I met the future of real estate agents today, and I have to say that I am impressed. I’ll tell you about it shortly, but first, a little background on how I came to make this statement. For the last few months I have been under contract with a local real estate association to visit…
When the iPad 1 came out I picked one up to evaluate. I returned it to the Apple store 14 days later because it wasn’t capable of doing some of the things that I needed it to do. You can imagine the surprise on the faces of the Apple Store employees when they got my…
Over the past few months I have been working one on one with real estate agents teaching them how to use Facebook to promote their businesses and themselves. I’ve also been teaching agents how to use various software products that are designed to improve their productivity. Among other things, I have found that the biggest…
What is the most important part of your computer? Is it the monitor, the keyboard, the hard drive? How about the memory? Maybe it’s the operating system or maybe it’s your email program. I’ll admit that all of those are key components of your computer, but in my opinion, the most important part is your…
As I travel around teaching real estate professionals how to use the new social tools to grow their businesses, I continue to get questions about Facebook. More specifically, I get the question “Should I be friends with other real estate agents?” (Substitute whatever industry your competitor is in). The concern seems to be that the…
Are you caught up in iPad fever? Is every one you know buying one and you are feeling left out? Well, bunky, you are not alone. I was feeling the same way, even though I had made up my mind to wait it out until the second version comes out. But the constant onslaught of…
In my “day job” as a trainer and consultant to real estate agents and brokerages, I have been researching vendors that provide IDX search tools. IDX is Internet Data Exchange and it is a set of rules that allows brokerages to display listings from other brokers on their web sites. IDX provides the ability for…
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…
Over the past 6 weeks I have been positioning you to make money as a Realtor® through the use of Web 2.0 tools. Admittedly, I haven’t really touched on Web 2.0 or Social media that much in the process. But, all that has gone before was to set the stage. We first talked about what…
Unless you have been on vacation on Mars for the past year, you have heard about Twitter. You may know that Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows you to post messages limited to 140 characters. This messages are called Tweets and can theoretically be seen by every Twitter user. Of course a person would…
