Communication

The “Miranda Rights” of Real Estate

Monday, May 12th, 2008

We are all familiar with the Miranda Rights (some of us more than others) that are given to a suspect when they are arrested, right?? here is the FULL version below (not the stripped down version you see on TV)…
You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Do you understand?
Anything you […]

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Seesmic Video Commenting for WordPress Blogs

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Let me introduce a recently released WordPress plugin which I find to be a very high value — Seesmic.
As I learned on Techcrunch, Seesmic, a video conversation start-up - founded by Loic Le Meur, a well-known European entrepreneur - released a WordPress plugin which enables video comments for Wordpress blogs. Seesmic is a video Twitter, […]

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A word of advice to Real Estate Agents who Blog, the power of social networking can be a “double-edged sword”

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

In what can only be described as an amazing commentary on the true power of Social Networking, one incredibly ignorant RedFin representative, Carol Hian, wrote a scathing Blog post on her RedFin Blog about a fellow “Twitterer” and Facebook friend, Kris Berg and her husband Steve. In which she not only referes to them as […]

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Google Apps and Salesforce Team Up

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Though TopProducer seems to be the most popular CRM tool in the real estate industry, I know some real estate professionals use Salesforce.com as their customer relationship management application. As of today, those of you using Salesforce have some new tools at your disposal — Google Apps!
Salesforce for Google Apps integrates Gmail, Google Talk, Google […]

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Going “Viral” is a Real Estate Agents Dream Come True!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Yesterday on my personal blog I wrote of the concept of going “Viral” as it pertained to a recent segment I was featured in on a local news program regarding how the Internet is effecting Real Estate in the California Central Valley. Well that clip made it to BlipTV, then to websites throughout the company […]

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It’s Official Now, Cause Yahoo! Says so…Trulia and Pru Unite.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

For those of you who actually read The Coaches Blogs (thanks to both of you BTW), you remember my post on March 10th stating a new relationship with Trulia.com. Well it’s official now as witnessed by this Yahoo post.
What does this mean for Prudential Realtors and offices? First and foremost, this we will give them the “inside track” with […]

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Did You Ever Notice Your Best Thoughts are on the Toilet?

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Ok, I don’t know about you guys, but for me it seems that my best thoughts come to me when I am “Going Potty” or driving on the freeway! the 2 most inopportune times in life to (jott) down a note.
Until now it has frustrated the heck out of me…AAAARRRGHH (mean sound). then (while I […]

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Can You Sell A House and Move Using the Web Exclusively?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

One can accomplish a lot on the web — but, can you sell your home and move to a new location using ONLY the web? To help answer that question, I ran across an interesting post on Proud Geek this morning — A Moving Experiment. The blogger (and his wife) conducted a 8-month experiment to […]

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