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Valuable CRS Course Available for
Desert REALTORS®

However you define success, you can get there faster by earning the CRS Designation. CRS training gives you in-depth knowledge about business planning, making listing presentations, negotiating and closing smoother transactions, working in the buyers' and sellers' best interest and building a referral business.

Why choose CRS and not other designations? Quite simply because you put the most effort into getting it and get the most value back from it. Your mind is open to new challenges, possibilities and opportunities to enhance your business.

Local Course Offered C.D.A.R. will be offering one of the foundation courses for the designation: Building an Exceptional Customer Service Referral Business on October 13-14, 2008. This course teaches how to refocus your business strategy and develop a customer-service centered, repeat and referral business plan with practical insight from acclaimed instructor Frank Serio. Cost for the two day course is $395.

Is it worth it? Desert REALTOR® contacted CRS designee, real estate office manager and past-president Emily DiSimone, who remarked "It's probably one of the best courses I've ever taken. There are so many new ideas in there that I've used. It's paid off. For example, it's gotten me back with old clients and generated repeat business. I use a lot of what I learned in the referrals class to teach my agents. It's the best money you'll ever invest in yourself. I can't talk about it enough."

Earning the CRS designation requires a combination of production and education requirements. Upon earning the designation, you have many resources at your fingertips - strong referral network of more than 45,000 CRS members; timely and timeless news and information found in the bimonthly magazine, The Residential Specialist; and networking opportunities locally through CRS Chapters and nationally at events such as Sell-a-brations®, the Council's annual educational conference, and National Committee Meetings held twice yearly.

To find out the "hows and whys" of achieving this prestigious designation, go to www.crs.com. For information on the upcoming Building an Exceptional Customer Service Referral Business course, contact Joy at the Association, 760-346-5637 or joy@cdaronline.com.