The Google Plus + Facebook Battle

Jimmy Mackin made the comment and asked the question in the tech support group for real estate agents on Facebook, “Google+ is about to hit 10,000,000 users. That’s approximately 5 Million new users per week. Can anyone guess (without Google) how many new users Facebook averages per week?” My email inbox these past few weeks

Google.com and Box.net in the Cloud

Google and Box.net are Accelerating the cloud workforce. Box.net now allows Google docs to be shared on the Box.net website making it convenient to store, edit, collaborate and more with the combined forces now meeting in the cloud. “we’re very excited to announce a major integration with Google Docs, Google’s leading web productivity suite. Beginning

Top Mobile Tools for Real Estate

Yesterday’s RainCamp in Seattle WA. was most likely one of the best times I’ve ever had on stage at one of these events. It was a privilege to wrap up Day One with sharing my Top Picks of Real estate sites and free tools on the web. As an added bonus for those who attended

Difference Between Leads and Contacts

There’s a difference between leads and contacts. When I first got into this industry back in the early 1800’s, (haha) my first impression of the term “lead generation” leaned more towards the vision of a detective at a crime scene getting a “lead” to help find his/her suspect or perpetrator. Years later, I still find

TOP REALTOOLS for REALTORS

Last week, I was invited to be a guest speaker/presenter at the NORBAR Association of REALTORS Tech Party in Santa Rosa, CA. There were many great vendors with awesome products and services including our friends from Zillow. During the day, there were presentations every hour on the hour, one of them being ours – Top

Reducing Your Technical Learning Curve

How do so many people find the time to learn about real estate technology, mobile applications, building blogs and websites, and engaging effectively on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Youtube etc.? The bigger question is where do they find the time to learn all this stuff and still have the time for