{"id":209,"date":"2007-11-18T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T21:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/2007\/11\/18\/back-from-nar-2007-in-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T21:39:45","slug":"back-from-nar-2007-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Back from 2007 NAR Convention in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"NAR\"s<\/a>After an exhausting week in Las Vegas, we have finally gotten back from NAR<\/a> 2007 Convention (National Association of Realtors).\u00a0 I have to admit to being impressed with the convention.\u00a0 It was a huge event with approximately\u00a030,000 people.\u00a0 It\u00a0was well-planned\u00a0and well-organized.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t too crazy about having NAR in Las Vegas but it is better than where they had the convention in 2006 (New Orleans).\u00a0 Sometimes, you just have to make the best of situation and environment you are in.<\/p>\n

I did have a chance to finally meet Matt Lombardi, Managing Director of Marketing & Sales in charge of carrying\u00a0“The TurnKey Investor” Book Series.\u00a0 He was friendly, gracious, and welcoming.\u00a0 When I informed him\u00a0Wes and I\u00a0were going to attend the event, Matt Lombardi made the extra effort to “show off” our books at this particular show.\u00a0 Needless to say, I was happy for that effort.<\/p>\n

Although I am not a Realtor myself (or plan to be anytime in the near future), it was still very educational being in that convention environment.\u00a0 I did have my brain stretched by Seth Godin <\/a>(author of Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, Unleashing the IdeaVirus, etc.).\u00a0 I had never heard him speak before and the room was packed with what I loosely estimated to be around 2,000+ people.\u00a0 He had a captive audience and there was good reason for it.\u00a0 Essentially, I was captivated by the paradigm shift I was experiencing.\u00a0 Sure, I have read his books but listening to the man himself was a way more powerful experience.<\/p>\n

Not having any experience in politics beyond the ability to register and vote, my brain was also stretched by Michael E. Dunn<\/a>\u00a0on how relatively easy it was to gain political power and influence without ever running for office.\u00a0 He outlined his political influence model and showed how the process\u00a0“really” worked.\u00a0 He was very direct and concise in his presentation.\u00a0 I was compelled by his ideas that I may one day involve myself with the political process.<\/p>\n

Watching Bill Cosby live (my first time) with 25,000 people was also a fun hour.\u00a0 It was a jammed room however.<\/p>\n

The folks at NAR were very thoughtful of creating a private Bloggers break area\u00a0to sit, break, write, and reflect.\u00a0 Having great Wi-Fi connections to keep in touch was a huge asset.\u00a0 It was funny to watch all the Realtors and the gadgets they were carrying.\u00a0 I consider myself a power user of technology but compared to all the PDAs, smartphones, webphones, Blackberries, etc., I felt like a novice with my very ordinary Samsung cell phone.<\/p>\n

All in all, I have to say NAR 2007 was a much better experience than I expected.\u00a0 NAR 2008 will be located in Orlando, FL which is convenient since that is where I am from.\u00a0 I definitely plan on attending NAR 2008 in Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions-events","category-motivation-inspiration","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p927L-3n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":207,"url":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=207","url_meta":{"origin":209,"position":0},"title":"Heading to Las Vegas – 2007 NAR Convention","author":"Matthew Chan","date":"November 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My business partner, Wes Weaver, and I are headed to Las Vegas tomorrow for the 2007 National Association of Realtors Convention.\u00a0 Although I am not a real estate agent or Realtor, my involvement with NAR is that they are one of my major sellers of my books and audio programs.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Business Affairs"","block_context":{"text":"Business Affairs","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?cat=27"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":213,"url":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=213","url_meta":{"origin":209,"position":1},"title":"Meeting Kendra Todd (Winner of “Apprentice 3”) at NAR 2007 Convention","author":"Matthew Chan","date":"November 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"During my week at the NAR 2007 Convention, I had the unexpected pleasure of running into and meeting Kendra Todd, Season 3 Winner of Donald Trump's\u00a0TV show \"The Apprentice\". 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