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Who Doesn’t Love FREE? Take e-PRO® Day-One for Free at the REALTORS® Conference and Expo

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By Maura Neill   If you’re looking for one more reason to attend the REALTORS® Conference and Expo next month in Orlando, check this out: You can take Day One of the newly-redesigned e-PRO® course for FREE. The course is a $149 value, but you can get it for free, nada, nothing, no dinero…simply because you’re a YPN member. It’s …

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Conference Virgin? I Think You’re Ready.

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By Anand Patel With conference season in full swing, I have met many new and seasoned real estate professionals debating if conferences are worth attending at all. For newer agents—the conference virgins—they look at the cost and automatically dismiss the events as too expensive to even consider. Some seasoned agents—those that have gotten rusty at it—are “too busy” to waste …

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YPN Goal Setting That Gets Results

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By Hilary Hale Brown One of the most fulfilling experiences a group can grow from is that of reaching its goals.  In January of this calendar year, myself, the administrative executive of our board of REALTORS®, and members of the YPN committee set our promises to paper.  These ranged from things such as a build for Habitat of Humanity in …

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The Last About Me Page You Will Have to Fill Out

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By Stefanie Hahn I hope that your SocialBios is the last About Me page you will have to complete now that REALTOR.com and SocialBios have fully launched the Hyper-Social(TM) Agent Profile Pages and Hyper-Social(TM) Agent Recommendations. Presented at the Young Professional Network Sub-Committee Midyear meeting yesterday in Washington, D.C., you must understand that this is no ordinary About Me page. …

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Vendor Speed Dating

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By Lynn Minnick This post follows along the same idea as Cory Brewer’s last post about relationships.  My office has a new office leader/manager and she recently put together an event that I thought was pretty genius AND helped build relationships. She asked each of us to provide her with a list of the different real estate service-related vendors we …

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Taking an Active Role Within Your Association is Easier Than You Think

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By Brooke Wolford I recently had a meeting for the Metro YPN committee of the St. Paul Association of REALTORS®.  Ron Covert, chief executive officer, joined us to see what was going on with our newly-revamped YPN. One of the questions he asked us was, “How do we get the younger generation involved with the association?”  Seems like a relatively …

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YPN REALTORS® Celebrated

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By Nobu Hata The 2011 REALTORS® Conference & Expo YPN reception was the culmination of an incredible year for both YPN and NAR.  From local associations, to state and national, the work these 15,000 young professional REALTORS® put in was celebrated at the convention. This year’s winners certainly made their mark: Small/Medium Network of the Year: Athens (GA) Association of …

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My First NAR Conference Review

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By Brooke Wolford I arrived home yesterday from the REALTORS® Conference & Expo in Anaheim, Calif.  I felt invigorated and yet somewhat overwhelmed. I had taken so much in while at the conference and my REALTOR® A.D.D. kicked right in. All the information I received while at the conference was amazing and I really didn’t know where to begin implementing …

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Hot Times in The O.C. – YPN in Anaheim

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By Kelly Quigley, REALTOR® Magazine – Video By Erica Christoffer, REALTOR® Magazine With a guest list of 500 career-driven REALTORS® and their friends, the networking scene was hot and the dance floor even hotter Friday night at the exclusive Young Professionals Network party. “It’s incredible to see the energy of these folks,” said attendee Eric Berman, communications director for the …