Real Estate Career Enhancement Services:
What it Means to Realtors®

By Dr. Martin Oliver

While advancing through the various educational stages of their career, agents have had to turn to various sources to meet their educational and training needs. For decades agents have struggled to find the right course, the most suitable CE, the most appropriate books and reports, and the best mentor or business coach, not to mention finding sources for the myriad of other services related to their building their business.

Now, one company has tackled that challenge of simplifying the process by creating a one-stop-shop total career solution. The RealtyU® Group spans an impressive range of real estate related solutions, such as:

• Getting Your License
• Building Proficiency
• Designations and Certifications
• Coaching, Mentoring and Shadowing
• Business Planning
• Continuing Education (CE credits)
• Skills Based Training
• Productivity Enhancement

Nurturing a successful real estate career requires dedication, persistence, commitment, and above all, hard work. To make that task easier, RealtyU® has committed to be an agent’s lifelong resource, dedicated to building a rewarding career.

In an industry where almost 90% of all agents fail with in the first two years, RealtyU® is striving to turn that around. Recently the company has made significant steps toward standardizing educational delivery, improving the quality of all its course content and student materials. Demonstrating its commitment to become the number one source of help, RealtyU® has become the first company to aggregate all online courses from a wide variety of providers into one national portal with powerful search capabilities. In addition, all offline classroom course schedules have been indexed by creating one online easily searchable database.

The RealtyU® career development services include:

Education in Class Rooms:
RealtyU® has brought together the largest network of real estate schools in the nation. Collectively these schools serve 40 states on 225 campuses, with 400 licensed educators offering over 5,000 different courses every year (http://www.realtyuschools.com/).

Education Online:
RealtyU® Online (http://www.realtyuonline.com/) offers the largest selection of online real estate courses to the industry. 1,914 e-classes to be exact.

Search for Off Line Courses:
CourseDates (http://www.coursedates.com/) is a national directory of courses that lists/catalogs between 2,000 – 2,500 class schedules across the country, offering CE, skills based training, designations and much more.

Seller Agency Specialization
Seller Agency Council (http://www.selleragency.com/) provides the most sought after certification for seller’s agents, the ASR® (Accredited Seller Representative) course and designation. The Council focuses on enhancing professional skills for brokers and agents to provide true “value added” service to today’s home seller.

Mentoring:
iSucceed, Inc., (http://www.isucceed.com/) is the nation’s largest online real estate mentoring service, providing direct exposure to the country’s top producing agents revealing their marketing strategies, tools and systems for agents to use in their local markets.

Real Estate Business Planning
Create A Plan, Inc., (http://www.createaplan.com/) is a simple, online business planning solution for serious agents. This point and click tool will monitor an agent’s progress and productivity through weekly accountability.

Designations and Certifications
The Real Estate Professional Society (http://www.realestateprofessionalssociety.com/) is dedicated to increasing professionalism in the industry by recognizing the changing business expertise required by agents. The Society offers various courses and awards designations representing multiple disciplines. One membership allows all the rights usually associated with multiple memberships.

Real Estate Bookstores
US Real Estate Bookstore (http://www.realestatebooks.org/) focuses on increasing real estate business knowledge and productivity through its large inventory of quality books, whitepapers, customizable agent tools and industry reports not widely found elsewhere.

As you read this article the RealtyU® Group (http://www.realtyu.com/) will have educated 305,000 agents in classrooms, 35,000 more online and served another 50,000 through it’s other divisions in 2005 or one out of every three REALTORS®. Finally agents have one service for all of their real estate education needs.