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Jennifer Allan

Jennifer Allan is the author of the newly-released Sell with Soul: Creating an Extraordinary Career in Real Estate without Losing Your Friends, Your Principles or Your Self-Respect, as well as a number of eBooks including The Seduction of Your SOI: Generating Business and...

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S. Robert August, MIRM

S. Robert August is founder and president of S. Robert August & Company, Inc., a full-service marketing, management, sales and consulting firm specializing in creating strategies to promote and sell real estate products and services throughout the United States. He create...

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Myers Barnes

Those in the national and international building communities are familiar with the name Myers Barnes. He is an acknowledged leader in global new-home sales and is known worldwide as one of the industry's topmost authorities in sales, management and corporate growth.

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Dick & Shelby Betts

Dick Betts is a highly recommended national speaker specializing in Smartphone training, business building & management programs and keeping agents up-to-date on the latest technology trends. He has taught classes in 42 states and Canada and is certified for continuing ed...

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Robyn Bonaquist

Robyn Bonaquist is a partner in the advertising firm of B-Squared Advertising. Specializing in real estate and development advertising, this Florida-based company has received more than 100 awards for excellence in advertising through the National Association of Homebuild...

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Melinda Brody, MIRM

Melinda Brody, MIRM, is President of Melinda Brody and Company, Inc. headquartered in Orlando, Florida. After setting records for many years as a top closer in sales, and serving as a National Sales Trainer, Melinda formed her own sales training company offering high ene...

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Amy Chorew

Amy is Senior National Trainer and Senior National Consultant for Matthew Ferrara & Company. Since joining the company in 2000, Amy has delivered more than 600 seminars nationwide in more than 30 states. In addition to her extraordinary training and speaking skills, she h...

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Nace Cohen, CPA

Nace Cohen, CPA, is a specialist in Real Estate Taxation and 1031 Exchanges, and an Independent Agent for Wachovia Exchange Services. A CPA since 1983 and a UF Accounting graduate, Nace has worked with some of the most prominent CPA firms in the real estate industry and q...

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Matt DiMaio

Motivator, educator, and noted humorist, Matt DiMaio is in his third decade of producing attention-getting results as a platform speaker, sales & personal development trainer, and business consultant. He is best known for specializing in techniques of “High Performance Le...

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Carol M. Flammer, MIRM

Carol M. Flammer is President of Flammer Relations, Inc., an Atlanta based public relations agency specializing in residential real estate throughout the Southeast. Her company has promoted a wide range of projects including single family, master planned, townhomes, activ...

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Phil Gribbons, MIRM, CMP

Phil Gribbons, MIRM, CMP is the President and founder of Residential Marketing Specialists, LLC, a Marketing company created to serve the needs of Homebuilders in the area of marketing and professional development of sales associates, managers and staff members. Phil is ...

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Kellee Heldoorn

Kellee Heldoorn provides invaluable assistance in offering incomparable real estate services to buyers and sellers in Orange County, Califonia. Kellee joined her mother, Debbee, in 1998 creating The Heldoorn Team. They are known in California and in Texas for their innova...

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Bill Herring

It’s no wonder that one of the most successful sales training seminars would be created and developed by Bill Herring. No other seminar instructor in the country has a similar background. As a former teacher and coach, Bill combined his ability to communicate, teach, and...

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Steve Hoffacker, CAASH, CAPS, CMP, CSP, MIRM
Steve Hoffacker, CAASH, CAPS, CMP, CSP, MIRM, is principal of Hoffacker Associates, a real estate sales and marketing consultancy based in West Palm Beach, Florida. For nearly 30 years, he has strived to help homebuilders, developers, remodelers, salespeople, managers, marke...
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Jerry Kidd, GRI, CRS, CRB, ePRO

Jerry Kidd, GRI, CRS, CRB, SRES, ePRO a 22 year veteran of the real estate industry, has listed and sold homes, managed real estate offices and served as the IT Director for a major Northern California real estate company. Kidd earned his GRI early in his real estate care...

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Kerry Kidwell, ABR, CRB, CRS, GRI, e-PRO, DREI

In 1979, Kerry obtained his real estate license after getting “stuck” on his first home purchase. He later bought the brokerage he worked for, and ran his own company for about 10 years, going back in sales for someone else at that time. Kerry became interested in real es...

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Jim Kimmons

Jim Kimmons brings comprehensive experience in small business, real estate and technology to his goal of helping educate real estate professionals in the use of technology in their businesses.  Jim’s experience in entrepreneurial endeavors includes:

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Patti Kouri, GRI

Patti Kouri, GRI, is a professional coach and a graduate of Coach University and the Coach Training Institute. Following a successful real estate sales career, she has focused on life success coaching for nearly ten years, working with thousands of real estate professiona...

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Michael Soon Lee, MBA, CRS, GRI

Michael is a marketing guru who is a leading expert in selling to people from diverse cultures. He was a Marketing Director for the State of California, a professor of marketing at universities and a producer for the ABC Television Network. Michael has authored several bo...

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Ginny Lee, CRS, PA, RECS, ABA

Ginny Lee is a CRS, RECS, ALHS (Accredited Luxury Home Specialist), Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate for 3 years, A Cyberspace Guru, A mentor on www.isucceed.com, a Certified Staging Specialist and President Of America's Best Agents.

Ginny Lee has been a Broker Agent...

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Nancy Lemon

Nancy Lemon is the President of Professional Development Group. Nancy has comprehensive and diversified expertise in consulting to organizations in the implementation of strategic sales, customer loyalty & leadership initiatives focused on improving corporate effectivenes...

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Rich Levin

Rich Levin is a nationally known coach, educator and speaker that has been in the Real Estate Business for over 30 years with the last 15 dedicated to coaching and speaking. He continues to coach top Agents to extraordinary results as well as maintaing a very busy speakin...

