As more and more real estate professionals jump onto the different social networking platforms the question has certainly come up of what one should actually do to get results.  With over 100,000 real estate professionals identified on Facebook, and a similar number on ActiveRain is anyone generating business?  Maybe a few, but many are heading east looking for a sunset.   In real estate we already have 100’s of things to do every day and time is limited, so where do we focus our efforts? ... 

Social networking is getting the same “buzz” that blogging received just a couple of years ago.  Does this mean you should abandon your blog or website in favor of social networking? Of course not! Social networking for real estate is one more tool in your arsenal for total domination online.  One of the best aspects about social networking is that you can connect your blog and website with many of the popular networks to share all of the fresh information you are already doing.  For... 

That’s right I said it, embrace work. If you aren’t prepared to build your network then going on facebook, linkedin, twitter, and plaxo is just goofing off. Yes just because you spend time on a social network website doing different tasks doesn’t mean it is work. I am serious about this. If you are going to use social networking to be a valuable part of your business(and it can) you have to have a purpose about it. You must embrace the fact that social networking is the dreaded... 

With the explosion of social networking this phrase is rarely uttered verbally.  Now, we see this in the form of an e-mail stating that we have a new “friend request”.  Sometimes we are lucky and it is someone from our past employment or school that we had lost touch with and sometimes we aren’t so lucky. Finding new friends online isn’t as easy as finding some pictures of people that you think look nice and making a request.  Sure they may add you as friend to be nice,... 

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...