Because of the overwhelming response to opening the doors for trainers and coaches to market REW, this week we take a a real life look at REW Trainer Commissions and Bonuses.

For general information REW Trainers (trainer requirements, commissions, bonuses), see the blog post "Introducing REW Trainers :: Earn Commission & Bonuses" or visit our trainer page.

Let's examine a couple different scenarios:

50 SALES - Let's consider 50 REW sales

50 REWs (at $149 each) = $7,450 in Total Sales

--> $1862.50 (25% Commission)
--> + $750 (Bonus)

= $2,612.50 Check to an REW Trainer

100 SALES - Let's consider 100 REW sales.

100 REWs (at $149 each) = $14,900 in Total Sales

--> $3725.00 (25% Commission)
--> + $2500.00 (Bonus)

= $6,225 Commission to an REW Trainer

50 REW SALES + 4 BROKER PACKAGES

50 REWs (at $149 each) = $7,450 in Total Sales
4 Broker Packages ($3499 packs of 50 users) = $13,996
Total Sales = $21,446

--> $5361.50 (25% Commission)
--> + $4500.00 (Bonus)

= $9,861.50 Commission to an REW Trainer

Remember...50 REWs got you $2,612.50 as shown in first section...adding just 4 broker packages (the "50 user packages") for that month, you sky-rocketed $9861.5

With numbers like these, how could you refuse?

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Do you already hold workshops and training sessions with Real Estate Professionals? Are you already a Certified e-PRO Trainer? Maybe it's time to consider adding REW to your trainer offerings and become an REW™ Trainer.  For additional details, keep reading or visit our Trainer Page here.

Become an REW™ Trainer and extend your training offerings while earning generous sales commissions AND bonuses. Sign up now!

Getting Started - 3 Easy Steps

1. Complete Application :: Fill out this form in our Trainer System. (ensure you can meet the Trainer Requirements

2. REW™ Certified :: A free user account will be supplied to you to complete the certification. ((Note their is a $75 registration fee. If already an e-PRO Trainer, email ScottLau [at] Webographers.com as your registration fee is waived.)

3. Sales Domain :: A sales domain like jhicks.Webographers.com is created for you upon completion of the certification.

Trainer Requirements

Trainers should be in good REW™ Certification standing in order to lead by example.

Commissions and Bonsues

Commissions for both single user and broker account sales are 25% of the current sale price and are paid on a monthly basis. See for yourself how much you can earn!

Single User Sales

Commission on a single user account is 25% of the current sale price (including a 15% discount). Commission around $45 each.

Broker Accounts

Multi-User Package - Brokers are billed one time. REW™ Trainers earn 25% commission of the sale price of the broker account.

Monthly Subscriptions - Brokers are billed monthly for 12 months (or the term of the agreement). REW™ Trainers earn 25% commission every month of "Monthly Packages".

Plus Bonuses - Bonuses are offered as an added incentive. If you reach these sales milestones, you get more!

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Team Double-Click® recently launched their answer to the increasing challenges of working in corporate America: the Licensed Virtual Assistant program. A Team Double-Click® Licensed Virtual Assistant is an individual who wishes to build their client base, backed by Team Double-Click’s® recognized branding and stellar reputation.

With this ground-breaking program, virtual assistants pay a flat monthly fee to be licensed by Team Double-Click®. Licensing will allow virtual assistants to use the Team Double-Click® name, brand, logo, and marketing messages to obtain their own clients rather than wait for Team Double-Click® to find clients for them. In growing their virtual assistant business, a Licensed Virtual Assistant will have the ability to perform the work themselves or to earn additional income by placing clients with Team Double-Click's® highly trained support-level virtual assistants.

I had a chance to talk to Gayle recently. The following are a few insightful excerpts from our conversation - click here for the complete interview.

Many individuals are interested in working from home, but don’t believe they can make the kind of income they make in corporate America. Why was it so important to create the Licensed Virtual Assistant program and do you believe it can be a long-term solution to the growing concerns we have with the current state of our economy?