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Mitch Levinson, MIRM, CSP

Founder and principal of MLC New Home Marketing and Mitch Levinson Consulting, Mitch Levinson has focused on sales and marketing technology for the real estate and construction industries since 1991. Mitch personifies commitment to the industry and maintains the highest l...

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Lou Ludwig, CRS, CIPS, SRES, GRI, TRC, CMP

Lou Ludwig is the founder and president of Ludwig & Associates located in Boca Raton, Florida. The company is recognized as one of the foremost builder and developer sales turnaround specialists in the country. In the past 12 months, Ludwig & Associates has managed $100 m...

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Kimberly Mackey, MCSP, CMP, Realtor

Kimberly Mackey has nearly 10 years of experience as an executive in the residential homebuilding industry--working with builder/developers, who range in size from a large regional, privately held builder to large national builders. Prior to that, she was a successful bu...

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Melanie McLane, ABR, CRB, CRS, ePRO, GRI, RAA

Melanie McLane is a practicing appraiser, broker and educator. A graduate of Kenyon College with over 32 years in the business, she has vast experience in all aspects of real estate. She devotes most of her time to teaching, writing and consulting with real estate compani...

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Joe Meyer, GRI

Joe Meyer is one of today’s most sought after national speakers for the real estate industry. With thirty years in real estate and 21 as President of his own National training firm, Joe has a lot to offer today’s Realtor®. Having delivered over 2500 professional seminars ...

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Paul Montelongo, CGR, CSP

A nationally recognized speaker, author, syndicated columnist, and entrepreneurial consultant, Paul has built two multi-million dollar construction companies over the last 25 years. His companies have contracted with literally thousands of clients, from Fortune 100 compan...

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Orlando Montiel

Orlando V. Montiel, is the founder and president of The Montiel Organization, a sales training organization tailored directly to real estate sales agents that want to build a career, have a profitable business, and increase their income in real estate. The organization ha...

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Kerry Mulcrone, MIRM,CSP, CMP

Since 1986 Kerry Mulcrone has been selling, training, teaching and motivating in the New Home Sales arena, providing organizations and clients with insight and perspective to boost their company and customer growth. With 20 plus years of hands on experience from a top sal...

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Karel Murray, ABR, CRB, CRS, DREI

After receiving her B.A. in Human resources from Ottawa University, Karel pursued and received the Graduate REALTOR® Institute (GRI), Certified Residential Specialist, Accredited Buyer Representative(CRS), and Certified Residential Broker(CRB) designations in addition to ...

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Tom Ninness

Tom Ninness is Vice President/Regional Production Manager for Cherry Creek Mortgage in Denver, CO and has been a top producer and loan originator in the mortgage industry for over 27 years, assisting over 8000 families in purchasing their homes. He is also the President ...

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Meredith Oliver, Chief Evangelist, MIRM, CSP

Meredith is the founder & president of Meredith Communications, Inc., a sales seminar and marketing services firm located in Orlando, FL. While she specializes in real estate audiences, Meredith has spoken to a number of industries including healthcare, education, associ...

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John Palumbo, MIRM

John Palumbo is CEO of The Sales DNA Institute, an idea studio and research laboratory for sales and marketing management. Since 1985, he has presented hundreds of dynamic, visionary speeches and seminars internationally on the science of sales and influence. John brings ...

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Todd Paton

Todd Paton started his real estate career nine years ago at Republic Bank as a mortgage underwriter. He was there for two years and then started Mortgage Approval Group. Todd built Mortgage Approval Group into a 42 person operation with four offices in Florida. In 2001, h...

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Phil Risch, SRES, ePRO, CRB, RECS

Phil Risch is the Regional Automation Marketing Manager for North American Title Company in Fresno, California. Phil earned his Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree from Colorado State University in Electrical Engineering. Phi...

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Rossi, Edutainor, e-PRO Trainer

EDUTAINOR, Certified e-PRO Trainer, Master Neuro Linguistics Practitioner (NLP), Edutainer, Humorist, Coach, Bon Vivant, owner of ROSSI Speaks, Inc., delivers presentations, facilitations, education, coaching, and management consulting to companies, cor...

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Kelle Sparta, GRI, ABR

Kelle Sparta is a veteran of the real estate industry. She was a top-producing agent in the Connecticut marketplace, selling 25 houses in her first year in the business. She served as Director of Recruitment and Training for two companies, one in Massachusetts and one in ...

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Leigh Staley Tarullo

Salesperson, sales manager, and trainer since 1978, Leigh Staley Tarullo has managed the sales and marketing efforts for three national production builders, and has herself sold nearly 1,000 homes. Leigh retired from her position as a Division VP of Sales & Marketing for ...

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Rick Storlie, CSP, CMP, MCSP

Beginning as a framing carpenter in 1988, Rick Storlie, Founder and President of New Home Sales Coach, truly learned this business from the ground up! While completing his BS in Speech Communication, Mass Communication and Real Estate, Rick enrolled in an internship with ...

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Andy Tolbert

Andy Tolbert, The Blue Jeans Broker, has been immersing herself in real estate since 1995 when she first became involved in the mortgage industry and found that she loved every exciting aspect of our industry. In 1999 obtained her real estate license while also beginning ...

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Tom Ware

Tom Ware is widely recognized as an industry leader, sales trainer, consultant and business motivational speaker with an impeccable track record for developing programs that create results. His extraordinary sales experience is rooted in homebuilding and is the culminatio...

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Dirk Zeller

Dirk Zeller is an Agent, an Investor, and the President & CEO of Real Estate Champions. His company trains more than 350,000 Agents worldwide each year through live events, online training, self-study programs, and newsletters. He's the widely published author of Your F...

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