Security Pacific Blogs!

Today we are teaching a class on blogging for the Walnut Creek Security Pacific Office.
This is a great office with some really great agents.

In a short hour I plan to show them

• What blogs are and what blogging is.
• Just how easy it is to start blogging.
• Why they want to blog.
• We're going do this class "live", and create two separate blogs right there in front of everyone!
• As a matter of fact this post is part of the class itself!

Two agents in their office; Bill Clemente and Rafael Quintero attended the class we did for the CCRIM group almost a month ago. They both created their first blogs on Active Rain (http://activerain.com)

You can view Bill's blog here: http://activerain.com/blogs/rafaelq









And Rafael's blog here: http://activerain.com/blogs/actorbill


I met with Ken Broz (kbroz@SecurityPacific.com) and he is eager to start blogging.
Ken's been shown the light and can't wait to get into it!

These agent's are going to be a wonderful addition to the real estate blogoshpere!
Their knowledge is second to none!

Please welcome them to the blog community!

Concord Blog Class

Another Day - another fabulous opportunity to share the wealth of blogging. Today we'll be meeting with Agents in the Concord, Walnut Creek area.

We'll be meeting at First American's Conference Room, Linda Moss (pictured here) offered to host this and will be bringing breakfast goodies.

This class will ask for a $10 donation to the C.C.A.R . Scholarship Foundation.

Yesterday's class went very well.

We held the class live, as in on the internet, with plenty of graphics. We talked about the 3 reasons why to blog and search engine rankings. We discussed a little about blogging theory. Then got down to the meat. We created two different blogs and then posted to the two. Once they saw how easy it was to create and post - they were hooked!

Questions were highly encouraged. If they had a question, they raised their hand and we answered it right then and there! There were plenty of questions.

In the end we asked for a quick survey to see how we did.
Nothing but highly appreciative comments.

Stealing a line from the government...

No Agent Left Behind

See you in Class!
Here's a Flyer for the class: LINK
And here's a Map to the class: LINK

SAOR Blog Class

I was asked to teach a Beginning Blog Class
for the Solano Association of Realtors today.
I requested that we collect donations for the charity of their choice.
This class will collect $5 per person which will go to the Teachers Wish List Foundation.

This is of course Brad Andersohn from First American Title.
He's also part of the technology committee and was instrumental in bringing this class to his Agents.

A hearty thanks to Brad and his team!


Here's the calendar listing for it:

Blog:101
Date: 03-15-2007
Time: 9:30 am - 11:30 am
Place: SAOR 1302 Springs Road, Vallejo
Come to this class and learn the inside secrets to blogging. In simple terms, Mike Mueller, Sr. Loan Officer for Patagonia Finance, will teach you simple formulas for successful blogging. Please RSVP to 644-5525, space is limited so reserve your seat now. A $5 donation is to the Teachers Wish List Foundation is requested.

Brad joined Active Rain not so long ago and is learning in leaps and bounds. Brad is very smart and certainly a tech kind of guy. Blogging has been around for many years but this new craze has also has some new wrinkles when applied to the Real Estate profession. It's a relatively new application of an older technology.

This class is going to be centered on meeting the needs of the Real Estate Agent who wants to start blogging. We're going to be highly interactive and dynamic. We're going to explain things in down to earth, non technical terms. By the end of the class they'll know Why they want to blog, and How to start blogging.

I realized last night, I have enough material for Blog 102, Blog 103 and Blog 104!
Hey, first things first - graduate from Blog 101, master the details, then look for more.

See you in class!

Oh yeah, here's a Flyer for the class: LINK
And here's a Map to the class: LINK