November 2009 | The ReBlogged - Real Estate Industry Blog

Turn FaceBook into a Marketing Machine for Real Estate

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Labels: Facebook, Internet marketing, Internet tools, Online Communities, Promotion, Real estate, Social media, Social network, Social Networking, Tools

Turn FaceBook into a Marketing Machine for Real Estate

"If you are one of the 10's of thousands of REALTORS to already create a Facebook profile, you may be enjoying networking with your old high school friends, family and industry colleagues. Facebook can be addictingly fun, and can take up an enormous amount of time in your day if you let it, but is it working for you as a prospecting tool? Are you making money from the time that you invest 'playing' on Facebook."

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Promoting Your Real Estate Business On-Line

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Labels: Blog, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Social media, Website

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"Social networking is another preference that can help you to enlarge the efficiency of your online marketing campaign. Set up blogs that are linked to your website, write blogs or articles and assist to keep the community informed about what is happening in the real estate market. Social media sites are different. The expectation of individuals who use these sites is that they will have a part in the conversation. Social marketing uses general marketing principles and techniques to generate, communicate, and deliver social messages to consumers. With a rich 30-year history, social marketing seeks to positively influence consumer behavior, not to benefit the marketer."

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HP and REALTOR® Magazine announce their Nat'l Marketing Challenge to RE Industry

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Labels: Marketing, Real estate, Technology

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HP and REALTOR® Magazine promote the Nat'l Marketing Challenge to REALTORS® at NAR San Diego 2009. The Marketing Makeover, Stage your Business for Success.

"HP today kicked off several initiatives for real estate professionals at the 2009 National Association of REALTORS® Conference and Expo."

"At the HP-sponsored Young Professionals Network event tonight, the company will showcase the winners of its fifth HP Real Estate Technology contest, which recognizes real estate professionals who have gained a competitive advantage by using technology both in and out of the office.

"In addition, HP and REALTOR® Magazine have opened the search for five association members to participate in their first-ever national marketing challenge, “The Marketing Makeover: Stage Your Business for Success.” The REALTOR who wins will receive a prize package worth $4,000 and be featured in the magazine."

read all the details in their press release

Your Social Media Marketing Plan: 3 Steps to Success

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Labels: Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Real estate, Social media

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In today's Social Media and Marketing arena, you had better have a smart and effective Marketing Plan. Technorati published a post today that is a "must read" if you want to be successful in Social Media Marketing.

What steps for success are you willing to implement and invest into your business?

"There are more than 300 social media sites listed in the 2010 Social Media Directory. Inside those site are tens of thousands of groups. In those groups are hundreds of millions of people."

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reBlogged from: Author: conradhall / Published: November 07, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Social Media Marketing Is About Branding, Not Selling

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Labels: Business, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Social media, Social Networking

Social Media Marketing Is About Branding, Not Selling
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"There is more proof around today that search engine marketing can be a useful branding tool. What about social media marketing? There is still a lot of doubt surrounding social media marketing and sales, particularly when it comes to measuring that all important ROI. It is difficult enough to determine the value of branding in straight monetary terms – however, that is often the real problem – not the marketing."

Real Estate and Web 2.0

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Labels: ActiveRain, Real estate, Social media, Social Networking

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"Realtors are being encouraged to start a blog, to obtain accounts on Twitter and Facebook, and to find any other social media outlet to connect with the consumers. Now that Google and others are listing the latest tweets, it might be encouraging to have homes listed in this medium. In fact, you can find blogs and Twitter accounts dedicated to the selling of one home."

By Frank Schulte-Ladbeck

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10 Reasons REALTORS Should Blog: There Are No Excuses

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Labels: Blog, Marketing and Advertising, Real estate

A fantastic post by Dean Guadagni from DeansGuide:

10 Reasons Why Realtors Should Blog: There Are No Excuses

"In today’s world, Corporations, small businesses, and entrepreneurs have adopted blogging in a steady stream since the advent of Web 2.0. The actual number of established blogs is in debate, yet the rough estimate is that their are over 150,000,000 blogs in existence today."

Read This Article: 10 Reasons REALTORS Should Blog

Get Your iFace on the iPhone

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Labels: Handhelds, iPhone, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Mobile Computing, Social Networking

iFace Create Your Own iFace iPhone Icon - Create Your iPhone App - Create Your iFace Business Card

http://iFace.iFind2.com iFace - Create My own iFace iPhone icon, iFace Business Card, Email Signature, it's a Social Media Application that allows you to create your own iPhone App, iPhone Picture Icon. It contains your website, they can call you from it, email you from it and have access to your website, twitter, facebook, youtube videos, music, newsletter, blog. It's incredible and you can share it with everyone for free. Awesome for businesses, friends and family. http://iFace.iFind2.com

The cost is a one time fee of $2.99, cheaper than 2 cups of coffee.

Real Estate in Google Maps

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Labels: Google, Google Map, Real estate, Tools

More, more, more real estate in Google Maps

"First of all, we've made it easier to find real estate listings. Now, you can simply select "Real Estate" from the 'More' button on the top right of any Google Map to discover listings. From there, it's a simple matter to refine your search using the left hand panel - price, bedrooms, bathrooms, and so on. Of course, you can still pan the map to search for the perfect neighborhood and it'll automatically update with more listings."

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