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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 [...]

I often talk about how every big biz dev opportunity I have going on right now can be traced back to Social Media. And that is absolutely a fact, and why I consider my decision back on March 29, 2009 to take a deep dive into Social Media the best business decision I’ve ever made. [...]

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about how I earned $764.76 from a single Tweet. Back when it happened, I got the same response from everyone who heard the story: “You got that positive result because you have so many followers.” I didn’t think that much about it. I just thought the company [...]

Yesterday, we had the good fortune to have the always interesting and entertaining Jay Thompson (@phxREguy) on our #RTB on the Radio show. As many of you will know, Jay is: The winner of Inman News‘ 2009 “Most Innovative Blog.” The founder, owner and broker of Thompson’s Realty based in Phoenix, AZ. A totally unique [...]

The second season of #RTB on the Radio has now officially kicked off. And it kicked off with a bang. Our first guest of Season Two was Chris Smith – aka @TechSavvyAgent -  the driving force behind and creator of TechSavvyAgent.com, Inman News’ 2010 Real Estate Blog of the Year. Chris dropped so much knowledge [...]

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 [...]

This morning, I read with great interest a post from one of our competitors called “What is Social Media Priority Number 1 for Real Estate Professionals?” Here’s the key quote from that post: That’s why I argue that if you’re only going to do one thing on social media, let it be LinkedIn. I think [...]

So I attended Inman Connect San Francisco. And I had the time of my life. However, in the back of my mind, I thought, “That was an anomaly, a statistical aberration, beginner’s luck, a perfect aligning of the planets, whatever you want to call it…it won’t happen again.” Boy, was I wrong. Seattle was everything [...]