It was a beautiful Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona to attend the 2nd annual Real Estate Bar Camp Phoenix 2010. I was there with with 800+ of my closest friends to learn the latest and greatest about leveraging technology in real estate.
First of all. What’s Bar Camp?
“It’s an “un-conference”. There is no pre-printed agenda. The agenda is built that day and often morphs through the camp as people gather, talk and share. Anyone can come and write on a board-what they want to discuss.” Then a weird thing happens. Other Realtors, Lenders, Title Reps, Appraisers, etc.. that want to discuss/learn the same thing just show up. Its not uncommon to see organized conversations pop-up everywhere.
Simply write on the board what you want to discuss and others with the same interests and needs show up!
The Board Of Wisdom
Who was there?
A literal who’s -who of the social media and technology world.
JayThompson, Jack Smith, Mike Mueller, Steve Groves , Justin McHood, Evo Terra and industry professionals from Realtors, lenders, title, escrow, appraisers, inspectors, virtual assistants, home stagers and anyone else in the real estate world (or any other world — PR, Marketing, etc) who want to improve their social media game.
It was exciting to be around so many people that wanted to learn. Still think social media is a fad?
I can show you over 800 people who certainly don’t.
Some of the classes held included
* Search Engine Optimization
* Blogging Basics (how to build a blog, how to market your blog, etc.)
* Strategies of Blogging for Business in Real Estate
* Best Blogging Platforms
* Free Online Tools to Tweak Your Biz
* Twitter Tips for Real Estate
* FaceBook Marketing
* LinkedIn Business & Referral Strategies
* YouTube as a Business Builder
* Leveraging the Power of Social Networks like Active Rain, Flickr, Twitter and more
* Using Trulia to grow your business
* Tricks of Marketing on Zillow
* What makes up a good Website
* Driving traffic to your website
* Lead Generation
* Click to Closing the Lead
* Building an online Community
* Marketing Your Inventory the Web 2.0 way
* Video Like a Pro
* Podcasting For Dummies (Not!) and more from the guy that literally wrote the book Podcasting for Dummies
* How Do I Work This @$%@#$ Smart Phone?
* Developing a Data Base on a Dime
* Short Sales Only Suck If You Let Them!
#REBCPHX
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