Property Search for FB Business pages

By now I am sure that you have a Facebook personal account.  And, if you are serious about using the social networking giant in your business you also have at least one Facebook business page. Having a business page is no guarantee that you will get any business or leads though.  You need to have…

Rethinking the agent real estate web site

Last week I taught a class that I recently wrote called “The Facebook Money Machine…your next client is on Facebook” at a local Association of REALTORS®. We had about 20 agents and brokers show up and for the next 90 minutes they learned about my vision for using the social media giant to locate and…

Listen, Create and Communicate

Happy Mother’s Day!  I hope that you get to spend it with your family.  If your Mom is still alive, I’ll bet that she’d love to see or hear from you! Because I am spending Mother’s Day with Family, I am re-posting a January 2010 post that has information that I think you may be…

Get new clients using social tools ~ Part Two

Last week I talked about your need to have a prospecting plan that brings you the customers that you want to work with, instead of always having to work with whoever shows up! Wouldn’t it be nice if we always had a steady stream of prospective clients moving towards us as we move towards them?…

Get new clients using social tools ~ Part One

I have long held the belief that in order for me to be happy in my business life, that I really need to work with people that I like and to avoid those people who seem to make it their mission in life to grind down my soul. I discovered that working for other people…

Copyright, Creative Commons and you

One of the questions that comes up a lot in the hands on classes that I teach has to do with Copyright. People either want to know how to protect their work, or they want to know how they can use work done by others. So, I thought that I’d share some of the resources…

iPhone 3G pet peeve solved!

I was one of those people who stood in line for over 6 hours in July of 2008 to buy the iPhone 3G when it came out.  I wasn’t happy to do it, but I endured the wait because the reward was so worth it. Then Apple came out with the iPhone 3GS.  It had…

Google Secret Tool Can Increase Your ranking

I was poking about on Google today, in a behind the scenes sort of way and somehow ended up looking at Google Directory.  Google Directory?  I didn’t know that Google had a directory.  Like most of us, I know Google as a search engine par excellence, but as a directory?  Who knew? What’s the difference…

10 Reasons to blog and 5 reasons not to blog for Realtors®

Everywhere you turn these days you are hearing about blogging and why you should be doing it.  You may have even taken some classes on blogging or maybe you read some blogs written by others, but still haven’t been able to decide if blogging is for you. I am going to give you 10 reasons…