Create a plan and work it.  Likely not much different from a business perspective than how you started your real estate career in California. 

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I would follow a plan similar to what you did when getting established in CA, with plenty of research to determine areas you want to target. I would also connect with agents here who are in the general area you will be in as well as others in Texas.

Work the people you do know.  Learn the area, host open houses to fill your pipeline of prospects.  Door knock, cold call.

I think you just do what you do to get situated ANYWHERE as a new agent - join the Chamber, volunteer, get familiar with the area and market, network!
And of course, blog and create your brand via social media. Anywhere you go, it's gonna be the same essentially.

Find the best office in the area that actually has the tools and programs and models to help you create whatever type and size real estate biz you wish.

Teresa Row at the bottom of every Active Rain page is a menu and one of the items is the Leaderboard. Click on it and then enter your State and you will see the most active AR bloggers. You can even narrow it down to the county. Reach out to one of them for help.

East Texas. That a great area of the country.

Your question is the common question for those finding themselves in a place they just moved to. However, for 3.5 years you have been a yo-yo. I don't know what you were doing, but begin with an analysis of who you meet in your yo-yo status. At this time, this is your 'A-list' to cultivate so they can experience success WITH YOU. Don't skim over that.

Now, if you followed the 'On The Right Track" guide for new agents, you will have assessed the assets, education, skill, experience and personality that will serve you best creating attraction.

Let's say your genius identified as FLAME.  Flamboyant and the number one problem solving tool is 'who do you know.' A little grandstanding was never an element of fear.

For this person, getting a interview in the community or local newspaper would be a GREAT goal. But no one wants to read about another new agent moving in....unless........

Earlier this week a question was posted abut the idiot agents who do open houses. Read the response to that question. Want to get in the newspaper?

....you come to  town with a new business model. Explain in the article this means you will partner with a local animal shelter, food bank, save the planet, any charitable organization. Perhaps as a sign on bonus your new broker pays for this advertorial.

This means the public is aware too often they get what they pay for and free isn't worth much.

Your business model is to host open houses with an admission fee or a ticket. All proceeds go to the attending charity. And you don't offer  a FREE cma but will provide a broker opinion of value. After all, broker after your name means more to the public than all the purchased letter agents append.  So a 'broker opinion of value' makes you worth MORE. Now you are dictating the narrative.

Already such action will elevate the playing field, citizens want to know what they have been missing out on and you need to not disappoint them.

Step two: Identify the churches, organization and businesses that are the hubs of the community. Join, volunteer and collaborate to grow your business through introductions.

Step three is actually the very first thing you must know and detailed in the book. Practice describing the value you bring into a transaction without using a single syllable of real estate agent gobbly-gook. Know what you are worth and that is what you will be paid.

This is very hard to do and most agents can not do it. So their business model is like every other agents business model. Their value is imposed on them by others. And easily they surrender 20, 35, 50, 70% of their compensation to those who tell them they are not worth much.

Best of success,
Annette

Hey, it might not work for you at all if your genius type is Steel.

Very hard to provide advice on a market I know nothing about. You build a business pretty much in any area they way you did in California.

Teresa,

Are you intending to live in East Texas or California..  In which city?  My advice is to research, research, research.  Pick an area you can identify with. A

Teresa Row Welcome to Active Rain. Just do the same things you did in CA and rely on your new brokerage manager/leader to guide you

Basics matter.  So do connections:  no time like the present to start if you haven't done so.

Seems you got some good advice here!

Start with finding a great brokerage to work with, get to know the other agents and inventory then proceed as you did when you were first licensed in Cali.

Looks like you got some good advice by others who have been there, done that.

Make connections daily & don't be afraid to challenge your comfort level to do so. Good luck, but luck is not what will do it for you- all you'll need is you.

Join a Team to learn the ropes in your new town

Congrats on the move, East Tx is a nice location, hope you get started on meeting some new folks.

Budget 2 hours each morning to some sort of lead gen and you will have plenty of clients soon.

Learn the geographical area where you will be working and get to know as many afents working the area as well. 

Join the local chamber of commerce and the builders association and get active to build your database.

you've received good direction here.... follow the leaders....

Where in East Texas?

Get involved. Talk to people in your new area. Find out what the issues there are and blog about them. When you meet new people, let them know what you do. Good luck with your new business!

I would start with who you do know and work outward. Writing blogs, sharing them on socil media, attending neighborhood events and letting everyone you meet know who you are and what you do

Best of luck, in a good way.  The business is the same in Texas as California 

How did you start in CA? Did it work for you? If so, rinse and repeat!

Otherwise, if you lived in CA all of your life and had a good sphere/base built, I would work on farming my own neighborhood and work out as you become established, enlarging your circle/area each year.

Good luck!

Get your social media strong and consistently post about the new community you are in. Ask for help on  your posts and always appear genuine. Schools are a great place to start marketing. Take some school supplies to an elementary school with your logo on them. Teachers are a great resource for referrals too!

Best of luck. 

I am in Miami.

My advice is fo find a place to live and work for the next 20 - 30 years and establish yourself in the community.  Start doing Open Houses, Door Knocking, Cold Calling & Networking.  Become the Local Expert.

Start farming a area and listen to Barbara Todaro

Get involved and make conncections. I post lts of ideas on my chanels, but one of my favorites is to hold a block cleanup. It is one of the best ways to get to know your neighbors organically around a shared activity that improves the neighborhood. I wrote a blog post on it with all the deatils. Good luck!  This is really exciting. It's like you get to reinvent yourself. 

Blog and do videos on the new area, one at a time until they are indexed.

Start blogging local events.

Great suggestions in the responses that I have reviewed. I cannot add anything more.