Now that you have completed the InstaTekkie Two Day Technology Certification, Course Creators wants your plan for success to be clear. With everything we have showed you over the last two days, you will leave here with a Plan for SuCCess and know exactly where to go and what to do. The page references are to your 200 page InstaTekkie Playbook. Get IT! Use IT! Become More Successful Because of IT!

IMMEDIATE TO DO LIST:

1. Complete Profile & Account Information for the Following Sites:

• Google Plus (Page 13)
• YouTube (Pages 17-20)
• Facebook (Pages 73 & 60-64) Business Profile (Page 86-87)
• Linkedin (Pages 120 – 122)
• Zillow (Pages 140 & 141)
• Trulia (Page 155)

2. Connect with the Following Sites to Stay Informed, Ask Questions & Connect with Other InstaTekkie Students:

• CourseCreators.Com
• Course Creators on Facebook
• Course Creators on Linkedin
• Len Elder & Theresa Barnabei on Linkedin
• Len Elder & Theresa Barnabei on Facebook
• Course Creators InstaTekkie Student Group on Facebook

3. Create a YouTube Video Using Windows MovieMaker

We suggest you start with a promo or intro video about you and your business using the information and “How To” Click Instructions in your Playbook (Pages 37-42)

4. Set Google Alerts using your Google Account (Page 192)

• Your Name
• Your Business

5. Build Out Items of Value on your Facebook Wall (Page 81)

6. Go to Zillow & Trulia & Claim Your Listings (Pages 146 and 156)

REGULAR MANAGEMENT PLAN

1. Facebook ____ Times A Week

• Check Your Inbox (Page 83)
• Manage Friend Requests (Page 77)
• Respond to All Wall Comments (Pages 80 & 81)
• Add 1 Item of Value to Your Wall (Page 81)
• Add _____ New Friends (Page 75)
• Comment on ______ News Feeds From Friends (Page 84)

2. Linkedin Once a Week

• Check Your InBox
• Update Your Status (Page 126)
• Add ____ New Connections (Page 123)
• Comment on ____ News Feeds (Page 126)
• Join a Couple of Groups (Page 127)
• Write / Get 1 Recommendation (Page 125)

3. On Zillow & Trulia

• Check Your Listings (Pages 146 and 156)
• Add /Respond to Dialogues or Posts (Page 148 and 161)
• Blog On Trulia & Zillow  ____ Times A Week (Page 180 & 181)

THINGS YOU CAN DO DOWN THE ROAD

• Add Zillow to Listing & Buyer Rep Presentation (Page 142 & 143)
• Use Local Info from Zillow & Trulia in Listing & Buyer Rep Presentations (Page 149 & 160)
• Blog Away (Pages 169 – 182)
• Create Your Own Website / Blog (Page 183)
• Research & Distribute Information (Page 188)
• Link to Maps (Page 195)
• Use Google Images (Page 197)
• Incorporate QR Codes (Page 198)
• Use RSS Feeds (Page 201)

Thank Your Lucky Stars We Live In a World With This Much Opportunity

for Business Growth & Development.

Real Estate CE 3 Hrs. Contract Law By Course Creators 520.360.0280

Short sales are easier when you know what to say and do! Learn how to manage your sellers’ expectations, determine a fair and reasonable offer price for your buyer, negotiate with loss mitigation departments and how to put it all together using the appropriate procedures, forms and checklists. Bonus: Learn scripts that will help you protect your commissions.
Negotiating Short Sale Contracts






Sponsored By: Tucson Association of REALTORS®

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

 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM – Thursday, February 14, 2013

 

Continuing Education 3 Hrs Commissioner’s Standards, 3 Hrs Disclosure
Course Creators 520.360.0280

If we understood how professionals are using blogs then we could use them to get customers. You can maximize the power of internet resources, upload links and photos. Know how to use new and innovative tools like Google docs, alerts and calendars to fully realize your potential, minimize your time and maximize your income.

WebBiz

Bring Your Laptop Hands- on-Training 

Sponsored By:  Stewart Title & Trust

Held At: 3939 E. Broadway, Tucson, Arizona

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Real Estate CE 3 hrs. General Real Estate By Course Creators 520.360.0280

Linkedin is the ultimate professional social networking venue. We can show you how to create a powerful presence in Linkedin, how to build your online resume, how to take deliberate action using Linkedin’s search mechanisms. Don’t get left behind.  Showcase your specialties and educate your clients on how you can help them best!  Grow your professional reputation starting NOW and be found by the clients who are looking for you and need you! 

