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It’s Almost Time to Sell-a-brate

Collect practical tips and sharpen essential skills to apply every day.

The 2017 annual CRS Sell-a-bration® will take place Feb. 9-10 at the beautiful Arizona Grand Resort & Spa in Phoenix (a welcome break for CRS members living in colder climates). This year’s conference is All About REAL Business, focusing on useful, applicable, real information that you can take home and apply to your business every day.

Keynote Speakers

Brad Inman

Brad Inman

John Meacham

John Meacham

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and award-winning journalist and publisher Brad Inman are slated to speak at this year’s event. Meacham is a skilled and moving speaker who analyzes how national issues and events impact our lives and our businesses. Inman is the founder of Inman.com, real estate’s leading news source for active professionals. His passion for and knowledge of the industry energizes all his audiences.

Education

This year’s event will feature four tracks: systems, business planning and leadership for teams, marketing and essential skills.

  • The Systems track will include sessions on setting up and better utilizing systems in your business, networking and achieving work-life balance.
  • The Business Planning and Leadership (Teams) track will include sessions on building the multimillion-dollar team, joining or starting a team, and tips for becoming a profitable and effective team.
  • The Marketing track has sessions on how to dominate a neighborhood, realizing revenue from international real estate and creating effective videos.
  • The Essential Skills track features sessions on negotiating, becoming a top producer and the showing agent model.

A pre-conference course will be offered on Feb. 8. It’s one of the Council’s newest educational offerings, Zero to 60 Home Sales a Year: A Blueprint for Success. The CRS Leadership Training Program will also take place from Feb. 6 to 8.

Networking Events

The CRS Night Out is a fun way to kick off the festivities and will take place the evening of Feb. 8. On Feb. 9, there will be a reception with drinks and appetizers, and networking opportunities to grow your referrals. We will also be hosting a first-timers welcome session with coffee, morning yoga and CRS Talks sessions where you can try to stump a CRS or join in several contests.

The Location

The Sell-a-bration® 2017 event is located at the beautiful Arizona Grand Resort & Spa, located in southeast Phoenix near the South Mountains. The luxury resort features in-suite internet access, a fitness center, valet and self-parking, six different dining options, golf, a full-service spa and an Oasis Water Park, and it’s located near the Phoenix Premium Outlets. The resort has been voted the No. 1 staycation spot for Phoenix residents.

Register for Sell-a-bration® by November 15 to qualify for the Early Bird Rate II.