Forgive me please Facebook, for I have egg on my face :-(

February 4, 2012 Real Estate Tools
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… and it was well and truly smushed on there by hackers and spammers. Last Wednesday I reported banner advertising on my  personal Facebook profile, along with what looked like sponsored posts inside my timeline … I was fooled. Unfortunately the real truth, the ugly reality is that my browser was hijacked by malware and [...]

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The Facebook fun begins

February 2, 2012 Real Estate Tools
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So Facebook announced it’s IPO yesterday … You would have to be on a desert island not to notice everyone talking about it. There are some staggering facts coming out of the disclosures. Did you know that Bono (of U2 fame) owns $750,000 worth of shares? I was staggered too. 1 billion in profits last [...]

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One vision of the future for real estate agentshttp://www.webrealestatetools.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=17192&action=edit&message=1

January 26, 2012 Real Estate Tools

Will real estate as we know it, be dead different by 2010? Back in 1999 my office manager and I concluded that someday soon, a system to automate the sales paperwork process from start to finish, would be a viable business opportunity. We were in agreement that a system like this would radically change real [...]

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Onswipe’s WordPress plugin – review.

January 19, 2012 Real Estate blogs

“This magazine doesn’t work”  is a video shared by Jason Baptiste … …. of OnSwipe in his Keynote address at Inman Connect. Apple products have changed our concepts and mindsets and their technology codes our minds!  The video (further down) shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. A 1-year [...]

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Two takes on how social media works

January 6, 2012 Social Media for Realtors

Gary Vaynerchuk is the master, with insanely great analogies … I have watched a number of Gary V’s speeches and this one is probably his most comprehensive and complete explanation of how social media works and how it can be leveraged – provided you are willing to “listen” .. ** warning – Gary uses strong [...]

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Facebook Timeline business cards for free

January 5, 2012 Real Estate Tools
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Business cards derived from your Facebook Timeline! This is a really great idea – Moo uses the info on your timeline to create a two sided business card – you can edit the info if you want before committing to print. I don’t know how long the promotion will last but the first 200,000 get [...]

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Become a real estate expert – they earn more money!

December 15, 2011 Learn
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  This is the text from one of the follow up emails that form part of our free eBook  “I just got my real estate license, now what?” A Plan for Fast Track real estate career success. Works for struggling agents too! Please don’t be a generalist. People value and pay more attention to experts [...]

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Free Real Estate Seminar in San Diego

December 7, 2011 Real Estate Tools

2012, What’s Next?  Why you should STOP using Social Media … My good friend Drew Burks is holding an event at the Hilton on the Bay Downtown San Diego On  Dec. 8th, 2011 230pm – 6pm with a free happy hour immediately after the event. This event is going to be really BIG! Here are [...]

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Too many Real Estate Agents fail – will you be one of them ?

December 7, 2011 Real Estate Tools
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I got my real estate license, now what? Every day people from all walks of life enter real estate, with big dreams and great expectations. They are beautifully trained on how to pass the licensing test, but can they sell real estate? Unfortunately way too many agents fail – - between 75% and 90% agents [...]

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My first computer almost 30 years ago – what a trip!

December 5, 2011 Real estate news
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December 13th 1982 – I remember the date well – that was the day I opened my first real estate office in Ruislip Manor, Middlesex, England. My recent purchase of MS Office 2010 made me realize that software has actually come full circle for me. I discovered a feature I hadn’t seen in years – [...]

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Have you got what it takes to make it in real estate sales?

December 1, 2011 Real Estate Tools
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Affordable personality and aptitude testing for Realtors. You can easily check to see if you have what it takes to be a Realtor – before committing oodles of time, money and energy Personality Profiling is a proven way. You can quickly find out your strengths and weaknesses as they relate to sales by taking a [...]

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Fight your way out of the doldrums

October 27, 2011 Real estate news

Have you seen this agent recently? Not necessarily greedy, in this current market they are more likely to be desperate Really great real estate agents uphold the principles they live by – honesty, integrity and solid morals. Working diligently for their clients, day in day out they provide a level of service that is unwavering [...]

