facebook: Hey, We're Back! Social Media Edge Radio
- 12/22/15 03:15 AM
What a long strange trip it has been! First of all thank you to the many friends and fans who have been with us since the beginning. Some of you even go all the way back to August of 2008 when I had no idea what I would do with the show but new I wanted to find and share great information. At that time I was handling all of the marketing for Novation Mortgage and watching the industry dwindle from a flooding ocean to a stagnant puddle. Since podcasting had been very successful for my companies all the way back … (2 comments)
facebook: If you "don't get Facebook" you need to start getting ...
- 01/12/11 04:58 PM
"I don't get Facebook." In 1995 I was sitting in a pub in Vinings, Georgia around 4 in the afternoon enjoying a shepherd's pie and a pint when a very well dressed Indian (middle eastern) walked in and sat down at the table behind me. We were the only two people there so I struck up a conversation with him. He soon told me he had just started a cigar company. Since I owned and operated one of the only web development companies in town I struck up a conversation with him about "getting online". Online wasn't new to me as … (6 comments)
facebook: Points, Followers and Friends ... Why? (Measure of Success)
- 10/11/10 09:23 AM
How do you measure online success? Is it the number of followers you have on Twitter? How about the number of friends you have on Facebook? Are you ranked number one in your area for points on Active Rain? Back in the 1980's I had a little Electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS) "page". It contained my name, phone number, business address and about a paragraph of what I did for a living. It took about 45 seconds do display on the visitors page and it looked something like this:
Back then I had no idea how many people even saw my … (4 comments)
facebook: How to Hate Twitter (Yes, You!)
- 09/02/09 12:39 PM
I hear it all the time, "Twitter is a waste of time." "I just don't get the big deal about Twitter." "I'm too busy." "I only focus on mortgages." (A little secret snark there for a friend.) Let's back up just a few steps so we all have the same perspective. Twitter. If you have not heard of it welcome to earth. Twitter is, simply put, a very fast past, one sentence electronic bulletin board. Oddly enough about 25 years ago that was the only way I communicated over the Internet. Actually it was called FIDONET back then and I accessed … (45 comments)
facebook: Shouting My Own Secrets - Social Media Etiquette
- 03/24/09 08:17 AM
Social media is not a disease but it can have an infection. I personally have been guilty of infecting social media but my lessons were (mostly) learned two decades ago when there was little forgiveness. Of course we didn't call it social media back then we called it by other names like USENET or BBS. Trust me, in 1989 you did not have to wonder if you may have stepped over some boundary - you knew it within seconds. We called them flames or flame wars. If you posted a link to your blog or an invitation to your event in … (11 comments)
facebook: Using URL Tools To Shrink Links and Track Web Traffic
- 03/22/09 05:04 AM
Many of you have been using URL (Uniform Resource Locator also called web link or link) shortening tools for some time. You may already know the value of saving space and now you may be about to learn about using these same hosted applications to track your traffic. For example you may be able to know where the visitor clicked on the link. This is important when you use the link on multiple pages. Let me back up. Why shorten a URL? Until recently there really was no reason to shrink a URL but with the coming up of microblogs and … (37 comments)
facebook: Twitter, Facebook and Wasting Time (REtechSouth)
- 03/07/09 01:33 AM
Guilty. Not you - me. I am guilty of wasting time on Twitter and Facebook. In fact I have wasted so much time on Twitter and Facebook that I now waste even more time keeping up with at least a dozen new prospects every week. Then the closings that I am seeing are really cutting into my week - like the $300,000 FHA 203(k) loan I am doing because of a referral I got from a Twitter "friend". Sure, I will back up just a bit. Twitter is a "micro-blog" and so named because users post messages called "tweets" of a … (13 comments)
facebook: I Don't Blog For Points or Position
- 03/01/09 09:28 AM
Never have I nor never will I blog for points or position. My winnings are measured by the number of conversations I have with people I have met online. When I get on the phone with a real estate agent from California, an appraiser from Maine or a title man from New Jersey just to say, "How's it going?" I win. I can't even provide loan services in those areas so it's definitely about friendship. Oh, I enjoy the checks I cash from the deals I close from my online relationships but quite honestly I have not closed that many deals … (20 comments)
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