Massachusetts Real Estate and Social Media

Great advice. It always takes me forever to do this- trying your method next time, J.Have you been on ActiveRain for a while & wished that you could Jazz up your profile with some reall awesome graphics or picture?  Several members contact me regularly in complete frustration from trying to add a...

I have been seeing that a lot of people get involved in groups, and say afterward- I don't get it. How is this going to help me?  For instance, the user return rate on twitter is pretty sorry. According to the Nielsen Wire, "more than 60 percent of U.S. Twitter users fail to return the following...

It is funny how what you are today is the sum total of your experiences. Your parents, and their parents, built the beginning of the road you are traveling on. You can try to build a better or completely different road if you don't like the scenery that came before you, but most of the time you ...

Anyone who knows me even remotely well knows that I am a card-carrying member of the TwitterQueens. See? I'll prove it:     So there you have it. What are TwitterQueens? Well, it started out being a group of mainly women who chatted online, forming friendships and helping each other out online. I...

"I have been on twitter now for a few months. Now what?" Like anything else- are you REALLY on? Are you consistent? If you are, and you have used some tools to develop a local following, great. Now let's take the next step. Why not organize a tweet-up? A tweet-up is a face-to-face meeting, usuall...

  Great, Lesley!   I started blogging last year and my committment to steady and informative blogging has changed my business completely.  I created this funny video to demonstrate the impact in a short time...enjoy!  

1. I have gobs of time on my hands 2-5. See #1. Okay, now that we have THAT out of the way... None of us have gobs of time. If you are in Real Estate, you are to some degree at least at the beck and call of your clients. If you don't help them buy or sell a house, then the truth of the matter is ...

 'It makes me think of a prehistoric fish in a receding inland sea saying to an amphibian "so, what's the business case for legs?"' - Christopher Kenton This quote refers to people who are reluctant to be involved with creating an online presence. I don't blame them- we all want to get out there ...

Blind dates. I have not ever gone on one. I honestly would be afraid to: what if I didn't like his taste in music? What if his laugh annoyed me? What if he tried to tell me that he knew more than I did about something that I knew I knew more about?    I know that's all picky stuff, but I have chi...

This is going to be a busy, exciting week- if I can ever get things caught up enough at home to leave. The little one is complaining of a sore throat; the 19 year old accused me of never being home (although she is off at college and is never home herself). The 23 year old and the 19 year old hav...