Livestream announced a new video product for Twitter called TwitCam.com. This is not a “How To” video product for those who like to put together bicycles without instructions! lol~ All you need is a webcam and a twitter account and you can stream live video…

Back at Portland’s Real Estate Bar Camp I was intrigued by a discussion led by Galen Ward of Estately about how to increase conversions on real estate websites. How do we take visitors to our blog or website and turn them into closed sales? I’m…

Have real estate agents missed the boat when it comes to using social media? At what point does it stop being work and just become a hobby? I do believe that social media marketing (SMM) has a place in the modern sales repertoire, but not…

I recently wrote an article on which tools you should be using first to gain traction with your internet marketing efforts.  One of those tools was Twitter.  As an agent you may be asking, how can twitter help my business?  This is FAR from an…

There is an interesting post by Rob Hahn, AKA Notorious Rob, that touches close to home for me — Personal Business, Business Personality, and Social Media: An Interview with Todd Carpenter, NAR. The issue at hand is whether people should maintain two separate personalities online…

After my meeting with Zillow, a more valuable meeting may have taken place downstairs after our final handshake with the generous Zillow staff.  I had a discussion with Geordie Romer of Windermere about how dominating specific obscure neighborhoods could produce hotter leads than a normal…

When I was attending Real Estate Bar Camp in Seattle I had the good fortune to meet a number of the crew at Zillow including Rich Barton, Spencer Rascoff, Drew Meyers and David Gibbons. Spencer was especially friendly and inviting and remained so even after…

Open houses are NOT dead.  Not by a long shot.  Just recently I posted on Zillow after Spencer Rascoff praised a local Realtor in his neighborhood who was working a listing very hard.  Buyers and shoppers have access to plenty of information now.  They want…

What is SEO?  Search engine optimization.  Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 4 years, you’ve surely heard of it…  But wait,  you are in the real estate industry, right?  This is an industry that has been dragged into technology kicking and…

Here is a video with Greg Afarian’s take on those who say “I’ll pass on syndicating MY Listings”. I think most of you will agree it was worth sharing to a broader audience 🙂 More details available at ZIPVO.com. If you are not currently syndicating…