How do things get done in Hollywood? In Hollywood it is all who you know. In fact who you know is almost more important than what you know in many cases. It can mean the difference between working on a regular basis or having to move back home with mom and dad and giving up on the dream. So networking is really about who you know that can help you right? It is but if you don’t help them first no one is going to be helping you get to where you want to be. You have to be able to add value to... 

Social networking has been growing and growing in popularity for the last several years but people are still figuring things out from a standpoint of making it actually productive. One of the reasons that people have issues with social networking is there forget about the word “work” in networking. Everyone seems to get the point that you can be social but as far as the working part that gets overlooked. I believe that you should do social networking so you can help others, grow your... 

Many real estate agents jump into social networking with the thought they will instantly get a flood of business if they just go and add as many people as they can to their network.  With almost reckless abandon these agents new to social networking start adding anyone they can find an e-mail address for, whether or not they can even remember how they have that e-mail address.  Maybe this sounds odd to you, maybe it doesn’t, let’s look deeper at getting started with social networking... 

Gathering new people into your social network through your website is a great way to have that strong viral growth for your website that many desire and few achieve.  In an earlier post, we mentioned how you can incorporate Facebook into your website, and now we want to share how you can also incorporate Deli.cio.us.   Del.icio.us in a nutshell  Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you to easily access your bookmarks from any computer.  It is much different than Facebook as the... 

Social networking continues to gain ground all across the globe.  Hopefully you have been getting involved in networks like LinkedIn and Facebook.  Here at InternetRealEstateSuccess we have put up some posts about networking online because it is going to be a big part of how people market online and connect with consumers.  For those that have a website already, you want to encourage social networking on your website.  You can add a great tool, like AddThis, so people can bookmark into popular... 

Did you know that NAR (National Association of Realtors) publishes the results of their surveys to the very clients that real estate professionals help? Well they do and the surveys always show year after year that well over 45% of business by real estate professionals is done by referral. What this means is that you truly must take advantage of every referral possible. In fact you need to take advantage of referrals for people who you may not know directly. How do you do that? You do that with social... 

Finding buyers and sellers is a challenge for every real estate professional. You can use social networking to help others do the finding for you. Today I am not going to be speaking about facebook.com or myspace.com and how to use those but a fairly new website called BeatYouThere.com. This website allows users to comment on properties and search REO, FSBO, and properties by agents. Think of it as a place where all the potential buyers who enjoy social networking can go and post feedback of a property...