What have I been doing this past year? Until last year, I had never been on a jet. Never. After I went to Inman in January 2009, I realized that I had a lot to learn about social media, and I was probably not going to pick it up at home. In February I went to RETech South in Atlanta, flying for the first time. Somewhere around this point I co-founded the online social group TwitterQueens with 2 friends made online- Lesley Lambert and Maya Paveza. From then on I went to a series of Real Estate conferences and un-conferences, presenting at some and learning at all. I presented at Ignite Wilmington with Maya and Lesley, team-taught a CE class on social media in Delaware and went to another Inman Connect- this one in San Francisco. One of my posts in my old blog won a social media Carnival, another recently won a real estate Carnival, and I was recently named one of the Top 12 Women in Real Estate Bloggers. I was recently asked to be on a panel at 140 character conference in New York City in April, speaking about twitter and real estate.
Why waste my time writing all of this when it frankly has very little entertainment value? It means that anyone can get involved and learn to do this stuff. It means old dogs can learn new tricks- and they HAVE to when the old tricks don’t work. And from speaking to scores of people, I have learned that focused social media use can increase your bottom line in real estate. And isn’t that why we are here?
Breakfast in Atlanta with Matt Fagioli, Todd Carpenter, Me, Lori Bee, and Andy Kaufman- from Massachusetts to California represented
