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Chris Bird has been in the financial business more than 30 years. He started his career with a degree in accounting and spent 16 years as an IRS agent. Today he’s a certified financial planner and an RLI and CRS instructor.
Since leaving the IRS, Chris has taught more than 100 seminars a year on accounting, financial planning, wealth building, residential rental property ownership, and tax strategies for the real estate and financial industries nationwide. This year at the REal Show, Chris will combine his years of teaching and finance experience to help you make the most of your dollars as an independent contractor.
- Advanced Asset Protection and Wealth Strategies for 2010 and Beyond.
- 2010 Tax Write Offs for the Self‐Employed
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Brian Copeland has built one of the most successful home marketing companies in middle Tennessee. In 2006, he was Tennessee’s top new Realtor® and one of the top 50 new Realtors® in America in 2007.
It takes Brian an average of 18 hours from the time he starts looking with a buyer until he has a contract on the perfect home. And his sellers get an average of 98% of their asking price — with a typical listing on the market for 42 days. His secret? Using technology the smart way.
Featured on both HGTV and the Learning Channel, Brian’s offers attendees both a fun, pop-culture attitude to teaching and a solid on productivity. If you want to learn from a master — and a master presenter — here’s your chance.
- Click. Think. Sell. Using Web Analytics to Dominate Your Market.
- Agent 2.0
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Dale Carlton
What do you get when you combine 12 years of real estate experience and a decade of legal expertise? Killer sessions by Dale Carlton at this year’s REal Show.
Dale’s the type of presenter who fills rooms. His energy, enthusiasm, and professionalism have informed and dazzled more than 50,000 students over the past several years. And he doesn’t just talk the talk: He’s broker/owner of Carlton Realty, and a salesperson with more than $50 million in sales over four years.
To find out more about Dale and what he says about the latest real estate laws attend.
- Business Success through Ethical Management Practice
- Top Legal issues Facing Real Estate Agents
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Sean Carpenter is director of agent development for the Ohio NRT Companies — in fact, he helped create the program, as well as the company’s highly regarded B.A.S.I.C. Training class. Sean is a certified facilitator of the National Association of Home Builders’ “Integrity Coaching, Integrity Selling” and Certified New Home Sales Professional (CSP) courses.
In 2007, Sean helped create the CBOLT system — Coldwell Banker On-Line Training — the acclaimed distance learning tool that has large brokerages abuzz. At this year’s REal Show, he’ll betraining you on the tools every Realtor® should have.
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Chandra Hall, DREI, MBA, ABR, CRS, GRI
From her long list of designations, to her entering college at age 16, to starting several successful companies, to serving today as broker/owner of one of Colorado’s most successful firms, it’s clear that Chandra knows how to realize potential.
She uses knowledge to teach CRS, GRi, ABR, and other courses nationally, and at this year’s REalShow she’ll be teaching you the facts you need to know about schooling your clients on the right type of financing…
- APR, LTV, and GFE: What Does It All Mean to Me? ™
- Critical Rules, Reforms, and New Realities
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G. William James has been a leader in smart phone training for retail, medicine, sales, business and real estate since 2001.
A sales trainer and presenter since 1986, James has trained professionals in every state of the Union and worked with a host of nationally known organizations including New York University, General Electric and Kaiser Permanente.
Coined by Black Enterprise Magazine as the “Master of the PDA,” James brings to the classroom experience with all of today’s smart phone platforms including Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, RIM Blackberry, and the newly released Android devices.
If you have a question about a smart phone, James can answer it. If he can’t we’ll treat you to a free lunch. Show up at these sessions and attempt to stump the smart-phone guy:
- Smartphones, Mobile Gadgets, and Great Tech Tools
- Hooked on My Blackberry.
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Ralph D. Spencer, CCIM, SIOR
Ralph offers a unique blend of talent and experience. While being a successful commercial real estate practitioner, owner and manager, he has developed his skills in training and technology. That blend of experience makes him the perfect presenter for this year’s REalShow. Meet Ralph and find out what every commercial professional should know about financing.
- COMMERCIAL—Surviving and Thriving in the New Economy and Changing Times
- COMMERCIAL—Financial Literacy
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John Tuccillo, you might recognize the name. He’s a Georgetown and Cornell University graduate, author of two best selling books The Eight New Rules of Real Estate and Click and Close, and columnist for The Real Estate Professional. But, those probably don’t jog your memory. John is most famous in real estate for his expertise as an economist. He served as Chief Economist for NAR from 1987-97, consults on strategic and business planning for association and real estate firms, and worked with some of biggest names in real estate including Fannie Mae, Microsoft, GMAC, Prudential Real Estate and a host of others.
This year you can tap this veteran economist’s brain for tips on how you can prepare your business for the next wave in these courses:
- Eight Important Trends That Will Shape the Future of the Real Estate Business
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Jeff Turner is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned business executive of more than 20 years.
He founded J.J. Grace, which made Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America — and won Cisco’s Growing With Technology Award recognizing innovative companies networked for growth.
Today Jeff is president of Zeek Interactive and the founder and creative force behind Real Estate Shows. He is also widely regarded as a leading thinker on how to effectively use Internet tools and a sought after conference speaker on topics related to emerging technologies.
- Beyond Blogging: Integrating All of Your Web Activities
- 10 Ideas To Help You Leverage Social Media
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Ginger Wilcox is a Broker Associate at Alain Pinel Realtors in Marin County, California and a founding partner and Vice President of Business Development for the Social Media Marketing Institute. An accomplished speaker, writer and trainer, Ginger was recognized by Inman News as one of the Top 50 most influential people in online real estate in 2009.
As an associate broker and author of www.BlogbytheBay.com, her experience has taught her the ins outs of social media and how to use it the RIGHT way. Show up and pick her brain in these interactive sessions:
- Social Media for Commercial Practitioners
- Ethics, Risk Management, and Social Media
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Terry Watson is one of the most sought after self-improvement trainers in North America. With no formal real estate training, Watson was forced to create bizarre strategies — strategies that became so successful he was asked to chair a university real estate department and tweak their courses to better prepare the sales agents of today.
Watson's unique and vibrant presentations are powerful, positive and results based. He teaches audiences how to improve relationships with both clients and consumers, close transactions more efficiently and work smarter, not harder.
Every Watson session is a guaranteed business boost. At this year’s REal Show let Watson show you why you should be your (odd) self.
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Lawrence Yun, NAR Chief Economist
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