Archive for March, 2011

LinkedIn – 100 Million Members Strong

Last week LinkedIn achieved over 100 million members and published this infographic:

Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn said:
“We’re now growing at roughly one million new LinkedIn members every week, the equivalent of a professional joining the site at faster than one member per second.”
Are you on LinkedIn? We’d love to hear how you are [...]

Agent Reboot OC: Run, Don’t Walk!

Guest post by Holly Schwartz, Realtor and Marketing Director at Torelli Realty

(Can’t view the video about? Click here!)
Agent Reboot is coming to Orange County on March 30, 2011 and that’s a beautiful thing for real estate agents in the area. Orange County is one of the largest markets for real estate agents and [...]

How to Improve Your Google Ranking Utilizing Google Local

Guest post by: Matthew Smith, Public Online Marketing, Dell
Go ahead and open Google and search for “your city” real estate agent. You should see an image like this:

These results you are seeing are called Google local results. They are local businesses in the area Google thinks matches whatever term you just searched for. As you [...]

Tip Tuesday: How to Optimize Your Website For Different Browsers

For today’s Tip Tuesday post, I want to introduce a tool to you that some of you may be familiar with, but you may not have visited for sometime: Google Browser Size.
Do you know that some people do not see your site as you see it?
Maybe they have to scroll back and forth, maybe [...]

Twitter is Sweet. Twitter is About Art. About Community. What is it About to You?

For quite some time time now, I have loved Twitter. I love how fast-paced it moves, I love the friends I have made on Twitter, I love the real-time updates, I love being able to get a birds-eye view onto events and world news, and I love that it’s a great platform to drive traffic [...]

Faxing Sucks – Finally a Product That Makes it Faster, Easier and Smarter

Note: I asked Joseph Walla, cofounder of HelloFax to write a guest blog for FOREM. Why? Isn’t faxing a thing of the past?  The reality is that even in 2011, trying to send and receive a fax can be a still be a royal pain – special equipment, special paper, special phone line, and the [...]

Agent Reboot is Coming to Phoenix!

Guest blog post by Jay Thompson, Broker/Owner of Thompson’s Realty and Founder of The Phoenix Real Estate Guy, a widely read real estate blog
I am a conference junkie. You can find me at places like the NAR Midyear Conference in D.C., NAR Annual (this year at Disneyland!), Real Estate Tech South, Inman Connect in New [...]

Hashable – The Latest Mobile App to Share Contact Info

I wrote a blog post yesterday about some great apps to download before you go to a conference, but I just discovered a very cool app that is available for download on the iPhone or Android – Hashable!
This app makes it super easy to exchange contact info with someone you meet at a conference, meeting, [...]

7 Mobile Apps to Download Before Your Next Real Estate Conference

Many people are calling March in real estate tech world as “March Madness!” How do you make the most of your time at a conference? What are some apps to make the experience even better?

Here are 7 of my favorite apps for real estate conferences or events:

AudioBoo – Create an audio recording up to 5 [...]

How to Manage Your Client List from Your iPad with iClient

Guest blog post by Scott Falbo of Front9 Technologies is the developer of ‘iClient for Real Estate Agents.
The iPad has revolutionized the way that many people go about their daily lives – both personally and professionally.  In the business world – cases of doctors, teachers, attorneys, and many other professionals using the iPad have [...]