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A classic

This video is from a post written more than a year ago. I was reminded of it when I met the Wagners in person last weekend at REBlogWorld. 

Most of us have noticed that many of the property photos that we find on the MLS these days are . . . just bad!  Really bad.  Now some Realtors have decided that video is where it's at and have added video to the spew stream.  Guess what?  The video is just as craptastic as the photos, except it moves.  I looked at one where I could hear heavy breathing from the agent as she walked up some stairs while she was recording.

Yah I get it. Video is drop dead cool but video taken with a really cheap camera by an armature mostly causes motion sickness for me. This one made me laugh, so enjoy.

Colorado Springs Real Estate , Derek Wagner demonstrates the drawbacks of video marketing for the amateur. See the entire post, "It is harder than it looks".

You can also find the Wagners on Active Rain

A True Geek

Jeff Turner. @respres, the President of Real Estate Shows, arrived at Re-blog world wearing his #FFFFFF shirt.   Turner gave an excellent presentation on social media tools.  We all knew that he would  amaze us , and he did. 

Not trying to be a weenie . . .

It has been awhile since I have written on this blog of mass destruction cleverly disguised as a hot dog stand.  It seems that there was a time when I only wrote controversial posts here, these days I seem to be writing them everywhere.  It isn't my intention to be controversial, it is just that I question EVERYTHING.

I am not being intentionally anti-social these days either.  The reason I have not responded to the 123 friend requests I have accumulated on face book is because I don't know the friends.  They could be friends and heck we can never have too many friends but it is getting harder and harder for me to click the "accept" button when I have no idea who the friends are.

It is the same on Twitter.  I looked today and figured out that I don't know about 600 of my followers, and probably don't have any idea who a few hundred of the people I am following are.  Some don't tweet so it is no problem to follow them.  Some I do know but they have screen names and avatars that confuse this simple Realtor who lives in fly over land so I don't interact with them very much.  sometimes I figure out who people are but they change their avatar and after a few changes I lose track of them.

It is getting harder to be social.  My participation in multiple social networks has made me a bit anti-social.  I have a tremendous amount of contact with total strangers while at the same time the people I do know have a hard time reaching me as I struggle to hear their voices through the crowd. There are people in my community that I would like to get to know better and others that I would like to meet.

It would be nice if there was truly a general social network that I could use for business and maybe another that I could use for friends and maybe a third that I could use to meet people.  Instead they are all lumped together in one big confusing thing that is way out of control and has limited value for me personally or professionally.

Having hundreds of friends who are Realtors is kind of nice.  From a business point of view it isn't so great.  Yes I get referrals from other agents, a few a year but I mostly don't take them on becasue, It doesn't make sense for me to ever pay a referral fee, especially when the buyers are relocating and take an enormous amount of time and energy.  I just can't run my business that way.

I want to be anti-social, but I have not figured out how to do that without cutting myself off from the people that I would like to have contact with and from those I would like to meet or would like to get to know better.   There really is a huge world out there and a lot of people worth knowing who do not have real estate licenses.

Conventions

This is what the convention looks like to me. I won't say which convention because if I put a tag on this post or a keyword in it the red white and blue elephant who has been following me for days will put it out on twitter.  After 5 days of having my tweets broadcast by the elephant and hearing choppers all day long my last nerve is shot.  With that happy thought in mind, I write on the weenie knowing that my words will be safe from the relentless, but clueless red white and blue elephant, and that the choppers don't seem to be following me on twitter.