Denverites, mark your calendars for the April 13 REALTOR® Rally.

Top speakers and industry professionals will be delivering educational sessions you can put to work for you and your business immediately. In addition, about 200 exhibitors be there with will latest real estate industry tools, services and programs.

Held at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street in downtown Denver, the event sees more than 2,000 area realtors, all ready to learn, work and get motivated. This year's keynote speakers are Corey Ciocchetti ("Chasing Authentic Success") and Michael Tchong ("I'm Going to Tweet You Up").

Now through March 15, you can join the REALTORS Have Talent Contest to have a marketing make-over. Other exciting contests for this year's Rally include the Cake Decorating Contest and the Staged to Sell Contest.

For more information and to register, visit RealtorRally.org.

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ActiveRain's Real Estate RainCamp will be March 9, 2010 at the Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, 200 Inverness Drive West in Englewood.

RainCamp is a full day of hard-core real estate training designed to show you how to leverage the Internet and social media to make more money in your real estate business.

While general admission and platinum access tickets are sold out, there are a handful of guaranteed seats and premium seating tickets available.

Click here for more information and to register.

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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) and REALTOR® Magazine are offering a "Distressed Sales and the Home Buyer Tax Credit" webinar on Thursday, March 25 at 3 p.m. EST (1 p.m. MST). The webinar is an hour in length with the final 15 minutes to answer participant questions sent via the chat function during the webinar.

Households in markets with high numbers of distressed sales face tough challenges using the home buyer tax credit before it expires. This webinar will look at ideas for addressing some of the most common hurdles to closing short sales and REO transactions in the remaining months before the tax credit expires.

Presenters:
Scott Thompson, vice president, ServiceLink
Julie Jalone, MagnumOne Realty, Roseville, Calif.

Hosts:
Stacey Moncrieff, editor in chief, REALTOR® Magazine
Robert Freedman, senior editor, REALTOR® Magazine

Click here for more information and to register.

Posted in Industry Events, Education And Training, Seller Resources

Today John Featherston, CEO and publisher of RISMedia and chairman and co-founder of the Top 5 in Real Estate Network®, announced the upcoming launch of their RISMedia Real Estate Social Marketing System (SM) at the Real Estate Social Media Summit that will be held at the Hilton Rye Town in Westchester County, New York, June 9-10, 2010.

This transformational system was developed with 1parkplace, under the direction of Allan Dalton, chief marketing officer of RISMedia and president and co-founder of the Top 5 in Real Estate Network®, along with Steve Hundley, founder and CEO of 1parkplace. SM "will merge only the more strategic purposeful and real estate-relevant functions of existing social networking and social media resources available to real estate companies, agents and networks," says Featherton.

With this system, the team hopes to strike balance between fully harnessing the power and ROI of social media with proper time management for real estate professionals. SM was developed in order to properly integrate the best of social networking and social media as a more forthright, clear, consumer-acceptable and strategic use so that real estate professionals can better serve the needs of the real estate marketplace--without squandering time or experiencing conflicting feelings about using these new tools.

Read more at RISMedia.

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A message from Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association (CMLA) Executive Director Bob Montoya about the 19th Annual CMLA Mortgage Lenders Fair:

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