Archive for April, 2011

What Tips Would You Share With New Realtors Just Starting Out in the Business?

We asked this question on our Inman News Facebook page this week and we received a lot of great feedback, comments and advice. Check out the list below – what pearls of wisdom could you add to this list?

Can you imagine if you were starting out today as a Realtor? Or, maybe you are new [...]

3 Great Learning Opportunities This Week in Charlotte

Next week is a very busy week for the real estate industry in Charlotte, North Carolina with Inman News’ Agent Reboot, the Charlotte Regional Realtors® Association Expo and RE BarCamp Charlotte. With so much going on it, we thought it would be good to outline a little about each event so you can plan accordingly. [...]

An Easy Way to Search for Someone’s Business Email Address

Even in today’s social world of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, text messaging and blogs – one of the best ways to still reach someone is through email. Have you ever had an open house and couldn’t find a business card a potential buyer handed handed you or couldn’t read the handwriting of the person who signed [...]

3 Easy Tips for Realtors: How to Use Facebook Questions

Have you used Facebook Questions yet? Facebook questions launched pretty recently with not a lot of fan fare, and it was almost by accident that I stumbled upon it.

According to Facebook:
“Facebook Questions lets you ask any question and get quick answers from your friends and other people on Facebook. Questions is designed so that anyone [...]

3 New Facebook Updates to Groups

It’s always been easy to share with all your friends on Facebook, but until Facebook introduced Groups last October, there wasn’t a simple way to share with just a few people.
Yesterday Facebook announced three new upgrades to groups: the integration with Questions, the ability to upload photo albums, and additional membership controls. You can post [...]

Fit for a King: What Does $211 Million Get You These Days?

Have you ever thought about what you do if you came into a million dollars? How about $10 million? $100 million?
Luxury yachts. Private islands. An endless array of staff to wait on you hand and foot. I think I could get used to that!
If you think a $100 million is a lot of money to [...]

Fun Friday: The Most Overused Terms in Real Estate

We posed the question on our Inman News Facebook page a few weeks ago -  “What is the most overused term in real estate today?”
The responses were fun to read, and in the spirit of “Fun Friday,” I thought I would post them here!

What can you add to this list? I’d love to hear your [...]

An Easy Solution: Tracking Twitter Stats

There are a ton of Twitter 3rd party applications that will track your tweets, your followers, your retweets, and more. As a social media director, I use a number of different tools to monitor our social presence and to track our analytics. One thing I have found is that some social media tracking products are [...]

Foursquare: 3 Million Checkins on #4sqDay

This past Saturday (4/16/11) was Foursquare Day and on that day they had a record-breaking number of checkins – over 3 million!! I know I checked in – did you?

Check out the tweet announcing this monumental occasion from founder Dennis Crowley:

I know personally, I feel like I have seen a resurgence in Foursquare recently just [...]

It’s a Jungle Out There – Start-Up Company Receives Another 300K in Investor Backing

Just a few months ago, FOREM posted an article about Rent Jungle. Rent Jungle, launched in October, 2010, and claims to be the most comprehensive rental listing site on the web. It works much like other search engines in that it scours the internet to amass apartment listings from a variety of [...]