We created the Licensed Virtual Assistant program as a viable alternative to the corporate job where individuals literally have the opportunity to make over $100k a year. The amount of money that they generate with this opportunity is completely up to them. A good analogy is to look at the Licensed Virtual Assistant program as similar to how Real Estate Agents pay a “desk fee” to build their business utilizing the reputation of the brokerage company that they work with.

In reading some of the articles that you have wrote, you have mentioned numerous times your concern for the environment. Why do you feel so strongly about this topic and how can virtual staffing help the global concerns we are all facing?

Team Double-Click® created the Licensed Virtual Assistant program as an option to grow a home-based business, in part to help the environment. Team Double-Click® believes that we all need to do our part to help the environment and those facing the daily challenges of working outside the home with the current economic landscape. We want to help as many individuals to be able to work from home and be there for their families.

Can you share why you believe that it is imperative that companies consider finding staffing solutions through a virtual channel, like Team Double-Click®?

The business landscape is ever-changing and the cost to fill a corporate position continues to rise. The average cost of an employee can be as much as 2 1/2 times their salary and includes social security, vacation/sick time, health insurance, worker’s compensation and Medicare. When hiring virtual assistants, companies do not have the costs involved with regular employees and can save thousands of dollars a year.

What are the benefits for companies to work with Team Double-Click® for their staffing needs?

With Team Double-Click®, the companies’ needs are assessed and based upon their requirements; they are matched with a highly-skilled and trained virtual assistant. Our virtual assistants use the most advanced means of communication, and the newest, most efficient and time-saving office products and work delivery, without any geographic boundaries.

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Thanks Jim and Gayle, and all the best!

For the first time since the real estate bubble started about 8 years ago, there are more RE agents within the profession than properties being sold.  That means that, for example, last month there were not enough homes on the market for every licensed agent to each sell one.  And when agents can't do their job, it effects everyone, from the brokers employing them, to the assistants supporting them.

A friend of mine relayed to me her take on the current RE market - she likened it to trickle-down economics, although she labeled it trickle-down real estate.  With the state of the market today, she said, only a limited amount of poperties are being sold, and the people buying them are utilizing the movers and the shakers of the real estate game - those with the biggest names, the cream of the crop so to speak.  Anything these RE agents aren't moving are slowly trickling down to the the next tier of agents who have their chance...and so on and so forth.  By the time it's the newest agent's turn in the market, there's simply nothing left.

So how do the newbies level the playing field?  They need to branch out.  They need to be able to reach the same size audience that the major players already have due to years of hard work and reputation.  Fortunately, this is not as difficult as it once was - the internet allows one to reach people anywhere a phone line exists, so access is possible.  However, you have to do more than just reach your audience, you have to capture their attention by differentiating yourself. 

Education is your Key

If you want to differentiate yourself from your competition, you have to understand the online tools and technologies that are at your disposal.  Once you understand what they are and how they work, you can start to combine them in ways that allow you to stand out. 

Take for instance the newest trend with RE professionals - posting virtual and / or video tours on the video sharing site, YouTube.  Before you can even post a video, you need to know how to make one, what needs to be in it, and how to splash your information into it. If you want to give them additional information, you need an agent website, which should also offer them valuation propositions on homes they can search for in a specific area with a neighborhood search capability.

This sort of "technology mashing" taps into a whole new audience that wasn't even looking for real estate, however they found themselves on your website because of a 42 second video you posted.  And your knowledge was what helped you get noticed. 

We had the pleasure of interviewing Roxanne Tidmore, a recent REAL ESTATE WEBOGRAPHER™ (REW™) certificant and Virtual Assistant with EliteREVA, based in Cincinatti, Ohio.

Roxanne is a National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) certified Real Estate Professional Assistant (REPA) and a certified Point2Point Virtual Assistant (VA). She is able to support a number of Real Estate agent and broker activities, such as Lead Generation, New Listings coordination, Marketing, Online Transaction Management, Point2Point services, and much more.

