This bi-monthly online series offers a forum for real estate company owners, office principals and managers to learn about emerging brokerage issues and important laws and regulations that can affect a firm's productivity and profitability.
The 60-90 minute sessions, which feature regionally-recognized business consultants and real estate industry experts, offer insight and instruction on many elements of real estate brokerage, including corporate operations, effective office policies, new technology, and financial and personnel management issues.
Web sessions are available to purchase live or archived for $20.00 per episode or at a subscription rate of $60.00 for the 2011 year.
Click on the dates below for more information or to purchase a single live/archived web session or click here to purchase the annual subscription which allows full access to all live and archived seb sessions for 2011. For further assistance, you can also call our customer service line at 1-800-725-6272 or by email at
info@marealtor.com 2011 Schedule
October 27, 2011 - Monitoring and Managing Your Company’s Online Reputation
Please join Heather Logrippo of Expose Yourself PR, as she helps you find out about your company’s Online Reputation.
Description:
“Monitoring and Managing Your Company’s online reputation”. As a broker owner, it is important that you are aware of what's being said about your company and its representatives online. This course will give you tangible ways to monitor and manage what is being said, along with information on how to educate your agents so they, too, can stay on top of their online reputation. We'll go over case studies and real life examples of what to do and what not to do should you ever find yourself in a situation having to defend your or your company's online reputation.
August 18, 2011 - Growing your Business with Investment Property Exchange
Please join Patricia A. Flowers, Asst. Vice President, CES® from Investment Property Exchange Services, Inc. On this 1031 Exchanges program that is a tax saving tool that can build your business.
Description:
This 1031 presentation is a tax savings and estate planning tool but for real estate investors. This program would help the Broker-Owners in that they are learning how this can be part of their marketing and how educating their agents on 1031 Exchanges is a tax saving tool that can build their business.
Investors are an increasing source of sales in today’s market, but some of the challenges they face are finding the right properties, opportunities and strategies to build a successful real estate portfolio. That’s where you come in – but most real estate agents don’t have the time or feel like they don’t have the necessary training needed to work with the new breed of motivated, numbers-driven buyers.
During this webinar you will learn valuable wealth-building strategies to help your agents and their clients get into the real estate investment game and help them to build and diversify their real estate investment portfolio.
June 9, 2011 - Office Policy & Procedures
Join Paula Savard as she gives tips on Creating an Effective Office Policy for running your business.
Description:
Creating an Effective Office Policy Manual for Broker Owners
If you aren't operating your brokerage with a detailed policy manual, you are increasing your risk level considerably. Reduce your risk at the upcoming Broker Owner Webinar on Creating an Effective Office Policy Manual?
You cannot expect your associates to act the way you want unless you make the rules, goals and procedures clear to them. Your Real Estate Office Policy Manual navigates the real estate business so everyone in the company knows how, when and by whom the work of the brokerage will be done. The webinar will cover Massachusetts office policy guidelines, discuss relationship agreements and provide resources through the National Association of REALTORS® that can help you get started in establishing your own policy manual. Issues to consider for the protection of the Broker and the Salesperson also will be discussed with a healthy Q&A to be sure you get your concerns addressed.
April 21, 2011 - 10 Essential Risk Control Tips
Join Paul Espinosa, of Pearl Insurance as he gives 10 Essential Risk Control Tips
Description:
10 Essential Risk Control Tips, Come be a part of our first risk management webinar with Pearl Insurance. The E&O experts with over 50 experience in professional liability insurance. Important items to be discussed include:
***Understanding an E&O policy and how it works
***How to manage your E&O with your agents
***Common Claims examples and tips to avoid them
***Plus much more.
Join MAR Associate General Counsel Mike McDonagh as he addresses the top 5 issues that are dominating today's legal hotline.
December - TBA