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Professional One Franchising, LLC President & CEO Michael McClure yesterday was named by Inman News as one of “Real Estate’s 50 Most Influential Online” for 2009. Inman is the leading source of independent real estate news, information, research, opinion & commentary for industry professionals and consumers alike, and the most widely read real-estate-specific news portal.

This adds to McClure’s previous awards and recognition, including the following:

• Ranked in “Top 25 Most Visible Real Estate Professionals” by Proxio.com
• Included on Stefan Swanepoel’s “100 Most Interesting & Influential in Real Estate” list
• Mentioned in Nicole Nicolay’s EBook on Twitter & Real Estate
• Reviewed Stefan Swanepoel’s “Social Media Report 2010”
• Ranked #1 on Twellow (Twitter’s Yellow Pages) in Michigan for “real estate”
• Approximately 30,000 followers on Twitter (more than 40,000 as of June 17, 2010)
• See other Social Media awards & acknowledgments here

McClure said the following in response to receiving this recognition: “It is a true honor to be named to this list. At Professional One, we absolutely see that “Business 3.0” is going to be won or lost in the arena of Social Media. All the research we’ve done confirms this, and that’s why we’ve placed such a priority on establishing a brand presence on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, etc. The stats – as explained in the “Social Media Revolution” video that sets the context so perfectly as to why any of this matters – suggest that Social Media is probably the biggest cultural shift since the Industrial Revolution. We sincerely believe that to be true. And we’re just getting started.”

McClure continued: “Where this gets really exciting is in all the recent Social Media return-on-investment analysis being done, which is nicely articulated in this new “Socialnomics” video. The results of early research indicate that Social Media is the best bang-for-the-buck business development method of all time. We’ve made more great connections and created more real-life, flesh-and-blood relationships in the last six months using Social Media than in the previous three years using traditional methods. The bottom line: Social Media just works.”