Real Estate Symposium in San Diego was a Real Hit !
June 29th, 2007 categories: Investing in San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate News
I spent 8 hours yesterday attending a fantastic Symposium in San Diego presented by Stewart Title. The day was loaded with wonderful speakers and presentations about Short Sales, Marketing,Smart Exchange for the investor client, New marketing tools, Web2, and a Lively featured speaker for Joe Stump’s By Referral Only organization on upcoming 3 day Training the Main Event Burbank CA. in September.
I believe there was in excess of 100 San Diego Realtors in attendance with breakfast and a lunch provided. It was an exciting morning with great presentations. I haven’t attended one of these Symposiums before but I can tell you without reservation that the information presented was awesome.
Speaker after speaker ,the information presented was excellent and the one next one up was going to be discussing Web 2. Reese Harris of ListingCard.net the presenter for Web 2.0 then asked the question if anyone knew what the difference is between the new Web 2.0 vrs Web 1.0. No one said anything and I sure wasn’t going to say anything, I am sitting in the front row and just wanted to see what was to come next.
Then the next Power Point slide came up on the screen and the speaker, said , Web 2. provides for people to connect with each other. Through Internet communities you could interact and exchange information easily with others. He briefly described the different kinds of communities , Business to Business, Business to Consumer, etc.
He went on to describe how participating in these Internet communities can actually drive traffic to your personal website. These communities are Web Log ( Blogging) sites, where people can exchange ideas, comment on other people’s posts and network with each other. Consumers can come into to these sites and seek information on any topic of interest and often have exchanges with the authors.
On the next slide he listed what he thought were some really great blogging sites. The first one on his list was Sellsius. Next on the list was ActiveRain.com. The third one was Jim Cronin’s, The Real Estate Tomato.com followed by Brian-Brady.com and finally Bloodhound.com. At about this point I was feeling really very comfortable knowing that I knew most of these sites by already being involved with ActiveRain as a participating member.
Then Jim Cronin, owner of The Real Estate Tomato was the one I met through ActiveRain that I contracted with to design my own blogging website. I met Brian Brady, one of the foremost Blogging experts in the United States from San Diego at an ActiveRain event that he put on Del Mar, CA. this past month. So I was feeling pretty good about this list and then all of a sudden I’m sitting there and he says that the author of one of the most interesting blog sites he has ever seen is here with us today. I sort of looked to the back of the room to see if Brian Brady, Roberta Murphy or Jeff Dowler from Carlsbad that I would know was here in the room.
He then said the author of TheRealEstateTextBook.com is right here in the front row, and would I please stand up. I was totally taken back. I only met this gentleman earlier in the morning and didn’t even talk to him and had only mentioned the blog site to one of my Title representatives’ marketing partner when I saw her earlier. It turned out that the speaker, the owner of the Listing Card.net company giving the presentation on Web 2. was her husband and he was already familiar with me and had seen a number of my blogs on ActiveRain and had been directed to the new site by his wife.
He invited everyone to talk to me over the lunch break and I was to be the local expert on Blogging for the rest of the day. At every break, someone wanted to ask me questions. At the end of the day, I had them to suggest that anyone that would be interested in joining my social network, to please drop off a business card to me and I would have Active Rain send them an invitation. I got lots of cards so I will be doing a lot of inviting tonight so they get their invitations to join.
It was great day and I am so so glad that I had the opportunity to be a part of something like this. And Many Thanks to Stewart Title for providing such a wonderful program that helps the REALTOR provide the best services for our clients.
Thanks for the mention, William. I’d like to call that guy from Stewart and invite him to our race track gig.