Green Building Sales Professional

Hours: 40 / Access Length: 6 Months / Delivery: Open, Mentor Supported
Retail Price: $525.00

Course Overview:

If you think your customers are not concerned about environmental issues, or won't pay a premium for homes built or remodeled with eco-responsible products, think again.

Green Building is one of the most significant developments in the housing industry today. It is designed to build in a manner that conserves resources. This affects virtually every aspect of the development and construction process as well as the physical structure of the house and landscaping.

Many homeowners are desiring and even insisting that their home be earth friendly, affordable to operate and healthy to live in.

As our environment continues to deteriorate, the price of energy increases exponentially, and global warming concerns become more apparent, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to come to the conclusion that the future of real estate and development must be green.

This course will teach you how to sell and market a green home! Determine what green features and benefits make the most sense, save the most money, and save natural resources! Learn how new and exciting marketing techniques work! This track is designed specifically with at slant to selling products within a green home or selling a green certified home.

• Add Value and Increase your Market share
• Differentiate yourself from the competition
• Knowledgeable and Useful Professional Development
• Customer Satisfaction and Respect
• Become the resource for your customers
• A designation that consumers recognize

Course Outline:

GBU 101 Advantages:

Learn what Green Building is in everyday language. This course was designed to address basic issues related to buying, selling and maintaining a Green Property (residential and commercial). You will learn what the key questions to ask. What is the consumer looking for in a green certified home? Learn what Greenwashing is and why it is important that you know the difference.

GBU Environmental Quality Advantage:

Learn about indoor and outdoor environmental issues surrounding a property. Such as site selection, development density, landscaping, chemical and pollutant source control, low-emitting materials, ventilation effectiveness, thermal comfort, and monitoring systems. You will learn how and why each area is important to green building.

GBU Resource Efficiency Advantage:

Learn about energy, water and material resource technologies. Learn how to reduce utility costs and save natural resources. Learn about the features and benefits of home and commercial property certifications.

GBU Sustainable Preventative Maintenance:

Learn about maintaining a green property the how-to and why of property ownership. Develop a maintenance plan for a Green Property and learn how to implement your plan. Learn about innovative products and technologies available today and in the future.

GBU Sales and Marketing Advantage:

Learn how your green building knowledge can add value to all your transactions. Learn how to sell the features and benefits of a Green Property. Learn how to effectively market your GBU Certified Sales Professional designation! Learn how to position your Green Properties within marketplace for greatest appeal and impact! Learn about new homes verses renovated homes and how a green designation applies.

System Requirements:

• Cable and DSL internet connections are recommended for the best experience.

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 2 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone (Webinar / Live Online sessions)

• Microsoft Windows 7 or 10 (Home, Pro)
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is denoted in the above course outline.