Real estate professionals have so much to gain from using social media tools, and coming late to the Twitter game may mean losing out on opportunities.

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So I’m back from attending RE BarCamp San Diego and the 2009 REALTORS Conference & Expo in sunny San Diego. It was one of the best that I have ever attended from a content standpoint. The sessions were well thought out and the speakers were intelligent, insightful and some were even humorous ( Teresa Boardman AKA @tboard, this is targeted to you).

The Expo was a little smaller than in year’s past and there [...]

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Can you believe it’s already November? It may be getting cold outside but here at the Roost Blog, we are heating things up with our fifth installment of Roost’s 50 Real Estate People You Should Follow on Twitter. If you are seeing this list for the first time, you need to stop and click the July List, August List, September List and October List first because you will have access to 200 real estate people that [...]

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So here is our third installment of Roost’s 50 Real Estate People You Should Follow on Twitter. If you are seeing this list for the first time, you need to also click the July List and August List (see links below) because there are some of the most awesome people in real estate who just so happen to be on Twitter. For the month of September, we dug a little deeper and discovered some people you may not know yet, [...]

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Are you excited about video but don’t have anything to shoot it with? Well you may have a chance to change that if you enter Roost’s Flip Mino HD Camcorder Contest. We are looking for honest feedback on the Roost website and thought it would be fun to combine obtaining that feedback with a chance to win a very cool prize.

Now we are only giving away one (1) Flip Mino HD Camcorder so the chances of winning is dependent on [...]

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Roost Flip Mino HD Camcorder Giveaway

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No Purchase Necessary.  A Purchase or Payment Will Not Increase Your Chances Of Winning.

Eligibility

The Roost Flip Mino HD Camcorder Giveaway (”Sweepstakes”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who have reached the age of majority in their state of residence at the time of entry.  Employees of Roost and its parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, distributors, advertising and promotion agencies and members of the [...]

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We use Twitter a lot here at Roost and have made some great connections over the last year. Since we are in the real estate world, we thought we would put together a list of some of the great industry Tweeple you might want to follow if you are new to this great platform. We will update this list on a monthly basis with brand new people because we are always meeting great folks on Twitter. If you’d like to [...]

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So like everyone else, I’m pretty sick and tired of all the constant negative talk about the real estate industry that the media seems to spew on us on almost a daily basis. It really gets to me when they make huge sweeping generalizations about the real estate market across the nation. So with the help of some of my close real estate friends, I thought I would provide a glimpse into some local markets to see how the “feet [...]

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It has been a rough couple of years in the real estate industry but there are plenty of brokerages that are still kicking and doing business. Now the landscape has definitely changed but brokerages that are not only surviving but thriving in this less than stellar real estate environment have one thing in common…they get it.

Take River City Real Estate for example. A three-office brokerage on the outskirts of Saint Louis would probably not be the type of brokerage you [...]

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I caught @ResPres at Bloggers Connect speaking about Social Media. This is an awesome presentation. It is 22 minutes long but well worth the view.

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