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Is There Room for a “Relocation” App? The Thinking Behind a Potential Pivot of Oh Hey World to Relocation

Is There Room for a “Relocation” App? The Thinking Behind a Potential Pivot of Oh Hey World to Relocation

If you follow this blog regularly, you undoubtedly have noticed I’ve written about relocation several times over the past few months. The reason behind that is because we’ve been exploring a “pivot” (a startup term for when you shift a company/product in a different direction)…

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An Example of Hustle from Outside Our Industry

An Example of Hustle from Outside Our Industry

To succeed in business and life, you have to hustle. Since it’s often best to look outside your own industry for ideas (don’t get stuck in a silo), and figure out how they apply to your specific situation — I thought I’d share an example I…

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Is the new Myspace important for my real estate business?

Is the new Myspace important for my real estate business?

Nope.   (post type inspired by Todd Carpenter)

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Step 10 – “The Missing LinkedIn”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

Step 10 – “The Missing LinkedIn”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

Time to complete our Social Media pieces of the “12 Step Program”, with LinkedIn … During this post, I am going to ask you to refer back to the last post, all about IFTTT. So here is a link to that post … Click Here  The Social Media site, LinkedIn ,…

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Step 9 – “IFTTT I Only Had a Brain”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

Step 9 – “IFTTT I Only Had a Brain”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

Ok, so after last episode, Step 8 – “Saving Face(book) Bussiness Pages”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence we were basically 2/3’s done with our “Presence” =) We added 2 of the 3 largest Social Networks to it, with 1 to come in Step 10 (LinkedIn). In this Step,…

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Step 8 – “Saving Face(book) Business Pages”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

Step 8 – “Saving Face(book) Business Pages”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

Last Week we Discussed … Step 7 – “Love to Hear Your Clients Going Tweet Tweet Tweet”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence         Today we create a Facebook Business Page … “But I have a Facebook Page Dad?” I…

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Connect with Nearby Members of the Geek Estate Community

Connect with Nearby Members of the Geek Estate Community

Organizing people online is great, but it’s my firm belief bringing like minded people together in the physical world is where the magic happens. When doers & change makers come together, strong relationships form and great things happen. You all read blogs, or you wouldn’t be reading…

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Step 5 – “Put The "Hubba Hubba in Hub & Spoke”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

Step 5 – “Put The "Hubba Hubba in Hub & Spoke”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence

To Create an Internet Presence that can not only “Cast a Wide Net” and Capture an Interested Consumer, but also “Network” and Communicate with itself there is no better model than the “Hub & Spoke. However, we need to make a slight Adjustment to the “Simpler” Model…

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Closing Time for Real Estate:  An Online Collaboration For Navigating the Home Buying Process

Closing Time for Real Estate: An Online Collaboration For Navigating the Home Buying Process

I was recently introduced to the founders of Closing Time, a collaborative online service for real estate agents, lenders, and home buyers who are navigating the purchase process.  The founders, Jonathan Aizen and Paul Knegten, come from a mix of technology and marketing/advertising backgrounds, and…

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Christmas Fun, Housing Crisis and Real Estate — Why Realtors Can Never Get Bored with Our Work

Christmas Fun, Housing Crisis and Real Estate — Why Realtors Can Never Get Bored with Our Work

I thought I was full of it.  It was a week before Christmas when everyone was preparing for the happiest season of the year, and here I was writing a scathing open letter to my home country’s President on why he should start preparing for…

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