With all the talk about growing your community on facebook, it’s important to know whether you’re doing it right! Firstly I need to explain some important differences between your own PROFILE and your company/place/community PAGE. Functionality Your PROFILE (person) Your PAGE (company/place/community) Interact on people’s walls Yes No Interact on page’s walls Yes Yes Interact…
Are your Facebook ‘friends’ in the right places?
Kim Voullaire recently wrote “Do you know who you’re Friending on Facebook?” It’s a good quick read that may help you to understand the difference between a Profile and a Page. It also talks about the tactic that some people use to ‘mine your friends’. Kim addresses the very important issue of protecting your database. We can’t…
Revenge on the scammers
We recently decided to sell our caravan on the trading post website. In just 24 hours we’ve been besieged by 5 overseas scammers emailing us in very bad english with requests to buy the caravan AFTER we place some cash in their paypal or western union accounts. Sadly lots of people get caught by these…
How do I know if I’m doing it right?
Gotta say I really enjoyed a blog post today from Todd Carpenter . Todd opens his post with these words “Imagine a future home buyer choosing to do business with you because you both “like” the same coffee shop on Facebook, went to the same school, or because you did business with relatives they never talk…
New Beginnings
This is probably going to be one of those mushy posts or it might even get agro. Be warned. If you want common sense and good business advice then this is not the post to be reading. Move along now. ;) I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to say in this post for a…
REIQ Connect Technology Conference – LinkedIn session 6
Tara Commerford – LinkedIn LinkedIn is a Professional Network. Worlds largest Professional Network. Very different to Facebook vs Twitrer. Growing at a rate of 2 people per second! Currently 2 Million people in Australia. LinkedIn is an avenue of sharing quality info. Everyone has Googled someone else’s name?.. Agreed. LinkedIn profile will often rate higher…
Panel Session REIQ technology conference. Session 5
Talented and Broad Panel. David Finimore -Colliers. Website guru Marcus Grimes -Optus Digital Business Glenn Batten -Blogger and Business2 Contributor. (Proven track record) @Glenn_Batten on Twitter. First National Real Estate- Nerang Emily Sim -National Ops Mgr Apmasphere Property Managers. (Clever!) Questions from the floor and Twitter. Blogger vs WordPress? (WordPress) Why does Glenn blog? (Mainly…
Notes from REIQ technology session 4. Aaron Shiner iPad
Aaron dynamically displayed the power of IPad and listing presentations using electronic visual media. Well structured slides. Presentation flowed well. Demonstrates size of his team in a slide. 6 Team members working as 1. Using classy amped up video of auction successes and testimonials in his IPad presso. Very dynamic! Bring written testimonials to life…
Notes REIQ Technology Conference. Peter Fraser. Session 3
Peter Fraser @_sr7. Reputation Management Online. Before you start in social media in your business. Determine the reason, strategy and policy. Peters company has a strategy that is clear about positioning his business as the thought leaders and THE best and only resource in his field. Take social seriously. Make it a serious business decision….
Notes from Session 2. REIQ technology conference. Peter Ryan ABC News
Presenter: Peter Ryan. News Business editor -ABC @Peter_f_Ryan The business of news reporting has changed from Safari Suit wearing journo’s. Used to operate using telex machines, tapped phone calls, smuggled information out of war torn areas using nobbys nuts tins. Wow. Times have changed with the immediacy and freedom of information. Now using iPhones, 3…
