The BVAS Connection

The mobile phone is one tool that most real estate agents cannot live without. It’s a rarity when I find an agent who operates without one. The mobile lifestyle is very much a part of the lives of real estate professionals. And many agents that I know frequently update and upgrade to new phone, always [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

After a few days of decompressing from my trip to the NAR Conference in Las Vegas, today I am back in my office, and back in action!
I came back from the trip when new contacts, new vendor connections and full of new ideas that I can’t wait to share. I am energized and excited for the all possibilities of what I can do [...]

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 [...]