What's black and white and hopefully read all over

What’s black and white and super-confusing to wrap your head around? If you’re unfamiliar with QR codes, not to worry. Those fuzzy boxes on business cards and promotional swag are easily scannable information barcodes. Essentially, a client points their camera at the QR image and additional information on the home that you are listing gets beamed directly to their smartphone or computer. The possibilities are endless, lets say someone uses your QR code and gets redirected to your website you can have a virtual video tour of that home already set up! Now you have just shown your home to a possible client without even being there! QR codes are still a relatively foreign concept for most casual users, but they have a lot of potential to change the mobile game. Some other uses include added nutritional information on groceries, the ability to comparison shop for textbooks, access to free giveaways and bonuses at major music festivals. So now you have to ask yourself one question: What do you want to say? Golden rule, is to share something worth sharing, make sure your message, website, or infomation is appropriate for quick mobile consumption. So I guess you must be asking yourself how can I make my own QR code for my business? Here's a list of websites to help create QR codes KAYWA, ZXING PROJECT, DELIVR, QRSTUFF, MAESTRO these are some of my favorites. Each offers different approaches and specific feature that will help with a particular business. Last but not least you'll need a QR reader on your social media device to help you read codes you might come across. These can be found on the web or your phones app store. For practice please use the QR code in this blog to direct you to my website and buy a home while your there"

To be or not to be social media...

As with many fads they always seem to come and go, social media is one of those fads that has been targeted by critics. If you listen to "non-believers" of social media sites, you are definitely missing out on a lot of benefits that social media can help your ever growing real estate career.  From having more engaged customers to getting new ones, to effectively promoting your products, to being able to listen to your customers conversations and to being able to provide the best customer service possible. These are just some of the benefits you get from using social media to jump start your career.  Once Google and other search engines figure out how to make searches more social and more real-time then the benefits from social media are endless. Be aware social media marketing does takes time, effort and in some cases, money to create, develop and maintain, your "image" Social media critics hold that numbers and statistics are useless in determining social media’s staying power.  Twitter and Facebook might have billions of hits and visits between the two of them daily, but that does not mean that these two social media giants would be around come 2013, does anyone remember myspace???
But does that translate that social media is just a fad? If for anything, the demise of MySpace and similar social sites only proves that social media is here to stay. As long as a social media site stays new and fresh and relevant to people’s lives, then it shall always be around to help us in promoting our image as nice, dependable, trust worthy real estate agents with cool profile pics