Roxanne has completed the REAL ESTATE WEBOGRAPHER™ (REW™) certification recently and we asked her a few simple interview questions on her thoughts of the program.

1) What is your background?

My background, before I became a Real Estate Assistant, was working as an Executive Assistant for about 20 years. I then decided to research the Virtual Assistant industry. I chose the Real Estate Assistant niche because I have strong administrative skills and I have always had an interest in selling real estate.

2) Why did you undertake the REAL ESTATE WEBOGRAPHER™ (REW™) certification?

I undertook the REW™ certification because I liked the concepts offered and wanted to learn more about them through the training. Prior to hearing about their training, I had not throught of creating a seamless web presence through a series of different software programs and it interested me to see how it all would work together.

Also, I am always looking for outlets to improve my skills as a Real Estate Assistant. Webographers has classes that I could learn from and then immediately apply those skills in my services to real estate agents and brokers.

3) What are your impressions of the online experience

It was great! Big piece for me was the ability to engage and play with various products as well. Simply stated there is no other vessel that allows assistants to engage ZipForm, which is used by hundreds of thousands of Realtors, thus opening the doors to new clients and more hours.

I liked the self-paced learning which made it perfect for my situation. I was able to fit the training into my schedule and still have time to take care of my clients. Also, if you need technical assistance, you can always contact the Webographer support team. They have always been very helpful and courteous and able to solve any technical issues that I encountered.

4) How long did it take you to complete the certification?

The training took about 10 to 12 hours, spread over my spare nights and weekends.

5) What would you tell those who are considering this certification?

Do it! If you do not have real estate experience, it gives you a foundation to build your knowledge about real estate. If you have had previous training, this will definitely add to it. You really can never get enough training!

Also a big help for me was the book that accompanied the training. I would read a chapter and then take the online portion. The lessons really made more sense to me that way - I could see them in action.

REW™ contains techniques and technologies that are another series of valuable services you will be able to offer to real estate agents and brokers.

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Thanks Roxanne and all the Best!

It's been noted heavily in real estate news and from real estate bloggers that provision of training by Brokers, especially technology training, from initial to long-term continuous learning, is not only the key to recruitment and retention, but key to create a winning environment. There are two noted articles/blog posts I'd like to reference.

Finding-and Keeping-the Best Agents (05/22/07)

By Maria Patterson

http://www.rismedia.com/wp/2007-05-21/finding-and-keeping-the-best-agents/

Agent Recruitment and Technology (03/09/07)

By Pat Kitano

http://transparentre.com/2007/03/08/agent-recruitment--technology.aspx

There is a huge value-proposition established to recruiting agents with technology training. There exists (1) core technology training on "in-house" technology products that are utilized throughout the company. There is (2) product training particular to technology commonly acquired and used by the member-agents (i.e. vendor visits at broker meetings).

However, there is (3) technology training that speaks to competencies, generalizable to a topic like single-property websites, to create a mindset of aggresive technology adoption. Such training speaks not only to awareness, but to strategies for agents to build a cohesive, unified web presence across technologies and across service providers.

As it may, agents are typically independent contractors, their own entrepreneurs. In everyday employer-employee relationships, perks to: training, career development, educational scholarships for example, are paramount; standing "tall" next to benefits of health care and retirement programs.

Technology training, as with the REAL ESTATE WEBOGRAPHER™ (REW™) certification provides that value-proposition to current and potential member-agents (recruitment & retention), just like typical employer-employee relationships. Also, the fact that agents are independent contractors means technology adoption cannot be forced, rather encouraged.

Brokers who make the REAL ESTATE WEBOGRAPHER™ (REW™) available to member-agents not only encourage technology adoption, but the Commitment Document speaks to adoption & implementation; as certificants must adopt technology within their first year to remain in "good standing".

For details on how Brokers can make the REW™ Certification to member-agents, please contact us using our contact form, or give us a call at 888.877.0159.