
Kodak powers my Real Estate Business As a Real Estate Broker I understand the need to take lots of photos and now videos … Over the past few years I have owned quite a few different camera’s and up until mid 2010 I was using the Flip HD video camera, but then I got the [...]

Which is more valuable to a real estate agent … … an Olive Branch or a Social Link? Most of you have heard of LinkedIn and I would guess that most of you also have a profile setup on their platform (if you don’t, go set one up today), but have you ever heard of [...]

It’s a great year end tradition, so here is our lineup … … of posts that resonated with our Realtor readers in 2010: Crappy MLS consumer listing sheets Peter’s rant on how ridiculous it is that we are still giving consumers remnants of the old MLS book printouts. Realtor sells sexy lifestyle Sex sells, but [...]

Here is how faxing from your iPhone works: First of course my fellow Realtors you will the the eFax app. So go to iTunes and download it – sync it to your phone as usual. You will also need an eFax subscription – you can try eFax free for 30 days with this link. Once [...]

Web5Live – Review of my cloud tools! Many of you asked and I listened … Here is a quick review of the primary tools I am using to run my real estate business from the cloud. By cloud, I mean applications that are not running on my computer – they are browser based – accessed [...]

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This is a guest post from Eric Carvajal of AgentListServ Looking for an effective way to market your listings? Need more properties for your picky buyer? AgentListServ.com is an exclusive real estate marketing network created by real estate agents, for real estate agents. On this unique marketing platform, members share information about properties they “Have” [...]
by Peter Toner on December 9, 2010 · 1 comment

A blog or website needs to live on a computer connected to the internet. Unless you have your own server connected somehow to the World Wide Web and know how to set it up, configure it and maintain it you will need to subscribe to a hosting company to do this for you. This article [...]

Conversations have moved from blog posts over to Facebook As we reported recently, 25% of the pages viewed on the internet in the US are now Facebook pages. Guys, this is a HUGE shift. A transformation that has taken place in just a relatively short amount of time. Don’t try and mess with the flow, [...]

Krisstina maintains that we are consumers too … … so give Google what it wants and we all win: In this video Krisstina expands on what social media means to her brokerage: This is good stuff guys – let us know if it resounded with your thoughts by clicking the Like button, Sharing or Commenting! [...]
by Peter Toner on November 30, 2010 · 1 comment

It might be important to know right away .. … even if the comments are nice ones! Innovation never ceases to amaze me. Now we all have the ability to learn if someone posts a comment about us online, almost as soon as it was posted. It's all in an Apple app called Boxcar. A [...]

Black Friday Sale If you don't already have a blog for your Real Estate business and you are one of the sane people not waiting on a cold sidewalk somewhere to get into a Walmart or BestBuy to save a few bucks on electronics you are in luck … One of my favorite hosting companies, [...]

A lot of real estate agents are just playing .. … with social media, just because it's a bright new shiny object. Problem is many don't really know what they are doing By setting goals and strategies you won't be fumbling around in the dark anymore. So here is the million dollar question you need [...]

OptimizePress – A Very Exciting WordPress Theme For Realtors Single Property Websites have been popular with Realtors for years … Most recently the craze is to make sure all of your online real estate sites, including individual property sites are formatted for mobile devices. I experimented some, but when I discovered OptimizePress for WordPress it [...]

Most real estate bloggers are guilty of … … falling for the next shiny object, adding all sorts of bells and whistles, gadgets and widgets to their blog. Unfortunately what you end up with after a while is a complete mishmash of clutter … … and we were just as guilty as the rest of [...]