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Real Estate Bar Camp Charlotte REBarCampCLT REBCCLT

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:09:09 +0000

I had so much fun making this promotional video for Real Estate Bar Camp Charlotte REBarCampCLT REBCCLT with Lori, Debe, and Todd.

Check it out!

We’re so excited that the Superior School of Real Estate is going to host the Second annual Real Estate Bar Camp Charlotte on June 11th. This year, We’ll be in Ballantyne village. With awesome amenities including exceptional dining, fantastic spa, great entertainment, movies, gifts, clothing, and so much more – there’ll plenty for the participants to do.

Not that you’ll have time …

You’ll be too busy learning in the traditional Bar Camp UN conference format, where pitches are made and the participants decide the schedule. You’ll have plenty of options of real estate and technical sessions to choose from.

Come learn from some of the best minds in real estate! You’ll come away with fresh new ideas, a rejuvenated excitement for the job, and a bunch of great new friends.

Click Here for more info and to Register (It’s a free event)

Don’t miss Real Estate Bar Camp 2010 on June 11th at Superior School of real estate.

—– ©2010 – AmazingVideoTours.com – All Rights Reserved. Amazing Video Tours is Charlotte’s Premier Real Estate Video Provider for Realtors, and other individuals with property to sell, lease, or rent. A departure from the old fashion 360 Virtual Tour, Amazing Video Tours takes online property marketing to the next level.

Real Estate Bar Camp Charlotte REBarCampCLT REBCCLT was written by Amazing Video Tours

How To Tick off an Experienced Twitter User

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:43:52 +0000

I just followed you, and I don’t blindly follow people. That means you went through some level of screening process. It might have been just a quick look at your last 20 Tweets to see if you have anything interesting to say. Or, it might have been a deeper look – including a look at your bio, perhaps even your website, and a glance at your Followers to Following ratio.

So if I end up following you, you just passed a test. I invested time in you. The LAST thing I want from you is an instant DM Spam message with a sales pitch. This is your one way ticket to getting UNfollowed.

You need to realize that Social Networking has the word “Social” in it. Not “Auto Networking”, ….. Social Networking. Try spelling it out loud, S-O-C-I-A-L ….. You get the point. Or do you?

The people in the screen capture to the right didn’t. I blindly followed 100 people with a test account to illustrate a point. Almost 50% greeted me with auto DM spam. #Justsayin

Times have changed. The days of cramming your sales pitch down the throats of others is over. Instead of Auto DM Spamming someone as your very first “connection” with them, why don’t you send them a message with a personal touch. Refer to them by name, or something on their website. This way they’ll know you actually invested time in them, and not just the typical, “Thanks for following me, I look forward to your Tweets.” You are better off sending nothing at all, and engaging them later.

So if your goal is a million followers (and it shouldn’t be, but that’s another post altogether) try Engaging people, try interacting with them. Do something nice for someone else and stop thinking that everyone is interested in your message (read that, “sales pitch”)

So check me out. Put ME through the test. If you think I have something interesting to say, Follow ME, and hopefully, I will follow you back.

————- ©2010 – AmazingVideoTours.com – All Rights Reserved. Amazing Video Tours is Charlotte’s Premier Real Estate Home Video Provider for Realtors, and other individuals with property to sell, lease, or rent. A departure from the old fashion 360 Virtual Tour, Amazing Video Tours takes online property marketing to the next level.

How To Tick off an Experienced Twitter User was written by Amazing Video Tours

Video – How To Make (or Customize) A Twitter Background

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:44:19 +0000

Your Twitter background is part of your “Branding” (especially if you are using Twitter for business). You have the opportunity to continue the branding from your website and/or blog to your Twitter Page. Remember, if you Tweet a lot, 1000’s of people will be checking out your Twitter page. Make it count! If you are a business, make it mandatory!

If you’ve ever tried uploading a background for your Twitter page, then you know how hard it is to get it just right. The real question is, how do you work your photo around the Twitter Interface to look good on both sides?

