We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Alex Coffman and Matt Teifke of Teifke Real Estate. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Alex Coffman and Matt Teifke below.
Hi Alex and Matt, thanks for joining us today. Early in your career, how did you think through the decision of whether to start your own firm or join an established firm?
We started Teifke Real Estate in May 2020, at the start of the pandemic. Our biggest lesson to share here: Take massive action. Have massive outreach, pitching our vision, constant trying to find the right people to work WITH us. It was constantly just building this core group of enTREpreneurs that built the base/foundation of brought us where we are today. People who bought into our vision and willing to go on this journey WITH us.
We didn’t have a lot in place in the beginning like we do now aside from just providing massive support. We didn’t have educational opportunities, technology to offer, no resources etc, aside from Matt and I doing everything we could do to support the enTREpreneur™ vision.
Key Challenges were lack of capital. We didn’t have a lot of start up capital. We weren’t able to invest in our company like we wanted to in the beginning just due to business not producing the income to be able to put money into all the different things that we wanted to like hiring certain roles/people.
Aside from all this, we wouldn’t have done anything differently even knowing what we know now. It was part of building the business that we now have.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Together, Matt and Alex are building a brokerage that has no limits to what their agents can do. At Teifke Real Estate, while we are a real estate brokerage that helps buyers and sellers, we will guide you, as an agent, on your journey of creating generational wealth through real estate. We will partner with you on deals, show you how to wholesale, show you how to use our technology, and how to approach one opportunity in one thousand different ways.
Teifke Real Estate is here to give you all of the support that you could possibly need while you become a more successful real estate agent. We value our agents as partners and consider Teifke Real Estate a place where we all grow together. Our current locations include, Austin MSA, Houston, and Corpus Christi, TX, but we’re looking to grow in other markets as well.
We are so proud of our community, culture, and our team of enTREpreneurs. How everyone works together, cares about one another, everyone is truly working WITH each other.
Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?
Follow-up, consistency, doing what we say we’re going to do, closing deals, and providing MASSIVE SUPPORT to our agents. Social media was HUGE in showing everything that we do. It’s the main reason why people who haven’t met us, know about us.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
We’ve learned this through trial and error. Another key factor has been not listening to other people’s negative opinions and staying true to who we are. With that said, you should listen to the audience that follows you and engage with them. Send them a message and ask how they’re doing and see what ways you can add value to them vs sending a sales pitch. Social media is to be social. Get in the comments and respond to people and comment on their posts as well. It’s what truly makes it a community. We’ve literally had people fly from around the country to meet us and the feeling is unmatched.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.teifkerealestate.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/teifkerealestate
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teifkerealestate/
- Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/teifkerealestate
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TRE_ATX
- Youtube: www.youtube.com/teifkerealestate
- Other: Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@teifkerealestate
Image Credits
Andrew Roberts w/ Teifke Real Estate