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 held in the cities of Denver, Las Vegas and Los Angeles on March 9, April 1 and May 15.

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.

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 Real Estate Market Conditions, National Association Of Realtors, Real Estate Industry, Real Estate Industry Events

The Ninth Annual National Real Estate Cyber Convention and Exposition opens its seven-day run on Sunday, February 21, and is open to the entire real estate community worldwide.

The event is all online. Exposition-only passes are free. Featuring hundreds of booths open 24 hours a day with the latest new ideas, products, and services of interest to todays real estate professionals, expo attendees can win substantial door prizes, hear presentations, view video presentations, get brochures, and talk live with the vendors.

The convention will feature four major keynote addresses plus 50 nationally recognized real estate trainers, authors and industry leaders. Keynote speakers are:

• Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist of the National Association of Realtors®, "The 12 Months Ahead Whats Going to Happen"
• "Mr. Internet," Michael Russer, "Dominate Your Online Competition"
• Randy Eagar, President of the Computer Camp, "10 Ways to Propel Your Business into the Real Estate Recovery"
• Jennifer Allan, author of Sell with Soul, "No More Doom & Gloom Lets Get Ready for the Real Estate Boom!"

The event producer, CyberConventions.com, announced a grand prize drawing of a luxury cruise for two to be held on Saturday, February 27 at 6 p.m. (EDT) the final day of the convention.

Convention information and registration can be found at www.cyberconventions.com/realestate.

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You can now access FREE archives from the January 28 REALTOR® University Webinar Summit, providing great information on popular topics from tax tips to tech tools:

• Feast or Famine? The 2010 -2011 Economic Forecast
• How to Make 2010 a Great Year with an Effective Business Plan
• Top REALTOR® Tax Write-Offs and Other Things You Should Know
• How to Re-define, Re-invent & Re-fire your Marketing Messages
• Top Ten Money-Making Tech Tools in Real Estate
• There's an App for That!
• How to List More Properties at Higher Commissions in 2010!

Click here to access the archives.

Posted in Internet Marketing, Traditional Marketing, Real Estate Market Conditions, Real Estate Industry Trends, Technology And YOU, Web 2.0 Marketing, Real Estate Industry Events