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June is “Social Media ROI” month at P1Fran.com. Today, we’ll hear from Nicole Nicolay (@Nik_Nik), the CEO of Agent Evolution and one of the leaders of Inman News‘ (@InmanNews) popular Agent Reboot series. Nicole is also the co-founder of one of the most successful blogs in the real estate industry, MyTechOpinion.com. And, on May 31, [...]

I spoke at RETechSouth (#RETSO) – a real estate technology conference held annually in Atlanta – a few days ago. The topic I spoke about was “Twitter Strategies for the Tech Savvy Real Estate Broker.” And I had an amazing time. If I can only attend one conference every year, it will be RETechSouth. It [...]

If you’ve read very much within this blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge Seth Godin fan.  If I could only follow or read one “Social Media/business guru/author” or whatever the heck Godin is, he is that guy. A lot of what we’re doing right now at Professional One is STRAIGHT OUT OF Godin’s playbook [...]

I LOVE reading real estate blogs. And I especially love reading the posts written by the people who I believe are shaping the future direction of the real estate industry. I’ve learned so much from some of the brightest minds in the game. How much? Several of the major components of our real estate franchise [...]

So I just returned from my first foray into the world of NAR (National Association of Realtors) conventions. This one – cleverly called “NARdiGras” – was held in New Orleans. And I was there because I was invited to speak…but that’s a topic for another post. The purpose of this post is simply to share [...]

During the Inman News Agent Reboot tour and since my involvement with it recently concluded, I’ve been asked about the two presentations I gave – “Think Before You Tweet” and “Social Media Success Story.” I’ve included both of the presentations below, along with a downloadable PDF I created to accompany each. Social Media has been [...]

In no particular order, here are the top 10 things I took away from Agent Reboot Portland, an Inman News event that took place on September 22, 2010: Portland is a spectacular city.  Built  along the Willamette River, it is simply gorgeous.  Per Wikipedia,  Portland is the greenest city in America and the second second [...]

Last night, Eminem and Jay-Z played an historic rap show at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit. Based on that, I couldn’t think of a better time to throw my hat into the ring and drop some rhymes of my own. Yo. Word. One-two, one-two. Em and Jay inspired me, so I sat down, searched for [...]

I’m one day home from Inman Connect San Francisco. It was an amazing experience, and I wanted to document a few random thoughts and observations before the memories fade. Here they are, in no particular order: Intuitively, I already knew this, but living it was the proof: Social Media works…period. I met a number of [...]