As a busy Real Estate professional working in Portland Oregon I am constantly bombarded with sales pitches and offers for free sales seminars. Most of these free classes are nothing more that a platform for the speaker to pitch his wares.
This week however I attended an event put on by Ticor Title of Oregon. The premise of the talk was using the Internet to enhance your business.
The speaker was entertaining and had prepared an extensive slide show presentation. The hall was quite large yet was only filled with as many as 1/3 the amount of people that it could seat. Hence the speaker made the decision to move through the material quickly dropping several slides from the presentation. Most of the slides were screen shots from a myriad of web sites that he had downloaded and thought that they may be of benefit to any willing to listen and learn. I was busy writing down URL's as quickly as I could trying to catch as many as I could as he moved swiftly passed pages he felt would not resonate with this small crowd.
During a brief pause on one such page the speaker took time to answer a few questions from someone from the audience who had blurted out " Your not going to talk about blogging are you?" " No! I won't put you through that " he said. " Good came the quick retort, I was hoping to get some web addresses of sites that might benefit me in my business! "
The entire time I just sat there staring at the screen with the biggest grin on my face. For projected on the Big screen for all to see in this non-live version of the speaker's slide show presentation was my Photo_and_profile_pagefrom my Wordpress Blog. The viral effects of that blog written almost one year ago was amazing to me.
After the seminar I spoke with the speaker about that slide. He said that when creating the slide show it was on page one of a search he did for Portland Bloggers but could not remember the exact keywords used for his search.
I remember writing the blog. I had written it after reading another blog about " How to write a blog that will last forever " But of course what do I know? Blogs don't work do they?
PS : A couple of sites from the seminar worth mentioning :
- www.flyinside.com a Free Virtual Tour web site.
- www.realivent.com a marketing and social web site good place for creating a profile with your links.
- www.retaggr.com an online business card site good for more links etc.
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