lead generation and assists you in managing your own contact database through next-generation technology.
CRM FEATURES
Marketing Autopilot drives 5-10 times more engagement with both new leads and sphere of influence contacts. Included are dynamic, multi-channel marketing campaigns which can adjust to behavior patterns through powerful AI technology. Fully automated messaging, listing alerts, and market reports keep you top-of-mind with clients and drives leads to your marketing funnel.
Listing management and marketing tools allow you to seamlessly manage and promote your listings. You can maximize market exposure for your listings through social media integration, eMarketing campaigns, and mass text messaging.
Business intelligence and analytics give you access to critical data on your easy to manage dashboard.
Maximize your business growth and minimize mistakes with unprecedented visibility into marketing source performance, productivity, contact engagement, and more. Simple, yet powerful analytics and reporting help you make more informed business decisions that impact your bottom line.
Transaction management integration streamlines workflows while driving post-close automation and analytics.
Starck
Supporting You at Every Stage of Your Career
Whether you are new to real estate or a successful broker with years of experience, the Starck Academy is here to assist you in achieving new heights of performance. You can experience our offerings online, in-class, self-guided, or in one-on-one environments.
The complete Starck Academy of Growth offering is the Chicago area's most comprehensive free training and development program.
University
Starck University gives new and experienced brokers an in-depth overview of how to manage a real estate practice from A to Z. From setting up your database, to lead generation, working with buyers and sellers, completing a strategic pricing analysis, to license law and negotiating, and much more, you will learn how to be a successful real estate broker. You will also learn business planning and using Starck’s tools to launch your business.
Starck Engage
Starck Engage is an exclusive group training that allows brokers from multiple off ices to come together and collaborate while working through the 60 Days to Success Plan. This weekly video conference call allows you to learn what works for others when it comes to success habits as well as For Sale By Owner, Geographic Farming, Expired Listing, and Open House strategies.
Individualized Training & Mentoring
No matter what level you wish to achieve in your business, our Broker Development specialists are ready to help. Trainers and technicians are available monthly in each off ice or online through our cutting-edge video conferencing and remote sharing software.
For new brokers, Starck offers a mentoring program. This allows new brokers to learn from both theoretical and practical knowledge to bring the best of both worlds to those that know, like, and trust in their service.
NINJA SELLING
What would you say if we could show you how to increase your business by 30% to 40% in the next six months? The Ninja selling system has been proven to do just that. With Ninja you attract clients instead of chasing them.
The Ninja Selling system is based on a philosophy of building relationships, listening to the customer, and helping them achieve their goals. It is less about selling and more about how to create value for people.
The results speak for themselves. Our Ninja class of January 2018 increased their productivity by 98.3% in one year by following the Ninja path. The training is at no cost, other than reimbursement for program materials.
We do not require our brokers to use the Ninja selling system, but we do highly recommend it.
Starck Success Track
Starck’s Success Track will help to reinforce the essential business skills learned during the Ninja installation: Mindset, Actions, Buyer and Seller Processes that ensure the lowest chance of rejection with the highest chance of double platinum service.
This 8-week group training is available to all who have been Ninja installed and want to take their business and life to the next level.
Starck’s Commission Plans are designed for the individual brokers maximum ability to do more business, maximize their earnings, and be able to have a high quality of life. Starck has augmented the industry’s leading value package with a 95% CAP Plan.
All brokers are eligible for the Starck 95% CAP Plan. Once you have consistent levels of production in excess of $5,000,000 then you will receive an individually tailored commission plan to assist you in getting to the next level. All team plans are individually tailored to the needs of the team.
Lead Generation
Starck’s Experienced Relocation Division provides thousands of leads through referral and relocation sources locally, nationally, and internationally.
Receive leads in real time on your listings from our own websites StarckRE.com and BHHS.com, and from aggregator search engines such as Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, and Homes.com.
We have a Broker Customer Relationship Management system with built-in auto FLOW service.
Lifetime & Retirement Income
Starck brokers are eligible for the Starck Team Builder Program allowing unlimited income for life by assisting Starck in attracting high quality real estate brokers.
Health, Dental, Vision & Financial
It can be a challenge for independent contractors to find affordable insurance and financial services. That's why Starck offers some very competitive options for our Brokers.
Dental by Ameritas – Dental coverage at group rates.
Vision by VSP – We offer a basic vision plan that meets most needs and a premier plan with additional benefits at a slightly higher premium.
HealthiestYou by TELADOC – 24x7 unlimited access through virtual visits to avoid doctor's off ice and some urgent care visits. Their physician network can diagnose, treat, and prescribe with no consult fees, anytime, anywhere.
Dergalis Associate – a professional advisory offering a comprehensive suite of affordable benefits including insurance, financial services, and multiple healthcare plans specifically for real estate brokers.
All In One Services
Buying a home can be an overwhelming experience, even for buyers who have been through a few real estate transactions. Because of this, 97% of buyers believe that one-stop shopping for mortgage and title services makes the home buying process easier. Our core services offer a seamless transaction experience to your clients. They will benefit from the convenience of obtaining the services they need to close through their trusted real estate broker, you! This increases your value to your clients and provides them with convenience and cost savings.
Trusted Lending Partners
At Starck Real Estate, we understand that securing a mortgage is a crucial step in the journey of purchasing a home. That's why we proudly offer our clients access to our network of preferred mortgage lenders who are renowned for their exceptional customer service and competitive rates. By connecting you with one of our trusted lenders, we ensure that you receive expert guidance and support throughout the entire home buying process. Whether you're a first-time buyer or a seasoned investor, our lenders possess the expertise and resources to tailor a mortgage solution that aligns perfectly with your needs and financial goals. With Starck Real Estate by your side, finding your dream home and securing the right financing has never been easier.
Starck Title Insurance
Through Starck Title's affiliation with the nation's leading underwriters, your clients will get the strongest title insurance policies available with the convenience of closing at a number of nearby locations. Our network of experienced real estate attorneys specialize in local contract law to protect your clients’ interests. Starck Title seamlessly coordinates all aspects of closings so your clients have peace of mind.
