One of the best tools used on the Internet is, Video. By far, it has the ability to cross through barriers, allowing your prospects an introduction of your company and services.

We have added a video to our front page, introducing four of our clients…

Are you one of them?

Would you like to be featured?

We are moving forward with videos. We have used them over the last several years as an instructional tool. Now we are using videos to introduce and promote our company,  services and products (the ones we use).

While I was a Mortgage Broker could not always depend on the group of agents I worked with to feed me regular business, whether it was due to extended vacations, slow economy or market segment, a change in companies…  The reasons go on.

The point here was, I looked for avenues to feed both myself and the agents I worked with, better than qualified leads. One of the best resources for me was providing seminars and the most popular was my “First Time Home Buyer” seminar. One seminar would file my pipe line for months…

So, I know that most of you reading this are not in the Real Estate Industry, but I hope you understand my reference.

With the current market trends, the question I have for you is; What are you doing now that is or is not working for you as a lead generation tool?

For many of us Social Networking is like trying to understand something very ambiguous. Every report you read these days states and proves the necessity of Social Networking, but for myself I’m feeling I need to bring my Social Networking efforts a little closer to home.
Article – Bringing Social Networking Home – Part 1

With the Free Online Text Messaging service up and running now for a little over a week, it seems it is a hit.

The online text messaging service came about becuase a client needed to be able to receive emergency msg’s from his website. The nice thing about this text messaging service we can actually set it up so that based on the hour of the day or the day of the week different people recieve the text message.

All automated and dynamic.

Our Free Online Text messaging accounts have also been very active. Although people seem to think that there is a catch…

Like what is in it for us?

And all we are looking for is traffic. Hopefully if you like the service you will look around at what else we do and see a match for something you need.

Otherwise there is nothing hidden and nothing planned expect to expand the service.

Coming soon…

• Text anyone anywhere in the world
• Receive TXT Messages through your account for Free

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Free Online Text Messaging

Free Real Estate Glossary of Terms 

Free Real Estate Mortgage Calculator

I was talking with Mary the other day and, BAM!!!

She said something that hit me square… So here’s to you Mary!

Just Email,

We are now offering you the ability to find your signature email address. Use our Domain Name Suggestion Tool to find that perfect name and you are good to go.

We did some checking around and found NetworkSolutions had their special deal of $20.00 a year for their just Email solution, but then that was after spending $34.95 for your domain name, totaling $54.95.

We checked out several other hosting companies and domain name registrars and found that offering they had something similar so we decided to totally blow this out of the water.

Check this out, all of it for only $20.00 for 1 year Get Yours Now, Click Here!

• Your Own Email Address
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• 1 Gig Disk Space
  
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• We’ll even help you set up 3 computers, using our Free “Online Computer Support”
• Same Fanatical Support as our other managed hosting clients receive

We are actually doing this at a loss. Knowing that when you decide (down the road) to establish your web site, we will have won you over by our outstanding customer service, support and creative solutions.

I got an email yesterday from a client letting me know what was being sent out by the NAR. I always take the time to review the information from this client as he has always been what I would call a partner in business, even though he is a client of mine.

The information was about this Free Setup promotion by the NAR. I thought at first glance, wow, this web site promotion is a really good deal. Thinking I was going to be forced into re-invent how we do business, product line and our services. I know we have all been there… :- )

So after my heart calmed down a bit I started checking into it comparing what they offered and what they said they normally charge. I put this information here for my prospective clients as I know I look for comparisons when I shop for products or services.

Although their are thousands of other guys selling web sites, for the purpose today, I am going to call them, “The Other Guys”.

Reviewing the above makes me think how you would spend the $839.40 you save with your new custom (template driven) real estate web site through WebbIT, would it be advertising, a laptop, new phone, video camera…

Just a quick video for people who are trying to define their presence through their blog…

It’s short

I think the most difficult aspect to this whole process is, understanding what Social Media and Networking is.

I hope the initial post helped as I am sure the short clip enlightening… :- )

Now we cover which Social Networks to join and how to become part of the contributing network.

First, there are several Social Networks just for Real Estate Agents and before you go out and sign up please let me provide a quick overview of them so that you can jump right in running. I’ll provide direct links for each to make signing up easy. I am ranking these top to bottom, best to maybe not the best.
You know this blog post will be very large so I am breaking this up into smaller ones. You will find that I have broken everything into separate entries for each blog. Much better…

Here is the first.

Active|Rain – To Signup Click Here
Probably the best Social Network for real estate agents. Here is what Active|Rain had to say about them selves,
“ActiveRain is a Bellevue, WA based technology/media company hybrid that operates the largest and most active social network in the real estate space.

Our roots go back almost 6 years but unlike many new “real estate technology” companies we are not trying to change the business model, but rather provide the technology to augment an existing one. Over the years we’ve worked very closely with agents and companies both large and small, providing the technology to support their core business, selling homes. Our goal is to “Empower the real estate professional” and as an extension empower the consumer. We don’t believe in placing additional barriers between the consumer and the agent.

In June 2006, we launched the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, a free social network and marketing platform for real estate professionals. This network helps agents to create business relationships both within the industry and with the consumer. “

My comments: Active|Rain is by far the largest specific network for Real Estate Professionals around. Having just visited the site they have 104,072 members and while I was there they had 4,062 members online. This is pretty big stuff for any network, let a lone a niche network.

OK, Active|Rain uses a scoring system to incentivize members to participate. Points are given for, 1) filling out the details of who you are, 2) Writing a post which can go to your Blog, the main member area, any groups you belong to and your localism.com page(s), 3) Comment on peoples posts, 4) Welcome people to the network, 5) Ask people to join the Network… and so on.

So you should know, I will earn points for each person that joins using the link above. I hope you do use it. It will be interesting to see the numerical affect.

What do points do for you? Well, depending on your level of points, you could be the highlighted member of the day and be listed in the daily email that they send out to all members.

I have posted several posts to my blog and in doing so, the information becomes available in different groups (people gathering under an interest, i.e. technology) and/or you can also have your posts listed in the “localism.com” social network. Localism.com is an extension of Active|Rain and goes along with the idea of “The national land grab” generating content within the scope and control of Active|Rain gives it momentum in growth and certainly scope when people are looking for content on the Internet.

So, Signup for an Active|Rain Membership and look around at how others are using the network. I’ll place a comment to this post with some links that I found helpful.