Tucson Association of REALTORS® and Course Creators once again present New Member Orientation.  This presentation is all about the member benefits of our local, state and national associations. And one of the biggest benefits of this orientation is to help each other to determine what will cause REALTORS® to be successful in this marketplace.  The Code of Ethics and Anti-trust is reviewed to remind everyone to stay above board, always!

New Member Orientation 

Sponsored By: Tucson Association of REALTORS®

Held At: 2445 N. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ

8:30 AM to 2:30 PM – Monday, January 23, 2012

Real Estate CE 3 Hrs. General By Course Creators 520.360.0280

What does FHA look like today? FHA loans are on the rise so it is critical to know the current requirements for these products. Determine how you can use them to help your clients and close more transactions in the months ahead?

In a distressed market, buyers are looking for ways to be able to make the repairs and rehab a property. Enter the FHA 203(K) program! Learning what it is and how it works add to the information you need in your arsenal.

Innovative and Renovative Lending

Sponsored By: Title Security

Held At: 6390 E. Tanque Verde Rd., Tucson, AZ

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Friday, December 16, 2011

On Wednesday, November 16th from 7:30 – 9:00 Stewart Title of Tucson is hosting a SPECIAL PRESENTATION by Course Creators on the Future of Commercial Real Estate. The event is FREE for everyone interested in commercial transactions. Come and find out what we should be doing to build a commercial practice today. Find out what agents are doing in order to leverage market changes and technology in order to get more business, find more clients and elevate the level of their services. This SPECIAL PRESENTATION will change the way you look at your commercial real estate marketing.

WHERE: Stewart Title of Tucson, 3939 E. Broadway, Tucson, Arizona

WHEN: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM

COST: Paid for & Sponsored by Stewart Title

SEATING IS LIMITED, Please contact Bob Dytko, Chief Information Officer at Stewart to Reserve Your Seat.  520-668-6697!

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.

Course Creators cutting edge “hands-on” social media certification course makes it fun, exciting and easy to learn the technology that will bring you more clients, more business and move you to the next level. This two day “bring your laptop and click along with us” format will have you accomplishing more in two days than you ever thought possible.

WATCH THE VIDEO TO SEE WHAT OUR STUDENTS HAD TO SAY

• Experience the power of YouTube, create your own channel and make and edit your own real estate videos
• Create facebook business accounts and learn how to integrate facebook into your business
• Expand your sphere of influence and network like a pro on Linkedin
• Include the power of blogging and lower your marketing expenses
• Uncover new sources of business and expand your marketing on Zillow and Trulia
• Increase your Google skills and learn new tools for managing the net

WATCH A VIDEO OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN THIS TWO-DAY “Hands-On” COURSE

To learn more and register for this groundbreaking course just click on the Superior Logo to the left!

Course Creators is honored to offer this class throughout North Carolina in partnership with Superior School of Real Estate.

Course Creators cutting edge “hands-on” social media certification course makes it fun, exciting and easy to learn the technology that will bring you more clients, more business and move you to the next level. This two day “bring your laptop and click along with us” format will have you accomplishing more in two days than you ever thought possible.

WATCH THE VIDEO TO SEE WHAT OUR STUDENTS HAD TO SAY

• Experience the power of YouTube, create your own channel and make and edit your own real estate videos
• Create facebook business accounts and learn how to integrate facebook into your business
• Expand your sphere of influence and network like a pro on Linkedin
• Include the power of blogging and lower your marketing expenses
• Uncover new sources of business and expand your marketing on Zillow and Trulia
• Increase your Google skills and learn new tools for managing the net

WATCH A VIDEO OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN THIS TWO-DAY “Hands-On” COURSE

To learn more and register for this groundbreaking course just click on the Superior Logo to the left!

Course Creators is honored to offer this class throughout North Carolina in partnership with Superior School of Real Estate.

Course Creators is honored to have been asked to be part of the North Carolina Real Estate Educators Association Conference. The theme for this year’s conference is The Education Race. The Conference this year will be held at the Embassy Suites in Concord, North Carolina. 

On Thursday, September 22nd, Len Elder, DREI, will be delivering a keynote that was custom written for the Conference theme. The title of the presentation is “Teaching Thunder: Lessons From the Track of Education.” We are all spending our lifetime on the track of education. There are victories, crashes, excitement and inspiration. Let’s take this amazing opportunity to share the most important lessons we have learned out there “on the track.” If we take the best lessons and apply them, we can all be “Teaching Thunder.” It’s time to start our engines!

On Friday, September 23rd, Theresa Barnabei will be sharing her presentation that was acclaimed at the recent National Conference for REEA in Las Vegas, Nevada. “Making Learning Stick” Because we understand how people learn, it is our responsibility to create a fun, light learning environment that makes learning stick. Experience first hand what that feels like, while you learn the tools and techniques that will make a difference to you and your students.

To find out more about the conference: REGISTRATION & FEE INFORMATION or   EVENT SCHEDULE

Ovation – How to Present Like a Pro
The Reinvention of Adult Education

By Len Elder & Theresa Barnabei

CLICK ON THE BOOK TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!

