LAS VEGAS, NV — Michael Bean, CEO, Bean Group was a speaker at the 2011 Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) conference March 8-10, at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Nevada. Despite the economy, attendance at the annual event outpaced last year’s conference, with 800 top real estate brokers, managers, relocation professionals, sponsors and guests attending from the U.S. and eight countries around the world. Participating brokerages represented a significant share of the U.S. real estate market, with annual sales production of over $250 billion. The event’s sponsors included Grand Sponsor HGTV’s FrontDoor.com.
The week-long series of four conferences in one boasted a noteworthy line-up of over 150 speakers from within the real estate industry and beyond, who addressed a broad range of topics relating to real estate management, technology, marketing and business development. Keynote presentations included former White House Director of Economic Policy Todd Bucholz; Scott Belsky, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People; real estate coach and generational expert Jared James; Michael Tchong, founder and trend analyst of Ubercool, Inc.; Brian Solis, best-selling author of Engage; Alex Charfen, CEO of The Distressed Property Institute; REAL Trends Editor Steve Murray; and Brian Boero of 1000watt Consulting. Also featured were Michael Staver, chief learning officer of Institute 2.0, LeadingRE’s new online learning community, and Institute faculty members Steve Harney and Matthew Ferrara, all leading business coaches and consultants.
“We applied our 2011 conference theme of ‘Engage. Innovate. Lead’ quite literally to develop a program that inspires our members to compete at a higher level, create better ways to connect with consumers, and generally raise the bar in the real estate industry,” notes Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® President/CEO Pam O’Connor. “Ongoing shifts in the housing market, technology and the way people communicate make it essential for real estate professionals to continuously build their competence. This annual showcase event brings together the best minds in the business to do just that.”
Bean presented information at a panel session entitled “FutureTense: Why Hyper-Local Marketing?”
Bean is the founder and CEO of Bean Group. He has served as President of the Seacoast Board of REALTORS® and President of NNEREN MLS. He was named 2007 REALTOR® of the Year by the Seacoast Board of REALTORS®.
Bean Group is the local representative of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, the largest network of over 600 premier locally-branded firms producing almost $250 billion in annual home sales. LeadingRE provides a broad range of brokerage services to its affiliates, including lead generation, branding support, luxury marketing, Web exposure and technology systems, and state of the art learning and credentialing.
For more information on Bean Group, visit beangroup.com or call 603.766.1980.
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About Bean Group
Bean Group (www.beangroup.com) is a leading independent real estate brokerage with offices in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire & Vermont. Bean Group has been named to the prestigious Real Trends 500 Largest Brokers in the United States. The Real Trends 500 annually identifies the 500 largest real estate brokerages in the US ranked by closed transactions and closed sales volume.
About Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®
Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (www.LeadingRE.com) is the largest network of top independent local and regional brand-name brokerage firms in the residential sector of real estate. The 600 firms affiliated with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® are represented by 5,000 offices and 150,000 associates in more than 30 countries worldwide. The organization’s leadership is demonstrated by the fact that its affiliates comprise six of the top 10 real estate companies in the country. Collectively, LeadingRE affiliates produced nearly 1 million home sales valued at $250 billion in the U.S. in 2009. In addition, LeadingRE affiliates hold the Number One position in terms of sales or volume in more of the top markets than any other organization.
