Keller Williams Family Reunion 2009 - KW in Orlando

Seen Through the Eyes of a First Timer

(I'm in the Keller Williams Realty Consultants office in Roswell, GA)

Saturday

I arrived in Orlando earlier today and finally got a chance to meet Cal Carter from the Gulf Shores outside of the exhibits and registration entrance at the Orlando County Convention Center. He's going to be sitting in on one of the panels so I'll definitely try to make that one. The city is jam packed with multiple conventions and traffic is a bear, but, I already feel energized and we have yet to really begin the event. I just finished scheduling the first two days of classes. I struggled a bit with whether to take this opportunity to invest some time in areas that I consider the weakest or to utilize the time to enhance my strengths. After thinking on it for a while, I've decided to spend most of my energy on what my goals are for 2009. That means lead conversion, anything internet and social media related, team building and leadership. It will be a very full 4 days.

My Sunday and Monday classes will be based on the following:

• New Technology
• Effective CMA's
• What it takes to close 100 Transactions in a year
• Build a high performance sales team
• Catch people in your web
• An effective prelisting package

I'll work on Tuesday after I get a full day in tomorrow and if I can, I'll try to get a couple of pictures up with Cal and some of the people from my office and anything else of interest.

That's it for now, it's going to be a busy few days with lots of homework so I'll try to post some interesting things tomorrow during the day if I have time.

Sunday

Here are some photos from Sunday:

I took this one on my way out of the hotel. I thought it would be nice to catch the sunrise as it was really the beginning of the event.

This was my first class on Sunday. What I'm looking for is just a few extra nuggets to bring back to our team in Atlanta. The Class was taught by Ben Kinney. Overall a good class and a serious lead follow up plan. We are doing most of it in one form or another on our team right now, but, started with it within the month - things are looking up from it. My biggest takeaway (for me personally) was that since we are primarily a web based lead generating machine, it is essential for all of us (on our team) to have access to email from our phones. It seems quite clear that immediate follow up is needed when someone inquires about a home. There were a few other items to note, but, I can't recap each class totally - there just isn't enough time.

Before breakout classes began, we were all able to catch up in the lobby by group texting (and through twitter). Below is Sara and Jack from our office.

Left to right: Betsy King, Denise Buchanan and Sara Cresci (sp?).

After the first class at 8 this morning, we all headed over to the opening ceremony which was quite an event in itself where Gary Keller spoke at length about the economy, what our mindset should be and what we need to be prepared for - especially over the next six months. Here are a few shots I took:

The Theme

Gary Keller beginning the speech.

Interesting.

All of the values above the trend line basically represent lost equity from homeowners/banks.

Far reaching.

Self correcting (just the absolute very beginning), more bad to come.

Tough times demonstrate that we add value.

Lunch at The Peabody.

KW Family reunion really will be helpful to my business...I'll post more tomorrow. Actually, the full post on Keller Williams Family Reunion is here...

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