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Course Descriptions

Here is a list of the courses offered. You may click on the appropriate class link to view the class name, number of credits (if any), class description, and teacher's name.

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Course Names

Class
CE Credit
Description
Teacher
Blogging: Why Should I?
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Having a blog on your real estate website can increase your web traffic and thus your business. This class will cover the basics of blogging and will cover the following:

  • What is a blog? (web log)
  • How can you blog for free?
  • How can having a blog drive clients to your website?
  • How can having a blog cause your current, previous and future clients to go to your website regularly?
  • Topics to include in  blog posts
  • How to auto schedule posts for when you are out of town or busy
  • Why allowing reader comments is important
  • Ideas for including photos/graphics with no copyright infringement issues
Harry Rodas

Business Social Networking
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  Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Active Rain... You've heard of some of these, but how do they help your business? Come find out why using social networking systems are not just for teenagers or geeks and could actually help you gain potential clients. Brooke Curnow
Document Management, Workflow, and Data Security
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Presentation includes solutions for Document and Workflow Management, Logistics and Accounting Systems, as well as Fax Server and E-mail Archive solutions for immediate and secure document distribution. Solutions for confidential client information protection through Sharp’s unsurpassed security suite that protects the disclosure or compromise of client information to help achieve information security compliance include: Data Security, Network Security, Encrypted Scanning, and User Audit Trail Log. Sharp OSA (Open System Architecture) development platform opens the door to a broad array of value-added functionality and flexibility. Sharp OSA provides Intelligent Scanning, Image Routing, and Application/Network Integration.

Dave Augason & Eric Swink
Free or Inexpensive Computer Programs You Need For Your Business
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Learn about g ood free programs and websites and what they can do for you. Free! - Google Earth/Sky; Google, Spybot, Lavasoft adware, Picassa2, Download.com, Inexpensive and Indispensible: Efax; GoToMyPC; Act!, homefeedback.com…and many more.  Learn what the possibilities are!

Rod Fife
How to Get the Most out of Your iPhone
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  The iPhone is a revolutionary device, but are you taking advantage of its full potential? We will answer your iPhone questions and help you maximize your productivity. Brad Molen
How to Stay Happy in the Current Market
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I just happen to be the “ happiest person in the world ” .  Let me share some of the techniques and the ways to help increase your happiness and learn to deal with the ups and downs of life and be more effective in your life.

Rod Fife
How to Take Better Pictures: Basic Photography for Real Estate Professionals
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We will discuss the following points: results you and your client want; what is the most important shot; remember, you are selling the home; watch your lines; shooting from the hip; wasn't the composition awesome; what to shoot with; manual vs. automatic; mind the details; and post processing.

David Davis
Identity Theft and Fraud: Could you be a Victim
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  Would You Know if You Were the Victim of Identity Theft? Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the country. Unfortunately, many of the victims don’t even know that they’ve been victimized until months after the damage has been done and for some it may take more than a year to ever find out about the situation. There are, however, red flags you should pay attention to that can indicate that you’ve been the victim of identity theft. Constance Richan
Make Money Off Your Tours
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  Learn how to MAXIMIZE and make money off your virtual tours and other online marketing strategies! Its more than just pictures on the internet, virtual tours can be utilized to capture listings and keep your sellers satisfied and double end more properties. The class will feature Obeo Tours but a lot of this info can be used for other tour companies as well. Learn other agents "secrets" and "success stories." Come join this entertaining and enlightening "think outside the box" class. If you enjoy marketing...this is a MUST ATTEND! Kirstin Combs
Making Technology Work for You
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  Learn how to utilize the latest technology and incorporate it into your real estate business. This class teaches you how to use the internet to capture those who are searching the web and convert them into leads. Learn how to narrow down all of the new technology to find what you are actually going to use. Robert Bolar

Marketing on the Green
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  Save a little green by marketing more efficiently and more environmentally friendly. Learn more cost effective marketing strategies to promote yourself and your listings including database creation. Amber Griffiths
Microsoft Excel for Real Estate Agents
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Is Microsoft Excel a mystery to you? It doesn't have to be. If you need to crunch numbers, Excel is for you. From adding columns of numbers to advanced multi-sheet workbooks, Excel will make sure you get the numbers right. This Excel course will introduce you to spreadsheet fundamentals. Topics covered include navigating Excel, using Functions, formatting numbers and text, defining Excel terms, moving and organizing your data and much more.

