I had a great phone conversation with Brad Andersohn on Friday. I called him to discuss our upcoming training session. He is just as enthusiastic on the phone as he is in his many posts and comments. After discussing his transition to becoming part of the Activerain team, we discussed just briefly our upcoming training session. We both decided that about 4 hours should be the length of this training session.
Brad asked if anyone outside my office was coming and I told him I had a lot of interest from people who had read my featured blog about Activerain hiring a trainer! Besides 5-6 in my office, there are also 3 from outside our area who have committed to come. I have started asking other agents in my city(not in my office) and a couple of them have committed as well.
My trainer and I discussed the need for a larger conference room for this training so we have decided to rent the conference room in the new Holiday Inn Express here in Dyersburg,Tennessee. That room should hold about 15 people comfortable and has wireless access. So, I have room for only 4-5 more people.
Brad asked me to get together a curriculum that I wanted him to cover. I told him that he should really spend some time discussing posts to localism and how to write them effectively and with the public and search engines in mind. One thing that Brad brought up was adding video to blogs so he plans to camp out there as well.
Do you have any suggestions as to material that I should ask Brad to cover? I appreciate any and all ideas offered here. Let me say that in my opinion there are about a dozen different people here in activerain that could do a great job teaching this class.
Right now the plan is to fly Brad in here sometime in the first two weeks in May. When Brad and I firm up our calendar, we will let you know. As of right now, we still have room for 4-5 more people. Dyersburg is located in northwest Tennessee about 80 miles north of Memphis.
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