Course Creators was very fortunate to collaborate with professional photographer and real estate agent Greg McCown on the creation of a cutting edge and fun course called “Through the Lens”. The course will help you understand more about photographs, how to take better ones and what we all need to know about photography in protecting and promoting our clients interests. Here are some photos I took of my house before Greg’s class. They are pretty typical of what you might find in MLS, listing databases or posted by agents in social media.

BEFORE CLASS

BEFORE CLASS

BEFORE CLASS

BEFORE CLASS

I went to Greg’s class and the following photos were taken with the same camera of the same house by the same person, just using some concepts, ideas, settings and simple editing tools that Greg shared. We are all taking more photos than ever before on behalf of our clients. You owe it to them and to your clients to attend. Sign Up NOW to attend Greg’s class.

AFTER CLASS

AFTER CLASS

AFTER CLASS

AFTER CLASS

Real Estate CE 3 Hrs General by Course Creators 520-360-0280

Eye on the Present and the Future of Real Estate  Real estate is changing at lightning speed.  Those who dominate will be those who are on top of all the current trends in real estate.  Do you know how your customer’s mobility is going to affect your business?  Have you learned the secrets behind QR codes and MobiTags?  How are customers finding you and what do we all need to know about the future of our profession?

Get On Board – Trends in Real Estate

Sponsored By: Course Creators University

Held At: The Conference Room at JV, 1745 E. River Road, 2nd Floor Training Room, Tucson, AZ

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM -  Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Karel Murray, is a national speaker and trainer who operates an incredible web-based information service entitled, “Just For A Moment Podcasts”. You really should check out both her site with an incredible array of products and sign up for the regular Just For A Moment Podcasts. Karel worked with us as a contributing author on our book “Ovation – How To Present Like a Pro” and we were honored to work with her on a five-part series on changes in the world of business. We encourage you to listen to these sneak previews of the podcasts we created with her. Thanks Karel for all you do! You can download the podcasts with the following links:

Podcast 1 - The Changing World of Business

Podcast 2 - The Advent of Skill Based Ladder Mastery

Podcast 3 - Leveraging Technology for Success

Podcast 4 - The Building of Relationships Today

Podcast 5 – How Ovation Changes the World of Education

The Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act (RESPA) is the federal law which governs the relationships between settlement service providers in real estate transactions. The Act makes it illegal for settlement service providers to give or receive anything of value in exchange for the referral of business in a real estate transaction. The Act also makes it illegal for settlement service providers to require that a borrower use a particular provider in a real estate transaction and sets forth disclosure guidelines when there is a co-ownership of more than one settlement service provider in a real estate transaction.

The Tucson Association of REALTORS annually hosts a RESPA Roundtable organized by the RESPA Committee where licensees can explore these issues and get answers to the most commonly asked questions. In order to obtain a copy of the frequently asked questions all you need to do is click here or click on the stack of RESPA files to the right.

The questions are divided into categories based on settlement service providers. In order to obtain more information about RESPA and its enforcement you can visit the official RESPA pages at HUD.gov.

When we founded Course Creators we did it with a single mission statement for our students in mind, recraft and present education in a way that our business clients and their professionals would “Get It, Use It and Become More Successful Because of It. We have know for quite sometime now that conveying information is not the same thing as conveying knowledge and that much knowledge is not implemented or acted upon. In their book The Knowing-Doing Gap, Stanford professors, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton document how the inability to implement knowledge has severely limited and hurt specific businesses. They also demonstrate through concrete real world examples how smart companies turn knowledge into action.

There is no doubt that we are living in an age where information is abundant and freely transferable. Previous business models which relied on the competitive edge of having access to proprietary information and which based market differentiation on the holding and dissemination of information have been eroded. There are fewer and smaller differences between what firms, companies and professionals know. As we travel the country creating and presenting for various entities across a broad geographic spectrum we can confirm the observations of Pfeffer and Sutton that increasingly business professionals are falling into one of two groups. The first group locked in the past, staring at obstacles, generating more and more information and the second group which acts on the information and repeatedly is exclaiming, ” Done, did it, next!”

This book will give you lots of justification and examples of why we all need to be implementing strategies and approaches which focus on, foster and encourage action. We think this book contains many ideas and concepts which easily translate into the world of adult education. The present world of business simply demands that we more education from more a knowledge based type of endeavor to more of a practical world of teaching and implementing skill sets that drive professionals forward. Whatever business or profession you are in, The Knowing Doing Gap will make you look at your business differently and help you identify factors that are key to a culture of action and necessary ingredients to success.