Archive for June, 2009
Website 404 Page – Do you have one?
Does your Website have a 404 page? A 404 page is a generic page built in a website to ‘catch all’ of the erroneous links and bad URLs. Without a 404 page, your potential customers could get a result like this! This is bad for many reasons!
If you have deleted website pages and not [...]
Realtor.com Survival Workshop
I attended the Realtor.com Survival Workshop this morning at the Gwinnett Center. Realtor.com’s Vice President @MaxPigman kicked off the half-day seminar. This was certainly a don’t miss for agents looking for basic knowledge of how to incorporate new technologies into their sales and marketing programs and it was a great refresher for those already using [...]
Out of your Comfort Zone: Social Networking
This article by Carol M. Flammer, MIRM first appeared in June 2009 in Realty/Builder Connection.
Out of your comfort zone!
Social Networking (are you a social butterfly?)
Q: What are the best 3 social networking sites for our industry?
There are many great social media sites available including Facebook, Twitter, ActiveRain, LinkedIn, Trulia, Ning, YouTube, Flickr and a plethora [...]
iPhone 3GS Debuts!
For Apple fans, today has been a long time coming. Apple officially released the successor to the iPhone 3G named the iPhone 3GS. According to Apple, the “S” stands for “speed”. The new phone features an improved graphics chip and a new processor that is almost twice as fast as the iPhone 3G. The new [...]
Four Rules for an Effective Social Media Campaign
There were four principle concepts to take away from Thursday’s social media presentation with Peter Shankman of HARO (Peter was in Atlanta and the guest speaker at a PRSA luncheon on June 18th that I happily attended). While the entire presentation was full of insightful tips and entertaining anecdotes, Peter stressed the importance of these [...]
Socia Media: It’s All a-”Twitter”
First published online in Atlanta Building News, the official publication of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association
by Carol M. Flammer, CAPS, MIRM
Celebrities are on Twitter, the newspaper is referencing blogs, and sometimes the only way you can “talk” to your children is on their Facebook wall. So how are builders and others in the industry [...]
Tips for Twitter
@AtlantaPR @mRELEVANCE and @RedRocketLA gave a How to Tweet workshop to Sales and Marketing Councils nationwide last week. Rather than long winded introductions, the trio was introduced in 140 characters tweets in true Twitter fashion.
Carol Flammer @AtlantaPR
Speaks on social media nationwide, loves horses, dressage, movies and eating. Known for building effective strategies for clients.
Lisa Redmond [...]
Google Wave – a shared experience
Competition for Facebook?
Google’s newest breakthrough product is ‘Wave.’ This product provides a platform for users to combine web browsing, photos, contacts, email and documents into a shared experience.
Wave is a real-time stream of data, user interactions are recorded and can be played back. This allows users to view revisions to documents as well [...]
You have your Facebook, now about your name…
As you have probably heard, this weekend Facebook is opening up the flood gates and allowing people to register their ‘name’ or URL for their profiles and pages. According to Facebook, these new ‘usernames’ will be only available in basic text format, and account owners can only secure a single username for each profile [...]
Bing.com – The newest offering from Microsoft
Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is being marketed as a ‘decision-engine’. Microsoft has spent nearly $100-million on a marketing campaign for its newest project in an effort to compete with Google.
Bing has several of the features currently found in Google’s search but offers an enhanced user interface. Each search result has a [...]
