LOCAL ACT! CONSULTANT AND TRAINER TO SPEAK ON JULY 18, 2003

Karen Fredricks will appear at event sponsored by the Realtors® Association of the Palm Beaches, Inc.

(PRWEB) July 13, 2003 -- The Realtors® Association of the Palm Beaches, Inc. will hold its 5th Annual Education Expo and Affiliate Showcase on Friday, July 18 from 9:00 am to 4:00 p.m. at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport, 150 Australian Avenue, West Palm Beach. Admission is $50 and lunch will be served. For further information, contact Fredricks at 954-360-9909 or by email at info@techbenders.com.

At the Expo, Karen Fredricks, author of ACT! 6 for Dummies, will discuss the benefits of CRM (customer relationship management) software for realtors. Ms. Fredricks will be appearing as part of the Expos Technology Super Star Panel.

According to Fredricks, "I am particularly excited to be able to appear at the Expo. The members of The Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches are a great example of the type of people who can benefit from the ACT! software. They market to large numbers of people and need to remember an extraordinarily large amount of details. ACT! will help them on both fronts."

Fredricks has over 20 years of computer consulting and training experience in South Florida, during which time she has acquired in-depth expertise in the operational requirements of a broad spectrum of businesses. Author of ACT! 6 for Dummies, Fredricks is an ACT! Certified Consultant and an ACT! Premier Trainer.

She was selected to host the Fort Lauderdale stop of the national launch of ACT! 6.0, which took place in August 2002. Fredricks is also a QuickBooks Pro Certified Advisor and author of copyrighted training materials for business users of QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Basic Windows and the Internet,

TechBenders, which was established by Karen Fredricks, provides technology consulting to business and industry. Its services include needs analyses to determine hardware and software requirements, installation of selected software packages and troubleshooting, software customization, and training. TechBender personnel are proficient in the most widely used business software packages, including ACT!, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, and the Internet.