Being able to choose from different classes allows you to find a subject that suits your needs.
Our curriculum is constantly changing to keep up with your needs, so check often for
additional classes. The duration of each class is 60 minutes, with
additional time for questions at the end.
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New Member Module 1 - Basically Blue
You've done it! You've gotten your real estate license and are ready to run with it! However, you have a few questions before you hit the ground running:
- What is TREND, and how can it increase my bottom line?
- How can I use the TREND MLS to facilitate my business?
- What can I access as a TREND member, and how can TREND help me accomplish my goals?
- How can I easily find properties for my clients and meet their needs?
- What are the business benefits of viewing public records for the properties in TREND?
This module answers these questions. By learning the basics of MLS Blue, you can create a synergy between your business and TREND which will make you better able to serve your clients. This course helps you streamline your work and shorten your time spent on the MLS, so you can work efficiently and focus more time on your clients.
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New Member Module 2 - Beyond the Basics
You know all the basics and are ready to move on to some of the more advanced features to further your business:
- What about contact management?
- How can saving a search help better manage my clients?
- How can using an ecard help to promote my business?
- What is a Hotsheet and how can I use it?
- Is there an easy way to resize and upload a photo?
You will gain knowledge to expand your ability to better serve your customers and clients by building on your core MLS Blue knowledge. This course covers many of the features within TREND that help with contact management and relations. Your time is valuable, make the most of MLS to give yourself more time doing the things that are most important to you.
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Adding and Marketing New Listings
Know the basics of using MLS Blue and ready to start listing and marketing properties? This course takes the guess work out of entering a listing into MLS and also provides insight to using the marketing capabilities within the MLS. Even if you don't enter your own listings, you may have access to other key features within MLS Blue, like uploading listing photos or floor plans and adding open houses and broker tours.
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Building Your Business, Growing Your Bottom Line
Have you heard that prospecting is a great way to generate clients? Would you like to know where to start in TREND to find potential sellers and buyers? Can TREND data help you better establish yourself in a market area? Wonder how you can use a Hotsheet to build business? Expanding your sphere of influence is crucial to growing and developing a successful real estate business. By taking this class, you can maximize your presence in your market area by learning new and valuable techniques for getting started in your prospecting efforts.
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Marketing to the Generations: Targeted Seller CMAs
Is determining Generational identities the same as stereotyping? No! Each generation has been influenced by different experiences, opinions, habits and behaviors that have occurred during their life time. These events influence the many characteristics of the Generations. This course explains the tools available in TREND to prepare a seller's Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) report and also empowers you with the knowledge needed to communicate the information across generations. That way you can learn how to know your customer!
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New Appraisal Form: 1004MC
Struggling to complete the new Market Conditions Addendum (Form 1004MC)? Join us to learn how to use MLS Blue to find the information you need quickly and easily. This class covers how to:
- Find the information in the MLS.
- Calculate the market absorption rates.
- Find average prices and Days on Market for Comparable Sales and Comparable Listings.
- Find list price to sale price ratios.
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Listing Management Enhancements: Adding and Maintaining Your Listings
Changes to MLS Blue make entering listing information in MLS Blue easier. Acclimate yourself to these enhancements to Listing Management, the functionality you use to enter and edit listing information, by taking this class. It covers:
- Find your listing information.
- Use these enhancements to help you market your listings.
- Save time and frustration.