Zero Leads from Facebook? Here's why. - 06/27/10 08:29 PM
Tony Robbins said it best.  "Success and Failure leave clues."  
In this case, here's a shiny example of how your Facebook marketing will get you ZERO leads despite the fact you might have done a pretty good job at setting up your fan page / business page.  
I have a client in Miami asking me for some SEO visibility -- so I began my Web CMA. That being, I started to look for other agents and brokers advertising on Google and on Facebook in the South Florida market.
I quickly discovered several REAL examples of what an agent should … (7 comments)

The Problems with MRIS. - 06/22/10 11:18 AM
I like to get my news from multiple sources. RISmedia, Inman News and my friend Bernice Ross writes a really good article, too.
Yesterday, Michael J. Belak posted an article on Inman talking about Standards, RETS and a new MRIS only product they call: CURE which is a data sharing product.  There's only one thing wrong with it.  You have to be a MEMBER of MRIS to use it and MRIS is just in Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and a small part of Pennsylvania.
 
Because we have clients who are also MRIS subscribers, I had to vent my frustration with MRIS's … (4 comments)

Mobile Websites. Are you missing the boat... Again? - 06/19/10 01:19 PM
 
You might want to try this:  Go to Google right now and enter 3 words:   mobile real estate
Notice how many references you get returned. 914,000,000 is what I see. 
914 million.
How do you say, Huge?  Off the charts?  OMG. WOW. Big numbers here. 
Then ask yourself this important question: Are you already set up with a mobile website? 
The Bartman was a bit late to the party, too. So don't kick yourself too hard if you don't already have a website exclusively designed and optimized for iPhones, iPads, Crackberries and Google's Droid.  But consider this post your … (8 comments)

Stumped on technology? Watch a 3 year old with an iPad. - 06/06/10 10:23 PM

Now this gets creepy. Watching how fast this 2.5 year old takes to technology. And like any adult with a new toy, like an iPhone or iPad... once they have it -- they rarely ever want to give it back (willingly). Kids are getting accustomed to touch screens. And since our real estate business is a high touch kind of business -- what better tool to give your broker who is probably "techno-phobic," to being with. It might even improve your chances of landing a YES if you ever have to ask him or her for a commission advance, ya … (6 comments)

Are you going to Inman Connect? - 06/06/10 03:10 PM
 
Are you going to go to Inman Connect next month? We're not.
I did a quick mail to more than 140 of our customers and learned the same thing. Only five said they are going. The rest are still trying to figure out how to use Facebook, Twitter and how to get better visibility on their Point2 Agent websites from two years ago. You're probably one of them. 
 

 
ACID TEST: Look at the new companies coming out with extraordinary claims of new services, and new fangled products. Be sure to put your BS Detector Glasses on, … (0 comments)

Google Gets Sued for Bad Map Directions. Only in America. - 06/06/10 01:36 PM
 
Just when you thought you've heard of everything and seen everything -- you realize that something new will come along that you haven't seen or heard of.
 
Lauren Rosenberg is suing Google for "bad directions" on a Google map. If you think that's a bit funny or just plain stupid -- don't laugh or sneer. Because she's probably going to win.
 
Just like the idiot woman who placed the hot coffee from McDonalds on her car's dashboard and hits the accelerator.
 
Sploosh.   The coffee spills and she gets a few burns. So she sues McDonalds for her … (5 comments)

 
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