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Comment on Facebook Versus Google by Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:43 +0000

I think it comes to this. Both have their place. Google will always be a giant and if you are looking for relocation information or real estate in Las Vegas, Google will certainly take it hands down. Facebook serves the community. The harder thing about FB is having the right kind of friends. If I am looking for property in Vegas and I have 900 friends and none of them live near Vegas or ever traveled to Vegas what good does it do. BUT by building loyal FB friends you can certainly get impact in the form of referrals. Hey I am looking for a home in Vegas and you pick up on that OR you post articles on FB about your market area and someone picks up on that. I tend to stick with the old saying; “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, both will drive business and Google will always be the giant it is.

Comment on Happy Birthday Firefox by Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:21:06 +0000

Hey Chris so do I. But for now I am a FF guy.

Comment on Facebook Versus Google by Rob McCance

Rob McCance — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:16:42 +0000

Chris:

That’s what I was thinking: how does Facebook help someone moving across the country?

Also, how does Facebook help you find information, or research a subject, or find a manual for an old widget, lots of things?

They site the ONE example where Facebook just might help someone, that’s it.

I’m not a Facebook hater but do “tire” of the FB and Twitter taking over theories.

Comment on REALTOR® Triple Play – Mark the Date by Rob

Rob — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:04:01 +0000

Interesting stuff, I’m trying to make it possible to be there.

Comment on 7 Lessons learned from site redesign. by Rob

Rob — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:25:36 +0000

Joe:

Good post, good advise.

I design my own non-WordPress Real Estate site and basically the entire function is to funnel visitors to my IDX search interface and get them to register.

Back when I firs designed it, I had other aspirations or ideas, and the legacy of those are still present (weather, taxes, etc., across the top).

Someday I hope to get it right, but it’s always evolving.

Check it out if you’re bored and let me know your thoughts.

Comment on Agent Spotlight – Ila Kasofsky by Hey You Facebook Fans « Realtors on the Internet

Hey You Facebook Fans « Realtors on the Internet — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:08 +0000

[...] Hey You Facebook Fans By Mark I know I have spoken about Social Networking in several of my posts. But I think I did not follow my own advice and I think I broke my own number 1 rule. Promote, promote, promote. To that end, did you know that RE/Advantage is also on Facebook. Come on over and check us out. We have been working hard to promote not only our tips and Internet Marketing information but we also spotlight client success stories now. If you have a good story to tell on how you leveraged the Internet let us know and maybe we’ll Spotlight you. We also tied our blog and Facebook pages together so the information is shared between the two. This no only allows our blog articles to automatically post to our Facebook page but it also then in turn will Tweet the information. This ensures we get consistent information out to all our fans and followers. Take a look at our first Spotlight on Ila Kasofsky. [...]

Comment on Facebook Versus Google by Chris Dowell

Chris Dowell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:36:55 +0000

Facebook works great if you have a large network in the area you are looking. It seems to not work as well for relocation or people who have small networks.

Google serves a huge need and hopefully with Google Caffeine much needed changes will take place.

Comment on Happy Birthday Firefox by Chris Dowell

Chris Dowell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:30:03 +0000

I haven’t used Internet Explorer for over a year. I’ve been using Firefox and Google Chrome. Wished Chrome had more apps.

Comment on Facebook Versus Google by Derek Eisenberg

Derek Eisenberg — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:42:52 +0000

These theories pop up constantly. Last week I read that Baidu would outpace Google and that Chinese would be the world language. I read other theories that Yahoo would eventually catch up with google. All dreams. As much as I like facebook my money is on google. Google also makes money whereas facebook makes little.

Comment on 7 Lessons learned from site redesign. by Josh Ferris

Josh Ferris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:33:55 +0000

Hi Joe,

I think you hit it square on the nose when you mentioned widgets like weather and other irrelevant stuff. What I found with my previous design was that it was the accumulation of widgets and other page stallers over time (1 year in my case) that led to visual overload.

It might be wise for agents who maintain their own websites to do a yearly evaluation and cleansing of their site to see what kind of load time cuts they can make. I guarantee you they’ll find at least one or two “Why do I have that on my site?” page stallers that seemed like a good idea at the time!