We are all doing it.  That is the purpose we share here on Active|Rain… marketing through social networking channels.

Of course, some have taken it well beyond blogging on A|R and have included Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Trulia, Zillow, Flickr, Blip.fm… and a million other sites and communities.
continue reading "What is the purpose of Social Network Marketing?"

I can write about why it is good for your business to be connected to the community, your clients and prospects through social networks.  But I’m not going to right now.

A few weeks ago I had an epiphany.  I thought about someone that I think about regularly, but with a different direction.  And I was able to do something about it… because of social networking. Curious yet?
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Ken Cook and I have decided to launch a Social Media Breakfast series in the Atlanta area.  We are planning the first event to take place on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 in Gwinnett County.  We have secured the location for the first event, Duluth Diner on PIB near Howell Station.  We expect to have a program that runs from around 7:00am to 9:00am, with networking opportunities covering at least the first and last half hours, with breakfast and information from 7:30 to 8:30.  Of course, it is early and if things change we’ll keep you informed.

Currently the plan is to have events rotating to various parts of the Atlanta metro.  We are so spread out that having events in only one location would make it tough for a lot of people.

We haven’t set a date yet, but we are planning for the second meeting to take place in Cobb County.  We would like to also be able to hold future events in the South Metro area.  In order to do that, we would love to find a partner in that area to coordinate the event.

You might know Ken as the KC half of the JCKC Twitter Tuesday program on BlogTalkRadio.  Despite the Twitter-specific name, they talk about all sorts of social media and networking, and bring in cool guests from a variety of social media spaces.

This is NOT only open to real estate professionals.  In fact, we would VERY much like to have people from outside of the real estate industry.  We will be discussing how to effectively and responsibly utilize social media for business.  The discussions will range from basics for beginners to advanced topics and integrating social networking and social media like blogging, Twitter and FaceBook into a broader marketing strategy.

We’d love to hear from you!  We need to have an idea of how many people are going to make it to the event.

No, I didn’t misspell Flickr…  If you aren’t familiar, Flickr is an online photo sharing site.  It is world-wide and very diverse… and it can be hyper local and quite specific as well.

So, the question is…

How can a photo-sharing site be a social network?

continue reading "With My Last Flickring Brain Cell"

All of this talk about Social Networking and online relationship building is still pointed to one thing… MEETING PEOPLE.  Right?  Isn’t that why we do all of this.  We Tweet, we FaceBook, make Fan Pages, get LinkedIn…  We do all sorts of things to create communities and foster relationships.

But the rubber has to meet the road, and the only way that happens is to actually meet people… in person… like face to face.
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During the #rebcclt video session, one of the things we talked about was using property videos, and syndicating them to a wide range of networks.  The primary reason discussed was that it would be seen by the maximum number of potential buyers for the property… but we DID talk about the other reason… the cooler reason.
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