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Tara Bradbury, the Founder of the BDM Academy, has, over many years, being someone who has immensely raised the profile and status of the role of business development manager.
In this podcast, she shares not only lessons from her time as a BDM coach, but also now in the role of business owner having this year started a PM business from scratch.
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Episode Transcript
Tara Bradbury has over many years been someone who has immensely raised the profile and status of the role of business development manager. Her major accomplishments have included successfully securing an incredible 268 listings in one financial year and signing 30 new rental listings in one month. She's also the Founder of the BDM Academy, a training group many of the top BDMs have used around the nation. With more family and less travel a priority, she started her own property management only business in her hometown of Hervey Bay using new tech available and this business is completely paperless.
In this episode, we talk about how Tara is setting up from scratch, how she is marketing her new business, the little things that have counted in growing her rent roll from zero and how she is now managing BDM Academy, Active Agents and family life. We didn't even get around to this episode in talking about the fact that her PM business doesn't have a trust account, but that could be another chat coming up in the future. As those of you know with Tara, she's incredibly generous in her knowledge and there are tons of practical and actionable tips that you'd going to make notes on. If you need to catch up on any of our episodes, you can also sign up to our traditional newsletter extra while you're there and we will send you each and every month all the good stuff, all the tips from all of our show guests, which generally amount to hundreds of ideas and light bulb moments, which can help you take your business to the next level. Go to EliteAgent.com/Extra.
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Welcome to the show, Tara Bradbury.
Thank you for having me, Sam.
It's awesome to catch up with you again. It's been a while since we've caught up face to face. You've done a heap of things over the last few months. First of all, how have you been?
It's probably been pretty obvious on social media. The travels reduced quite significantly. I’ve been able to have a bit more time at home and still working with coaching clients online remotely, but I'm ready for that change. It's been a few years of having the BDM Academy in operation. It's probably not surprising to many that you get itchy feet and think, “What's the next direction for this business or what's the next direction for me?”
The exciting thing for you, in case people aren't aware, is that you started a rent roll of your own up in Hervey Bay. You referenced the fact that you were traveling a lot and you wanted to stay at home more because you've got a couple of kids. How has it been going back on the tools?
For me, if I could use one word, it's that I'm so much more curious compared to when I was previously working back in the industry. I feel the reason for that is that I have got to muck around with them on a level as a trainer. It's easy to say, “I can see what this can do so that's what you should do.” It's great because I feel like there are no excuses for anybody out there.