The Agent Trainer

Self Preservation
I’ve just returned from the 2008 NAR Convention in Orlando, Florida. I got the opportunity to take some instructor-updates and spend time with several instructors. Some of the things I heard, were disconcerting to me. Several of these instructors were ranting about the students bringing laptops and blackberry’s into the [...]

While looking around for new apps for my Blackberry today, I stumbled on Scanlife.com . Scanelife is an application that creates a graphic, that your handheld Treo, Blackberry, phone etc… can "scan" to be sent to a webpage. When you see the graphic, you can take a picture of it and the picture [...]

At the VAR Convention in Baltimore this year, I was introduced to Chris Koehler the President of ARE-TEC , a software company that has developed an excellent tool for consumer centric websites. Tonight I was reading Kelly Koehler’s post about what value your listing search should have. It made it really clear [...]

I love when a celebrity talks about “rich people” as if they weren’t doing ok, themselves. Regardless, this is one of the best descriptions of the Government Bailouts, I’ve heard.

Using Wetpaint.com, I setup a site for everyone in RE.net, that is going to NAR’s 2008 Florida Convention to let us know where you’re going to be. It’d be nice to actually "meet" some of you. I’m going to leave this up as a message board for others to update places to meet and cool [...]

This is me goofing off with my flip video, talking about why REALTOR® Associations should be using video to reach their members.

I am a huge fan of politics, mainly because it makes for some of the funniest SNL skits. There is always a little bit of truth in humor - that’s why I think this is the CNN clip that should have been shown:

NAR, in an attempt to continue to be engaged with their members, has developed a new position.  NAR is now hiring a Social Media Director.  You can find out more about this position on Monster.com:  NAR Social Media Director

CBS and 60 Minutes did a great layout of how we got to the point, we are at in the economy. With so many consumers looking to REALTORS® to understand the housing market, agents should know this information - a must see:
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I haven’t a clue how we come up with these names…. A Wiki is a great tool for mulitple authors or planners to come together and create a document on-line, without having to e-mail it to death. If you’re on an office committee to design a new policy or even on agent, trying [...]