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June is “Social Media ROI” month at P1Fran.com. Today, our expert perspective comes from Matthew Shadbolt (@ Corcoran_Group), the Director of Interactive Product & Marketing at The Corcoran Group, New York City’s largest residential real estate brokerage. Matthew has been a featured writer in this blog and the subject of several posts we’ve written. Here are [...]

Earlier today, Chris Smith (@TechSavvyAgent), the co-founder of TechSavvyAgent.com, was named Chief Evangelist of Inman News, effective June 1. I will be writing more about this in the coming days, but a few hours ago we had the good fortune to be in the “right place at the right time” relative to when this story [...]

I’ve already written about my fantastic experience at Brad Nix’s RETechSouth in Atlanta last week. As I said in my original post, #RETSO will become a fixture on my calendar for the remainder of my real estate career. I am writing this post to give separate recognition to and to highlight the selfless contributions of [...]

My addiction is Twitter is well documented. But today (of all days, TODAY, my two year Twitter anniversary) I must come clean and admit that I am cheating on Twitter. With whom am I cheating on Twitter? Facebook. Yep, Facebook, Twitter’s older (and increasingly hotter) sister. I have a full-blown blog in the works detailing [...]

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THANK YOU! Before I get to the point of this post, we just want to say “THANK YOU” for your readership and your support of this blog. Much like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest, if a blog post is written and no one reads it, for all intents and purposes, it never [...]

In the summer of 1966, Jimmy Ruffin released a song on the Motown label called “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted.” Here is the signature chorus of that song: What becomes of the broken hearted Who had love that’s now departed? I know I’ve got to find Some kind of peace of mind Maybe. In [...]

I’ve written a lot about the future of the real estate industry, particularly as it relates to branding and the things that I believe the successful brokerages of the future will be based upon and driven by. What I find interesting and encouraging is that I keep running into other brands who *seem* to see [...]

I read an article in Inman News (@InmanNews) today that said this (emphasis added): First-time homebuyers accounted for half of all home sales from July 2009 through June 2010, according to a National Association of Realtors survey of buyers and sellers. That’s the highest share of first-time-buyer purchases in the history of the survey, which [...]