Inside the brokerageThe arrival
Eric Matthews · TRU Coaching

Sales leadership · Real estate teams

Know who needs you.
Know how to help.

Hands-on growth strategy, sales leadership, and operations for real estate teams. Eric and Adam work alongside your leadership—with TRU HQ supporting the work.

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    You’ve invested in the opportunities.
    Let’s work on what happens next.

    Who gets the lead. How they follow up. Where the conversation stalls. We work alongside your leadership to improve the decisions, habits, and systems that turn opportunity into business.

    What we take on ↓

    What changed
    during the work.

    One brokerage. More closings and more agents meeting the top-performer threshold.

    Zillow Preferred · Brokerage growth

    13→21

    Average monthly closed transactions

    Monthly closing averages reported during the February 1–September 1, 2026 assessment period.

    Zillow Preferred · Agent development

    8→20

    Agents meeting the top-performer threshold

    The same brokerage, assessed February 1–September 1, 2026.

    What counts as a top performer?

    An agent with a predicted conversion rate of at least 4.5%, measured over the trailing six months. This is a predicted rate, not an actual closed conversion rate.

    A separate team · Zillow Preferred launch

    800% increase
    in monthly contracts.

    From 1 in March to 9 in August 2026. TRU joined in March. Monthly contracts signed shown below.

    New Zillow Preferred team
    First month

    8 transactions

    14 ZHL pre-approvals

    Results supplied by TRU from individual client engagements. Client identities withheld. Results vary by team and engagement.

    A clearer view.
    A better conversation.

    Pulse brings activity into view. Coach organizes the evidence for review. Rep gives agents a place to practice.

    The software supports the engagement. Eric helps leadership decide what deserves attention and how to work on it.

    Bring the question back to the work.

    1. Where is execution breaking down?

      Review lead routing, pipeline activity, and follow-up.

    2. What actually happened?

      Examine the relevant conversation before deciding what to coach.

    3. What should the agent do next?

      Turn the observation into a specific coaching conversation and practice.

    When there isn’t enough evidence

    One completed report contained one outbound text and returned zero coaching items. That does not establish good or poor performance; it means there was too little evidence to coach from.

    Anonymized report, August 28–September 3, 2026.

    Put opportunities with the right people.

    Manage lead platforms, routing, agent capacity, and expansion plans. We help teams work the opportunities they receive, including realtor.com and Zillow Preferred buyer and seller leads.

    Work on the conversations that convert.

    Call review, objection handling, role-play, and buyer and seller processes. Give coaching a specific behavior to improve.

    Make follow-through visible.

    CRM adoption, pipeline management, follow-up standards, and performance reviews. Establish clear expectations and return to the work.

    Build leadership that can scale.

    Strengthen onboarding, coaching systems, and leadership meetings. Our experience spans teams of 5–8 agents through onboarding redesign for a team of 80+.

    1. Find the gap

      Look at opportunities, capacity, and execution.

    2. Work on the cause

      Coach the behavior or improve the operating process.

    3. Review what happened

      Return to the work, assess progress, and adjust.

    Eric Matthews.
    Adam Terrason.
    Working with your team.

    We bring a combined 14 years of experience in the Zillow Preferred space, working with high-performing real estate teams and the leaders behind them.

    Our work spans onboarding, accountability, and standard operating procedures; agent development and conversion; and the decisions that shape a healthy business—from recruiting and agent splits to profitability, lead-source strategy, and marketing opportunities.

    Eric and Adam both support leadership development. Eric brings a focus on operations, and Adam brings a focus on agent development. Together, we help teams build the structure, training, and follow-through to make the most of Zillow Preferred and their other lead sources.

    Meet us in a consultation ↗
    Eric Matthews

    Eric Matthews

    Leadership development & operations

    Adam Terrason

    Adam Terrason

    Leadership development & agent development

    Your pipeline open.
    A real conversation.

    Bring the part of your team’s operation that feels hardest to get your arms around. We’ll talk through where support would help.

    Book a consultation ↗