Good Twitter help can be hard to find. And when it comes to Twitter for real estate, it’s even more important to be led in the right direction or you’ll risk being labeled as a spammer. Your brand could be tarnished in real-time if you don’t learn how to reach out and connect authentically with your network. The good news is, I don’t want to see you become the latest fail whale. I’m determined to share top tools, engagement strategies and best practices to ensure your Twitter success!!! [Read more...]
Get Your Tweet On With Twitter for Real Estate Twits v.2
· Posted on August 14, 2009 · 8 Comments
Farming Twitter With DemandSpot
· Posted on August 9, 2009 · 25 Comments
DemandSpot is a brand new Twitter tool that aims to help real estate professionals actually farm Twitter for local leads. Find locals based on location and keyword relevancy (house hunting, apartments, rent, condos, etc.). Search your location and actually connect with real people looking for real estate in real time! [Read more...]
The Tweet Plan 2.0
· Posted on August 6, 2009 · 29 Comments
The Tweet Plan is a simple way to share your resourceful tips and expertise with your network. You’ve heard of drip marketing right?! Well, the Tweet Plan is essentially “drip tweeting”. [Read more...]
Card.ly – The Online Business Card for Real Techies!
· Posted on July 23, 2009 · 4 Comments
With the growing popularity of Web content aggregation, many professionals are turning to various lifestreaming sites and plugins to showcase their online presence. Some of the solutions out there are quite easy to use requiring you to email your content to your destination (i.e. Posterous), while others use feeds to automate the sharing process.
Here at MyTechOpinion, we have created our own custom lifestreams via the feed route that displays our Web activity in real-time, and also acts as our online homebase, resume or business card. For those of you that have been looking for a affordable and extremely easy way to share your online lifestream in the form of a resume or biz card, Card.ly is a brand new service that provides just that! [Read more...]
Ubertor Launches New Video Solution
· Posted on July 20, 2009 · 4 Comments
Last week I was talking with Steve Jagger of Ubertor, and he shared that some of his clients who’ve posted videos to popular online video sharing sites have had them removed for being real estate / commercial content. This inconvenience drove Ubertor to create a powerful in-house video hosting solution which went live last week.
Now using the Ubertor website system, clients of the $57 and $77 website plans can upload videos to their website and display them using the Combustion Video player. The same videos can also be easily syndicated to YouTube and Viddler.
The Contest: Your Chance To Win!
As I was talking with Steve about this new feature, we decided to make it a little more fun and give away some sites for MyTechOpinion readers. Here’s how it will work…
How to Share Video from Your iPhone 3Gs
· Posted on July 16, 2009 · 7 Comments
If you’re a proud owner of the new iPhone 3Gs then you have a great opportunity to share video on the go like never before! It’s one thing to create video mobile style (like say with the Flip), but it’s even more exciting and useful when you can share to your favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube while on the go and with only one mobile device in hand!
For example, you could be at a closing and simply record a brief testimonial from a happy client. With the right iPhone app, you are only a few clicks away from sharing that testimonial on Facebook. Likewise, you could be working with a stager who offers some super advice for homeowners. With your iPhone 3Gs, you could record the stager’s tips and share them with your network on Twitter in a matter of seconds! Basically, you can turn around and share just about any engaging moment, interesting occurrence, random thought, helpful tip or even your favorite dance moves with your iPhone 3Gs. [Read more...]
TinyChat: Don’t let the name fool you, it’s all muscle
· Posted on June 18, 2009 · 4 Comments
If you’ve been unimpressed with the available chat applications for your blog, you’ll be excited to learn about TinyChat.
TinyChat recently delivered version 2 of their chat product and I’m really impressed. The application is extremely intuitive, which starts with a large text field prompting for a chat room name. Within seconds your new room is created. But not before you’re given the chance to sign in using Twitter and invite other participants. If you’re not using Twitter don’t fret; just enter your name to continue.
At this point the chat room has been created, now set a chat topic and select your privacy option. By private it really means not listed on the TinyChat website. If you need password protection, you’ll have to upgrade to the professional plan. With that plan, you’ll also own up to 5 rooms, and broadcast in HQ video.
Get Smart with Any Mobile Phone
· Posted on June 15, 2009 · 4 Comments
If you own an iPhone then you’re probably appreciative of the thousands of apps to choose from that can assist you with your daily work tasks. However, if you own a Blackberry or other mobile device you may be frustrated with the fact that many of the real estate specific apps are NOT available to you, or have limited functionality.
ENTER: Smarter Agent, a real estate marketing company that has solved the fragmentation of mobile with a listing search application that is now available on virtually every cell phone.
Smarter Agent works with all major wireless carriers and mobile devices. It uses GPS to locate a user’s location and find real estate listings in their area. Search results include: price, square footage, estimated mortgage, taxes, features, interactive map, beds/baths, pictures. Consumers can also search by address, community name, city or zip code.
