your thoughts and experience with your state convention
Barb Freestone
I am looking forward to catching up with you all in DC in a few weeks.
We are re-evaluating our convention purpose and would love to get a handle on what everyone is doing. Please take a few minutes and share some of your thoughts/experiences:
- Do you offer convention: annually every other year not at all?
- Is your convention held: in state out of state alternate instate and out of state?
- Do you have a stated purpose for your convention (if so, what is it)?
- Do you partner with any other state, local association or allied industry on your annual convention?
- How many attendees do you typically get and what percentage of your membership does that represent?
- What is the typical length of your convention: two days three days four days other
- Is your program primarily: continuing education focused short topical breakout focused combination of both
- Does your association consider convention as a member benefit that is: partially subsidized non-dues revenue source
- What is the profile of your typical attendee?
- Do you or have you tried delivering your convention via live streaming . If yes, was it successful? If not, are you considering replacing the live convention with some type of live streaming format?
- If your convention is successful, what do you believe is the driving force behind its success? If your convention is not as successful as you would like, what are your thoughts as to why?
- General thoughts on conventions in general
Thank you so much for taking the time to provide your feedback on the above. I will compile the answers and send them out to everyone.
Barb Freestone
SVP Professional & Business Development
Arizona Association of REALTORS
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Maureen Murphy
- annually
- in state/out of state (in state for one of the tri-state sponsors; out of state for the other two sponsors)
- Promoting Realtor Success through education, a showcase of industry products and services, networking and fun!
- yes, event is sponsored by three regional state associations (NJ/NY/PA)
- 8,250 (approx. 5% of all three states membership)
- four days (closing day is half-day)
- program is combination of both CE & breakouts
- non-dues revenue source
- salesperson (licensed 10+ years) focusing on residential real estate; female; aged 46 or better
- have not live streamed sessions in the past but are considering streaming some highlights of the event this year.
- successful because of the large number and variety of educational programming, trade expo booths and social/networking opportunities available throughout the event.
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Lisa Kinsman
In Maryland –
#1 Yes, Annually
#2 In state
#3 Member benefit, usually has annual “theme”
#4 Will solicit sponsorships – MLS, Affiliate partners – but not true partner
#5 800 – 1100 – About 2-4%
#6 3 days
#7 A combination of both CE and topical sessions – trying to move away from CE to let locals do.
#8 It’s considered a membership benefit – hopefully a breakeven. Anything above is a non-dues revenue benefit
#9 Mostly agent who have been in the business probably 4+ years. Broker owners and team leaders are a smaller group.
#10 No
#11 Attendance has been dropping statewide. More local boards/association offering local “conventions/mini ed days” that are local to their membership.
#12 Considering alternatives to a state conference – possibly partner with locals/provide funding locally, etc. No determination has been made at this time. A lot of time and manpower does into our annual conference. With reduced participation, these resources might be more useful elsewhere.
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Steve McDonald
- Do you offer convention: annually every other year not at all?
- Is your convention held: in state out of state alternate instate and out of state?
- Do you have a stated purpose for your convention (if so, what is it)? I'll see if I can find something official. I don't have it on hand.
- Do you partner with any other state, local association or allied industry on your annual convention? 2020 we will partner with Region IV but usually no. Our Local Associations will send a sponsorship in varying amounts.
- How many attendees do you typically get and what percentage of your membership does that represent? 1-3% of 29,000 (Spring 600/ Fall 300-500)
- What is the typical length of your convention: two days three days four days other SPRING 2-days/ Fall 3-days
- Is your program primarily: continuing education focused short topical breakout focused combination of both
- Does your association consider convention as a member benefit that is: partially subsidized non-dues revenue source
- What is the profile of your typical attendee? late 40's mid 50's more female
- Do you or have you tried delivering your convention via live streaming . If yes, was it successful? If not, are you considering replacing the live convention with some type of live streaming format? NO
- If your convention is successful, what do you believe is the driving force behind its success? If your convention is not as successful as you would like, what are your thoughts as to why? Marketing and getting the word out is both our success but also our downfall. Creating the value is a constant campaign. A struggle is the attitudinal change from members that come just for "cheap CE" and having the mind shift that this is business sustainable professional development.
- General thoughts on conventions in general. We value them and want to take ours to the next level to ensure members always have a place to come together.
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Steve McDonald
Director of Professional Development
Tennessee REALTORS®
901 19th Ave South
Nashville, TN 37212
Darryl Garvin
Below are the responses on behalf of Michigan REALTORS®
- Do you offer convention:
annually
- Is your convention held:
in state
- Do you have a stated purpose for your convention (if so, what is it)?
The Convention is the premier real estate education and trade show event in the state of Michigan. Hosted by the Michigan Realtors®, The Convention offers a full slate of CE Marketplace certified knowledge sessions, networking opportunities
and new products and services for our members and industry professionals in an upscale environment.
- Do you partner with any other state, local association or allied industry on your annual convention?
No
- How many attendees do you typically get and what percentage of your membership does that represent?
1,200, about 4%
- What is the typical length of your convention:
three days
- Is your program primarily:
continuing education focused
- Does your association consider convention as a member benefit that is:
partially subsidized
- What is the profile of your typical attendee?
