Category: Technology

Drones, technology, and ethical use of social networking

Drone photograph taken over downtown ABQ

On Thursday, July 20th, Cantera Consultants & Advisors will offer its 8 hour course “Ethical use of social networking, technology (and drones)”

This course counts for 8 hours of CE (Training) and fulfills your license renewal requirement with the NMREC for a 4 hour ethics course.

Topics covered in the course:
– latest in effective use of technology for real estate – including:
– how to develop a paperless office, and the Internal Rate of Return for doing so
– which laptop to buy
– how to incorporate tablets into your day to day business
– 100 apps in 60 minutes (iOS and Droid)
– overview of social media by platform
– the demographics drivers behind social media marketing
– what works and what doesn’t
– development of your marketing plan
– incorporating ethics into your social media marketing plan
– retooling your marketing program (includes a copy of the NM Apartment Advisors Inc marketing program that has been used to sell over $450M of apartment investments)
– developing metrics to track your marketing programs results
– drones – is it time to have one – includes hands on time with three different drones (and a drone pilot on hand to answer your questions)
– (yes you read that correctly – you will get a chance to be hands on with one of 3 drones)

Seating is limited at this amazing downtown Albuquerque course facility (location shared after registration) – register for this course at http://www.canteraconsultants.com/courses

8 Hours – Ethical Use of Social Networking, Technology (and Drones) – 7/20/2017 – 8am – $129 – http://www.canteraconsultants.com/courses

Thanks,
Todd Clarke CCIM
CEO
Cantera Consultants & Advisors Inc

 

Presentations from Oregeon Association of Realtors Commercial Summit

Thanks to the Oregon Association of Realtors for hosting Views from the future of commercial real estate.””

PDFs of the presentations can be found here
Introduction – Todd Clarke CCIM – OAR-Intro-ViewsfromtheFrontier-10222012-v4
Office – Patricia Lynn CCIM NotesfromtheEdge Office-PatriciaLynn6c
Industrial – Sam Foster CCIM ViewsFromTheEdge-Industrial-SamFoster-v04302012-v2dtc
Residential/Multifamily – Todd Clarke CCIM – ViewsFromTheEdge-Residential-ToddClarke-v10252012-v6dtc

Latest and greatest apps – can be found here.

Confessions of a Commercial Real Estate consultant can be found here.
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Course: Advanced Excel Wizardry – 4 training hours

Whether you are a beginning or advanced Excel user, this course will demonstrate how you can be more efficient, productive and improve your presentations.

Topics covered in the course include:
– Formatting
– Making stunning custom graphs
– Key formulas
– Database normalization
– Using Pivot Tables
– Using Goal seek to find the solution
– Conditional formatting as a tool to make legible and cool looking spreadsheets
– Creating macros to make your spreadsheet work more efficiently

* bringing a laptop with any version of Microsoft Excel is highly recommended

An example of an apartment dashboard tool created in Excel:
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Register for this or any other course at www.canteraconsultants.com/cca2015 .

Additional information about your international award winning instructor can be found at www.toddclarke.com

Course: Ethical use of Social Networking and today’s latest technology

This day long course covers the ins/outs of navigating the social networking minefield as well as the latest in technology and how to use it to make you more efficient in your daily work.

Learn how to:
– Develop a social networking policy for you and your agents
– Determine which social networking tools will work best with your customers
– How to tap in to the Gen Y market and what they are looking for in terms of information and content
– What software and tools you can use to manage social networking
– How to engage clients using social networking
– What tools you need to take your office paperless
– The latest in market trends and how they impact your business
– The latest tech to separate the time wasters from those tools that can make you more efficient
– How to make your iPad or Droid tablet an effective marketing/presentation and business tools (including top apps)
(You can see Todd Clarke and Todd Kuhlman present over 100 mobile apps in 90 minutes at the national CCIM conference in Denver, CO – click here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjj3bhxHS44)

One of my former students kindly offered this testimonial:

“Todd’s got his eye on the ball when it comes to technology. He knows what works and perhaps more importantly knows what doesn’t work and can help you steer away from traps.” – Richard E. Juge, CCIM, SIOR (National CCIM president 2010)

Register for this or any other course at www.canteraconsultants.com/cca2015 .

Additional information about your international award winning instructor can be found at www.toddclarke.com

Announcing our Social Networking scavenger hunt


Would you like to win a new iPad2 with red leather cover (notice the CCIM logo?)

Correctly answers the first 10 questions on our social networking quiz and give us some feedback on the next 4 questions at:

www.canteraconsultants.com/scavengerhunt

Good luck!

This marketing effort will be used to gauge the effectiveness of social networking in the marketing of the CCIM Technology and Social Networking course http://www.ccim.com/education/course/TSN/TSN0001 .

my first iPhone app help client’s calculate their property taxes

Very excited – as of 5 minutes ago, our iPhone app to help client’s calculate their property taxes for commercial properties in Bernalillo County went “live” in the iTunes store! It is only 99 cents, and if you provide us feedback to improve version 2 and leave feedback, I’ll gladly send you a buck!

If you own a commercial property in Bernalillo County and you would like to compare your property’s value against the resolved cases from 2010, click here – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taxessor/id419811562?mt=8 to try it out.

The App is only $.99 and if you leave us a review and email me feedback at tclarke@nmapartment.com so we can improve version 2, I’ll gladly refund you a buck.

Thanks to Mark and Jamii at SWCP for making this happen.

Support for the app can be found here – http://www.taxessor.com .

CCIM announces new technology and social networking course


Technology and Social Networking Tools for Today’s Real Estate Professional
This 1-day course, taught by Todd Clarke, CCIM, teaches how to implement the latest technology and social networking tools into a real estate professional’s day-to-day business and add value to clients. Participants will review the latest hardware available, including smart phones, iPads and netbooks, and find software and data storage solutions. In addition, develop a business strategy for using social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, through hands-on exercises.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Make an informed decision on hardware and software solutions for your business
  • Determine which social networking sites are best suited to expand your business and inform your clients
  • Communicate to existing and potential clients through blogs, tweets and other social media
  • Learn how to add value to your clients’ needs and NOT become a spammer

    • Course location and pricing
    Chicago, IL ~ April 5, 2011 ~ 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
    Levine Learning Center
    430 N. Michigan Ave Suite 800 ~ Chicago, IL 60611

    Members $295 Non-members $395
    Instructor: Todd Clarke, CCIM

    Click here to register

    The passing of an era

    Posted in our sister blog, Todd Clarke’s Technology Corner, is an obituary of the man who developed the hardware for the first personal computer.

    His fulltime job was as a scientist at Sandia National Labratories, but his interests were in developing computers that the public could use.

    His company, MITS, developed the hardware, but he needed a software operating system to make the machine more accesible, and he and heard of a bright young programmer in the Seattle Area, Bill Gates, who might be able to write what he needed. Bill and his partner, Paul Allen worked around the clock from some down and out Route 66 motels to write the first operating system under their new corpoorate name, Microsoft.

    This corporate photo, taken in 1978, shows the original Microsoft staff.
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    Thank you Dr. Edwards for cementing Albuquerque’s role in computer history.