by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 29, 2011 | Events
This May, take advantage of FREE RMLSweb training!
Here’s a quick rundown of upcoming real estate events and education for May in Oregon and Southern Washington. If you have an event that is not listed here, please let us know by commenting below. For future events, please send an e-mail to communications (at) rmls (dot) com.
RMLS™ Events:
Broker Education Series – May 18
Join RMLS™ for this educational event on March 18 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at The Kroc Center in Salem. Step-by-step training will show you how to successfully present, negotiate, and sign exclusive buyer representation agreements. This course provides great tools for qualifying buyers, negotiating professional service fees, signing representation agreements, and overcoming broker and buyer objections to exclusive representation.
Topic: Exclusive Buyer Representation Agreements
Speaker: Rick Harris, ABR CIPS CRS SFR
When: May 18, 2011 9:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: FREE!
For more information and to register, click here.
RMLS™ Reduced Initiation Fees!
RMLS™ posted its first listings in 1991! To honor our anniversary, we will be holding a special promotion of reduced office initiation fees during the upcoming months of April and May. All initiation fees will be reduced to $50. For more information on this promotion, you can email our Accounting department at accounting@rmls.com, or call them at 503-872-8003. Or, you can stop in to the nearest RMLS™ office. For more information, see this flyer.
Events around the region:
-May 3: East Metropolitan Association of REALTORS® presents a morning ZipForms training session from 10:00am to 11:00am and an afternoon training session from 2:00pm to 3:00pm at the EMAR office in Gresham. For more information, see here.
-May 5: W & R Studios presents two FREE Cloud CMA workshops at the RMLS™ Portland Board Room. For more information and to register, click the following links for the morning class or the afternoon class.
-May 5: Greater Portland Area Chapter Women’s Council of REALTORS® hosts its 8th Annual Spring Fashion Show: it’s a Fashion Fiesta! The event will be held from 5:30pm to 9:30pm at the University Club of Portland. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.
-May 12-13, 18-19: Earth Advantage Institute presents S.T.A.R. The Earth Advantage Broker Certification in Bend on May 12-13, and Portland on May 18-19. For more information and to register, click here.
-May 18: Portland Metropolitan Association of REALTORS® hosts the 2011 Portland First Citizen Banquet honoring Mercy Corps at 11:30am at the Governor Hotel. For more information, click here.
Also, if you are an RMLS™ subscriber, we have lots of FREE educational opportunities at a location near you; click the link for your area to view the May Training Calendar:
–Coos County
–Eastern Oregon
–Eugene
–Gresham
–Hood River
–Portland
–Roseburg
–Salem
–Vancouver
by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 25, 2011 | Lockbox, Statistics, Supra
Activity in Washington and Oregon shows slight improvement
When comparing the week of April 11 – April 17 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 1.8% in Washington and 0.1% in Oregon.
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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 18, 2011 | Lockbox, Statistics, Supra
Activity decreases in both Washington and Oregon
When comparing the week of April 4 – April 10 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 7.8% in Washington and 1.5% in Oregon.
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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 18, 2011 | Industry News, RMLS News, RMLSweb, Tips & Tricks
Stay current with the RMLS™ Twitter and Facebook accounts!
Sometime during the last decade, the term “social media” grew more fiercely than wildfire. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Foursquare and LinkedIn were created. To go even farther, we began to see social media in the form of blogging (WordPress, Blogspot), micro-blogging (Twitter), online reviewing (Yelp), photo-sharing (Flickr) and smart purchasing (Groupon).
It’s difficult trying to keep up with the constant flow of new social media applications, trends and products that come on the market each day. Due to the fact that social media has started to play a more key role in the real estate industy, RMLS™ is making an effort at “keeping up with the Joneses.”
Here’s how you can benefit from our efforts:
Did you know you can check up on our Twitter feed, Facebook page and RMLS™ Updates blog, without creating an account of your own? Say there is an RMLSweb outage (which is not something we like to think about, but it has happened before) and you want up-to-date information, here is what you can do:
Twitter: Go to http://twitter.com/RMLSweb
This will take you to the RMLS™ Twitter account, where you can see all of our recent “tweets” and our Twitter profile (even if you don’t have a Twitter account of your own!). From here, you can choose to “follow” us if you have an account! We recommend you do so in order to stay current with our updates.
Facebook: Go to http://www.facebook.com/RMLSweb
Here, you will be directed to our Facebook page! A goal of ours for 2011 is to increase our fan base on our Facebook page. Since we’re on the hunt for new fans, make sure to “like” our page!
Blog: For those of you who may have stumbled upon a link to this blog, at any time you can access it by going to: http://rmlsweb.wordpress.com/
We plan on doing some cool contests and giveaways in the future for those following us on Twitter and Facebook. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to win some free stuff! Also, don’t forget to tune in for these weekly events:
- Tuesday Training Tip – Each Tuesday we post an interesting RMLSweb training tip to our Facebook and Twitter accounts regarding certain aspects of the RMLSweb system.
- Friday Fun Fact – Each Friday we post a humorous fact on Twitter and Facebook about a fact of the day and how it coincides with a statistic from RMLSweb!
Finally, if you are looking to become a more efficient social media user, check out tools such as Hootsuite and TweetDeck that allow you to view and post to your Twitter, Facebook and Blog feeds – all at once!
Happy social media adventures!
by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 11, 2011 | Lockbox, Statistics, Supra
Activity falls in Washington, rises in Oregon
When comparing the week of March 28 – April 3 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 7.9% in Washington and increased 6.7% in Oregon.
Washington
Oregon
Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
Here’s a quick rundown of upcoming real estate events and education for May in Oregon and Southern Washington. If you have an event that is not listed here, please let us know by commenting below. For future events, please send an e-mail to communications (at) rmls (dot) com.