Vivek Parikh summarizes his three year journey from being a successful cricketer to becoming a realtor and owning a RE/MAX franchise in Ahmedabad, India. He began his career as a passionate cricket player who worked his way up to captaining state and national level teams. An injury forced him to retire from cricket, which led him to discover the RE/MAX franchise opportunity in India. He met with regional owners to learn about the business and decided to open RE/MAX Metro in 2010. Since then, his office has steadily grown from three to fourteen agents and has received awards. Through hard work and RE/MAX training, Parikh found success in real estate after his cricket career despite initially knowing nothing

1. Vivek Parikh’s
Foray Into RE/MAX
METRO
9825577073 vparikh@remax.in
The 3 year journey:
From a Cricketer to
a Realtor

2. RE/MAX Metro
3 DELIGHTFUL YEARS…
Three long years have passed since the launch
of RE/MAX Metro and today I would like to
look back and thank my Business Associates,
Admin staff, family (especially my parents,
my wife and my daughter), friends, clients
and all well wishers who contributed in
making this journey worthwhile and more.

3. AN INTEREST IN CRICKET…
The journey began…
The journey began
when I was a mere
lad of 10 and a
cricket enthusiast.

4. Initial summer
training classes
were prolonged to
regular sessions by
my coach owing to
my prowess in the
game.
TRAINING…

5. MY COACH PUSHED ME…
My coach pushed me to work hard

6. And then came a day when I was selected in the
school team.
THE DAY CAME…

7. The hard
work was
further
rewarded
when I was
selected in
the state
cricket
team.
REWARDS OF HARD WORK…

8. CRICKET GLORY…
Soon I was
appointed as
the Captain
of Under 16
category and
then the
Under 19
category
team.

9. CRICKET GLORY…
My success
story went on
with a chance
to represent
Gujarat in
Ranji One
Day which I
was able to
maintain for
9 long years.

12. UK SPELL…
I was recommended by
Mr. Chetan Mankad to
one Club in UK called
Billesdon to play for them
in Leicestershire Premier
League in 2001. I played 9
years of my cricket in UK
for Billesdon CC and
LoughboroughTown CC.

13. RECORD
BREAKERS
MASTERFOODS
batsmen Vivek
Parikh & Vijay
Panchal Co-
wrote the
Grantham
Cricket League
Record Books at
Waltham

14. SUCCESS HIATUS…
In the year 2007, my
success story in cricket
took a setback when I had
to undergo arthroscopic
surgery after an injury
during fielding.

15. A PARTNER FOR LIFE…
I got married to Vinita, my partner through thick
and thin, in 2007.

16. I played for two more years in UK but could
not continue like before.
TWO MORE YEARS…

17. I never
made a
full
come
back
after
that.
NEVER LIKE BEFORE…

19. THE RE/MAX IDEA…
It was in UK that I
got to know that
RE/MAX, the
world’s famous &
largest real estate
broking company
is going to start
offices in India. I
was interested!

21. REGIONAL OWNERS
Manan & Aashil …
I met Manan and Aashil
to find out more about
the RE/MAX franchise.
Initial inhibitions were
whether a sportsman
like me would be able
to manage a real
estate franchise ?

23. Manan and Aashil
helped to make me
understand the nuances
of the business.
REGIONAL OWNERS
Manan & Aashil …

24. and also reiterated the fact that the RE/MAX
brand and institute would teach me all I needed
to know.
REGIONAL OWNERS
Manan & Aashil …

25. CRICKET TO RE/MAX…
I decided to quit cricket which had been a part of my life
for 20 years, and start a RE/MAX franchise. Thus begins
the story of RE/MAX Metro when on 1st August 2010,
the first office was opened by me.

26. RE/MAX METRO HUMBLE BEGINNING
From scratch…
I began my office with only three agents and gradually
learnt the business from scratch. I did a lot of learning
and research in order to understand the real estate
world.

28. RE/MAX METRO GROWS…
Slowly but steadily, RE/MAX Metro started growing,
initially with references from friends and family and
then from clients, from advertisements and agents.

29. SOME ADVERTISEMENTS…

30. BIGGER TEAM…
More agents joined and today we have 14 agents working
for RE/MAX Metro and we are all set to grow further.

31. RE/MAX SAFETY…
Being a part of the RE/MAX group has been a kind of
safety net for us. RE/MAX started to grow eventually to
12 offices in Ahmedabad (as on 1st August 2013 ) and
100 agents which is the biggest real estate broking
company in Ahmedabad.

32. AWARDS FOR RE/MAX METRO…
During the RE/MAX India Goa Convention 2013, our team
was awarded the second best franchise in India and I
won the Top Recruiter award for year 2012-2013 and my
agents were recognized as best agents.

33. AWARDS FOR RE/MAX METRO…

34. RE/MAX TRAINING WORKS…
Not only in real estate broking, the RE/MAX training
sessions made me tech savvy and helped me to take
mature decisions.

35. I learnt how to reduce running expenditure and increase
the income by implementing the right things.
LEARNING…

36. DISCIPLINE AND DEDICATION…
But hard work and dedication
can make any job easy. The
discipline that I had learnt way
back during the game came in
handy to make me do well in a
business I had no clue about.
Competition brings out the best
in the person, be it cricket or
business.

39. RE/MAX METRO MOTTO…
“Lets work together and
earn together”
Vivek Parikh
Broker Owner,
RE/MAX METRO,
407, 4th floor Shangrila Arcade,Nr. Shyamal
Cross Roads, Satellite, Ahmedabad-380015

40. THANK YOU…

41. THANK YOU!