If 2009 taught me anything at all about living right, it was that my sense of priorities could use a little tweaking. As a community, we’ve been forced to reassess what we truly believe is important, and many of us (the smarter ones, at least) have recognized that it has nothing to do with amassing “things” that [...]
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Challenge: Buy, Install Compact Fluorescents this Weekend.
After you have enjoyed exploring Jennifer Carter’s fun things to do this weekend, run into your local Home Depot and purchase a pack of $5.81 (or 2) of EcoSmart Compact Fluorescent Bulbs. Then, as your old 60 watt incandescent bulbs burn out, replace them with the CFL’s. These bulbs have improved drastically in both functionality and effectiveness. And, Oh yeah, they will save you money, too.
Brad Nix Nominated For 2009 REALTOR(R) Technology Spotlight Award
Brad Nix loves technology, plain and simple. Just test him. Ask him a tech-related question, whether about real estate or not, and watch him transcend into a deep, geek-like ecstacy.
Dear Facebook Realtor:
Please be careful when considering Facebook Pages as a marekting tool. I know it’s tempting to tap Facebook’s immense community to grow your bsuiness, but be careful in how you approach it.
Social networks should be for ‘network’ing and not your marketing plan. People don’t join associations, clubs, or real world groups and then go to the weekly or monthly meeting meetings with market updates. They go as themselves to develop relationships. Why do anything different just because it’s on the internet and not face to face? Of course, your career is part of what makes you ‘you’ and part of some of your conversations will be about your job/business, but to have a marketing plan in a social network just seems counter-productive to the real value of building relationships.
The Art of Making it Personal: Getting to the Heart of Social Media Success at REtechSouth 2009
“Attack it with a beginner’s mind,” I read recently on Dave Jenks’ website, and I was forced to guffaw because I frankly had no other means of attack on the social media front. Three short months ago I had admittedly never even heard of the term Social Media. But all of that was before I [...]
3 Questions Atlanta Real Estate Buyers Should Ask
In a previous post, I made light of a few questions that may not be as valuable as one would think. Here are some better ones for those who know how to use them. So on a more serious level of analysis, here are: 3 questions to the Listing Agent that will generate valuable answers [...]
3 Questions Atlanta Real Estate Buyers Ask
In this short post, I would like to have some fun with a few questions that are quickly becoming the norm versus the exception. In the end though, even I agree that buyers and their agents have the right to ask any questions they desire and I will give them the best answers that I [...]