Desiree W. Savory
Personal Computer Coach - Unique Coaching for Unique Learning Styles
Certified MCE Technology Instructor
Member: Texas Real Estate Teacher's Association

COACHING OBJECTIVE
To apply technical and interpersonal skills in a computer software learning environment (onsite and online) and hardware learning environment for adult professionals.
Provide Real Estate professionals with assistance for an effective online presence and marketing plan. Coach Realtor® on maintaining personal website.
Effective contact management and marketing techniques.

COMPUTER SOFTWARE & HARDWARE EXPERIENCE
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook); Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox; Corel Products (WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Harvard Graphics); Real Estate related software (Tempo, WyldFyre, Zipform Online, Zipform Desktop, Texas Formulator, TOP PRODUCER®, Stellar, Altaira, Lightning CMA.; additional real estate designed software. Personal Digital Assistants and Smart Phones.

PERSONAL MCE CERTIFIED MANUALS
Navigating in Windows; Internet for Today's REALTOR; Microsoft Outlook; Managing Electronic Client Files; Using Email (Outlook Express); Internet for Today’s Realtor®. Additional MCE manuals written and maintained for HAR.

EDUCATION
Houston Community College: English; Principles of Real Estate; Principles of Real Estate II; Law of Agency; Law of Contracts; Desktop Publishing; Food & Beverage Control
New Horizons (Computer Software Training)
Office Administration Certificate (Barclay Business College, Houston, TX - 1985).
Royal Conservatory of Music (Jamaica and Canada) and Telcik School of Music

CERTIFICATIONS
Technography www.technography.com
Top Producer 6i & 7i www.topproducer.com
Zipform Desktop and ZipformOnline www.zipform.com
QSC (Quality Service Certified) www.qualitycertified.org
GroupSystems www.ventana.com
Collaborative team-based decision software that allows participants through the network of PCs to make decisions quickly and efficiently.
Option Finder www.optionfinder.com
Voting tool via interactive keypads.
Information Mapping www.infomap.com
Developing Procedures, Policies and Documentation:
Designing compliance documentation, training materials, safe work practices,
administrative procedures, and policy manuals.

Marilyn Maxwell is the Technology Training Specialist for HAR. As a member of HAR, your financial success in real estate is her top priority. Marilyn's primary focus is to inform the membership of the many FREE tools HAR offers which help generate business and incorporate cutting edge technologies into their marketing and business plans, while costing them little to nothing. Marilyn regularly conducts classroom training sessions covering everything from Tempo basics to more advanced topics like enhancing your website with HTML coding Additionally, Marilyn conducts one-hour mini-classes in the form of online Webinars The final form of training that Marilyn conducts is something unique to her position at HAR. At no additional charge to members, Marilyn is available to speak at office meetings or area networking functions. She can even conduct an on-site training course specifically for your company only.

From our mission statement "helping members achieve ongoing profitability" to the projects we manage every day, we at HAR seek to help support you in your everyday business needs. Helping you generate business and become more profitable is a bonus benefit to that service.

Designations: GRI, E-Pro, GREEN, CRS candidate

HAR
2009 HAR Board of Directors
2009 NRG NexGen Advisory Group
2009 Technology Advisory Group
2009 Training & Member Profitability Advisory Group
2009 Texas Association of Realtors Leadership Program
Instructor, 2003-Present 

Montgomery County Association of Realtors®
2001 Director

TAR
Senior Instructor 2004-Present
Professional Development Committee

Career Development Manager/Sales Manager for Prudential Gary Greene, 2001-2004

Paul is Internet marketing director for Bizzuka, a Web design and development company based in Lafayette, LA. In that role,Paul is charged with incorporating new media marketing strategies and techniques into the marketing mix. Having been involved in online marketing for over a decade, he is well-suited to it. He understands at a granular level how social media tools can be used for marketing purposes.

Prior to joining Bizzuka Paul was co-founder of Blogging Systems, a blog software company that significantly impacted the real estate industry by encouraging Realtors to adopt blogging as a marketing strategy. He is the co-author of Realty Blogging: Build your Brand and Outsmart Your Competition, which similarly impacted the industry and which was the first blogging book to target a specific industry vertical.

Paul serves as president of the International Blogging and New Media Association (IBNMA), an organization dedicated to advancing the growth of blogging, podcasting and social media as an industry. He sits on the board of advisors for the Women's Wisdom Network, the Social Media Marketing Institute, and SmartBrief on Social Media.

He is a feature writer for Practical Ecommerce magazine on the use of social media for marketing purposes and blogs for MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog. Paul has led numerous blog and social media workshops and seminars, including the first ever such seminar to be held in Asia. He has also blogged professionally with Weblogs, Inc., as well as with Allbusiness.com.

Paul has served as Technical Editor on a number of For Dummies series books related to blogs and Internet marketing, and was contributing writer on Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, published by Wiley.

His latest venture is as author of an upcoming book on social media marketing to be published by Wiley entitled The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media, set for release in September 2009.

You can find Paul on Twitter. His handle is @pchaney. Or, visit his Web site, TheSocialMediaHandyman.com.

Ozzie Ramirez is the Co-Owner of Capital Trust Realty, a small firm comprised of 2 offices and more than 30 agents. Capital Trust Realty - Seabrook focuses more on Commercial Real Estate and boasts more than 50 Million dollars in listings. Capital Trust Realty - Pearland focuses more on Residential and has grown from 3 agents to more than 20 agents in less than 1 year.

Ozzie prides himself on his knowledge of blogging, SEO, Social Media Marketing, and understanding real estate marketing and it's direct relation to the internet. In 2008 he attributed more than $30,000 in gross commission directly to Myspace Marketing and is on track to Quadruple that number in 2009 due to his addition and consistent use of Facebook, Twitter, and new blogging techniques.

