The CEO stressed to agents during a keynote address at Compass RETREAT on Tuesday that getting back to basics and forging sincere connections with clients would be the key to surviving and thriving in the current market.
Source: Inman News
Robert Reffkin: What we have now is a ‘connection issue’
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