ChiefExperts.com now offering 72 hours of Chief Architect training on DVD

In today’s economy it more important than ever to stay on top of your game and staying educated helps. I’ve been busy the last few months learning website techniques and rethinking how my membership site ChiefExperts.com can help.

In the last 2 years I’ve done a lot of online classes about Chief Architect as well as other construction industry topics. The content was growing and I had to find a better way to get it to those that can really use it. So here’s what I did.

The Chief Architect Training DVD

I’ve compiled and loaded 62 topics, 72 hours of training in 967 segments onto a Training DVD. (That’s right one DVD – “Thanks Technology”) and have created a Detailed Search-Able Indexso you can find what you want and get to it quickly. It works great. With that everything is also available online along with a bunch of other topics that I’ll soon start organizing. The DVD and a 3 month membership is only $295.00. You can learn how it all works here.

Free Training and Tutorials

If you’re still using Chief V10 there is over 21 hours of online training available for you. You can access it here for free and you don’t need a membership to view it. In fact the Chief Tips and Ttutorials and Other Tips and Tutorialsare also available for free.

Free Forum for Chief Architect Users

I don’t have any dilusions of trying to out do the ChiefTalk forum. Chief offers a great forum for all users to collaberate. If you haven’t checked it out you should. What I hope happens at the ChiefExperts.com Forum is that we can build a small community of loyal contributors that will share ideas, offer help and just get involved. Together we can help each other do better in our efforts to produce better plans and run a more profitable business. Please join in the conversation.

More Online and Live Classes Coming

In the last 3-1/2 years I’ve only done a couple of live, in-person clases. In fact those were done this year. It was great to be with real live people again. With that in mind I’m planning on offering a couple of in-person classes each month along with many new online classes. I’m still working on the schedule for the rest of 2009 but you can get an idea of what’s going to be available on my New Events Calendar. I’m wide open for feedback on what classes you would like and where you would like the live classes to be held. Let me know.

How can I help?

Like I said earlier we’ve all had to make changes in the way we do things. My goal is to make ChiefExperts.com an open community that everyone csn benefit from. I have the tools to bring many things to the Chief Architect and Design community. Let me know what you need or if you have something to contribute.

Dan Baumann

I’m Hitting the Road!

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just pack it in and hit the road. Maybe spend some time at the beach at an exclusive resort in some far away land. That would be awesome wouldn’t’ it? But that’s not the kind of road I’m planning on hitting.

It’s amazing that it’s been 4 years since I’ve done a live, classroom training session for Chief Architect users. After 12 years of traveling before that the switch to all online training was great. Now it’s time to get out and meet face to face again and I’m really looking forward to it.

To start out I’m not traveling very far. The first class of 2009 will be about a mile from my office in Hopkins, MN on January 27-28 You can get all of the details here about the live, hands on training classes.

My goal is to travel about once per month to a new location. I guess it will depend if there is enough demand for this type of training. In March I’ll be speaking about websites at the JLC show in Providence, RI and again in Long Beach, CA in May. There is nothing specific set up at this point for Chief Architect users and would love to hear from you if you plan to be at these shows.

Here’s my question for all of the Chief users out there. Would you be interested in a live, 2-day, hands on training class for Chief Architect in your area?

I would really appreciate your feedback to that question. Just add your comments below.

It’s a tall order to ask someone to spend the money and take 2 days to attend a class. But during these tough times it’s important for all of you to gain any advantage you can in the marketplace. Based on past experience using Chief to it’s full potential as a sales tool relay works.

On the class sales page you’ll get a good sense of what these classes are about. I”ve also added some bonuses for the attendees.

Even if your not interested in the classes you should check out this page. At the bottom of the page there is a Free Video called “Selling and Profiting from Your Design Services”  There’s a bunch of cool tips in this 74 minute video that may help in your sales process.  Some of you may have already seen this but watch it again. Maybe it will inspire you.

I hope everyone is doing well out in the construction world. I know it’s tough to keep the faith and keep your head up but better times are on the way.

To Your Success,

Dan Baumann

P.S. Please remember to leave any comments you have about getting live Chief Architect training in your area.