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A Guide to zipForm Plus & DocuSign
1 Hour Elective CE Credit                A Guide to Zipform Plus and DocuSign covers everything you need to know, from adding and filling out forms to getting documents signed. Course #42095
Apply AI: Using Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate
1 Hour Elective CE Credit Apply AI: Using Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate will help agents learn about cutting-edge AI technology, how AI is impacting the real estate industry, and preview AI tools agents should be using to stay ahead of their competition. Course #46118
Becoming a Real Estate Area Expert
1 Hour Elective CE Credit         Becoming a Real Estate Area Expert teaches agents how to build their competency in the geographic area where they provide service to clients by teaching them how to utilize industry tools and resources to stay informed about local market conditions and issues that affect real estate. Course #43746
Better Buyer Consultations
1 Hour Elective CE Credit This course outlines proven strategies to create, prepare and conduct successful Buyer Consultations to best identify and meet home buyer needs. Better Buyer Consultations create better outcomes for home buyers and agents as well. Course #45462
Branding for Real Estate: Finding the Voice of Your Brand
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Branding for Real Estate focuses on creating a brand that attracts new business and grows an audience. Build, frame, and design a brand to gain trust with potential clients and attract more leads by developing a brand story and voice. Course #42235
Broker Responsibility
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6 Hour Non-Elective CE Credit        Broker Responsibility (2021-2022) addresses the regulatory aspects of a real estate brokerage's management, operation, and supervision in Texas. This course is required for anyone who sponsors one or more sales agents, serves as the designated broker for a business entity that sponsors sales agents, and delegated supervisors, including team leads. Course #44547
Business Planning 365
1 Hour Elective CE Credit    Business Planning 365 provides a clear and concise path to creating a Business Plan that keeps agents on track and accountable 365 days a year. Learn about resources to evaluate budgets, goals, and marketing plans. Then turn the evaluations into a successful business plan. Course #42101
Content That Converts to Clients
1 Hour Elective CE Credit         Content that Converts to Clients introduces real estate professionals to powerful and relevant content that can be personalized to build brand awareness, stay top of mind, and convert contacts into clients. Course# 42914
Contract Comparisons
1 Hour Contract Related CE Credit Contract Comparisons uses the 1-4 Family Contract as a reference point for comparison to the Condo Contract, Unimproved Property Contract, and the Farm and Ranch Contract. Gain a better understanding of the differences in each contract. Course #44914
Creating Killer Listing Presentations
1 Hour Elective CE Credit         Creating Killer Listing Presentations highlights what to include in a pre-listing packet, innovative strategies to secure more listings, and WOW sellers during your listing presentation. Course #41846
CRM Concepts
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          CRM Concepts is not specific to one CRM program or system but instead shows you the power of using a solid CRM and supporting technologies and practices to empower your business like never before. Course #41884
Customer Experiences that Win Clients for Life
1 Hour Elective CE Credit        Customer Experiences That Win Clients for Life focuses on identifying customers and creating marketing techniques to meet their needs. Relationship building before, during, and after the transaction will ensure high customer satisfaction and future referrals. Course #46119
Deep in the Heart of Taxes
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Deep in the Heart of Taxes explains how the property tax cycle affects closings, how to use the tax cycle for marketing, and how to identify property tax prorations on closing statements. Course #42385
Facebook for Real Estate
1 Hour Elective CE Credit                This course shows agents how to easily meet TREC and Fair Housing compliance rules while also discovering great content ideas and AI strategies to grow their business. Course#45472
Focused Farming: Establish Your Roots and Grow Your Sphere
1 Hour Elective CE Credit        Focused Farming covers factors that determine the success of a geographic farm area, how to use real estate farming tools effectively, and how to build a marketing plan designed for your farm. Course #39671
Form Fundamentals
1 Hour Contract Related CE Credit Form Fundamentals explains how real estate forms are created in Texas and identifies the forms available for use by license holders. Gain a better understanding of selecting and utilizing the correct forms in your transactions. Course #44953
Form Updates
1 Hour Contract Related CE Credit Form Updates teaches the most recent updates to TREC contracts and addenda. The current revisions were adopted at the November 7th, 2022 TREC meeting and are required for use on February 1, 2023. Course #44879
Getting Your Listings Sold
1 Hour Elective CE Credit Agents will learn an effective sales and marketing strategy that begins at the listing appointment to successfully sell the property. The course will cover preparing, marketing and negotiating the listing to a successful sale to the most likely buyer of each specific property. Course #45473
HOA Addendum Spotlight
1 Hour Contract Related CE Credit  The HOA Addendum Spotlight covers HOA vocabulary, the HOA addendum, the HOA elements of the condo contract, and best practices for transactions involving HOAs. Course #42236
Instagram Insights for Growing Your Business
1 Hour Elective CE Credit      Instagram Insights for Growing Your Business provides content strategies, ideas, and techniques to engage with past and potential clients. Learn to master the art of Instagram and create a plan for posting, creating stories and reels, and utilizing IGTV. Course #42929
Introduction to Matrix (CTXMLS)
1 Hour Elective CE Credit      Introduction to Matrix (CTXMLS) focuses on the basic skills needed to get started with Matrix MLS, such as searching properties, utilizing integrated mapping and creating auto-emails for your clients. Course #46122
Lead Conversion Strategies
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Lead Conversion Strategies introduces the process of viewing a high-level sales funnel of leads and mastering ways to connect and convert the leads with the correct scripts and touch points. Course #41513
Lead Generation: Secrets to Success in Real Estate
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            Lead Generation: Secrets to Success takes prospecting to the next level by introducing key elements in developing a refreshed lead gen mindset and then exploring strategies to supercharge your funnel.  Course #45129
Legal Update I