A couple of decades ago, Donald Levi, DREI and REEA member authored the book “How to Teach Adults.” The book has been a staple for REEA members and the principles of GAPE and teaching strategies for quite some time. The book was last printed over 15 years ago.

For the past several months, a collaborative team has been working on the creation of a new book, Ovation – How to Present like a Pro. The book provides the insight and commentary of 24 leaders in the adult real estate education field. It is the ONLY BOOK that:

• Communicates the Art & Science of Presenting from Course Creation to Delivery to Testing
• Contains Practical Teaching Tips Based on Solid Educational Theory
• Collaborates the Viewpoints of National Speakers, Trainers, Presenters and Industry Leaders

TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY JUST CLICK ON THE BOOK TO THE RIGHT:

Inside you can find out what:

• REEA Executive Director, Joe McClary, has to say to live instructors about competing with distance education;
• National Speaker, Doug Devitre, has to say about 27 ways to fill classroom seats at a REALTOR® event;
• National Author & Columnist, Julie Garton-Good, has to say about building a niche as a speaker and her system for identifying your best area of expertise;
• NCREEA President, Dana Rhodes, has to say about why he loves teaching pre-licensing
• DREI Management Committee Chair, George Bell, has to say about the importance of credentials in teaching;
• REEA President-Elect, Roseann Farrow, has to say about classroom preparation
• And many, many more

If you are wondering what else is in this book that would be helpful to you as an instructor, speaker, trainer or school owner here are some of the other topics covered in detail in this new and exciting addition to the profession of real estate education:
What’s In This Book for YOU?

• Clearly Explained and Applied Generally Accepted Principles of Education (GAPE)
• Opening Strategies You Can Use For Starting Any Presentation
• 10 Tips that will Immediately Improve Your Performance
• A Step by Step Guide to Presentation Development
• Do’s and Don’ts in the First Five Minutes
• How to Effectively Market & Promote Courses
• Pre-Class Tricks & Tools of the Trade
• Practical Ideas for Course Sponsors
• 10 Steps for Writing Effective Test & Quiz Questions
• Innovative Uses of Social Media and Technology in the Classroom
• Insights on Copyrights & Intellectual Property in Education
• Ideas on How to Create New Courses and Get More Business

A special thanks and a standing ovation to all of the following who contributed to this work and publication of the book. Most of these collaborating authors are members of REEA. All of the authors are outstanding at what they do:

Ryan Adair
Dan Adler
Tony Ray Baker
Mark Barker
Lucy Barraza
George Bell
Cindy Chandler
Amy Chorew
Doug Devitre
Roseann Farrow
Bill Gallagher
Julie Garton-Good
Rhonda Hamilton
Joe McClary
Beverly McCormick
Sharon Montague
Annalisa Moreno
Bruce Moyer
Karel Murray
Dana Rhodes
Marcie Roggow
Philip Schoewe
Sharleen Smith
Marie Spodek
Terry Wilson

The new book was unveiled at the North Carolina Real Estate Educators Association (NCREEA) Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 22, 2011. You can find the book on Amazon.Com.

Course Creators will be at the Tucson Association of REALTORS® Expo at the Tucson Convention Center on Thursday, September 15th. We will be demonstrating how to use videos as part of the educational demonstrations throughout the day. We have lots more to share with ya’all  and we look forward to seeing ya’all there.

This years Expo offers agents FREE admission. FREE parking and a FREE classes. There are lots of things occurring at this year’s expo so take a look at the Full Event Schedule/Activities. Do not miss the education class in the morning from national speaker and trainer, Terri Murphy, “High Customer Care for Today’s Buyers and Sellers” from 9:00 – 12:00. We have had the opportunity to hear Terri at other national events. She possesses a wealth of knowledge, will give you practical ideas that you can actually use to build your business and she will be fun and entertaining. You will not be disappointed. You must register with TAR in advance in order to attend Terri’s session. Why not do that today?

Stop By And See Us at Booth #707 in the Education Corral

You are going to have a ball at this year’s Expo. We promise as always to bring you education and information so that you “Get It! Use It! and Become More Successful Because of It.” We look forward to seeing you there. The Expo lasts from 10am to 4pm at the TCC (260 S. Church Ave.).  This is the ultimate education and networking event for REALTORS® in Southern Arizona.

Real Estate CE 3 Hrs. General By Course Creators 520.360.0280

What does FHA look like today?  FHA loans are on the rise so it is critical to know the current requirements for these products. Determine how you can use them to help your clients and close more transactions in the months ahead?

In a distressed market, buyers are looking for ways to be able to make the repairs and rehab a property.  Enter the FHA 203(K) program! Learning what it is and how it works add to the information you need in your arsenal.

Innovative and Renovative Lending

Sponsored By: Fidelity National Title

Held At: 6760 N. Oracle Rd., #100, Tucson, AZ

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM – Tuesday, September 13, 2011