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New Twitter Resource in the Labs

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Jay OHare in Marketing

I’m always interested in how people use Twitter and it seems there’s a lot of experimentation going on. Twitter was smart to open an API early as this allowed developers the chance to create all sorts of ways to deliver Twitter content.

One of the most interesting aspects of Twitter is live search. Through the use [...]

“In this economy?”

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Jay OHare in Competition

“In this economy?” It’s a phrase I’m hearing over & over again. People and organizations are using this phrase as a blanket statement to say “no,” “stop,” “we can’t.” This phrase has become the catchall to stop the very thing that just might get them out of “this economy.”
I don’t buy it. It’s as [...]

Video of the Week – Ira Glass on “Good Taste”

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Jay OHare in Video of the Week

Gary V on Real Estate & Passion

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Jay OHare in Social Media

I’m a big supporter of Gary Vaynerchuk. He’s a class act, unbelievably passionate about connections, transparency and cutting out all the bull-crap that slows companies and people down.
The following is an audio interview Gary gave during Inman Connect in New York. Gary gives his view on how real estate professionals can better use social media [...]

Making Sense of Chicken Scratch

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by Jay OHare in Getting Things Done

Death and taxes were the only guarantees in life until Man invented meetings. So as long as we’re guaranteed to have meetings we might as well try to make the best of them. There’s plenty of info, tips & tricks to run more productive meetings but what happens after the meeting? How does all [...]

Video of the Week – Dan Pink: Why Rewards Don’t Work

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Jay OHare in Video of the Week

In a world where we are scrutinizing every aspect of our businesses, how often do we consider what truly motivates team members & employees?
In this short video Dan Pink brings some insight to the topic of compensation. Much of what we thought about what motivates & drives employees to perform well turns out to be wrong.
Watch this 18min video to find out why.

The Tactic Treadmill of Business

Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Jay OHare in Blog, Marketing

If  you want to improve your fitness you have a lot of options and one of them might be a treadmill. The thing about treadmills is that you do a lot of work, spend a lot of time & energy and you don’t really get anywhere. As soon as the treadmill stops, the value stops.

You also [...]

Think!

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Jay OHare in Info

Here’s a new e-Book that’s flying around the interwebs and for good reason. Over 70 incredible business people & authors have come together to create an e-Book of short but powerful essays.

As most of us begin to think about New Year’s resolutions this is a terrific primer to that process. For example, I read the [...]

Online Marketing for Real Estate – Interview with Paul Reinarz of Rezora

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Jay OHare in Popular, audio

There are plenty of communication tools for real estate professionals to choose from but there are few that are made specifically for real estate and even fewer that are taking advantage of Web 2.0+ technology.

Rezora is just that;  a new online communications tool designed specifically for real estate that allows brokers to easily communicate with [...]

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Video of The Week – The Social Revolution

Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Jay OHare in Video, Video of the Week

With all the hype around social media these days it’s easy to get skeptical. Is this all just a fad?
I’m sure we’ll have a thinning out process just like everything else but there is so much traction in this space that I think this new paradigm is here to stay. Certainly there’s a lot of [...]