Microsoft goofed again. Another stupid product that will never see the light of day because nobody understands it, so nobody's buying it. Including a lot of us REALTORS. I was at the Cottonwood Mall in Albuquerque the other day and I was talking to a few people about digital technology and befor
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07/03/2010
Tony Robbins said it best. "Success and Failure leave clues." In this case, here's a shiny example of how your Facebook marketing will get you ZERO leads despite the fact you might have done a pretty good job at setting up your fan page / business page. I have a client in Miami asking me for
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06/27/2010
I like to get my news from multiple sources. RISmedia, Inman News and my friend Bernice Ross writes a really good article, too. Yesterday, Michael J. Belak posted an article on Inman talking about Standards, RETS and a new MRIS only product they call: CURE which is a data sharing product. There'
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06/22/2010
You might want to try this: Go to Google right now and enter 3 words: mobile real estate Notice how many references you get returned. 914,000,000 is what I see. 914 million. How do you say, Huge? Off the charts? OMG. WOW. Big numbers here. Then ask yourself this important question: Are y
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06/19/2010
Now this gets creepy. Watching how fast this 2.5 year old takes to technology. And like any adult with a new toy, like an iPhone or iPad... once they have it -- they rarely ever want to give it back (willingly). Kids are getting accustomed to touch screens. And since our real estate business is
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06/06/2010
Are you going to go to Inman Connect next month? We're not. I did a quick mail to more than 140 of our customers and learned the same thing. Only five said they are going. The rest are still trying to figure out how to use Facebook, Twitter and how to get better visibility on their Point2 Agent
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06/06/2010
Just when you thought you've heard of everything and seen everything -- you realize that something new will come along that you haven't seen or heard of. Lauren Rosenberg is suing Google for "bad directions" on a Google map. If you think that's a bit funny or just plain stupid -- don't laugh
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06/06/2010
Publishers are scrambling to put magazines onto the iPad platform right now. And when they do, you'd think it would be cheaper than the print version... right? Wrong. Starting in June (less than 12 hours from this post), Popular Science, Popular Photography, Sound + Vision, a gourmet magazi
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05/31/2010
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Facebook FIXED their security problems. Or so -- they are telling us. Facebook was on the same downward spiral of MySpace.com -- the Social Media portal that's lost all integrity and any legitimate marketing value due to the media circus that was created o
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05/27/2010
Bernice Ross posted a great article on Inman News about tagging your video content. Since so many of us are starting to do video now, the importance of copyrighting your content is important. And visually watermarking or putting text on your Tagging or "watermarking" your home photos is another
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05/21/2010