If you haven’t tried it, you will be surprised at how counter intuitive it is. It’s not just uploading a photo. You have to consider the following things:

How large should your photo (background) be?
What screen resolutions should you optimize for?
How do you get your background to properly border the Twitter foreground and look nice?

The good news is that after several hours of trial and error, testing different screen resolutions, and finding the exact dimensions of the key areas, I wrote everything down. All the answers are in the video. I hope you can get your background up in just minutes, whereas it took me several hours. Please email me if you have any questions!

Video – How To Make (or Customize) A Twitter Background was written by Amazing Video Tours

Notable Quotes from Virtual Real Estate Bar Camp (VREBC)

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:45:25 +0000

Yep, I did it. I sat for 7 straight hours, listened, and wrote down my favorite tid-bits from the sessions of Virtual Real Estate Bar Camp (VREBC) that I attended. In some cases, I had 2 sessions open at once to double up on the good stuff.

Why did I do this? Only because VREBC represents a collection of some of the best speakers in the country on topics like Social Media, Social Networking, and General Real Estate Technology.

If you don’t know what a Bar Camp is, you should. Visit http://www.barcamp.org/

If you don’t know what a Real Estate Bar Camp is, you should. Visit http://rebarcamp.com/

And, if you don’t know what a Virtual Real Estate Bar Camp is, you should. Visit http://www.virtualbarcamp.com/

For those of you that do know, here are the sessions I attended and my personal selection of quotable quotes from each of the speakers. For each of the speakers, I included at least their Twitter ID so that you can learn more information about them.

9:15AM PST: Brad Inman – What Is Inman News Predicting? @bradinman

Brad Inman – “Social Media represents a new way for agents to network and build community”

Brad Inman – “heavy emphasis on dissemination of Real Time Data”

Brad Inman – “Dive deep into social media, do it aggressively – Blog, Twitter, Facebook”

10:15AM PST: Tara Jones – Media Marketing http://www.reelproductionstv.com/

Tara Jones: “If you don’t have video on your site, you are missing out”

Tara Jones: “Sites with video retained consumers 70% longer than those without”

Tara Jones ”Video is not still pictures being moved across the screen”

Tara Jones: “Always plan ahead for your video of a home tour”

Tara Jones: “Have a professional image in everything you do”

11:15AM PST: Darin Persinger – The 7 A’s To Building Your Business Online & Offline @darinpersinger

Darin Persinger, Re Social Media – “Give more then you get. Give 80% to get 20%. Be approachable”

Darin Persinger: “Appreciate the people who read your site; blog; tweets, be sure to thank them”

Darin Persinger: “Be authentic, be the real you”

12:15PM PST: Jeff Turner – The Lost Art Of Listening @respres

Jeff is a true Social Media Rock Star. I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff at REBarCampCLT last Summer. Jeff taught me how to use Twitter. He taught me how to LISTEN. It was during a conversation with Jeff that the little light bulb went off in my head and I GOT social media. Anytime you get a chance to hear him speak, drop everything, and Listen!

Jeff suggested using (and gave an overview of) Tweetgrid.com (http://www.tweetgrid.com/) to help you “Listen” to the conversation on Twitter. Additionally, using http://www.tweetgrid.com/irc to follow the conversation. Awesome tools. Obviously, he had more to say, but you need to hear him for yourself.

1:15PM PST: Jay Thompson – Write Right, Right Now. Get Your Blog On! @phxreguy

Jay Thompson about Blogging – “Write with passion, your readers will know if you’re writing for Google”

Jay Thompson: “Blog consistently – be real – be authentic – be transparent – be YOU”

Jay Thompson: “No one Realtor can please everyone. Get over yourself”

Jay Thompson: “Blogging takes time! Stick with it! Don’t give up after a year or 2″.

