PRETEC

“Expect the Best” Mike

Mike Bowler Sr. ePRO, CRB, GRI, SRES
Coldwell Banker Hubbell Briarwood
1020 S. Creyts Road, Lansing, MI 48917
Phone: 517-492-3400 Fax: 888-832-6203
email: Mike@MikeBowler.com

The FREE workshop provides invaluable insight for real estate agents, into the fastest growing online Technology Certification course offered by the National Association of REALTORS®. Those who attend will not only learn about the online course, but will also receive numerous beneficial Technology tips they can apply immediately to their Real Estate business. Book your Association or Company today, for this important event or the advanced three Hour “PRETEC Today.”

Here’s a sample:

· Options and requirements to Get Connected for Websites, Blogs, Social networking

· e-mail Communication and Marketing Practices

· WWW Marketing Strategies and Practices for real estate agents

· Creating and Maintaining Personal Technology Plan of Action and your Internet Marketing Plan.

One of the most frustrating things about Blogging is having consistent, disciplined, and timely posting that needs to be done, in order to keep your Blog current and fresh. Now you can Schedule future-dated posts on most blogging platforms with PostLater.com

From one single interface, your Post Later management console, you can schedule future-dated posts on all your blogs, as well as your micro-blogging accounts. The other benefit is, if you run more than one blog, you know what a chore it is to log on to each one and schedule your posts. Not any more.

Recurring scheduling is optional, but it’s extremely easy with Post Later. You select the start date, how frequently the entry should be posted, the number of times that the entry posting should recur, and Post Later does the rest for you while you spend your time on more important things.

Post Later Support Micro-blogging Platforms: With Post Later you can schedule entries to be posted on Twitter and any micro-blogging site that is based on the Laconi.ca software, such as Identi.ca. They also support scheduling entries for FriendFeed.com.  With their support of Ping.fm, you can schedule entries for all the micro-blogging and status update services that they support.

Boost your blogging efficiency with scheduled posts from one central interface, your Post Later back-office, you can publish posts on all your blogs. Save time with no more logging into each blog. In fact, I recommend that you use Post Later for all your blogging.

Check it out you may find that Post Later is 100% the blog posting service for you.

“Expect the Best” Mike

As a real estate trainer and consultant, I’m available to assist you in all your marketing plans, technology, and taking your real estate career to the next level. Contact me if you’re interested in hiring a personal coach and consultant to help develop your business or just want to network.

As members of NAR we have many resources available to share with buyers and sellers in our Blog postings, letters, postcards and newsletters that will help generate goodwill, relationships, and drive traffic to your website for searching homes. Just by watching the current events and subscribing to media resources, you as an agent can develop many valuable tools that buyers and sellers really need in today’s market.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched a new Web site to assist home buyers with improving financial literacy, sustaining healthy home ownership and achieving financial security. This is a great resource for you to share with buyers.

There is also a FHA Toolkit for Realtors that gives guidelines and many ideas for obtaining a FHA loan in today’s real estate market. These can be used within your Blog posts also.

We all know people who are upside down on their current mortgage, if not your not seeing enough people.  There is a Guide to help those in foreclosure that is packed with valuable information needed today to assist those who need it. It’s called Hope Now.

For those of you who have been up to date on the Tax Credit Tools: FHA (Government backed) Loans are granting this credit.  It’s more of a loan, however at 0 interest rate over 15 years.  As a real estate agent, I would make it a priority to have these guidelines handy for each first time home buyer who you come in contact with.

I hope you find these sites valuable and educational.  There are hundreds of other possibilities for sharing the wealth of information with your buyers, sellers and other Realtors.  Part of our responsibility in networking and as peers is to “Pay It Forward” by sharing  and becoming better at what we do.

“Expect the Best” Mike

The Real Estate Wiki is intended to help anyone involved or associated with real estate, whether a buyer, seller, real estate professional or real estate ancillary business. Wiki displays the relevant real estate information in the most convenient way, for all to gain knowledge and contribute to the knowledge base.

The main categories in Real Estate Wiki are:

* Real Estate Glossary of Terms
* Real Estate Acronyms
* Real Estate History
* National Housing Reports
* Home Selling FAQ’s
* Home Buying FAQ’s
* Home Ownership FAQ’s
Plus dozens of other subjects you will find here.

Who can contribute to Real Estate Wiki?

Information can be contributed, viewed, and changed by anyone - you need not be a real estate professional. It only requires a simple log-on process to acquire a “wiki-signature.” Changes are made in real-time and appear almost instantaneously online.

What Kind of Content is permitted on Real Estate Wiki?

Any information that is real estate related and that will be beneficial to other real estate professionals and/or any other person that may rent, buy, own, develop or otherwise be associated with real estate.

Should I Become a Real Estate Wiki Member?

Yes. It’s free and you can use it as a resource at any time and also contribute and help create the largest, quality, free real estate encyclopedia on the Internet.

Mike Bowler Sr.

The first is A Google profile where you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to tell others a bit more about who you are.  With a Google profile, you can easily share your web content at one central location. You can include, for example, links to your blog, online photos, and other profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
and more.

The other is Google Reader, where you get all your news and blogs in one place keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.  Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content.  You can also share with your friends a built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family.

Google Reader and the Google Profile are both free and easy to use.  Hope you enjoy.

“Expect the Best” Mike