With a little help from a friend and some tweaking to the boilerplate release from Inman, I released this last week – Jim Duncan to Speak at Inman NewsReal Estate Connect San Francisco 2007Charlottesville, VA – July 6, 2007 – Jim Duncan, REALTOR® & blogger of Century 21 Manley Associates, will be a featured panelist at Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007 this August 2nd, at 2 pm…. “Past speakers have included Seth Godin, Barry Diller, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, Google co-founder Larry Page, and Priceline.com chairman Rick Braddock.â€Real Estate Connect SF ’07 also includes four pre-conferences: Internet Marketing Boot Camp, Connect TECH, Broker Internet Session and Bloggers’ Connect…. A REALTOR® who has specialized in marketing, seller representation and buyer representation for the past six years, and has been a real estate blogger for the past two and a half, Jim has been regarded as a leader locally and statewide on real estate and technology issues. Jim’s blog, RealCentralVA, is regarded as one of the best sources of unbiased and accurate information and analysis in the Charlottesville region.About Real Estate Connect Real Estate Connect is the premier real estate, mortgage and technology conference, drawing the industry’s most influential decision makers, opinion leaders and technology experts into an active forum for discussion and debate.
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A logo for RealCentralVA.com – reworked
Well? Reworked by a local firm in Charlottesville.What do you think? (there’s a poll below){democracy:8}*I wish I could get rid of those silly bullets.
A logo for RealCentralVA.com
After donating money to Todd’s attempt to be released from “jail,” and receiving a t-shirt as thanks, I figured now was as good a time as any to have a logo for RealCentralVA.com. I contracted with F5 Designs via Elance for a logo. I filled out their questionnaire and this is the result -When I asked them what it meant, this was the response, one with which I am pretty satisfied:From what we saw in your site, we related the connected arrows with Market connections and communications. As a central point for meeting and sharing information….What do you think?
Does blogging get clients?
Jay has a great post yesterday about whether blogging “gets” clients. After nearly 1900 posts in two and a half years, I can say unequivocally that yes, you can “get” clients from blogging (and surely lose some as well). Without working at blogging and building offline relationships, I wouldn’t have gotten this in an email:I am comfortable selecting you to be our buyer’s agent without interviewing other realtors. One, your whole philosophy and style is right there on your blog; two, Merv vouches for you.I have written many times before – if the goal of your blog is purely to “get” clients, don’t bother.
Goin’ to San Francisco
The first week of August for Inman Connect, one of “the premier networking, information, and technology conferences for the real estate industry.” And I’m moderately excited and somewhat nervous.Never having done something like this before, I don’t know where to set my expectations…. I debated going, but after some thought, think that this opportunity may never come around again…. But, this event gives a good lead into an upcoming story on building credibility in today’s online and offline world.
Feel free to vote for me
As the “Favorite Realtor” in the Charlottesville area. Check it out at the Daily Progress. I won this in 2005 and closed at least one transaction because of it, so I would be greatly appreciative if you would take 30 seconds to vote.
Today’s radio appearance – on the Charlottesville real estate market
the first was last year about this time.Today I stumbled a bit, I fumbled a bit, but ultimately I think I did a pretty good job. It was fun, and I hope I didn’t sound too much like a fool. If anybody has any follow up questions, please let me know.We touched on a lot of information in a very short period of time – radio moves so fast!This is the kind of thing I could see myself doing on a regular basis.The podcast is here at the Charlottesville Podcasting Network…. Real estate, perhaps more than any other business is about having the right relationships – be they with home inspectors, attorneys or the media – and I am grateful for this one.