Ever wanted to make a change on your social network accounts but didn’t know where to look? Things like adjusting privacy settings, changing account settings, upload pictures or videos and more are often a mystery. Each social site has it’s own way of doing things, and if you aren’t making frequent changes, it’s difficult to…
If you had a way to create an advertisement that worked for you 24/7/365 would you do it? What if I said that it was free and that you could get it done in a few hours? Would you do it then? What if I told you that it reached nearly 100 million Americans, most…
Some years ago I heard Saul Klein of Internet Crusade say that real estate was a “me too” business. He went on to explain that most real estate agents do the same things to attract clients and to service them. Here is a article published by NAR that contains that remark and his further explanation…
By now you have heard of Pinterest. This relatively new social networking site has been growing at a faster rate that any previous social networking site and is responsible for referring more traffic to websites than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube…combined! Since I am not yet totally convinced of the value of Pinterest in our business,…
Recently I was asked by a local real estate agent to help her set up her new iPad 2. We loaded on all of the usual apps that most agents would want like a calculator, Pages, Walk Score, Where, AroundMe, Dragon Dictation, Google Search, Bing, Penultimate, GoodReader, Realtor.com, Trulia, and Zillow. Then we created icons…
I attended Real Estate Bar Camp sponsored by the Contra Costa Young People’s Network yesterday along with several hundred other real estate professionals. Most were from the San Francisco Bay Area but people from Sacramento and Southern California were also in attendance. Also present was Andy Kaufman who is credited with “porting” over the Bar…
By now you have heard of Google+. If you haven’t, it must mean that you have been under a rock since June 28th when Google announced its new social network. It’s been on the evening news, been in the newspapers and has even been the butt of parodies. It seem like everyone and their brother…
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…
Last week I talked about being visible via blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. And I alluded that there was a caveat to doing so and that it wasn’t what you might think. For years now I have been concerned about what I perceive is the lack of focus or direction that most real estate websites…
This week’s post is not about technology. or about the latest and cool web site, or even about how to do something. Instead I want to toss out a thought that I have then ask you some questions in return. This blog reaches over 600 readers via RSS feed, quite a few more subscribe via…
