Professional Development Courses:

Marketing

MetroTex offers several live broadcast classes to help real estate professionals with their marketing and communicating with clients. From beginning to experienced agent, these classes will provide you with all of the necessary tips and tricks to improve your marketing skills and get you noticed!

5 Super Powers of Super Agents

Course #39785, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Rhonda Hamilton

This course by Rhonda Hamilton will examine the characteristics, practices and skills that are implemented by successful super agents. Real estate agents will deliver better service and a better, more successful experience to buyers and sellers when they implement these specific elements into their business.

 

Communicating Your Worth to Buyers & Sellers

Course #35988, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Rhonda Hamilton

Course will provide agents with instruction on how to develop and perfect a strategic checklist list for sellers to provide excellent quality service and recommendations in preparing a property listing. Also from a buyer’s perspective, develop a step-by-step plan for creating a successful experience for the buyers from the beginning of the buying process through closing and funding of the home the buyers select.

Defending Your Value Proposition

Course #37234, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Rhonda Hamilton

The real estate brokerage market is more competitive than ever these days. Brokerage models, technology options, and the way real estate transactions are conducted evolve every day. Staying at the forefront of the competition can be a challenge. Join this session to learn how you can communicate your value in the real estate transaction.

Get the Listing, Make the Sale

Course #38774, 3CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Rhonda Hamilton

The most successful real estate presentations are researched, structured, and focused on the other party, the Client. As an agent creates and delivers a better presentation the client gains confidence, makes better decisions and builds a relationship that benefits all parties. This workshop teaches agents both the generic structure of the best client centered presentations and the application of that structure to the presentations specific to residential real estate transactions.

The course will train the license holder to develop preparation and communication skills for making listing presentations that create a climate of trust and build better client relationships. Provide client centered presentation techniques and how to apply them to specific real estate transactions. License holder will gain knowledge of property pricing, price adjustments and how to implement strategies that will close more sales.

Google 101 for Real Estate Beginners

Course# 37359, 3CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Marion Napoleon

Creating a paperless, mobile, virtual office is imperative in today’s Real Estate market. This class will help real estate agents get a basic understanding of all the Google products & apps needed to run their business. We will also explain cost efficient ways to manage and operate your day to day activity with Google products. Everything you will need will be accessible from your mobile device and all other devices. This will save time while increasing efficiency and productivity. They will also learn how to use Gmail to customize contacts and manage calendars and documents all from the cloud.

Google 201 for Real Estate Advanced

Course #37360, 3CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Marion Napoleon

Now that you understand the basic products offered by Google, let’s create a virtual real estate office and lead management system using Google products. In this class, agents will start with bringing leads via Google voice, expanding the details of the lead into Google contacts, and managing the leads and daily activities and communications all the way to through time management, scheduling, storing and transacting the data into zipForms and Google Drive. We will also ensure that your business is configured and setup on Google Your Business and YouTube.

Market Like a Rockstar

Course #34751, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Marion Napoleon

Today’s consumers have access to more information and tools and are more mobile than ever before which has changed them in many ways. One of the biggest changes is how consumers are affected by marketing and make their business decisions as they are inundated with marketing messages. Additionally, today’s marketplace features consumers spanning several generations. For the real estate agent to succeed, they need to adapt their marketing strategy. Making promotions more targeted, personal & visual and leveraging video & social media.

Real Estate & LinkedIn 101

Course #36586, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Marion Napoleon

This course is designed to expose the real estate professional to the next level of business development and client-base building opportunities available via social networking sites.

Focusing on LinkedIn, the largest professional network, agent will learn what LinkedIn is and how to deploy it. The course will discuss the networks application to the real estate industry, what makes this site so popular and how effectively using LinkedIn can grow a business and expand a client base. Agents will be able to use this tool to prospect for new clients and as a contact management system for current/past clients and business partners.

This course was developed specifically for real estate license holders who are using social media as a way to market their products and services, or have already embraced social media at an introductory level. The course will build upon their existing knowledge of using LinkedIn and the guidelines for appropriate use related to real estate transactions, marketing and listing of properties.

Real Estate & Facebook 101

Course #36587, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Marion Napoleon

This course will provide instruction on using Facebook as a networking tool and the creation of real estate related business opportunities. Agents will learn to implement strategies on Facebook to present their services to a wider audience at minimal cost. How to integrate blog and RSS feeds into their Facebook page and become more efficient in managing leads with Facebook. It will allow agents to build their business/client network by having the ability to provide real-time status updates, photos/video of property listings.

This course is designed to introduce the real estate license holder to the business development and client-base building opportunities available via social networking sites with a focus one of the most popular site used by the real estate industry. By developing this skill agents will be able to market more effectively on a larger scale, find new clients and expand their current portfolio of contacts using this social media platform.

Staging to Sell

Course #35235, 2CE, Provider: RESA #9806
Instructor: Karen Eubanks

Agents learn how staging will protect their client’s interests when it comes to selling their number one asset, their home. It positions the agent as an advocate of staging and will set them apart from other agents. Agents will learn how the entire pre-market staging process will benefit their client and secure their relationship as a true advocate for their best interest.

Triple Your Repeat & Referral Business

Course #34998, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS®
Instructor: Rhonda Hamilton

The goal of this course is to provide real estate professionals with the information needed to build their repeat and referral business by building trust in customers, clients and fellow agents. Agents will learn how to work leads to generate more leads, transition from passively accepting occasional referrals to a pro-active referral mind set, and make the connection between their “brand” and referral success. Participants will walk away with practical and applicable information that they can immediately begin to implement in their business model

Using Feng Shui To Sell Quicker

Course #37365, 2CE, Provider: Texas REALTORS® #0001
Instructor: Kara Bang

Learn what Feng Shui is! Find out how it is perceived around the world! Discover the why, where, and what this ancient “environmental science” is all about! Become an expert in how Feng Shui pertains to real estate. Set yourself apart from other agents by implementing Feng Shui home staging! Staging a home for sale does not have to be difficult. Feng Shui for a home can inspire a potential home buyer to make an offer!