This page explains the significance of Social Media and what we’re doing at Professional One/a summation of the highlights of our Social Media accomplishments:

• Erik Qualman (@equalman), the author of “Socialnomics,” the definitive book on the power of Social Media and why many are calling SocialMedia the biggest cultural shift since the Industrial Revolution, wrote this about us on January 29, 2010:

• Here’s the “Social Media Revolution” video that sets the context so perfectly as to why any of this matters

• …and the follow up video that demonstrates how Social Media translates to the bottom line in terms of ROI

• As an aside, Qualman appeared on our blogtalkradio.com show about #RTB (“Raising the Bar”) in real estate; see related blog post here and additional comment below

• @ProfessionalOne has 40,000+ followers on Twitter

• @ProfessionalOne ranked in “Top 25 Real Estate Professionals” by Proxio.com

• @ProfessionalOne a featured panelist at Inman Connect San Francisco July 13-15, 2010

• @ProfessionalOne named one of “50 Most Influential Online” in real estate by Inman News (nominated for this award by Stefan Swanepoel; Swanepoel is the real estate industry’s leading author and observer; learn more about him here)

• Ranked #1 in the State of Michigan on Twellow (Twitter’s Yellow Pages) for real estate

• Included on Stefan Swanepoel’s “100 Most Interesting & Influential in Real Estate” list

• @ProfessionalOne being used as a case study by a branding and marketing firm teaching social media to a major real estate company based in Metro Detroit

• Mentioned in Nicole Nicolay’s EBook on Twitter & Real Estate (Nicole is one of the top real estate bloggers in America)

• Named one of Roost’s “Top 50 to Follow“

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  Professional One President & CEO Michael McClure was one of three real estate professionals asked to review Stefan Swanepoel’s new “Social Media Trends” book, and his review appears on the top of the back cover. This book is being used as primary curriculum/text book for national level real estate training companies teaching Social Media

• McClure was also quoted multiple times within Swanepoel’s “Real Estate Trends Report 2010,” specifically on the topic of real estate franchising and trends impacting the real estate franchise of the future

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  Creator and hosts of the BlogTalkRadio.com show “Raise the Bar,” an online talk radio forum created specifically to discuss the #RTB issue, both within the real estate industry itself and between the industry and the public. The show airs weekly at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/raisethebar