The BVAS Connection

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 [...]

The 1990’s and early 2000’s saw the power of the internet and how it made a huge impact on the way people do real estate.  The majority of home buyers no longer relied only on browsing the Sunday paper classifieds or sign drive-bys to find their next home. The web has made real estate information [...]

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 [...]

This great articlefrom SitePro news popped up in my inbox today and it got me thinking…
Over the last year I’ve wondered what was the value of LinkedIn or Facebook for my business. Why was it generating all this buzz in my industry and others?  I joined both networks ages ago, but just wasn’t sure what the [...]

For Immediate Release
Vineland, New Jersey. Megan Barber has successfully completed the REAL ESTATE WEBOGRAPHERTMcertification to join an elite group of real estate professionals who have earned the prestigious certification offered through the National Institute of Webographers, LLC (http://www.webographers.com/). Megan has successfully completed 12 short courses which include: Online Business Strategy, Agent Websites, Single-property Websites, Lead Generation and Management, [...]

Last week I spoke about a couple solutions for real estate contact management or CRM (MS Outlook and Top Producer) and this week I will cover another option: The Wise Agent.
At the NAR conference, I had the pleasure of meeting the energetic people at The Wise Agent booth. Wise Agent is a web based CRM much like Top [...]

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” [...]

Do you have a CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) or some sort of contact management system?  Any small or large business owner (and lets face it, as a Real Estate Professional you are a small business owner) should have some form of a contact management system in place to manage and organize your client contacts, family, friends and general sphere of influence.  [...]

The temptation is there. All these slick internet lead companies are hounding you weekly, telling you that they can promise 100 ”scrubbed” leads per month that are ready to buy and sell RIGHT NOW. And for a significant chunk of money, all those “great” leads could be yours. Sure, why not pay that exhorbitant amount for those leads [...]