Today’s web 2.0 wrap-up is from another phenomenal post by Rebecca Levinson on ActiveRain. She and I have a very similar approach to online marketing with social media, and her post Five Ways to Work the Brian Buffini Method of Pop By’s Online and Increase Your Incoming Real Estate Referrals has some really great tips. [...]
Friday, October 23, 2009
I came across a Challenge on ActiveRain to find out how (or if!) Realtors® that blog reuse their content. There were some really good posts in response to challenge, and I love how so many people are thinking beyond just the immediate blog post to see how they can attract readers, connect more with potential [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Ever wanted to become THE local expert for a particular neighborhood in your area? For those of you in smaller towns, it might be fairly easy to stand out, since there are fewer agents, and it’s easier to target your particular town name (or maybe not!). But it’s awfully difficult to become THE local expert [...]
Monday, October 19, 2009
Twitter applications come in all varieties – ways to find and follow new people, ways to better manage your account, post pics, post videos, tools for blogging, and lots more. And it seems like a new one comes out every week! It can be overwhelming to try and keep up with all the new ones, [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
I’m a big fan of Twitter, and love the concept of a Tweetup. I’ve talked about Tweetups before – for those who haven’t heard of them, Tweetups are a way of getting local Twitter users together for an event, so they can meet in person. Tweetups can be very casual – group of people meeting [...]
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Dave Smith over at Real Estate Blog Lab always has great Search Engine Optimization tips (i.e. – how to get found in Google!) that he shares, but I really liked this one: How to Beat a Local Event in Google His tip here is one that’s really simple – many popular local events are NOT well [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
This week’s Web 2.0 Wrap-up comes off the Oodle blog. You’re probably familiar with CraigsList, an online classified service where you can post your listings. Oodle is very similar. But they’ve added a very cool feature, that allows you to share your new listings (whether they’re homes, or just household items you need to get [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
In the real estate business, our contacts, network and database are the lifeblood of our business. If you use a Blackberry or an iPhone and depend on it to store your contacts, what happens if you lose your phone (or drop it in the pool, or accidentally sit on it, you get the picture) and [...]
Monday, September 14, 2009
A couple weeks ago I told you about a new Wordpress plugin, Local Market Explorer, provided by Zillow. Well, as usual, the Geek Estate Blog has more great info on the plugin. They’ve added functionality from TeachStreet, which allows you to show information on local classes on your sidebar. Here are the search results for Cooking [...]
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Today’s weekend web 2.0 wrap-up comes from the MyTechOpinion blog. As usual, great info from NikNik on a new Twitter tool called DemandSpot. From their blog, DemandSpot is a brand new Twitter tool that aims to help real estate professionals actually farm Twitter for local leads. Find locals based on location and keyword relevancy (house hunting, [...]
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