3 ways to avoid being a dinosaur in real estate

A few weeks ago I attended a real estate BarCamp in Redwood City.  Don’t ask me why it’s called that.  Instead, go to http://rebarcamp.com/ and learn more about what BarCamps are all about. While I was in a session that was talking about marketing yourself online, the presenter was talking about how his team uses…

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Rant: Are you a dinosaur?

According to the USGS, the dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. (Here is the link http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/extinct.html) That same source claims that they had a good long reign of about 165 million years. That’s certainly long enough that if there were any sentient dinosaurs then they probably believed that they would be around for…

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Social networking time waster buster

Where did my day go? I just sat down to check my email and now it’s dinner time.  Along the way I stopped into Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and before I knew it the day was gone. Sound familiar? For many of us the allure of social networking is the ease by which we can…

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Social Media Marketing Interactive

Unless you have managed to avoid turning on your computer, television and radio for the past several years, you already know that social networking is probably the biggest thing to hit the web since AOL popularized the online experience in 1996. Some of the most talked about social sites are Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. …

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Free tech support when you need it most

How many times have you been working away on your computer or phone and ran into a problem?  And there was no one around who could help you solve it? Even if it only happens once, that’s one time too many!  Luckily, there are some pretty nifty resources on the web that could help you…

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Staying on top of your social networks in a nutshell

A few weeks ago I gave you a seven day plan for using social networking. In Day Seven of the plan, I talked about a tool that I use (NutshellMail) to help me stay on top of all the activity in my social networks. When I add my Facebook friends, my Facebook business page fans,…

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10 Tips for Getting Traffic Through Social Media Sites

Web 2.0 sites and social media are already here (and have been for some time). Experts predict that this trend will only grow. That means if you don’t start using social media now – today – you’ll be left behind. Here then are 10 tips for using social media to drive traffic to your sites……

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Your first seven days in social networking

Let’s pretend that you have never heard of social networking until just now.  And from what you have heard, you are excited because you have learned that you can use it to stay in touch with past clients, meet new prospects and also use it to nurture those new relationships until they are ready to…

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Why I returned my iPad

According to a good friend, and fellow technology aficionado, I caused hell to freeze over a few weeks ago when I bought a 64 GB 3G iPad after publicly stating that I was going to sit this one out, (https://realtytechbytes.com/why-i-am-not-buying-a-ipad/). There were a couple of really good reasons for doing this, not the least of…

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Solve wireless network “blues”!

So, I had this problem.  My wife loves to watch movies on the TV.  Recently we were fortunate enough to come into a big screen, flat panel TV that has taken her movie watching into a whole new dimension of entertainment.  I am a member of NetFlix, but since my taste in movies tends to…

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