Privacy concerns are in the news again ..

May 13, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

Facebook admits that it authorized an effort to raise .. … privacy concerns regarding a Google product, but says it was not intended as a smear campaign. Mashable reports today that Facebook has issued a statement acknowledging it hired well known PR firm Burson-Marsteller with a remit to alert the media about the questionable use [...]

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Tablets – how they are changing the way we work & play

March 31, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

Tablets are turning up by the boat load .. … the age of the Tablet has truly arrived and with it new challenges too. Last week I wrote – Urgent – Beg, borrow or steal an iPad right now! about how the iPad may break your expensive real estate website. The iPad is not alone [...]

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Urgent – Beg, borrow or steal an iPad right now!

March 23, 2011 Real Estate Websites

Have you seen your website on an iPad? This is important because the site you spent a ton of money on may suck really badly on an iPad. (… only kidding about stealing!) I just got an iPad2, I actually waited for 6 months for the much anticipated updated version I am absolutely thrilled with [...]

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IDX home search providers – please step forward

March 21, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

There are dozens of companies that provide IDX search capabilities … … for real estate agent and broker web sites. Some are better than others, some come with lots of options, some are expensive and some are even free! However, there are uncomfortably few companies offering home search capabilities for your Facebook Business Page. You [...]

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9 resourses for creating Facebook Page tabs

March 16, 2011 Social Media for Realtors

Facebook just made it easier to add custom pages to Business Pages! First lets take a quick look at the background: In early February Facebook announced: “On March 11, 2011, you will no longer be able to create new FBML apps and Pages will no longer be able to add the Static FBML app. While [...]

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Win a copy of Gary vay.ner.chuck’s new book

March 9, 2011 Real Estate Tools

Gary’s long awaited new book “The Thank You Economy” is now available. As soon as it arrived yesterday I got stuck straight into it! Gary makes the strong case that our culture has reverted back to a similar relationship oriented society that our grandparents would recognize – one of politeness, civility and caring. A society [...]

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Inside Job – the expose of the sub-prime fraudsters

March 1, 2011 Real Estate Tools

On March 8th this Oscar winning documentary is available to purchase on DVD. If you didn’t see it in cinemas now is your chance to find out just how crooked all the players were in the financial meltdown that continues to unravel every time a home is foreclosed on or sold short. It seems incredulous, [...]

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Facebook’s Like button just morphed

February 28, 2011 Real Estate blogs

Liking things on websites just became way more transparent … As of yesterday morning, Facebook users liking something on a third-party site now creates an entire feed story on Facebook, not just a single line item. This is HUGE … Publishers will see this as huge improvement, but when you see the results on your [...]

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Why you should upgrade WordPress right now!

February 24, 2011 Real Estate blogs

It’s always a good idea to keep your WordPress blog updated with the latest version … But this time there is an even bigger reason to upgrade – along with some other new features the bigger news is the internal linking feature. If you didn’t know already one big fundamental rule of SEO is to [...]

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Is this a better Realtor bio page?

February 3, 2011 Real Estate Tools

How to create a different, cutting edge “About Me” page … We have written a couple of times about crappy Realtor about pages or sucky bio pages. Simply too many real estate bios are hastily written without any thought as to what the consumer might want to know about a real estate professionals services. A [...]

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Google dumps real estate

January 28, 2011 Real Estate Tools

Google decides to stop trying to be in the MLS business. So, after February 10th Google announced it will no longer offer their real estate search – which apparently hardly anyone ever used. These listings included foreclosed homes, rentals and for sale listings. Here is a screenshot of what will be removed next month: Brokers [...]

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How to improve your property photos

January 17, 2011 Real Estate Tools

Bad MLS photos are one of my pet peeves .. Here are just 2 found on Sandicor (The San Diego County MLS) in just a couple of minutes. The agent who took the first was trying to be creative – which could have worked if he got the car moved and learned something about image [...]

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I Love Me Some Kodak

January 13, 2011 Real Estate Tools

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 [...]

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Ninja’s, Guru’s, Experts and Predictions

December 30, 2010 Social Media for Realtors

How many so called social media guru’s do you know? Our prediction for 2011 is you will hear about a whole lot more from guys trying to enter the real estate space and pepper you with their insight! Drew and Peter started this blog almost 2 years ago  – a lifetime in social media but [...]

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BranchOut or LinkedIn?

December 29, 2010 Real Estate Tools

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 [...]

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The very best posts of 2010s

December 27, 2010 Real Estate Tools

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 [...]

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How to eFax a document from your iPhone

December 22, 2010 Real Estate Tools

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 [...]

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My Cloud Tools and how I use them

December 20, 2010 Real Estate Tools

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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Special offer for Web5 attendees

December 17, 2010 Real Estate Tools

Thanks for listening to all the advice and banter. Here are our specials: Half off Social Media School $297 now $148.50   Half off blog setup – Social Media master $2,995 now $1,497.50

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The AgentListServe marketing network – competition

December 16, 2010 Real Estate Tools

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” [...]

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Why is my blog running soooo slow?

December 9, 2010 Real Estate blogs

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 [...]

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How to show Facebook comments on your WordPress blog

December 3, 2010 Real Estate blogs

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, [...]

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Krisstina Wise talks social media

December 1, 2010 Real Estate Tools

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! [...]

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Find out who’s talking sh*t about you online – instantly!

November 30, 2010 Real Estate Tools

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 [...]

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Cyber Monday + Social Media for Realtors

November 29, 2010 Social Media for Realtors

Web Real Estate Tools announces its Cyber Monday deals .. In the name of offering a HUGE Sale on Cyber Monday and being inspired by our friends over at Hostgator, .. … who by the way are still offering 50% Off on all web hosting packages today. Peter and I have agreed to knock HALF [...]

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