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The Year of Money
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Maybe it is because I just celebrated a birthday this month, but I found this information on Chinese numerology and Feng Shui for 2011 very interesting.
This year we are going to
experience four unusual dates: 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11, and that’s not all; Take the last two digits of the year you were born and the age you will be this year and the result will add up to 111 for
everyone! This is the year of MONEY. (So, like Tom Cruise, show me the money!)
Also, this year, October will have 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays & 5 Saturdays.
This happens only once every 823 years. These particular years are
known as Moneybag years. The proverb goes that if you send this to
eight good friends, money will appear in the next four days, as is
explained in the Chinese feng shui. Those who don’t continue the
chain, won’t receive. It’s a mystery, but it’s worth a try. Good luck
to you. This only happens once in 800 years
Visual.ly Helps Me Discover Twitter Characteristics
Posted by: | CommentsTwitter is one of my absolute favorite social media sites. It is where “birds of a feather flock together.” I love it because unlike many other social sites you can really target the people and the content that you want to follow. visual.ly created this cool info graphic to demonstrate my Twitter profile. visual.ly is a new site that just launched. It can help you build info graphics to illustrate your trends and statistics. Make sure to check it out!
Priceless!
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Now that the new version of my book is out apparently the old one has become priceless. Amazon has one copy of “Social Media for Home Builders: It’s Easier Than You Think” remaining and this exclusive edition is available to one lucky (and perhaps wealthy) buyer for $101.41. All I can say is priceless!
Of course, you can always purchase the new version “Social Media for Home Builders 2.0″ for its regular price of $19.95. Besides it is the expanded version with new real estate case studies, more tools and twice the pages.
Bullet Work: Suspenseful from Beginning to End
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As a blogger it is always nice to be offered something for free. It is even better if that which you are offered is something that interests you! This is certainly the case with Steve O’Brien’s new book Bullet Work. I literally could not put it down and read in over the course of two days. For the little girl who grew up dreaming of owning a horse and now has several of them, anything related to horses is always a huge plus. Apparently my horse crazy streak has followed me into adulthood. For all of my friends who love Dick Francis and his murder, mystery books about horse racing, you are going to love Bullet Work.
Bullet Work is suspenseful from beginning to end. It shows a side of horse racing that most of us never experience first-hand, the backside of the track. A cast of colorful characters show determination, greed, the hard work and luck needed to win at the races. An unlikely friendship between a gifted boy and an owner develops along the way and through a strange path of twists and turns the plot thickens. This look at the backside of the track will keep you guessing who is responsible for the horse murders until the very end.
If you are looking for a fun read, I definitely give this a blue ribbon.
Banned by WordPress
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So, until today I’d only heard about blogs that have been banned by WordPress. Today I found one. We always advise our clients that it is best to have a self-hosted WordPress blog, not a free one. The biggest reason is because of the SEO. On WordPress.com, the free site, you have little to no control over your SEO (search engine optimization) on self-hosted WordPress, the version you download to your own domain from WordPress.org, you have total control of your SEO and the rest of the site.
As you probably know, I think you should own your blog. It is the only part of your social marketing program that you can have complete control of. Best of all on a self-hosted site, like www.AtlantaRealEstateForum.com you will control your SEO and your destiny. You are not subject to anyone’s rules and regulations, much less their whims (think Facebook). Your self-hosted blog is sortable, indexable and searchable. When was the last time you tried to find a post you made on Facebook two weeks ago?
Happy Blogging!
LinkedIn Maps: A Spirogiro of Life
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Remember all the cool patterns we made as kids on the Spirogiro? Well, LinkedIn has a cool new tool that will remind you of your childhood, while at the same time allowing you to visualize your LinkedIn network. My LinkedIn Map is pictured here. It is interesting to be able to picture the interconnectivity between all of my social networks, yet see each of them distinctly! I love all of the colors and patterns.
If you want to create one of your own visit Linkedin Labs and follow the directions!
If you are too young to remember the Spirogiro, guess what? They are still available at Amazon. Of course they call them Spiral Art now!
Register for Social Media Lab in February
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Do you want to learn how social media can help your business reach existing customers and build relationships with new ones? If so, bring your laptop and join us for a fun and exciting Social Media Lab at GNTC (Georgia Northwestern Technical College) in Rome, Georgia. This hand-on lab will help you start using social media immediately.
Social Media Lab is a five-week program offering the “how to” basics for promoting your business through social networking and blogging. Each week we will cover building a different site in a 3-hour lab. Find out from Carol Flammer of mRELEVANCE how to build your business as you build Friends, Fans, and Followers.
Labs will be held on the Floyd Campus on Monday mornings from 9 a.m. until noon (registration starts at 8:30). The upcoming lab takes place Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28 and March 7. Classes can be taken separately, but for the best overview and value, register for all five weeks together! Register for individual weeks for $79 each or for all five for $289. Register for the complete program and bring a friend, and get $10 off the second registration. Register five or more people together and receive a 5% discount on all registrations! Register at GNTC.
Tradeshow Survival Tips from #IBS2011
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About half-way through the International Builder’s Show, I realized that my back already hurt and my feet were starting to hurt too. I found myself in the Professional Women in Building (PWB) lounge lying on my back on the floor! It was just then that Cindy Cepko entered the lounge and loaned me her EMS (electronic muscle stimulation) machine. Having never used one before I was completely surprised that this portable, light weight piece of equipment not only worked, but also fit into my purse.
A group of us started chatting and we quickly realized that Cindy was quite the prepared tradeshow goddess! In addition to her EMS machine, she pulled out of her brand new rolling bag extra shoes with Happy Feet insoles. These three items will be on the top of my shopping list for the next show I attend:
- EMS machine
- Happy Feet
- A rolling briefcase
If anyone bought the top two items during #ibs2011, I’d love to have contact information for these vendors. I’m definitely in the market for these! And the sooner, the better!
My personal tradeshow survival kit for the show included:
- Folders for each event or meeting – this allowed me to only bring to the show the files I needed that day and leave the rest at the hotel.
- A giant case of water – I drank water non-stop during the show. Read More→
NAHB and Masco Sponsor a Fun IBS TweetUp
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I was thrilled to be asked to be the special guest at the International Builders Show’s TweetUp sponsored by Masco and NAHB. The TweetUp was the perfect opportunity to put IRL faces will all of those @ Twitter handles that I have been conversing with in cyberspace.
It was especially fun to have the opportunity to talk about Twitter because my program on Friday at 10 a.m. with Tammie Smoot, Kelly Fink and Linda Hebert is Friend, Fan, Follow or Fail: Discover the Basics of Social Networking and I’m covering, you guessed it, Twitter.
It was also fun to give some stats from the recently released @Sysomos in-depth report of Twitter’s Growth from 2009 to 2010. Just released in December 2010, these are very current stats.
- Users with 100+ friends have increased by three-fold to 21% since 2009.
- 22.5% of users accounted for about 90% of all activity.
- 80% users have made fewer than 500 tweets. Read More→
