What are your costs and why would you change brokers?

[Véronique Pelletier]

I would greatly appreciate your time in answering a quick 10 questions. I am a marketing student planning to go into real estate. 

1. What are the top 3 reasons a client contacts a real estate agent?
2. Does the client ask if the agent is a Realtor?
3. Does the client ask which broker the agent is affiliated with?
4. How many hours a month do you, the agent, spend involved with your broker?
5. What are the total costs to be a broker, and to support the office?
6. What are your ad/marketing costs? Are you an agent or a broker?
7. What technology do you currently use? Which are your favorites?
8. What technology do you wish you had access to in your business?
9. What technology do you wish that the client would use more? Less?
10. Are you free to move to another broker: for example, if you moved out of the area?