New Employee Break in Period Reduced to 3 Hours (CFFL 0226)

New Employee Break in Period Reduced to 3 Hours Jack Butala: New Employee Break in Period Reduced to 3 Hours. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening. Jack Butala: Jack Butala with Jill DeWitt. Jill DeWit: Hi. Jack Butala: Welcome to our show. In this episode Jill and I talk about new employee break in period and how it's been reduced to three hours. Can't wait to hear this. This is Jill's show. Good show. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on successplant.com, our free online community. Jill DeWit: Thank you. This is from Mark in Seattle. He wrote, when you're selling on CraigsList how do you pick the posting city? I've just been posting to larger cities nearby the land. Do you post in the biggest cities like New York, Chicago, L.A. or how do you manage that? Good question. Jack Butala: Here's what we do and it works like a charm. The very first thing you do is post in the Craigslist that's near the property. I'll tell you why. We buy and sell a lot of property in Northern Michigan as vacation properties and the first place that people look is local Craigslist. I've never posted in New York or Los Angeles. I have absolutely posted in Chicago and Detroit and Northern Michigan and anywhere around that where you think people might be traveling for vacation property. As far as out west or acreage property which we also sell a ton of, you know what? Honestly, I do not think I've ever posted in the Los Angeles Craigslist before to sell property. People tend to look at Craigslist where the property is. I will say that I have posted postings about purchasing general property for half of what it's worth in these big cities, and get a lot of traffic that way but not for LandStay. Not for a specific property, but to promote our website and drive traffic, yeah, big cities are great. Jill DeWit: Cool. Thank you. Jack Butala: If you have a question or you want to be on the show, call 800-725-8816. Today's topic, the new employee break-in period is reduced to three hours. Jill, how do you manage this? I have some ideas. Jill DeWit: I was having some fun with this. No, here is the big picture. Jack Butala: This is priceless advice by the way. I'm listening. I want to know this too. Jill DeWit: You're going to know in a matter of hours if they're going to work out or not. That's the thing. If you're not feeling it, something's wrong and you can't work with them and tweak it in half a day, don't fight it and kick the can down the road. It may not be the right person. We knew in a matter of two hours on one employee. It was from a temp agency that we got a while ago. Jack Butala: She stuck around for a few days. Jill DeWit: She did. She tried and you know what, I tried. That's where I learned that, why am I trying? It didn't work. Jack Butala: Yeah. She knew too. Jill DeWit: It didn't mesh with our staff, didn't mesh with us and some of the things that we ... Jack Butala: No, I completely understand what you mean. Here's the key for me. All employees regardless of where they work and which department, whether they're assistants or whether they're doing real estate deals or answering the phone, I require that they have a certain level of IT experience and I whole heartedly believe in hiring people who are former escrow agents because they're so used to deadlines and performance metrics. Most escrow agents are expected to close, not [inaudible 00:04:12] but close, in a bigger city, at least thirty deals a month, which is a lot when your work week is twenty or twenty-on days. That's multiple transactions a day. The thing about that is you're putting the pieces of the puzzle together.