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4 Hour Non-Elective CE Credit  Legal Update I is a non-elective TREC approved course that all license holders must take every renewal cycle to renew their license. This course covers the legal aspects of conducting real estate business. Course #42039
Legal Update II
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4 Hour Non-Elective CE Credit Legal Update II is a non-elective TREC approved course that all license holders must take every renewal cycle to renew their license. This course covers the legal aspects of conducting real estate business. Course #42040
Lights, Camera, Action! Video Basics for Real Estate
1 Hour Elective CE Credit        Lights, Camera, Action focuses on the strategies and tools used to create and customize real estate videos. Course #45128
LinkedIn for Real Estate
1 Hour Elective CE Credit              Discover how to optimize your LinkedIn profile to attract new clients and how to source and post reliable and relevant content to inform and educate consumers. Course #45470  
Listing Language: Selling Through Words
1 Hour Elective CE Credit        Listing Language focuses on the formula, keywords, and resources to generate interest, increase SEO, and produce listing language that sells! Course #42388
Managing Multiple Offers
1 Hour Elective CE Credit        Managing Multiple Offers focus on best practices for guiding sellers through the complicated process of evaluating multiple offers to achieve the most desirable outcome. Course #45590
Market Update
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            Mark Sprague's Market Update discusses current trends in the housing market and how to use this data to assist customers and their decisions to buy/sell real estate. This presentation provides global, regional, state, and local economic data/analytics. Course # 46120
Maximizing Matrix (CTXMLS)
1 Hour Elective CE Credit        Maximizing Matrix offers tips on working productively within Matrix (CTXMLS) by customizing result displays, updating your client portal branding, and marketing listings via Matrix MLS. Course #41512
Maximizing MLS (connectMLS)
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Maximizing MLS covers tips and tricks of connectMLS. SABOR connectMLS offers comprehensive reports, customized tools, and quick searches. Course #42698
Mock Closing: What to Expect Before the Big Show!
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Mock Closing goes through the step-by-step process of what happens before, during, and after closing. Gain a better understanding of the closing process and documents buyers and sellers will encounter at closing. Course #41916
Navigating the One-to-Four Family Contract
1 Hour Contract Related CE Credit Navigating the One-to-Four Family Contract focuses on certain parts of the contract. This class discusses ways to address any potential issues while preparing and negotiating the contract. Course #45333
Negotiation: Deliberate Dialogues for Real Estate
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Negotiation: Deliberate Dialogues for Real Estate teaches how to identify the critical components of effective negotiation and adjust the negotiation approach based on verbal cues and behavior. Learn how to handle negotiations ethically to strengthen relationships in real estate. Course #42233
Paragraph 6 Spotlight
1 Hour Contract Related CE Credit Paragraph 6 Spotlight highlights one of the most important paragraphs of the entire contract. This class will cover each section of paragraph 6 in detail. Course #45335
Post It! What, Why & When to Post on Social Media
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            Post It teaches the Why, What, and When of posting on social media. Create strategies and content that spark interest for an audience. Leave with a plan to accomplish your social media goals. Course #45139
Real Estate Graphic Design with Canva
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            Real Estate Graphic Design with Canva introduces a free web-based graphic design platform utilized to create flyers, postcards, newsletters, and even social media graphics. Course #43160
Relevant Real Estate Trends
1-Hour Elective CE Credit        Relevant Real Estate Trends provides an overview of business trends, marketing trends, and technology trends that are most relevant to the current real estate market in Texas. Course #44090
Research with Realist
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Research with Realist provides an overview of Realist from CoreLogic, which is a public-record database that integrates into Matrix. Learn to search for individual homes, entire subdivisions, target a specific market, and create mailing lists. Course # 44267
Surveys at a Glance
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Surveys at a Glance focuses on understanding surveys in a real estate transaction and contract requirements related to the survey. Course #46123
Texas Ranch and Rural Land Forecast
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Texas Ranch and Rural Land Forecast provides a comprehensive overview of the market's current state for Texas ranches and rural land sales. Get a bird's eye view of the national, state, and local economies to create a framework for understanding the conditions affecting the rural land market in Texas. Course #46121
The Agent’s Guide to RPR
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            The Agent's Guide to RPR (Realtor Property Resource) is the ultimate one-stop class to learn how to research a property, run a CMA, create captivating reports, identify unique needs in a farming area, and so much more. Course #45594
The Ins and Outs of Independence Title Agent One
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            The Ins and Outs of Independence Title Agent One teaches how to use the various calculators available such as Buyer Quick Estimates and Seller’s Net Sheets. Learn the premium features that offer a customizable, real estate-specific content library to maximize a social media strategy. Course #44729
The Journey of a File
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            The Journey of a File starts with a receipted contract and takes you to closing and funding. Learn what happens behind the scenes at the title company.  Course #45265
The Modern Open House
1 Hour Elective CE Credit            The Modern Open House teaches new techniques to bring open houses into the 21st century. Get listings sold, generate buyer leads, and increase profits. Course #44269
Title Commitment A to D
1 Hour Elective CE Credit           Title Commitment A to D explains each schedule of the title commitment and focuses on the items to review to ensure closing goes smoothly. Course #43405
What the FIRPTA?
1 Hour Contract Related CE Credit What the FIRPTA will familiarize you with Paragraph 20 ( Federal Tax Requirements) of the TREC One to Four Family Contract. Learn precisely what FIRPTA stands for and what you need to know about it. Course #45127
Write On: Crafting a Professional Real Estate Bio
1 Hour Elective CE Credit          Write On: Crafting a Professional Real Estate Bio explains the importance of a professional bio. Receive step-by-step instructions for crafting a “killer” bio and direction for variations of this text for use in typical real estate platforms. Course #44727