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Richard Vetstein

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Will Posting Your Real Estate Listings To Your Personal Facebook Profile Shut Down Your Account?

September 27, 2011
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The answer is that “it could.” Today, I was informed about a troubling story that several Coldwell Banker real estate agents had their Facebook personal profiles shut down because of complaints they were posting their listings on their personal profiles, in violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. I decided to do a little research into [...]

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Blogging

Canned Content Can Kill Your Google Rankings

September 23, 2011

Canned Content May Violate Google Duplicate Content Policy The vast majority of agents who have recently set up a blog with pre-packaged, canned content don’t realize this can be the Google Ranking Kiss of Death for their sites. Let me give you an example of what occurred today in the blogosphere to several unsuspecting agents. [...]

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Blogging

Social E Conference Recap: Richard Vetstein Talks Blogging & Social Media

June 25, 2011

On Friday, I was honored to speak at the huge Social E Conference in Newport, RI sponsored by the Warren Group, the publisher of Banker & Tradesman. As the Warren Group caters mostly to the real estate and banking sectors, there were an abundance of yep, real estate professionals and bankers there. I was on [...]

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Social Media

Google Reader: Your Internet Inbox

May 11, 2011
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I use Google Reader all the time to manage all the various websites and blogs that I enjoy reading on a daily basis. Google Reader is an RSS Reader. For those who are unfamiliar with RSS, it stands for Real Simple Syndication. Remember the old wire news services. Well, think of an RSS feed like [...]

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Design

Success In Selling! Four Tips For Getting Your Home Ready For Listing

May 10, 2011

A guest post by Judy B. Leerer, Realtor® and Accredited Staging Professional, Realty Executives–Boston West. Spring! It’s music to real estate agents, as well as sellers and buyers ears. Listings increase- most sellers think their homes look best before the grass has browned in the summer heat and the buyers come out of hibernation to [...]

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Blogging

Time To Call In The Professionals? Has Real Estate Social Media Become Too Complex & Overwhelming?

November 19, 2010
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“Argggg!!!!!” “My head is spinning!!!!!” “I have no idea what you just said…” “<sigh> I’m leaving.” Have you recently attended a Real Estate Social Media Seminar? Then you’re probably familiar with these reactions after attending one of these conferences. Completely Overwhelmed… We’ve been to our share of conferences, and have noticed this glassy eyed state [...]

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Blogging

7 Tips For Writing Great Real Estate Blog Content

November 6, 2010
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Any Search Engine Optimization expert will tell you that well-written content is the #1 way for prospective clients to find you on Google, Bing or Yahoo. If you focus on writing well-organized, easy to follow, plain English prose — like you were taught in high school and college — you can create awesome search engine [...]

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Blogging

Is Boston The Next Hub For Social Media Savvy Real Estate Agents: Inman Agent Reboot Conference Recap

October 14, 2010
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Inman Agent Reboot Boston Conference Recap I’m thrilled to have been selected to write the guest post for the Inman Future of Real Estate Marketing Blog highlighting the Agent Reboot Conference in Boston held yesterday on October 13, 2010. We Bostonians like to think of our “town” as the “Hub of the Universe”! From the [...]

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Blogging

Your Blog Posts Need Some Quan: Write From The Heart

October 8, 2010

I love the movie, Jerry Maguire. One of my favorite parts is Cuba Gooding Jr. (Wide Receiver, Rod Tidwell) coining the word “Quan.” It means “love, respect, community, and the dollars too. The entire package. The Quan.”  Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire), responds simply, “Great word.” Then Jerry and Rod get into a heated argument and [...]

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Inman Agent Reboot Real Estate Social Media Conference Coming To Boston Oct. 13

October 5, 2010
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HubConnected is proud to be a sponsor of the Inman News Agent Reboot Conference coming to Boston, Hynes Convention Center on October 13th! We’ll be there with a slew of social media savvy realtors from around Greater Boston, some of whom are already part of the growing HubConnected newtork! Click here to find out more [...]

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