Archive for 'Technology'
Are Location-Based Services in Real Estate All Hype or The Next Big Thing? (Part 2)
Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by Josh Ferris.
Last week we posted Part I of our interview with Ryan Neu, Real Estate Executive at SCVNGR and Garrett Nelson, Director of Media at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Executive in Washington. Read the rest of our interview with them below including how they use these services in their businesses and how they expect [...]
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Here I Am! (Facebook Places)
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by Wendy Forsythe.
I’ve been a Foursquare user for a while. I’ll admit at first I didn’t get it and it seemed a little creepy to be broadcasting to the world exactly where I was. Soon enough, the hesitation faded and the addiction set in. So you can imagine that I was a kid in a candy store [...]
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Are Location-Based Services in Real Estate All Hype or The Next Big Thing? (Part 1)
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by Josh Ferris.
Location-based services are what’s hot in social networking right now and for good reason. By using a simple app on your smartphone you can share where you are and what you’re up to with others in your network (updates can be automatically sent to your Facebook and Twitter accounts) which fosters more frequent communication and [...]
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Smart Phone Overload!
Posted on 16. Aug, 2010 by Paulette Costa.
I’m on Smart Phone Overload! Here’s my dilemma: Do I stay with what I have, my current smart phone, which I like and serves my purpose, has useful applications for my needs and functions in nearly any area I travel, or do I switch based on hype? There is so much to choose from, so [...]
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3 Real Estate Website Tips That Will Dramatically Increase Your Leads
Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by Josh Ferris.
Are you leaving money on the table? Agents and brokers around the world spend days and thousands of dollars per year on their websites and don’t reap the full benefits because they overlook these three real estate website tips: 1. Quick search on your homepage – When you visit both Google and Yahoo! what is [...]
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Enhanced BHGRE iPhone App
Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by Neville Soares.
We’re never content to rest on our reputations at BHGRE, and so I’m excited to tell you that we released an enhanced version of our iPhone App, the Home Selection Assistant. After listening to our users and leveraging the best that the iPhone platform has to offer, we have added four new features to the [...]
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Twitter’s a Big Boy Now!
Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by Wendy Forsythe.
Last month Twitter turned 4 years old! Yep, that’s right-4 whole years. Our baby is growing up fast. I have no idea why Twitter is a boy in my mind, or why I feel an oddly maternal instinct, but I do. Perhaps it is because Twitter has become a part of my life. It runs [...]
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Protecting Consumer Data in the Real Estate Industry
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Robert Albanese.
As we begin the new year, I thought that it would be a good idea to write a brief reminder about the importance of protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in our business practices. It is important to keep in mind that PII is captured in many ways, some that immediately jump out at us, and [...]
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There’s a BHGRE App for that! (and it ‘s not just another real estate app)
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Camilla Sullivan.
Happy day. The first edition of our Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate iPhone app is live today (actually ,11.59pm last night.) But it’s not a ‘real estate’ app in the traditional sense, ie: pushing listings to your iPhone. It’s a buyer centric app designed to solve a few pronounced challenges faced during the physical [...]
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#BeatCancer: The Power of New Media
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Wendy Forsythe.
You may have noticed this hashtag a lot over the weekend. It was the highest trending topic on Twitter. And that’s because a group of very clever people demonstrated the power of social media for social good. The goal was to set a Guinness World Book record for the largest social mass media message distributed [...]
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A Twitter Misstep
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by Wendy Forsythe.
You know those messages on Twitter that promise to get you 50-100 followers per day. Most of us have been ignoring them since we signed up realizing that the quality of the follower is far more appealing than the quantity. But recently I received one message that for some unknown reason peaked my interest so I [...]
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Who are these brokerages? What’s different about them? Can we learn anything from them? We’ve created this directory to begin bringing the answers to life
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Are Location-Based Services in Real Estate All Hype or The Next Big Thing? (Part 2)
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Succession Planning Part 2: Nine Keys Areas of Focus
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The REport
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Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
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Here I Am! (Facebook Places)
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The REport
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Are Location-Based Services in Real Estate All Hype or The Next Big Thing? (Part 1)
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Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
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How Do You Know What Your Customers Really Think (Part 2)?
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The REport
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Summer: THis week Time Magazine features Rethinking Home O...
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Linda Lyons: I absolutely agree with you, Noreen. I see no use...
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@Corcoran_Group: Hi there Ryan, Interesting thoughts and for the...
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Ryan Neu: Matthew, -Ryan Neu from SCVNGR here I think ...
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Noreen Parrell: Hi Wendy - It's Noreen, BH&G Rand, Briarc...
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