I’m tough to buy gifts for. It drove my wife and son nuts. But they have always racked their brains and come up with some outstanding things for birthdays or Father’s day. This year my son and daughter-in-law got off…
Category: Social Media
The Growing Blogosphere
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Technorati recently published their report on the “State of the Blogosphere / 2008” , the newest version of an annual study which has been digging into trends in blogging since 2004. I’ll actually be…
Business or Pleasure
business or pleasure Originally uploaded by Will Lion I had a conversation recently with my son Hal, President of BuzzBuilderz, our Social Marketing Company. He had just met with a Commercial real estate broker about using Social Networking as part…
The Internet is NOT for Porn
Originally uploaded by gillyberlin Long the leading search item on the Internet, porn has fallen on hard times (no pun intended), as Social Networking trends to become one of the hottest searches on the web. Bill Tancer,a self-described Geek, in…
Making the Most of Your Marketing
A year ago I had a vague understanding that there was something out there called Blogging that was creating a stir in the real estate world. I’m a pretty techie type of guy so I found Blogger and created a…
Building Your Buzz
Social Media is not organized. Its organic and exciting, and confusing to most new participants. Real Estate agents and companies know that they should be Blogging, just like they knew they needed a database in the 19990s and their…
New Tools – Old Standards
transformational technology Originally uploaded by Will Lion When we get involved in social media to build our businesses, often there is that last Century thinking behind the 21st Century technology. We try to determine who we are in a vacuum…
The Vanishing Real Estate Section
There is a lot of conversation in the real estate industry about print advertising being overtaken by on-line alternatives. There are surveys that show that most buyers start their search for homes on th Internet, and obviously it is better…
Agent Genius Rocks Inman Connect
Hopefully, if you’re reading this post, you read my earlier post from Inman Connect in San Francisco earlier this week. That was sort a neat tech moment, written on my phone, a Treo 755, during the conference in the Palace…
REBAR & Bloggers Connect
Yesterday I got to meet a number of the people that I have been conversing with, arguing with and agreeing with for several months. In an very limited structure these people gathered together from all over the country to talk…