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Social Media Profile Picture Essentials

October 17, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

Branding with a common image … … a common profile and branding image will identify you and your services across the range of social media sites – it certainly can’t hurt your personal brand awareness Think about who uses their image as branding – Gary Vaynerchuk, Donald Trump, George Forman, Magic Johnson, even old school [...]

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Facebook’s new iPad app is a winner!

October 11, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

Anyone that used the old Facebook iPhone app … … found it was slow and annoying – more so when using it on an iPad. Well now there is no more need to suffer! Facebook just released a whole new iPad App (iTunes link) that will simply blow you away! The app had been designed [...]

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WordPress video lessons – full course!

October 6, 2011 Real Estate Tools

Over 60 WordPress tutorial video’s! Would you like to become a WordPress expert able to setup, tweek and maintain your own WordPress Blog? With this video series now you can! Would you like to be able to create your own blog posts complete with the right search engine keywords? With this video series now you [...]

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How to easily add more Facebook Fans to your page

September 23, 2011 Real Estate blogs
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With the WordPress Like Locker plugin you can add hundreds of fans with almost no work. Like Locker allows you to wrap all, or just parts of your WordPress post content in a “Locker” that requires your blog visitor to click the “Like” button before they can view the protected content. Works with Pages too! There [...]

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Google+ v Facebook – has the war just started in earnest?

September 21, 2011 Real Estate Tools
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Remember the running feud between Netscape and Internet Explorer? If you are under 30 probably not,   but there are remarkable similarities with the upcoming Google Plus v Facebook battle. As a reminder, in the mid 1990′s the Netscape browser had over 90% usage and Yahoo was the dominant search engine of choice. Here is [...]

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Stop trying to look good – learn something useful

September 20, 2011 Newbies Start Here
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It’s so ridiculously easy to get a real estate license in most states. Even Dilbert gets some career advice: Once they have a license, most rookies get deluged with conflicting advice and slapped with dubious training from management. A fair splattering of slick vendors also focus on building relationships with agents friends and acquaintances. But [...]

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And the tablet wars winner is ….

September 15, 2011 Real Estate Tools

There are good reasons why the iPad is winning the tablet battle! Last year I passed up the opportunity, but this year Ieagerly bought an iPad 2 as soon as it was first released and have been thrilled with it ever since – even when I broke it (see below)  But what about the abundance [...]

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Digital fingerprints- INXS to blame

July 5, 2011 Real Estate Tools

Cookies have long been used to track users and their computers. But now there are companies that are using digital fingerprinting so they can track you even if you don’t accept cookies … … the technology that BlueCava’s uses for instance is based on the workings of an inventor who, in the early 1990s, wanted [...]

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How to add Google’s +1 button to your site

June 17, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

Time to add Google’s +1 button to your blog. In the last post I described the +1 button, what it does and how it works. Now that the button is actually working properly here on my site, it’s time to let you know the easiest way to implement +1 on your WordPress site too. I [...]

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Google’s new +1 button, a hit or a miss?

June 14, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

Google is making a big play with their new +1 button Announced back in March, the +1 button is now available with Google hoping for quick adoption. +1 is intended to compete with Facebook’s Like button, but the results appear in the search results as friends recommendations. Here is a link to the official explanation [...]

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Thanks to Apple, Twitter is going to explode!

June 9, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

This is hot news: Apple’s new iOS 5 will deeply integrate Twitter … There were a ton of enhancements and upgrades (over 200) to the newly announced Apple iOS5 operating system. iOS 5 is the shared operating system of the iPhone, iPad, so most of the so called “social media pundits” were surprised with Apple’s [...]

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How Social media pays off

May 20, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

The real cost of Social Media … … in infographic form. The amount that Facebook Fans spend on a brands products as opposed to the non-fan spend is a pretty compelling reason to invest time and money into building the fan base of your Facebook real estate page. View a full size image on Focus.com’s [...]

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Meeting Gary Vaynerchuk in person

May 19, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

At a small gathering of about 250 socially media aware guys and gals in Orange County .. … I got to listen to Gary up close and personal for just over an hour. He expanded on his new book “The Thank You Economy” which we reviewed here and told us a few home truths about [...]

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