BrokerIPTV and Ricardo Bueno are working on being the sponcered IPTV Media Coverage for REBarCamp/LosAngeles
Real Estate Barcamp Los Angeles
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Location: Pasadena Hilton
168 South Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
Date and Time: Thursday, April 02, 2009 at 9:00am to 5:00pm
Cost: FREE! But you have to RSVP here
Follow us on Twitter: @REBarcampLA
Interviewer: And welcome Broker IPTV. Today's show is brought to you by Meridian Title and Escrow, Colorado's largest mortgage and real estate broker owned title insurance company. Today's guest is Ricardo Bueno, and Ricardo is coming to us from Los Angeles, California and Ricardo, welcome to the show.
Ricardo Bueno: Hey, thanks for having me. How is it going?
Interviewer: It's going well. I understand you are a freelance social media consultant or strategist and you work and build custom websites for brokers, is that right?
Ricardo Bueno: That's right. I am a social media consultant with the Real Estate Tomato and we design custom blog [Inaudible] for agents and we train through them the adoption process of social media for their business.
Interviewer: Excellent. So you are probably the right person to be in charge of REBarCamp, right?
Ricardo Bueno: [laughs] Well, I hate to toot my own horn, but I would hope so.
Interviewer: So, tell me about REBarCamp, what is REBarCamp?
Ricardo Bueno: Well, REBarCamp is... it stands for Real Estate Bar Camp and it's essentially a one day free social media conference for the real estate space. It's being held bar camp style[Phonetic], so it should work out to be a pretty good event.
Interviewer: Great and you got roped into this event by how?
Ricardo Bueno: [laughs] We attended Real Estate Blog World last year. I forget the date when that was, but I was sitting at a dinner with Rich Jacobson - the community builder for Active Rain Corporation, Irina Netchaev, and Jeff Dowler, real estate agents, we are just talking about different conferences that are going on and what a lot of real estate folks are doing as far as adopting social media into their marketing and you know one thing led to another and the conversation ended up turning, "You know Ricardo, why don't you try hosting a real estate bar camp?" [Voice Cross Over]
Interviewer: There you go, Real Estate Bar Camp, Los Angeles.
Ricardo Bueno: My hometown, so I thought why not, let's give this a shot.
Interviewer: What's the date on that? Now, you are having it this year?
Ricardo Bueno: The date is set for Thursday, April 2nd. We got a space over at the Pasadena Hilton. So, we would probably be doing a couple of things before, but we will have more details on that coming up on the website, but we are set to go live Thursday April 2nd from 9 to 5 and probably have a after party to kick things up[Phonetic]. [Voice Cross Over]
Interviewer: So, April 1st, you will be having a pre-event that evening?
Ricardo Bueno: That's correct. We have the Active Rain guys and several other folks coming in from out of town. So, we thought it would be a good time to get together with them and you know do something the night before. Stacey Harmon is going to help in organizing... is helping organize something, set something up so we should be good.
Interviewer: So, for agents that are wondering out there, what... #1, what REBarCamp is, it's social media, this would probably be the prime eight or nine hours to spend and see if social media is right for you, right?
Ricardo Bueno: Oh yeah. I mean the cool thing about the bar camp model, in this REBarCamp is that it's not a vendor fair. So, it's going to do a couple of things; it's going to... first of all pull people's guard down, so you know because it's not a vendor driven event, people aren't going to be hesitant to show up you know and fear being sold something.
Interviewer: Right.
Ricardo Bueno: And it's going to ensure that we have really individuals who are passionate about this stuff. So, I think there will be a lot more collaboration and energy going on throughout the room; it's really learn all of this stuff.
Interviewer: Okay. Well, tell me about your sponsors; it looks like Diverse Solutions, Zillow?
Ricardo Bueno: Yeah. We got a lot of great sponsors, both national and local. We got Diverse Solutions, Zillow, Retrove: The Real Estate Search Engine. We got Altos Research, Cyber Homes, The Real Estate Tomato, and Active Rain.
Interviewer: Excellent.
Ricardo Bueno: And in terms of the local folks, it's really exciting to see a lot of local folks are showing interest. We got CV Escrow, SoCal CRS, Up-2-Date Real Estate, and a few other brokerages really showing some interest.
Interviewer: Why don't you give me some names real quick as far as some of your speakers you already have planned to speak at the event? Jeff Turner?
Ricardo Bueno: Well, yeah, we got Jeff Turner, you know Real Estate Shows, Dustin Luther with 4realz Consulting, we got Jim Marks, we got Jeff [Inaudible] over in Active Rain and few of the other Active Rain folks. Ginger Wilcox is coming into town. Reggie Nicolay [Phonetic] should be coming in and so it's turning out to be a pretty good line up.
Interviewer: Actually, well, those are some big powerful names as far as social media in real estate. So, it should be a good show; so, if they need information, they go to rebarcamp.com/losangeles, is that what your domain is?
Ricardo Bueno: Yeah, that's correct, it's rebarcamp.com/losangeles, everything there from our about to the RSVP is on the site and any more information, they could always get in touch with me.
Interviewer: Great. Well, lots of good information Ricardo. We appreciate you coming on for this interview today and we will be talking to you soon.
Ricardo Bueno: I think [Inaudible].
Interviewer: You bet.
Announcer: Once again the dates out there for REBarCamp Los Angeles is Thursday, April 2nd and they are planning some pre-event festivities on April 1st, April Fool's day. So, that should probably be a great one to attend especially with some of the members that I know are being there on April Fool's day. The slide here shows you it's the Pasadena Hilton, 168 South Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena, California. We have got the sponsors up here, Diverse Solutions, Zillow, Retrove, Altos Research, Cyber Homes, The Real Estate Tomato, and Active Rain; also, some local sponsors CV Escrow, Southern Cal CRS, and Up-2-Date Real Estate. Once again, that domain name was rebarcamp.com/losangeles. Lots of great speakers there, Jeff Turner, Dustin Luther, Jim Marks, Ginger Wicox, and of course Ricardo will be speaking with Chris Hotz from the Real Estate Tomato. Hope to see you all there. Broker IPTV is working on having coverage of the event. Have a great day.
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