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…
The next step along the way to utilizing Web 2.0 tools to enhance your business is to utilize video. In a previous post I talked about the Flip video camera, which in my opinion, is tailor made for real estate agents. Go here to check it out https://realtytechbytes.com/video-made-simple/. Once you’ve got your hands on this…
Did you know that Facebook has doubled it’s users from 150 million in January to over 300 million September? (Facebook press info) And did you know that 50% of the active users log on to Facebook in any given day and that The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older? (Facebook statistics…
If you have been following along these past 2 months (and actually taking action!) you have built a blog and you have some articles on it. And you are probably wondering where are all of your readers! Sad to say, for most of us, success at blogging is usually not an overnight phenomenon. Even though…
In the first part of this series I detailed the 6 traits of successful agents (as I see it) and in the subsequent posts I have focused on trait number 5 at least as it pertains to some of the hardware and software systems they use. Then last week I talked about how successful agents…
Over the last three weeks I have been talking about how a real estate agent can make a living in the Web 2.0 world. We started by setting the stage, talking about phones, then computers. This week I want to talk about the software that you will need on your computer. There is a wide…
Two weeks ago I introduced this multi-part series of posts on how successful Realtors® are making a living these days. In that post I talked about the 6 traits of successful agents and the one thing that none of them do. It will be important to keep those traits in mind as we talk about…
In last week’s post I introduced this multi-part series of posts on how successful Realtors® are making a living these days. This post will continue where we left off last week by examining what I consider to be the most important tool that a Realtor® has…and it’s one that most of us have yet to…
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…
In the first part of this series, I told you how I came from the PC world to the Mac world. In the second part I told you about the “gotchas” that are part of the process. This week I want to tell you about why it’s all worth it. Aside from the very…
