Do all of these professional designations have any value?
By Brian Hurt, ABR, E-Pro
(Keller Williams Premier Realty)
In an effort to be on top of my continuing education requirements, I thought I would try and take some classes that may have some residual value. I started out last year as just a plain old Realtor. Now half-way into 2009, I am now an E-pro and well as a designated ABR member. Next step, CRS? GRI? CDPE? I realize now that these designations, while exposing you to some great ideas, don't seem to hold much value outside of any other class. We plaster these designations all over our marketing. In fact, we're encouraged at the classes to do so, being told this will increase our production by 10, 20, 30 percent. But who on earth has any clue what these mean? How many Realtors know what some of these designations mean? My experience has been that no one outside of the real estate bus...
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