Age 40-50 with 15+ years of experience.
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Do you or have you tried delivering your convention via live streaming . If yes, was it successful? If not, are you considering replacing the live convention with some type of
live streaming format? We live stream the keynotes only. It has been growing in participation each year.
- If your convention is successful, what do you believe is the driving force behind its success? If your convention is
not as successful as you would like, what are your thoughts as to why?
The success of our convention has much to do with the quality continuing education we can provide through top rated industry speakers, as well as a diverse offering of industry support in our growing expo. Technology also plays a large role in the success as
we strive to continuously improve our processes to be more efficient and accommodating to our attendees.
- General thoughts on conventions in general Conventions are a great benefit to those who take part, as well as the clients they serve. Professional Development is a crucial part of strengthening the industry. Conventions offer the most opportunity to gain knowledge and build relationships as attendees advance in their Professional Development.
If you have any questions please let us know.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Darryl
Darryl Garvin
Web Services Manager
CE Marketplace a division of Michigan Realtors®
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I am looking forward to catching up with you all in DC in a few weeks.
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Christie Bevington
- Do you offer convention: annually
- Is your convention held: in state
- Do you have a stated purpose for your convention (if so, what is it)? Our Convention committee comes up with a different theme for convention every year.
- Do you partner with any other state, local association or allied industry on your annual convention? NO
- How many attendees do you typically get and what percentage of your membership does that represent? 900 about ¼ of membership
- What is the typical length of your convention: two days three days four days other
- Is your program primarily: continuing education focused/first day is committee meetings short topical breakout focused combination of both
- Does your association consider convention as a member benefit that is: partially subsidized non-dues revenue source
- What is the profile of your typical attendee? Mix
- Do you or have you tried delivering your convention via live streaming . If yes, was it successful? If not, are you considering replacing the live convention with some type of live streaming format?
- If your convention is successful, what do you believe is the driving force behind its success? If your convention is not as successful as you would like, what are your thoughts as to why?
- General thoughts on conventions in general: The members love coming to convention. The ones is greater Nebraska come and take all the classes being offered so they can get their hours for license renewal. We have a networking event every night but the last night and the members really enjoy that as well.
Christie Bevington Chief Operating Officer
Nebraska REALTORS® Association
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I am looking forward to catching up with you all in DC in a few weeks.
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Kayla Lowery
Oregon's responses!
- Do you offer convention: annually every other year not at all?
- Is your convention held: in state out of state alternate instate and out of state?
- Do you have a stated purpose for your convention (if so, what is it)? No stated purpose, but I think it is mostly for governance activities, mixed with some continuing ed.
- Do you partner with any other state, local association or allied industry on your annual convention? No partnerships.
- How many attendees do you typically get and what percentage of your membership does that represent? Our last convention we had 300 registrants. Around 2%.
- What is the typical length of your convention: two days three days four days other
- Is your program primarily: continuing education focused short topical breakout focused combination of both
- Does your association consider convention as a member benefit that is: partially subsidized non-dues revenue source
- What is the profile of your typical attendee? Volunteer leadership, more seasoned brokers.
- Do you or have you tried delivering your convention via live streaming . If yes, was it successful? If not, are you considering replacing the live convention with some type of live streaming format? We have not, but are hoping to break into that delivery platform soon!
- If your convention is successful, what do you believe is the driving force behind its success? If your convention is not as successful as you would like, what are your thoughts as to why? I think we need to partner with our locals to get the word out more, develop a better rationale and narrative for members outside of volunteer leadership to attend.
- General thoughts on conventions in general:
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Subject: RE: your thoughts and experience with your state convention
Debra Hernandez
1. Do you offer convention: annually every other year not at all? Plus an additional business meeting
2. Is your convention held: in state out of state alternate instate and out of state?
3. Do you have a stated purpose for your convention (if so, what is it)? Yes, primarily business meetings with EXPO & education secondary
4. Do you partner with any other state, local association or allied industry on your annual convention? We work with the local associations located near the conference.
5. How many attendees do you typically get and what percentage of your membership does that represent? ~2,000, less than 2% of membership overall
6. What is the typical length of your convention: two days three days four days other
7. Is your program primarily: continuing education focused short topical breakout focused combination of both
8. Does your association consider convention as a member benefit that is: partially subsidized non-dues revenue source
9. What is the profile of your typical attendee? Involved member, usually serving on committee OR new attendee. 25% are GRI graduates
10. Do you or have you tried delivering your convention via live streaming . If yes, was it successful? If not, are you considering replacing the live convention with some type of live streaming format? We have not tried this
11. If your convention is successful, what do you believe is the driving force behind its success? If your convention is not as successful as you would like, what are your thoughts as to why? Even though we have a limited number of participants, I think it’s still considered successful, primarily because it’s main purpose is the business meeting.
12. General thoughts on conventions in general With the number of large local associations we have, it’s challenging to provide something they wouldn’t get (from a regular member perspective) that they don’t get at their local annual conferences.
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I am looking forward to catching up with you all in DC in a few weeks.
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