For those of you who are unfamiliar with a Real Estate Bar Camp, it is essential a day long workshop filled with short seminars about Real Estate technology, marketing practices and networking events. A great chance for you to sharpen your skills and network with others in the industry. Perhaps, the best part about a Real Estate Bar Camps is that they are usually free and supported mainly by Sponsors.

Who attends a Real Estate Bar Camp?

Anyone with a vested interest in learning more about the real estate industry. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, loan officers, marketing professionals and bloggers are all welcome at Real Estate Bar Camps.

When is the next Real Estate Bar Camp?

Upcoming Bar Camps include:

• Virtual Bar Camp on January 4th

• REBarCamp NYC on January 12th

Fore more information about Real Estate Bar camps visit www.rebarcamp.com

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Did you know that there are 29 pre-written templates created for your use in MREIS?
We are familiar with a “Property for you” but there are several more.  Here are a few examples:
“Client Listing Search”
“Your open house confirmation”
“Thanks for your inquiry”
“Let me introduce myself”
“First time owner”
“For sale by owner”
“Buyer open house announcement”
“After sale follow-up”
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I just watched the video, “My Mom is on Facebook” and it got me thinking about the ways that people share information on Facebook. Some people remain conservative with the information they put on Facebook while others use it like a personal diary. If you have been on Facebook long enough and have an extended network of friends and family at one time or another you’ve probably caught someone ‘oversharing’.

While it is true that Facebook is personal, those who are also using it to build a personal brand and legitimate business leads should be careful about what type of information they are sharing on social networking sites.

Here are 3 questions to ask yourself before updating your status or uploading a photo:

1. Is this information I would feel comfortable discussing with a large group?
2. Will anyone find this offensive?
3. Is this providing value?

A quick hitlist of topics you probably don’t want to discuss on Facebook are: relationships, drinking/partying habits, or how much you hate your job. These topics are best kept to the confines of an intimate conversation with your friends. Remember..your mom (or potential clients) could be reading your updates. Play it safe.

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Hate paying $1.75 or more to use 411 on your cell phone to get a business phone number? This service from Google allows users to search businesses in the US and Canada and get connected for free. Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone, speak your city and state or enter your zip code. Goog411 will list off your options and connect you to your chosen business category for free.
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After reading this article, you might just start finding the time.

Let me share with you some statics from the report published last month from the National Association of Realtors.

* Buyers use a wide variety of resources in searching for a home: 90 percent use the Internet.

* Eight out of 10 home buyers who used the Internet to search for a home purchased through a real estate agent.

* 43 percent of buyers relied on referrals to find an agent, while 18 percent of repeat buyers used an agent from a previous transaction.

* 64 percent of sellers chose their agent based on a referral.

* Eighty-one percent of sellers are likely to use the same agent again or recommend to others.

Still think you don’t have time to blog???
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Have you recently received a call from a company promising to get your real estate website to the top of Google? I know what you are thinking, “The top of google? Say what? I want to be on the top of Google…tell me more.” After talking to a few agents this week, I realized that some of you are in the dark as to what it is they are actually doing to get your real estate website to the ‘top of Google’.
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