Archive for January, 2011

Just Released: An Even Easier Way to Create Real Estate Facebook Pages

Pretty exciting news!
Just announced this Friday on Facebook, there will be a news and improved “flow” for how someone creates a business page on Facebook.
I really like this improvement and think it will encourage more and more people to make pages (instead of using their personal profile for business)
Here are a [...]

Fun Friday: This Week in Tech History – The 1st Apple Macintosh

Where were you in 1984?
Do you remember a world where having a computer was a really big deal, and the thought of having a computer that would fit in your house was unbelievable? Most people who were born after 1984 can not imagine a world with out computers – let alone the internet, mobile [...]

Relevancy of Information In Social Media

Guest blogger Michael Becker is the founder of www.mountainofagents.com, a free real estate agent directory and ratings site.
So, you have a Facebook profile. You signed up for Twitter. You’re even on LinkedIn. You’re pretty sure that you’re on track to go viral. Leads should be pouring in now that you’ve done everything possible to stay current [...]

2 Effective Ways to Create Facebook Lists and 3 Tips to Revitalize Your Facebook Business Page Today!

This past weekend, I did a little Facebook spring cleaning. I went through my pages and friends and organized them into lists. I started this process a while back but never finished it. It is definitely a time consuming process, but totally worth it. I guess I’m sort of a control freak because I do [...]

Top 5 Real Estate Apps for Android

Chad Fisher enjoys life as an entrepreneur, developing sites to help people find
affordable housing, and creating a resource for users to compare auto insurance quotes from companies in their state.
An Android smart phone can be a real estate agent’s best friend. Rather than having to trudge back to the office or make a phone call [...]

3 Simple Steps to Backup Your Social Media Accounts

If you are a real estate agent or broker, have you ever wondered how you can back up all the data that you put onto Facebook, Twitter, and your blog? There are tons of quick and easy ways to back up your social media data.

First of all….why backup your data? You may be asking why you’d [...]

Fun Friday: The Twitter Movie – Rated ‘A’ for ‘Awesome’

By now, I’m sure many of you have seen the Golden Globe award-winner, The Social Network. Who would have known, back when in June when I wrote this blog post that the movie would have garnered so much attention and buzz. I came across a really funny “spoof” on The Social Network. This video is [...]

5 Tips to Killer Email Marketing

When I saw FOREM’s founder Joel Burslem on the Real Estate Connect NYC agenda, I knew it was a “must see” session. Joel gave a fantastic presentation on email marketing entitled “Email is not dead – The un-sexy but massively powerful tool marketers and communicators must master.”

I agree that email is definitely not dead – [...]

Simple Steps to Converting Your Real Estate Web Site Traffic Into Leads

It’s late Sunday night as I write this, and I’m getting ready for the week ahead – the week post-Connect NYC. Among the stack of business cards and receipts are tons of notes taken in New York last week. These notes will turn into multiple FOREM blog posts because there was simply too much good [...]

3 Great Products from Inman News – Real Estate Connect NYC Specials

This past week at Real Estate Connect NYC was awesome! This was my 5th Connect and my 3rd since working for Inman News, and I am so proud that our event keeps getting better and better.  I will be writing a few blog posts this week about the event with my key take-aways. But, while [...]