The National Association of Realtors is offering a series of free webinars for agents and brokers dubbed the REALTOR® University Webinar Summit, on Wednesday, June 9, beginning at 11 a.m. EDT and running through the afternoon, with different sessions on the hour:

• Special Management Session: How to Build a Self Recruiting Office, 11 a.m. During this webinar you'll learn proven steps to transform your recruiting strategy from prospecting to receiving quality recruits from someone who has actually done it Rich Casto.
• 13 Powerful Real Estate Blogging Tips to Generate Business, noon. If you want to build a powerful brand on the web, then blogging can be a critical part of your overall strategy. Attend this session with leading technology expert Amy Chorew and walk away with a clear understanding of how you too can use your well strategized blog as a powerful marketing and communication tool to drive business.
• Seven Strategies to Increase Your Business Through Effective Communication, 1 p.m. Join speaker, author and coach Carla Cross in this fast-paced session on how to get your buyers and sellers "off the fence" and into a transaction with you. Learn specific strategies you need to know to build trust and create clients for life.
• Top Ten Closing Scripts of Today's Top Agents, 2 p.m. Join speaker and best-selling author Bernice Ross for this "power-hour" of proven-in-the-field listing, pricing and sales scripts that the continent's most successful agents are using to close more transactions.
• Seven Proven Headline Formulas That Show You How to Sell Like Crazy, 3 p.m. You have less than three seconds to get a prospect to decide to read your e-mail, blog, postcard, article or any other marketing piece. And if they don't read it, it doesn't matter how great your copy is or how compelling your offer is. Learn seven proven headline formulas that the pros use to quickly and easily write killer headlines.
• Five Lead Generation and Conversion Strategies That Work!, 4 p.m. Join web and marketing expert Tricia Andreassen as she shares the little-known lead generation secrets of the nation's top producers and how you too can generate high quality leads that result in closed transactions.

Get more details and register at the REALTOR® University Webinar Summit web page.

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The Inman Real Estate Connect Conference, San Francisco, will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, July 13 - 15.

For more than 14 years, Brad Inman, publisher/founder of Inman News, has brought the best minds in real estate and technology together for three power-packed and inspiring days. The San Francisco session has more than 150 speakers slated and expects more than 2,000 in attendance. Among the programming for the weekend:

• New Product Smack Down: Online real estate leaders unveil their newest innovations before our panel of expert judges, including Robert Scoble and Kara Swisher.
• Franchise Wars, Innovation and Market Recovery: Do Real Estate Brands Matter? with Alex Perriello and Bradley Inman.
• Connect Download: Ten Ways To Measure Your Way to Web Success with Gahlord Dewald.
• Keynote Address: Online Real Estate Futurama with Errol Samuelson.
• What is Google Doing? with Carter Maslan.
• Debate: Is the MLS System Broken? with Michael Wurzer and Simon Baker.
• Keynote Address: The Location-Based Future of Online Real Estate with Matt Galligan.

Saturday afternoon features two separate "innovation tracks," one for The MLS and the other for Technology and Media.

Those who register for the Real Estate Connect Conference prior to Friday, June 4 will be entered into a drawing for a free iPad.

Read more at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference San Francisco website.

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In this video from Inman's Real Estate Connect Conference 2008, Michael Shermer, founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine and author of the new book, "Mind of the Market", discusses market psychology and its role in the current real estate downturn, including his thoughts on how a better understanding of markets is the key to turning bad situations around.

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The latest Info Central Video Update from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is from NAR's 2010 AE Institute in Quebec. Learn what the future holds for your MLS and get a plan of "A.T.T.A.C.K." for staying calm and productive under pressure.

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In this BrokerIPTV video from the 2010 Realtor Rally in Denver, Kathy Soltero talks to Steve Moran of A Cleaner Carpet about their services.

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