LIVE BLOG: #SMMOC 8-28-2010

The first discussion this morning was about the Orange County Brian Solis event that occurred this past week.  Many recommended seeing him speak as well as getting his book. The key takeaways from the event seem to be that in business to use social media effectively you must engage those individuals that are key influencers of your [...]

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LIVE BLOG: #SMMOC 8-21-2010

Once again going to be live blogging SMMOC this week… Facebook Places And Other Check In Services Being rolled out in other places but should be now live in the United States.  Early pre-meeting discussion was if it was a replacement for FourSquare?  Mel Aclaro asked yesterday what everyone thought about whether it’s better or [...]

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LIVE BLOG: #SMMOC 8-14-2010

Due to the fact every seat is filled at SMMOC today I’ve decided to live blog this event. Jeff Pulver founder of Vonage and the “Casting Director” of the 140 Conf is with us today. First Discussion: Email Marketing What good tools are out there for email marketing? Mailchimp doesn’t allow most uses for Realtors [...]

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Remembering Your Clients

Deep, Meaningful Connections I attend a lot of conferences.  Some of them are annual conferences.  At these types of events I often see the same people year to year.  However, in between those times, I’ve had no interactions with the person whatsoever.  Therefore, I see the person, I know I SHOULD remember their name and [...]

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Top Ten List of Search Engine Optimization for Realtors

We are very passionate about search engine optimization at Tribus.  With a little blog elbow grease, you can dramatically increase the ranking of your site.  Many of the speaking engagements that I do include a session on the topic but we haven’t really discussed it much here on the blog. For our new brokerage in [...]

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Realtors : Finding a Social Media Strategy

Social Media – A No Pitch Zone? I know quite a few people in the real estate social media space. Many of them are some of the most intelligent people I know. These are the same people that recognized Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as more than just a place to chat with [...]

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BUZZRE – Orange County Recap

This past week a group of savvy real estate marketing people got together to put on a seminar in Orange County, hosted by Linsey Planeta of MRealty – Orange County.  They covered various topics including Facebook Strategies for Realtors, the rise of the 365 things to do in fan pages, website consumer experiences, free tools [...]

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Why You Should Love Facebook Like

Kabooom!  Hear that?  That’s the sound of the bomb that Facebook just dropped on the entire Internet.  With the new Open Graph system that they have implemented, Facebook wants to plant themselves firmly on every website across the entire Internet.  Perhaps your familiar many sites recently including links to post things to Facebook, Twitter, or [...]

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Real Estate's Impact on the State of Now

Director of Business Development, Eric Stegemann was part of a panel at the 140 Conference in April, 2010 in New York. The topic of discussion was real estate’s impact on the real time web and vice versa. The fact of the matter is that Realtors are well ahead of most other industries when it comes [...]

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Too Many Choices – Real Estate Web Usability

We’ll begin to post over the next few weeks a multi-part series on web-usability and user interface for real estate brokerage and agent websites that will hopefully help to make your website better.  These are the things we’re intrigued at testing everyday.  We not only use in person samplings, but we also do what is [...]

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