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Real Estate Investors Suffer from SMF

April 7, 2010
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I was just talking to a fellow investor in the Atlanta market, and he was giving me grief because my Facebook status hasn’t been updated in ages.
I must be suffering from Social Media Fatigue (SMF).
I explained to him that, besides the fact that as entrepreneurs we don’t get paid to surf Facebook, I must be [...]

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Top 3 Strategies for Managing Large Twitter Networks

December 4, 2009
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Opinions differ on whether having a small network on social sites (some “experts” say it’s impossible to follow more than 149 people) is the only way to properly utilize the tools, or whether you should be completely open and follow everybody (or follow back everybody).
I believe that large networks open you up to meeting and [...]

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Social Media – Whether or Not You “Do It”, Do You Know Why?

November 10, 2009
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If I was to ask you why you’re tweeting on Twitter, friending on Facebook, or getting LinkedIn, most business people would answer in one of three ways:

“I’m marketing.”
“I’m making friends/followers/connections.”
“What’s a tweet?”

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Socialization 101 for Real Estate Investors

October 12, 2009
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I‘m going to write plenty about specific tactics for using social media in the future, but today I wanted to take it up to the 10,000 ft level and talk about how to communicate in social media. Or, as I read recently, How Not to Be “That Guy” – a problem that seems to have [...]

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Social Media for Real Estate Investors

March 1, 2009
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What is Social Media?
If you try to find a clear definition of what exactly Social Media is, you’ll find it’s difficult. The definitions that many of the experts use will leave you even more confused.

Here’s the basic idea:
Social Media are any tools which allow you to use the internet to facilitate conversation. They allow you [...]

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