1:15M PST: Mark Madsen – 7 Strategies For Connecting w/ Agents Online w/o Looking Like A Stalker @Mark_Madsen

Mark Madsen – “Use Google Reader, its a game changer”

Mark Madsen – “Don’t comment on other people’s blogs just to spam your link”

2:15PM PST: Jonathan Rivera – How To Leverage The Power Of Social Media In Real Estate @Real_TechGuy

Jonathan Rivera: “Check out Seth Godin, Meatball Sundae”

Jonathan Rivera: “Make your blog the centerpiece of all your social media, and make sure all your Social Media accts link to your blog”

2:15PM PST: Rob Hahn – Social Media Heresie http://www.7dsassociates.com/

Rob Hahn – “The same rules apply. If you won’t do/say/act it in real life, don’t do it on Social Media”

3:15PM PST: Pat Kitano – Innovative Community Engagement Strategies @pkitano

Pat Kitano – “Provide a service to the community, recognize them, make them happy, respect them”

Pat Kitano – “Twitter is an open network, community engagement is faster in open networks”

Pat Kitano – “Community engagement is more powerful than marketing cause it positions you at the hub of your society & attracts people to you”

Conclusion:

What a great, informative day! A huge thank you to @RETomato and everyone else who made #VREBC happen.

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Previous Blog Article – 10 Technology Tips For Realtors in 2010

Notable Quotes from Virtual Real Estate Bar Camp (VREBC) was written by Amazing Video Tours

How To Use Twitter for Business

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Twitter! It’s everywhere! Ever since Oprah talked about it, you can’t read the paper, go to a website, or even watch your evening news without being invited to follow them on Twitter. So what’s the big deal, and why are so many businesses embracing Twitter?

The first thing you need to know: There is a right way and a wrong way to use Twitter, especially if you are using it to promote a business.

Every day, I’m out there talking to Small Business Professionals who can’t wrap their minds around Twitter. “No one cares that I just ate dinner”, they say. For the most part, they’re right. But then I hit them with a curve ball. I tell them that Twitter is more about “Listening” then “Tweeting”…. and I see a dumbfounded look on their face.

I go further, Twitter is about engaging people, interacting with them, and discussing common interests. At this point their face has an expression of complete confusion with a bit of frustration. They ask, “How do you engage when you are just blabbing about what you just did in 140 characters”? It’s a great question – and one that after some time – I finally discovered the answer.

You see, the Twitter website is a bit tough to “get”. It’s not until they download a third party software like TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/) or Seesmic (http://www.seesmic.com/) that most people can truly “GET” Twitter.

These 3^rd party apps allow you to set up searches (in convenient columns) for keywords that are of interest to you. This allows you to “LISTEN” to anyone who tweets your keywords. If you are a business owner, listening to your key words becomes an invaluable tool to see what your potential customers, and your competition are saying.

It’s also a good idea to set up a search for your geographical area (city name) and know exactly everything that’s going on in your area when people are Tweeting about it. You can “Listen” for anything, this just scratches the surface.

After you build these “listening searches” you will get a feeling for Twitter, how others are using it, and most importantly, how to INTERACT with these “Tweeps” via @Reply’s, Re-tweets, and DMs (Direct Messages). Now we’re really getting into the nuts and bolts of Twitter. For more details on what this all means, watch my Video Series on “How To Use Twitter (without using Twitter)”. If this lingo goes over your head, don’t sweat it, it’s just Twitter-speak for ways to interact on Twitter.

Here’s the most important thing to remember for those of you wanting to use Twitter for business. Think of Twitter as a huge cocktail party. You would not walk into a cocktail party and scream a promotion out loud. You would be friendly, engage others, build trust, discuss different things and [eventually] work what you do for a living into the conversation. It’s a VERY soft sale. Less then 10% of your Tweets should be about your business.

So remember – Go gentle, be friendly, Engage others, and occasionally remind them what you do. When the time comes to employ your services, they’ll call!

If you want the soup to nuts on Twitter, watch my Video Series on “How To Use Twitter (without using Twitter) It talks about setting up columns to listen using TweetDeck, and goes in depth about interacting, and what to Tweet about.

————- ©2009 – AmazingVideoTours.com – All Rights Reserved. Amazing Video Tours is Charlotte’s Premier Real Estate Videography and Photography Provider for Realtors, and other individuals with property to sell, lease, or rent. A departure from the old fashion 360 Virtual Tour, Amazing Video Tours takes online property marketing to the next level.

How To Use Twitter for Business was written by Amazing Video Tours