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Skill DevelopmentTechnology
August 27, 2014

3 Ways to Establish Yourself as a Resource for Future Clients

This post should be prefaced with yesterday’s post: 5 Great Ways to Use Your Blog to Engage Your Community Your blog is your primary venue to demonstrate your knowledge of all things real estate-related. You can talk about everything from market trends and the buying and selling process, to upcoming…
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August 26, 2014

Streamlining the closing process for buyers and sellers

Insights from Inman News‘ Real Estate Connect SF 2014: Hear what title insurers and settlement services providers are doing to streamline the closing process for homebuyers and sellers from Patrick Stone, President and CEO, Williston Financial Group and Matt Morris, CEO of Stewart Information Services Corp. The post Streamlining the…
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Skill DevelopmentTechnology
August 26, 2014

5 Great Ways to Use Your Blog to Engage Your Community

Blogs are powerful tools for building, engaging and maintaining an audience and demonstrating your market expertise. A blog is much more than a place to share your latest listings. In fact, if that’s all you’re doing with your blog, you’re probably not making much of an impact or gaining much…
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TechnologyUseful Apps
August 26, 2014

Instagram Hyperlapse: Create smooth time-lapse videos with ease

Over the last year or so, I’ve seen some really cool things done with time-lapse video in the real estate marketing space.  Having been part of building a full scale “media team” for a local Portland area brokerage I know that this process isn’t easy, and the equipment isn’t cheap. Today,…
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MarketingTechnology
July 25, 2014

Rumors Abound of Possible Zillow / Trulia Merger

Speculation has been swirling this week over a possible merger of Zillow and Trulia, the two largest consumer real estate websites, with a combined monthly visitor count of about 70 million. A group of six investors currently owns 42% of Zillow and 52% of Trulia, leading some experts to wonder…
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Technology
July 21, 2014

Facebook Adding ‘Save’ Feature

If you’re like me, you see all sorts of articles, songs, videos, etc. on your Facebook timeline that you don’t have time to read or watch. However, with the way Facebook’s timeline is setup, if you don’t get to it right away, you’ll never get back to it and it may…
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TechnologyUseful Apps
July 10, 2014

LinkedIn Connected: The smart way to strengthen your professional relationships

It’s been a while since I’ve been “active” on LinkedIn, but they’re doing some pretty cool stuff these days that’s been catching my attention. For example, they just relaunched their “Contacts” app today with the rebranded name of “Connected” (iTunes link here). It’s a new look and feel, more user…
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Skill DevelopmentTechnology
July 3, 2014

Work in the Blue Ocean

If you’re looking to succeed in the real estate market, you need to figure out how to differentiate yourself from the crowd. Most agents I talk to are trying to play the exact same game that every other agent is playing. It’s hard to win a game when there are…
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Skill DevelopmentTechnology
July 3, 2014

Building a Personal Brand With Social Media

 If you are looking to build your personal brand through social media, Gary Vaynerchuck is the guy to emulate. For those of you who don’t know Gary Vaynerchuk, he wrote the books ‘Crush it’, ‘The Thank You Economy’, as well as ‘Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook’. He is also renowned for his ‘Wine…
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Technology
July 2, 2014

Data doesn’t sleep: Social media stats by the minute

The amount of data flowing through social media channels every minute is mind numbing. Some of the main stats that jump out at me: 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That’s a lot of video. I predict that number will keep growing too, especially with some…
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