Ozzie's marketing philosophy summed up: You can spend thousands of dollars on billboards, commercials, postcards, etc, but if your product/service isn't top quality, all you are doing is paying to tell people that your product/service is lacking. Focus on your product/service quality and marketing will come easy."

Odd angles. A day dreamer. A crappy surfer & OK Athlete. A reader & writer. Optimistically cynical. A Sales Manager @ Prudential Gary Realtors, The Woodlands. A gadget guy. And a 30 year RE veteran. Ken’s random-thought-particles can be found splashed across the pages of his personal blog @ BrandCandid.com and his guest articles @ AgentGenius.com. On the lighter side, Ken’s folly can be followed at Twitter.com/KenBrand, Facebook.com/KenBrand and YouTube.com/KenBrand.

Blog: http://www.BrandCandid.com

As the resident Social Media Guru at Trulia.com, Rudy is the public face and voice of Trulia. He leads Trulia's Social Media Strategy both online and offline and manages the Trulia corporate blog. He contributes to new initiatives that build brand awareness while improving the consumer and agent experience. As a speaker at real estate conferences and classrooms around the nation, he enjoys educating agents on how to best utilize the newest and best web 2.0 tools and technologies.

http://www.trulia.com
http://www.truliablog.com
http://profile.to/rudy/  
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rudybachraty
http://twitter.com/trulia
http://realestateagent.meetup.com/172/
http://www.squidoo.com/trulia
http://www.youtube.com/user/trulia
http://www.vimeo.com/user306887/videos
http://activerain.com/blogs/rudy
http://rudy-bachraty.yelp.com
http://friendfeed.com/rudybachraty
http://www.retaggr.com/Card/trulia

Sara Bonert is the Director of Broker Services for Zillow, a leading real estate website which attracts over 9 million people a month.

Sara has over 12 years of experience of helping real estate professionals market themselves online. Her career began in 1997 at Citysearch.com where she worked to develop one of the first online real estate channels. From there she worked as the National Sales Manager of Online Business for Network Communications, who publishes magazines such as The Real Estate Book, teaching agents to integrate print and online advertising. Today Sara works with Real Estate professionals around the country, helping them leverage online marketing opportunities and social media while also promoting ways Professionals can market themselves on Zillow.

Sara is also a licensed Realtor in Illinois and a member of the Chicago, Illinois and National Associations of Realtors. Follow her on Twitter at @sbonert or read her blog at www.SaraBonert.com.

Danny Frank earned his real estate license in September 2004, and immediately joined the Keller Williams Realty firm in Pearland, where he still hangs his license today. Since joining Keller Williams, Danny's been appointed to the Agent Leadership Counsel (ALC) 4 years in a row. This group is responsible for making business decisions and assisting management with agent related issues. In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious Eagle Award for his dedication and commitment to serving others. He is currently working to further his career as a Realtor® by working towards his broker's license with plans to achieve his goal by 2010.

Highly active and engaged in social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Active Rain, Blogs, Linkedin and more. Danny is successfully using social networking as a way to keep in touch with his database, expand his community and generate leads that result in closed transactions.

Danny's professional involvement includes leadershihp postions with HAR, TAR and NAR. He currently serves as the 2009 HAR Secretary/Treasurer. Starting on January 1, 2010, he will be the Regional Vice President for the Texas Association of Realtors®. Danny is proud of his passion for new technology and pushes the envelope every day.

Jay Thompson is the co-owner and designated broker of Thompson's Realty, an independent boutique real estate brokerage serving the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. Jay is the author of the widely read blog, http://www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com, which was named one of the "Top 25 Most Influential Real Estate Blogs" for 2008 by Inman News.

He is an active speaker at local, state and national events and is certified by the Arizona Department of Real Estate to instruct courses on social media.

Jay's use of blogging and other social media tools has allowed him to open a successful brokerage in one of the hardest hit areas in the worst real estate market in recent memory. He generates 95% of his business from the Internet and employs no "traditional" marketing or prospecting methods.

Chris Schilling, Zindler Realty Broker, has over 20 years of experience in the Houston Real Estate Market and is in the top 1% among all Houston Real Estate Agents. His business is based on trust, integrity, and referrals from his many satisfied clients. Schilling is an avid advocate for social media to create relationships in real estate. Utilizing various social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, Chris has received leads, listings, and new clients. Chris has written two new hands-on courses: Real Estate & Twitter 101 and Real Estate & LinkedIn 101. He will begin teaching these classes to HAR members this summer.

Jeff Turner is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned business executive of 20 plus years. Under his leadership, his former company, J.J. Grace, was named to the Inc. Magazine list of 500 fastest growing companies in America.

As senior executive and Group President of Vertis, Inc., Jeff brought the needed vision and leadership to a highly diversified corporate Group and integrated the operations, the focus and the spirit of that Group back into the organizational mainstream. 

Jeff is the Founder and creative force behind Real Estate Shows, a Partner at LeiderTurner & Associates and the CVO at Zeek Interactive. He is also widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on social media marketing strategy and execution, an advisor to The Social Media Marketing Institute, and a sought after speaker on the topic of social networking.

In his experience, Jeff has recognized and applied the science and creativity of communication to his organizations. It has been instrumental in achieving uncommon successes. His insights and knowledge, both practical and academic are integral to how he helps lead the organizations he is a part of.

Jeff earned his bachelor's degree in Psychology from Grace College (Indiana) and a Master's degree in School Psychology from Ball State University (Indiana). He is married and has six children.