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The one thing and wealth building w guest ben kinney 07 28 15
Ben Kinney is an entrepreneur, professional speaker, author, real estate agent, and owner of multiple real estate franchises with Keller Williams that started in Bellingham, Washington but now operates across the USA, Canada, and the U.K .
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- The one thing and wealth building w guest ben kinney 07 28 15
- How ben kinney built a real estate team to sell 600 homes real geeks training
- Early life
- Career
- Publications
- References
He is listed in The Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends' top 1,000 agents for 2011-2016. He was the top ranked agent in Washington state in transactional volume for the years 2012-2016.
Kinney is the founder of Ben Kinney Companies commonly referred to as "BKCO" which owns and operates the sales divisions, brokerages, training companies, and the technology firms including NVNTD, Brivity, and Blossor.
In 2013, NVNTD purchased Big Fresh Media and Tech Help. In 2015 BKCO purchased KWKLY and Activerain from the Zillow Group. In 2017 BKCO acquired the Salt Lake City technology company Blueroof360
How ben kinney built a real estate team to sell 600 homes real geeks training
Early life
Kinney grew up in a cabin in Oso, Washington between Bellingham, Washington and Seattle, Washington with his father, who was a fly fishing guide. He worked as a cable television installer while attending college. He later became a cable salesman.
Career
Kinney became a full-time real estate agent in 2004. Kinney later developed the curriculum for an online real estate designation course named IMSD - Internet Marketing Specialist Designation. He sold the curriculum to MarketLeader a publicaly traded company acquired by Trulia, but continued to teach classes through the brands Ben Kinney Training, Re8Expo, and Raincamp.
Kinney created two real estate tech startups, Brivity and Blossor. He was named the 2014 Innovator of the Year by Inman News.
On June 19,2015 Zillow Group Announced the Sale of ActiveRain and KWKLY to the Ben Kinney Companies
Publications
Kinney co-authored Soci@l, an ebook published by Rellek Publishing Partners, with Jay Papasan. Soci@l won a bronze award at the 2011 National Association of Real Estate Editors competition.