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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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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@doverbey and @morganb interview @garyvee and Inman Connect NYC.

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Everyone knows that the Internet has expanded our reach, our knowledge and our possibilities. But is it ALL good? I’ll be the first to admit that it can be sometimes daunting to keep up with it all. I remember watching Shift Happens for the first time and being amazed by the exponential growth of unique new material that is being generated in today’s world.

So obviously we cannot keep up with everything that is being generated so what is starting [...]

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So I was contemplating last night as I was adding Plurk to my repertoire of social media sites…Is this all worth it? Does it really pay off? Are the fruits of my labor going to reward me in the end? My answers to all are I really think so.

I’ve been actively involved in the social media/blogging/web 2.0 scene for about two months now. When I say active, I mean active. Yea I had my Facebook account and I [...]

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