Social Media for Real Estate People
Image by John T Pilot via Flickr How do you help a real estate agent and broker use social media to improve her business – and ultimately her bottom line? Facebook: Create a fan page. Build your fans from your local county – but reach out to other surrounding counties. Start with Chamber of Commerces,…
Read MoreWhy Twitter?
Image via Wikipedia Indeed, why? Twitter, if used correctly, provides opportunities to learn, engage and create. A year ago I was still a twitter novice. Lucky for me, I started following people who were using social media. I simply did a search over at http://www.search.twitter.com for “social media” . I found people like @chrisbrogan @keithburtis…
Read MoreThe Virtual Meets the Concrete
Last year I attended SobCon09 – and met many of the people I’d previously only had conversations with on twitter. Successful Outstanding Bloggers Conference – required to advance your business to the next level. I hung out with some of the big name people – and that created avenues to stronger conversations over this past…
Read MoreWhere do you stand?
Image by @Stephen via Flickr I stand on the side of transparency. Let me just get that out of the way early in this conversation. This story starts with two people having a discussion about social media and how much information should you reveal. One of the things I do is set up accounts for…
Read MoreNotes for a Twitter Class
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I am teaching a class on twitter for Iowa Valley Continuing Education at Ellsworth College. I’m green – and think we print enough paper in our lives. I’m using this forum to share notes about the things we will be doing! Twitter tips: Give give give – information, praise,…
Read MoreThe Shadow Effect – DVD Review
I saw that Debbie Ford, Deepak Chopra, and Marianne Williamson were featured in this informational movie. That peeked my interest. I respect all of those people and value their opinions, even if I don’t always agree with them. I watched the trailer on youtube. (click here) Okay, now I knew I had to see this…
Read MoreTwitter speech: Your Work In 140 Characters
We are taught to have a 30 second speech prepared for when you are on an elevator with someone. It’s called an elevator speech. It’s a new age. It’s good to adapt to the online universe. Rule of thumb is people only look at a page online for 8 seconds. Facebook is good for a…
Read MoreTwitter Follow2Friday Drinking Wine Challenge
I receive the Sticky Figure blog by Steve Woodruff in my email quite regularly. On Fridays, he has expanded the twitter policy of recommending someone to follow. Steve writes a short blog post every Friday recommending one of his followers. This week Steve issued a challenge. He has asked that we write a blog post…
Read MoreSocial Media Suggestions for Small Business Events
I was a vendor at the Home and Business Expo in Iowa Falls, Iowa this past Saturday. It was hosted by KIFG radio and Times-Citizen Communications. They advertised with an 8 page separate section in the Iowa Falls and Ackley Paper. It was broadcast over the radio station. I found out about it from…
Read MoreTwitter For All
Over the last 30 days I’ve written several posts on how to twitter, twitter results and just plain twitter info. I have compiled them here in one post – objective: make it easy! I’ll be teaching class in May and these posts will be part of my curriculum. Advice? Read and get ready! …
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