There are generally three ways to recruit real estate agents:
1. Pursue Experienced Agents who may be dissatisfied with their current brokers.
2. Connect with New Agents soon after they're awarded real estate licenses.
3. Connect with New Agents who are deeper in the pipeline.
Each type of recruiting has advantages and disadvantages. Large real estate organizations have the resources to focus on more than one type of recruiting. Small companies and teams have more success by focusing on a single type of recruiting.
Pipeline-based New Agent recruiting is the hardest to implement and benchmark because prospects are difficult to source and manage over time. But it's also the most productive because it contains the most talented prospects and less competitors pursuing them. This is the ThirdPool.