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social networking: 3 Things You Need to Know About Inbound Marketing - 01/18/09 07:22 PM

If you've been following this blog with any regularity, you know that I am an avid promoter of all things social media and networking. 
I'm a fan because it works.
Since I embarked on a full fledged social media barrage via this blog, my Florida Home Loans Specialist website,  my work on the FHA Mortgage Blog, and a burgeoning effort over at my Wanna Networks managed Central Florida Homes and Loan Report blog, a new and amazing world has opened up to me.
Potential clients and Realtor partners are calling me! I don't close every client deal or create winning … (10 comments)

social networking: Complicate Your Email: Your Customers Will Thank You for It - 01/14/09 09:41 PM
I have been thinking a lot about emails lately in terms of what makes them seem more personal and less like SPAM.  It's funny, but the more technology allows us to connect - even with true friends, colleagues, and customers (both internal and external), the more we risk alienating them with canned and HTML laden emails.
I know they're sexy... but do you normally send personal emails loaded with graphics and HTML? If the answer is yes, then I suppose you can keep up the habit.  However, if it hits my email box and we've just started our business relationship, it's … (0 comments)

social networking: Marbles in the Bucket: Building Success with Active Rain - 11/03/08 10:03 AM
I remember the first analogy ever expressed to me about marketing to build sales: 
"It's like feeding marbles into a bucket through a long pipe.  Don't wait for each marble to reach the bucket, just keep feeding them in."
When first joined Active Rain, I was a the tail end of a week of a Social Networking Site subscription frenzy.  In that week, I'd signed on or modified accounts for Facebook, my Wordpress Blog, Twitter, and Ezine.
I populated my profiles, added in pertinent job qualifications and experience, and posted articles that attempted to share some of my thoughts and … (9 comments)

social networking: The One Tool I Can't Live Without... - 08/24/08 06:16 PM
We see them every day... in fact it's almost as if a new Web 2.0 gadget or software tool gets pushed in front of us faster than we're able to take in and fully utilize the last one.  In this post, I've selected five (5) tools I think will remain useful for a while, even if new and improved also-rans show up. 
As Mortgage and Real Estate Professionals, we're concerned with two main concepts: Networking and Marketing - mostly as they go hand in hand.  We count on these areas of our business for our survival! So, it’s easy to see … (4 comments)

social networking: Attention Realtors: Got Blog? CREST Wants to Know! - 08/10/08 09:09 PM

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Image courtesy of VARBUZZ.com)
If you're a Realtor and you use social networking and blogging to get your message out to clients and colleagues, then the Center for Real Estate and Social Technologies (CREST) wants to know about your direct experience in this and related media.  
The good folks at CREST urge you to take the second CREST survey, and help them determine exactly how much ROI and ROT (Return on Time?) you are gaining from your blogs and what social networking tools you use to supplement or enhance your blogging … (3 comments)

 

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