Get Linkedin

Sponsored By: Stewart Title & Trust

Held At:  3939 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM – Thursday, January 10, 2013

Bring Your Laptop – Hands On Training!

Real Estate CE 3 hrs. Commissioner’s Standards By Course Creators 520.360.0280

Take a look back on past business practices, determine what has worked, establish an effective plan to move forward and understand why the business of real estate is important to you and your clients. Make commitments to your business that will take you to the next level, personally and professionally, and will help you serve more clients more effectively.

The Business of Real Estate

Sponsored By:  Keller Williams Southern, AZ

Held At:  The Tucson Association of REALTORS®    2445 N. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Thursday, October 18, 2012

Your Registration Fee is Paid by Sponsor, Keller Williams Southern Arizona.

Please register via email to Course Creators, Kris@CourseCreators.com

On my recent tour of North Carolina I had the opportunity to finish a great book given to me by my dear friend, Marcie Roggow. Marcie, Thank YOU! Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit, Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business, will change the way you look at your business, your clients and most importantly yourself.

The book explains and explores the nature of habits and habit creation. Whether we realize it or not, habits are powerful things. They control most of what we do and why we do it. Learning how they operate and what can be done to change them is a worthwhile endeavor. The sections on how major businesses from Starbucks, to Alcoa to Target are full of well documented and practical approaches that allowed these businesses to succeed based on the habits of people that they either leveraged or changed.

Charles Duhigg is an investigative reporter for the New York Times. He is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk Awards, and was part of a team of finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. he is a frequent contributor to This American Life, NPR, PBS Newshour, and Frontline. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two kids.

If you are into education you will find some fascinating reading in the section which deals with the habit of Success at Starbucks and what companies such as that have done to create training that actually teaches people greater skills in areas such as willpower, discipline and other life skills that are hard to come by but absolutely hard to come by in the world of education. It will make you wonder what types of education we are missing that are key ingredients for success in any industry such as relationship building, time management and how to cope with stress and distractions. Fascinating I tell you, simply fascinating.

One of the great assets of the book is the Appendix entitled A Reader’s Guide to Using These Ideas. It is a framework for understanding how habits work and a guide to experimenting with how they might change. It is laid out in an easy to follow and implement step by step approach.

You can find the book in all of the major bookstores, on Amazon and just about anywhere else. We should all read it. If you would like more information you can find out more with a simple Google search, or better yet, just visit Mr. Duhigg’s website.

Instructor Development Workshop – From the OVATION Series

As the national authors of the book Ovation – How to Present Like a Pro, Course Creators will be leading a full day Instructor Development Workshop  (IDW) for the Idaho Real Estate Commission in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 to empower Idaho instructors to get standing ovations and elevate the level of their teaching and presentations. This full day six hour session will enable instructors to employ the use of videos and other technology in the classroom, create themed courses which engage their students and provide tips and techniques that will increase the effectiveness of presentations. Course Creators customizes these presentations to fit the needs of education directors and instructors. We will have you excited about teaching and accomplishing more in a day than than you ever thought possible.

What other Education Directors say about these IDW courses:

“Powerful, passionate and persuasive speakers with a remarkable ability to ignite any audience into action. They do their homework. The presentation was diverse and encompassed many techniques to hold the audience’s attention, but most of all they connect on an emotional level. The participants were very impressed and the feedback was extremely positive overall. I would personally recommend this for anyone wanting a brilliant and inspiring presentation.”

Sponsored By: The Idaho Real Estate Commission

Held At: The Riverside in Boise, Idaho

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – Wednesday, May 23, 2012

All The Links and What To Do With Them  Stop reinventing the wheel. There is an abundance of disclosure information you can link to on the internet and endless possibilities in the ways you can be sharing and disseminating that information to your clients.  Find out what the best links are, how to use them and you’ll save time, money and energy in making great looking disclosures to your clients.

Disclosure Click In Arizona

Sponsored By: Tucson Association of REALTORS®

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

1:00 PM to 12:00 PM – Monday, May 14, 2012

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. Contract Law Course Creators 520.360.0280

The subtle nuances of short sales and REO’s! Once we understand how we “got in this mess in the first place”, we then can explore and discuss specific addenda and contract language that will help you protect your clients while removing the doubt, fear and uncertainty that distressed sales create. This class is sure to uncover some things you just didn’t know but wish you had! Come and find out just what that might be.

Hot Contract Issues In Short Sales and REO Transactions

Sponsored By: Tucson Association of REALTORS®

Held At: TAR – 2445 N. Tucson Blvd.

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM – Wednesday, April 18, 2012