Michael Greer
Microsoft Outlook Level 2 for Real Estate Agents
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This course covers some of the more advanced functions of Microsoft Outlook.  Topics covered include:  Using Outlook’s Categories, The good and bad about sending bulk email using Outlook, printing contact labels, mail-merge correspondence using Outlook Contacts and more.  This course is designed to help Outlook users that currently use Outlook just for email to move on to some of the more powerful abilities that Outlook has to offer.  Ever wondered how you can get to your Outlook information on the road?  Need your email to be delivered straight to your phone?  Using Outlook information with your PDA or Smartphone is not always easy but this course discusses solutions and troubles involved with Email on-the-go.

Michael Greer
MLS: New Advanced Browser
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  • Hotsheets: creating, modifiying, saving, deleting
  • Statistics: Absorption rate, home sales graph, market summary, using map searching
  • Forms: online completion, saving, previewing in PDF
  • Photo maintenance: uploading, editing, new click-n-drag method
Kevin Dolan
MLS: New CMA
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  • Customizable search forms—easy to create and modify
  • Interactive mapping customization
  • Self-populating subject property fields via MLS # or Tax ID #
  • Dynamic selling price estimating with Customizable CMA adjustment tables
  • CMA packet reports—with customizable cover page and seller’s proceeds report with worksheet
  • Ability to save a file or print via a simple Adobe© PDF interface
Kevin Dolan
Outlook® Applications for Agents: Become more productive and valuable to your clients
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David will teach agents how to use Microsoft Outlook® to log, track, and recall information for transactions, clients , prospects, and past clients. This will help the agent become more productive, knowledgeable, efficient, and valuable to their clients and office; actually taking the agent to the next level in their career.

Dave Palomares
Search Engine Marketing: How Do I Get on Top of Google, Yahoo, & MSN?
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  Search Engine Marketing Advanced Class.  Learn the sophisticated tricks that the search engines won’t tell you about how to get top rankings and large amounts of traffic from search rankings.  Learn how to get LOCALIZED search exposure for your specific city, community or niche service. Oliver Bigler
Technology Challenged
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This class is designed to teach those who are technology challenged the basics of computer operations.  Topics covered include email protocol, BCC, CC, setting up group email; cut and paste using Ctrl C, V, and X; curing most computer problems using the "Restore" function; defragging; working Risco reports; using Google; opening your world on Internet inquires; Google Maps, street view, Google Earth & Sky…and many other interesting but basic information.

Rod Fife

Top Producers Panel: Technology Secrets That Make Us Money
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  Panelists: Drew Armstrong, Amber Burke, Chris Nichols, Michael Wilkins Bruce Tucker
Using Video in Your Business: Simple Tools to Start Using Video Today
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Yes, you can showcase your homes for under $200.00 bucks.  The internet and advances in technology have made it easier and more cost effective than ever before for REALTORS® to market their homes in a whole new way. Learn how to take advantage of video technology and begin implementing today! 

Cammon Randel
Using Your Website as a Marketing Tool
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This course will cover the concepts of generating leads through a powerful website. Topics include Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) marketing, website conversion rates, and tracking Return on Investment (ROI).

Bruce Rowe
Website Conversion: How Do I Get My Website to Generate Leads?
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Ever wonder how you generate leads from your real estate blog or your website for that matter? Well, it ain't rocket science, it's simple strategy involving quality blog design that leads visitors right to your most useful content, tools and lead generators coupled with quality content that will interest search engines and provide useful information to consumers. 

Oliver Bigler

What Makes a Blackberry a “Crackberry”?
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The Blackberry is extremely popular in the real estate community. What makes it so great? This class will teach you why the "Crackberry" is a must-have for REALTORS®.

Brad Molen