Teach Your Parents Tech! (Or Teach yourself)

My passion these days is showing small business owners how to use the new web based tools to grow their businesses.  And yes, real estate people are small business owners. I really enjoy showing people how Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter have real world business applications and are not just for wasting time. Arguably, the…

An open letter to all real estate brokers…you really, really need to read this!

You can’t avoid it anymore.  It’s everywhere you look.  Television commercials for all sorts of products tell you to do it,  magazine ads feature the logo and the promise of benefits if you will just do this one thing.  Every one you know is there already and recent events in the Middle East have shown…

What ARE they saying about YOU?

On September 5th, I wrote about Nutshell Mail which aggregates everything social into an email. Today I want to briefly tell you about Social Mention which does a similar thing, but goes further to help you understand your reach and the sentiment that you evoke among your social graph. I’ve included a screen shot of…

Nero fiddled as Rome burned…

On Friday, November 5th, the National Association of REALTORS® will kick off it’s annual love fest.  This year it is in New Orleans.  Billed as NARdiGras 2010, the event will feature 4 days of speeches, lectures, classes and exhibits all designed to educate REALTORS®, fete REALTORS® and separate REALTORS® from their money in the Exhibit…