Jeannie DelGreco, a Lafayette realtor with eXp Realty, spoke with Jan Swift of the Discover Lafayette about her storied entrepreneurial journey in sales.
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While Jeannie’s current career today as a mom and realtor with eXp Realty is fulfilling and successful, in this interview, Jeannie looks back at the various lessons learned and experiences she survived that made her the person she is today. And to put it into perspective, Jeannie is a highly successful real estate agent with eXp Realty, being ranked in 2023 by the firm as the #4 sales agent in Lousiana and #2 in Acadiana with $14 million in sales volume.
DelGreco, who once sold plants door-to-door as a child, was asked to spend the summer with her mother’s close friend from New Iberia, Sandra DeBlanc, who lived in Columbus, Ohio and was director of sales for Victoria’s Secret catalog. DelGreco joined the sales force team there for the summer and stayed in Columbus to Ohio State University to study business, marketing and human resources.
On the day of her graduation, she met a woman who made custom hats and holding a raffle to give away a flat travel hat to the lucky winner. DelGreco won the hat and started a conversation about her practice of designing hats and decided to become a milliner and quit her job at Victoria’s Secret.
She moved her business to New York in a Manhattan loft space and built a large customer base there with local Orthodox Jewish customers and later landed a deal with J. Peterman company. J. Peterman later filed for banktruptcy, which led to DelGreco’s business shutting down and DelGreco later filing for bankruptcy.
Today DelGreco is a successful real estate agent with eXp Realty, being ranked in 2023 by the firm as the No. 4 sales agent in Louisiana and No. 2 in Acadiana with $14 million in sales volume.
