Social media is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of marketing to ever hit the business world. Everywhere you look, you see something about Facebook or Twitter. And now there’s a new social platform gaining a lot of attention from business marketers all over the world; Pinterest. Although Pinterest may be the new…
Tweet this, Tweet that, Tweet What? As a agent, you already know that being on social media platforms, such as Twitter, is very important to your online presence. It’s obvious that many of your local consumers are spending time on Twitter, which is the 2nd largest social media networking site today – following Facebook. But…
Today, before someone chooses to do business with you, chances are they may take the time to ‘Google’ your name or business name. While this may seem like the smart thing to do as a consumer, it can be a nightmare for businesses. If you happen to have an unhappy customer who wants the world…
I have been using Dropbox for a few years now. I started out with the free version and once I got the hang of how versatile it was, I upgraded to the 50 GB paid version. A few months back, Dropbox upgraded me to 100GB of storage at no additional charge. Since I was approaching…
I was out to dinner last night with my wife and two other couples. We talked about a variety of topics, laughed a lot and generally had a good time. In due course of time, the topic of conversation changed to from music (they all are musicians or singers) to technology and the question of…
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…
Recently Yahoo Voices was hacked and over 400,000 email addresses and passwords were copied and published online. Was yours one of them? Even if you were not a user of Yahoo Voices, it’s entirely possible that your email address and password have been compromised because Yahoo isn’t the only site that has been hacked. In…
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,…
I spent most of the month of June in England, Wales and Ireland. I’ve been to England and Wales before (and Scotland) but I’ve never been to Ireland, so I was particularly looking forward to the trip. As in past European adventures I was concerned about being able to stay connected to my business as…
I’ve got something a bit different for you this week. And agents, this may not be for you (it might be, though) so if it isn’t, please pass this along to your broker, because this is definitely something that they should be looking at doing. We all KNOW the importance of building our brands to…
