We are pleased to present our Member Spotlight for the 3rd quarter of 2008 for the Southern California CRS, GARY ERICSON with GE Realty in Thousand Oaks, California.
Please feel free to contact Gary with GE Realty if you need assistance with your real estate needs in the Thousand Oaks vicinity, or if you are a CRS and would like to make a referral in that area.
Here's the 3rd Quarterly message from the Southern California CRS Chapter 2008 President Deborah Kniss, introducing the Board of Directors and sharing some information about the upcoming EDUCATIONAL and NETWORKING meeting to be held at Wilson Creek Winery on Friday September 26 in Temecula.
(I apologize that there were some issues with the tripod so you will hear some background noise)
If you attended the first two quarterly General Membership meetings this year, I hope you have already used your new tools and networking to increase your sales. As President, that is one of my stated goals for active Chapter members. In regards to classes, you will soon see information about a new two day class on Finance that is a must-have for this market, as well as special training on effectively maintaining an REO account – watch your email notices for more information!
This is the time, especially if “you don’t feel like it”, to get involved with the Chapter. If you would like to find out more information about the Board of Directors and what opportunities are available to you, please contact me direct. Real estate sales is all about staying cutting edge in your knowledge and skills, as well as staying connected with others.
I hope you will attend the next educational and networking meeting in Temecula – it is going to be a very important, fun event spread over two days. We will start with some fun on Thursday evening, September 25, at the Improv. Our General meeting will be held at the gorgeous Wilson Creek Winery on Friday, September 26, where Dick Betts (national speaker on technology) will be showing us how to start and maintain a Blog, how to text like a professional and much more. Of course you can’t have a seminar at a winery without doing some wine tasting afterwards!
This is also the perfect opportunity for you to ask questions about how to get more involved with the Chapter and network with a national representative from CRS, Ron Canning, who is flying in from Ohio to be with us.
Also, remember that by attending the meeting, your name will automatically be entered in a drawing to be in the “Member Spotlight”. The winner will be videotaped and profiled on our website and spotlighted in our next newsletter! I look forward to seeing you there.
Deborah Kniss, 2008 Chapter President
Stay the “Best of the Best” with the Southern California Chapter of CRS!
The annual San Diego Association of REALTORS Trade Expo was held this past Friday May 9 at the San Diego Convention Center (Day 2 of this event was held on Saturday with the focus on consumers) and the Southern California CRS Chapter was there!
The event was free to all agents (minus the lunch, if you attended, and of course the $8 parking fee) and a great gathering place of vendors. With the market being what it is, seems the focus on advertising and marketing services, strategies and products just keeps growing. I didn’t spend a lot of time there today because of my schedule, and a big part of being there was to help staff our Southern California Chapter of CRS (Council of Residential Specialists) booth.
Many thanks to BarbaraDuDeck, Area Vice President for San Diego, who coordinated the booth staffing. Barbara and I had a fun time Thursday afternoon setting the booth up, despite some challenges in figuring out how it all went together. Thanks also to the fellow Southern California CRS Chapter members who helped to staff the booth…Peter and Shirley Tenger, Linda Lesser, Barbara DuDeck, Diane Rath and others (sorry I do not have all the names but thanks!!).
Despite the market the turnout was pretty good. We had a lot of interest, a CRS joined our local Chapter, and 2 people signed up for the upcoming CRS 200 Class on Business Planning and Marketing being held at SDAR on May 22 and 23, 2008. We also raised a small sum of money for Habitat for Humanity, our Chapter with a Heart mission.
Now that the new BLOG application is up and running on our Chapter website we will be using that forum to share information, updates, and more. as we have done here over the last year and a half. While we may periodically add something to this blog, we encourage you to stop by the NEW blog at our Southern California CRS Chapter website.
The posts on this blog will remain in archives and will be accessible going forward.
At this time access to the blog on our Chapter site is open to all, however we will be making a change so that the blog is only open to members of our local Chapter. The intent is to provide a benefit to those who are members. We may include some articles that will be accessible to non-Chapter members who may be interested in joining the local CRS Chapter as well as general interest information.
The final meeting for our membership is this Friday at the Ayres Hotel in Hawthorn, November 30, from 8:30 - 2 PM.
And the last Board of Directors meeting of the year is tomorrow (where the new officers start their roles for the coming year). Hope you are signed up for the meeting - it should be a good one.
As you probably know I will be taking on a new role in the Chapter as Treasurer, after a fine job by Marlene Bridges who will be the President Elect for 2008. I will be moving out of my role as the Area VP for San Diego (but I will continue to be involved!!) and Barbara DuDeck will become our new Area Vice President for San Diego. I am very pleased about this, as I know Barbara is, and I think you can look forward to a good year for the membership.
I started having a quarterly Coffee Chat this year for the San Diego members (thanks, to Vicki Campbell, for her help in getting this started) which was met with some success. While the attendance was small, we had some good topics (mold, photography tips, investing using your 401k) , and the San Diego members seemed pleased to have something in the local area.
I did not sponsor a Coffee Chat in this last quarter primarily because of timing - the fires impacted lots of agents and their clients and sort of took over everyone's focus for a few weeks; the timing for our quarterly meeting was earlier; and the approaching holidays. Barbara and I have talked and I expect we will continue offering the Coffee Chats for our local membership. We hope you will participate, even if you cannot make the quarterly membership meetings. And if there are topics you want to hear about, please let me know.
You can look forward to some changes in our Chapter website, too - this will be discussed at our board meeting tomorrow, and our focus for the coming year will be on technology. I am excited about some of the things we are planning to bring you, our members, including a more effective site where you can keep up to date with what is going on. These changes will also benefit prospective CRS designees.
Finally, as readers, I hope you will feel comfortable participating in this blog as well. It's FOR YOU, no matter what region of our Chapter you are in. You can ask questions, share stories, ask for help, post ideas, and so on.
I also hope to see other members of the Board and some Area VPs participating too.
See you at the meeting and on the Internet. Thanks for reading!
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