The BVAS Connection

Attention all bloggers, young and old, newbie and experienced. I stumbled upon a great contest today that you may want to check out.  The prizes are the coolest (at least to geeky bloggers like me) and they would be of tremendous value to whoever wins. Plus,  I think it is impressive that he is using [...]

On the blog earlier in the week I started the conversation about the social networking tool, Twitter and a few tips for the beginner. Twitter can be a great real estate marketing tool and is easy and fun. Today I have more tweet tips about applications to make Twitter easier to use and integrate it [...]

Since social networking for the real estate industry has become heavily woven into the internet marketing fabric, many new and unique opportunities have cropped up. This week, my focus is on the fun micro-blogging tool, Twitter, and some great ways to use it for real estate. And I am probably the last one in my [...]

I am always talking about the importance of social networking and blogging, and some cool news was announced last week from Active Rain: Active Rain Launches Outside Blogs.
The awesome people over at ActiveRain had made blogging for real estate professionals that much easier by offering Outside Blogging.  Some of the coolest features about their outside blogging includes:

The ability to host outside [...]

As you may have noticed, there have been a few changes here at the BVAS Connection recently. Last week I had made the recommended update from Wordpress for this blog, then all of the sudden, *poof*, my blog was gone…. Well, almost gone.  My header was there, but the rest of the blog disappeared behind [...]

I just found out and I am pleased to announce that our BVAS Connection blog has been selected as th Virtual Assistant Networking Association’s (VANA) Blog of the Week!
VANAis one of the largest and most wonderful networking organizations in the Virtual Assistant industry. It is a place for aspiring and “veteran” VA’s to come together to share, [...]

I found a new favorite gem of a real estate blog that I go back to for entertainment from time to time. RE Agent in CT, is home to agent Athol Kay and Athol Kay Photography. When I have a free moment, I like to take a glance at his “Bad MLS Photo of the Day” [...]

I just installed this fun little tool on my blog called Snap Shots from Snap.com. You can use Snap Shots to enhances all the links on the your blog or website pages with visual previews of the destination site that you are talking about. You can also view interactive wikipedia articles, videos, RSS feeds, MySpace pages and much more.
Snap Shots can [...]

Like me, you probably have been reading all over the news about blogs and how they are all the rage. Now you are probably asking yourself, “What is this whole blogging business and how would it be a benefit to me?” Blogs and social networking sites, are the new way in this new Web 2.0 atmosphere to communicate and interact with the world about whatever you [...]