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A Great Question: Are Luxury and Social Media Incompatible?

by Brad Hanks on 07/30/2010 16:48 0 comments , 1 views
Tags: social media, marketing, luxury
This is a post that caught my eye, only because I'm currently coaching an individual that deals with lifestyle products for high net-worth clientele.  I think the author has some good points, and she's mirrored some of my own thoughts on whether social media can be a useful tool for those of us dealing in the luxury markets.   What do you think?

Are Luxury and Social Media Incompatible?

As an industry that is known for ...

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Facebook Lists: Start Now Before You Get Too Many Friends

by Brad Hanks on 07/18/2010 12:59 0 comments , 6 views
Categories: Facebook
Tags: social media, facebook, social networking, friends, list, categorize, organize, organization
Lists Can Simplify Your Facebook Experience

In the past year, Facebook has added the ability to categorize your friends in lists, enabling you to filter the status and news updates as well as see which groups of friends are online.  But many people aren't aware of this capability, and are oftentimes surprised when I show them in the sessions I present.  So here's a quick blurb on how to do it.

While you're logged onto your Facebook ...

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Make $$ With Social Media

by Brad Hanks on 06/04/2010 13:08 0 comments , 10 views
Categories: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
Social media is no longer just social.  Find out how more and more real estate professionals are using their social networks, blogging and photo/video sharing sites to generate business – closing business as a direct result of using social media.

In this rapid fire webinar, Brad Hanks identifies 10 Steps to Dominance With Social Media, showing you how to:

 - Connect with influencers that will refer business your way
 - Attract prospects ...
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Facebook Piled On Again

by Brad Hanks on 05/05/2010 08:41 0 comments , 8 views
Categories: Facebook
Tags: facebook, privacy, security, flaw
This has not been a good week for Facebook.  With the uproar over privacy and security on Facebook splashing across blogs, magazines and television, this has been a week the folks in Palo Alto would just as soon forget.  But the onslaught continues, with this latest post about a security flaw discovered the other day and posted on YouTube.

The post, written by Ryan Naraine and Dancho Danchev of ZDNet in their "Zero Day" blog, exposes the ...

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Has Facebook Gone Too Far?

by Brad Hanks on 05/04/2010 04:27 0 comments , 9 views
Categories: Facebook
Tags: social media, facebook, social networking, changes, tos, terms of service, privacy
Facebook has made some changes.

Not exactly a revelation, right?  I mean, as a speaker, trainer and consultant on the most popular social network in the universe, it infuriates me that Facebook changes its interface, Terms of Service and navigation more frequently than I change my socks.  Well, not really.  I change my socks daily.

But imagine my dismay when I go to present to an audience of a couple hundred people and log on ...

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Language of Luxury Blog Talk Radio Interview With Brad Hanks

by Brad Hanks on 05/03/2010 12:00 0 comments , 8 views
Categories: Ecademy, Twitter, Facebook
Tags: social networking, language of luxury, blog talk radio, brad hanks, interview

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ron Siegel, the founder of Language of Luxury, on Blog Talk Radio today.  Ron and I discussed the value of social networking for real estate professionals in the luxury home sector.

Click here to listen to the interview in its entirety.

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Why I Like "An Open Letter to Facebook"

by Brad Hanks on 05/03/2010 04:21 0 comments , 11 views
Categories: Facebook
Tags: facebook, fan page, customer service
Tamar Weinberg recently posted "An Open Letter to Facebook"on her blog, Tehipedia.  She's been a Facebook user from the early days (February 2004) of the social network.  This person is a long time user and fan of the world's biggest social network.

In the post, Tamar raises several issues that many Facebook users share.  From lack of customer support to the arbitrary removal of fan pages and profiles, Tamar writes a very ...

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Ning tip #1: Successfully inviting people to your Ning network

by bonniebeddall on 04/25/2010 16:18 0 comments , 10 views
Tags: ning, invitations

I created a Ning network for our agents a year and a half ago as a social network for the agents in both offices.  It’s been a great tool for agents to communicate with one another, post open house needs, vendors, etc. and it’s been a great way for me as a manager to blog and post documents agents will find useful in their business.

One of the things that plagued me when sending out the Ning invitation to join our network was that it ...

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This is the one that started it all!

by ron alpert on 04/23/2010 03:16 0 comments , 9 views
Categories: YouTube, Posterous, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook
Tags: youtube video first history
I've been around this open source, open networking social environment for quite some time. The other day I was wondering how some of the more popular online services began. Have you ever wondered who first wrote the first tweet? Or who was the second link in LinkedIn? Here is a very first YouTube post, check it out:   http://su.pr/95qdG8
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Damn the Numbers!

by Brad Hanks on 02/09/2010 04:54 0 comments , 9 views
Tags: numbers, blog, blog posts, title, events, course
I'm getting sick of it.  The course titles, blog posts and webinar tag lines that read "The Top Tips to with ."  Gimme a break.  Please.
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