Who You Should Be Online

March 23, 2012

Photograph by Anita Patterson. The following is written by Alex Cortez. In an industry that is centered around building relationships, real estate is a prime candidate for social media success. However, many real estate agents use Facebook, Twitter, and other sites merely as another platform of ‘marketing’ by advocating their listings without providing further value [...]

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On Moving On

November 21, 2011

Leaves by grafixar. Kirsten Wright quit her sole proprietorship and joined Social 5150 as its social marketing director. Tyson Goodridge quit his sole proprietorship and joined Acsys as its social media director. He recollects: A while ago, I starting asking myself some simple questions. Am I scalable? Is this business model sustainable? What is my [...]

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Finding the Faith to Work For Yourself

April 25, 2011

Photo credit: Mario Inoportuno It is easy to say you want to work for yourself. Deciding to be your own boss and set your own hours is a no-brainer. Bestselling books like “The 4-Hour Workweek” tell you you can do it. News flash: Doing it is not easy. Unlike my peers who are making magic [...]

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If I Wrote a Book

February 13, 2011

C.C. Chapman, in the months before his Content Rules book was published, wrote the following on his blog: Before it was the “in thing” for everyone in social media to do, I’ve had the life long goal of writing a book. I never knew if it would be fiction, business or something else, but I’ve [...]

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Rebirth

January 12, 2011

With this sentence, the blog known as AriWriter has officially died and is reborn under the name of the person who created it in 2007. That’s me. I thank Owen Cutajar for agreeing to backup, restore, and setup core WordPress files and the physical database. He has more experience doing WordPress domain transfers than me [...]

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