LinkedIN – Tips, Tricks and Strategies for Success!

Before doing the research involved in writing this post, I, like a lot of you, had created a LinkedIN profile and solicited a few business connections. Being a bit more advanced than the average LinkedIN user, I joined a number of groups associated with my industry category of Real Estate, and  had superficially interacted with [...]

Do you have what it takes to be deemed Tech Savvy Agent?

So here it is. We have compiled a series of skills tests and questions that we will be using to select the Tech Savvy Agents for our referral network. Consumers will be made aware of the criteria that was used for your selection and thus feel more confident in giving you their business in this [...]

HTC Droid Incredible – Android for Real Estate Agents Review

Incredible indeed…this entry into the Android family of phones is nothing short of its name. Being a former owner of a Palm, Blackberry, and the first DROID on Verizon, this phone absolutely is the best phone I have ever owned.

The first thing that stands out to me is the speed. This phone is FAST (thanks to the 1GHz Snapdragon processor). You can have multiple apps running at the same time with no lag time in performance. Another area where the Droid Incredible rises above most smartphones is the camera. Sporting an 8-megapixel lens and dual LED flash, the Incredible takes excellent photos indoors and outdoors along with the ability to shoot up to 720p video (with an upgrade coming soon). There is also a TV out option that allows you to hook the phone up to your television allowing you to view…

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Social Ties – How To Integrate All The Pieces Together

Earlier this week we posted a question on our Facebook Fan Page asking if knowing how to tie all your social networking profiles together was a) important to you and b) if so, if you had it done. We got some agents saying that they had, noting what they had used to achieve this, and we got a lot of comments from agents stating that they really wanted to know how.

Posting the question on our Facebook Fan Page distributed the update to all our Fan’s personal walls – as of today that’s just over 7,000 Facebook profiles. That alone is a great start to the distribution of content and socialization with others. But let’s say that that update was actually a blog post automatically pulled from your real estate blog site and it wasn’t just posted within Facebook but it was also automatically posted on Twitter…

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How to Add a .45x Wide Angle Lens to the Apple Iphone 4

The addition of a quality wide angle lens to the Iphone 4 produces a big difference in the contrast ratio, the saturation, white balance and stability. This simple tutorial will show you how to quickly and inexpensively add a wide angle lens to your Apple Iphone 4.

HDhat’s Apple Iphone 4 wide angle lens modification and sample real estate video tour.
Some important notes about the videos below.

*All the videos below have been “stabilized and smoothed” in the HDhat.com editing process. So the finished product you see here is much smoother than the raw footage from the cameras.

*We did not brighten or tweak the colors in any of the videos during the editing process.

*We did change camera settings on the higher end Sony HX-1 so that we were able to capture nice bright video.

*The Iphone 4 because of its lightweight and…

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3 Ways To Use Opt-Ins and Lead Generation in Facebook

The demise (and rebirth) of our friend, Jonathan Rivera’s “The Official Real Estate Referral Group” Fan Page last week was a HUGE eye opener not only for him, but for everyone.   Or at least I hope it was!   When Facebook shut down his real estate business page with 47,000 plus members, not only did he lose his mind, but he also lost the majority of those 47,000+ contacts!

He may have had a huge following, but he didn’t have any way to contact them now that his Fan Page was gone – all those tens of thousands of people were simply following his page – most hadn’t provided anyway for him to reach out to them other than writing a post on his Fan Page wall – and now his wall was gone!

Hey, this isn’t a post to tear down Jon and/or his short-fallings. Not…

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Real Estate Video Tours and The Iphone 4

EXCLUSIVE REVIEW!

HDhat’s initial testing of the Iphone 4 has revealed that it is a great choice for a real estate video tour camera, however certain minor and simple modifications will be necessary.

1) The Iphone 4 will need a wide angle lens.

HDhat.com has tested a very inexpensinve .45x wide angle lens on the Iphone 4 with great success. We will publish the modification method here on TechSavvyAgent.com and our Blog soon.

2) The Iphone 4 will benefit greatly from a simple stabilizer system which will also be quite simple to accommodate.

Neither the wide angle modification or stabilizer will require the Iphone to be modified or touched in anyway.

3) There are also other benefits that derive from the addition of a wide angle lens to the Iphone 4 both in video capture and editing.

For instance the addition of a quality wide angle lens to the Iphone 4 produces…

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