RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

Hit a home run with RMLS™!

The RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair will be held on Thursday, April 11, 2013, from 8:30am-5:00pm at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

Classes are filling quickly—register online today to ensure enrollment! FREE CE hours are available for both Oregon and Washington REALTORS®!

Exhibitors will be on hand to offer the best in services, technology, and tools for your business needs. SentriLock will be in attendance for subscribers who would like to preview the lockbox equipment that RMLS™ will transition to later this year.

A special guest will also be on hand to keep the day memorable, and refreshments will be available for purchase. Don’t forget to bring business cards for door prize drawings!

Thanks to our generous sponsors!

DIAMOND

PLATINUM

SILVER

RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

Hit a home run with RMLS™!

The RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair will be held on Thursday, April 11, 2013, from 8:30am-5:00pm at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

Classes are filling quickly—register online today to ensure enrollment! FREE CE hours are available for both Oregon and Washington REALTORS®!

Exhibitors will be on hand to offer the best in services, technology, and tools for your business needs. SentriLock will be in attendance for subscribers who would like to preview the lockbox equipment that RMLS™ will transition to later this year.

A special guest will also be on hand to keep the day memorable, and refreshments will be available for purchase. Don’t forget to bring business cards for door prize drawings!

Thanks to our generous sponsors!

DIAMOND

PLATINUM

SILVER

RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

Hit a home run with RMLS™!

The RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair will be held on Thursday, April 11, 2013, from 8:30am-5:00pm at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

Classes are filling quickly—register online today to ensure enrollment! FREE CE hours are available for both Oregon and Washington REALTORS®!

Exhibitors will be on hand to offer the best in services, technology, and tools for your business needs. SentriLock will be in attendance for subscribers who would like to preview the lockbox equipment that RMLS™ will transition to later this year.

A special guest will also be on hand to keep the day memorable, and refreshments will be available for purchase. Don’t forget to bring business cards for door prize drawings!

Thanks to our generous sponsors!

DIAMOND

PLATINUM

SILVER

RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

Training Webinars Expanded on RMLSweb

TrainingStaffsmToday’s post is courtesy of Gerry and Mike (left), who comprise the RMLS™ Training Department. If you’ve ever gone to any RMLSweb trainings in the Portland metro area, you’ve most likely met at least one of them. The department has some exciting news to share…

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The RMLS™ Training Department is excited to announce that we have extended our webinar library to include four new webinar classes in addition to the three already available!

Web-based seminars, or webinars, are online workshops that have been in use for many years, but did not really gain widespread popularity as a training tool until the late 1990s. RMLS™ has undertaken an extensive webinar project in an attempt to provide another educational opportunity for our subscribers.

All of our webinars are scheduled for a maximum of one hour. The classes focus on specific parts of RMLSweb and can be viewed in the comfort of your home or office.

The newest webinar classes are:

• Creating a Prospecting Profile
Ever wish you had a personal assistant that could take your buyer’s criteria, monitor the results, and email it to them? Welcome to the wonderful world of Prospecting Profiles! Learn how to customize an advanced search using specific criteria that matches your buyer’s needs and have those results automatically emailed.

• CMA Overview
A comparative market analysis (CMA) is one of the main tools that you will use to assist sellers in arriving at a suggested sale price. Our webinar includes an overview of setting up and producing a complete CMA report for your client.

• Searching with Map Range
Learn how to master the different ways to map an area using the rectangle, circle, and polygon functions to help narrow down a specific location.

• RMLSweb Statistical Tools
This webinar will direct you to the various statistical tools available to subscribers on RMLSweb.

…and don’t forget our existing webinars: Listing Load Overview, Navigating Search Results, and Customizing Search Results!

RegisterWebinarSigning up for one of our scheduled, live webinars is the same as signing up for any of our classes: simply log in to RMLSweb and select Toolkit/Training Registration from the blue navigation bar at the top of our home page. Once in the Training Calendar, click on the hyperlinked name of your desired webinar, read the class description, and click the button to register. You may also register by calling (503) 236-RMLS (7657) or (877) 256-2169 toll free. After receiving your request we will send you confirmation by email which will include class details and instructions on how to join the webinar.

Joining a session consists of a video and audio connection, in which the video uses a link to GoToMeeting, while the audio connects users to the RMLS™ conference call system, which has the advantage of allowing questions to be asked at any time during a presentation—much like a regular classroom.

RMLS webinars is another in our series of training tools for subscribers. Remember: at RMLS™, service is our last name.

RMLS™ Spring Education Summit and Trade Fair

Coming in 2013: Full Browser and Tablet Compatibility

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RMLS™ is one of a handful of multiple listing services that does its own development work rather than purchasing a vended MLS system. At their annual leadership retreat each February, the RMLS™ Board of Directors sets priorities for the programming and development team for the coming year.

We recently held this annual retreat, and the clear mandate and number one priority for 2013 was decided: full browser and tablet compatibility for RMLSweb. This project will make our system fully compatible with current versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer; and add compatibility for the iPad, Android, and Windows Surface tablets.

In the 2012 Subscriber Satisfaction Survey, 49% of our subscribers who responded were “very interested” in tablet and browser compatibility. This is not surprising, because tablets outsold notebook computers in the US in 2012, and are projected to outsell all PCs worldwide by 2016.