REA University provides professional certification training for real estate assistants, in conjunction with REVA Institute.

Your Instructors

Pam Ivey, Virtual Business Manager, author speaker and trainer is owner of the Pam Ivey Group of Companies (www.pamivey.com), which encompasses My Creative Assistant (www.mycreativeassistant.com), the Canadian Virtual Assistant Network (www.canadianva.net), REA University (www.reauniversity.com) and the VA Training Academy. A virtual assistant since 2001, Pam has partnered with top producing real estate professionals since 2003, providing marketing and branding, listing coordination, lead generation and contact management solutions.

Pam holds several designations including Certified Marketing Professional (CMP), Certified in Small Business Management (Cert SBM), Certified Professional Real Estate Assistant (CPREA), Certified Real Estate Support Specialist (CRESS), and Professional Real Estate Virtual Assistant (PREVA)

She has been featured in such publications as Michael Russer’s ePower News and Pennsylvania Realtor Magazine, as well as local publications, and participated as a supporting VA for Michael Russer’s Internet Bootcamp in Chicago. In 2006, Pam became a co-founder of the International Real Estate Assistants Association (IREAA), and led the Canadian division. After a dissolution of IREAA, Pam and Anna Baron co-founded REVA Institute (www.revainstitute.com). With an eye on providing comprehensive training opportunities and furthering the knowledge and skills of the membership, she captained the live vendor training programs, as well as the regular REVA business teleclasses. With a love for interacting with the membership, she quickly discovered she had found her true passion.

Pam is co-author of the paperback: The Business of Being Virtual: Successful Industry Leaders Reveal Their Virtual Assistant Business Secrets, as well as a busy speaker, who leads seminars and talks about VA and business related topics across North America at various industry and other business events, such as the 2008 and 2009 Forum on Virtual Assistance (FoVA), the 2009 IVAA Live Summit in Montreal, as well as the Coaching Super Summit in Baltimore. Pam’s high-level goal is to help to increase the awareness of the virtual assistant industry with business leaders and influencers in North America and around the world.

Pam is creator of the Professional Real Estate Assistant Certification Program and the Virtual Assistant Business Success Blueprint. She is co-author of The Business of Being Virtual,an instructor at Georgian College, and co-founder of REVA Institute and the Coaches, Author’s Speakers Professional Assistants Association (CASPAA).

Anna Baron, owner of The Virtual Link (www.thevirtuallink.com), has been a virtual assistant since 1997 and has been supporting real estate professionals since 1998 with administrative and marketing assistance.

After 12 years in business, she has become one of the most highly sought after real estate virtual assistants.

In 2004, Anna began developing the concept of forming a real estate virtual assistant organization and in 2005 she successfully formed and managed a team to create and co-found CyberStarVA, the first real estate virtual assistant organization. In 2006, CyberStarVA changed names to IREAA where she was the driving force in putting IREAA on the map through her expertise in online marketing and SEO, as well as her numerous contacts in the virtual assistant industry.

Today, Anna is one of the top real estate virtual assistants and works with many leaders and top producers in the real estate industry.

She has worked with Allen F. Hainge and his CyberStars since 2004 and has been interviewed several times by Michael Russer, a.k.a. “Mr. Freakin Internet”.

Anna was honored to be listed in Florida Realtors 2008 Solutions Guide. In addition, she has been interviewed multiple times in some of the top real estate magazines such as Texas Realtor, Florida Realtor and the National Association of REALTORs.

She has been featured in the Dallas Business Journal and appears in “The Entrepreneurial Parent” by Paul and Sarah Edwards.

Anna holds REVA PREA (Professional Real Estate Assistant), CCSVA (Certified CyberStarVA), IVAA CRESS (Certified Real Estate Support Specialist), PREVA and other numerous designations.

Anna is a virtual assistant coach and mentor and the author of Boot Camp for Virtual Assistants is also co-founder of the Coaches, Authors, Speakers Professional Assistants Assocaition, and co-founder of REVA Instistute.