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Dustin
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Dustin
Another Rock’n Inman Conference
As always, the Real Estate Connect Event put on by Inman this year rocked! The information, the people, the food, the fun… it’s just way too much fun (honestly too much!). And I know I’m a bit biased, but I hang with a really great group of people, even if you’all do stay out a bit too late.
Combine a great New York City trip with being able to team up with Jay Thompson for a session on blogging and you know I’m going to have fun.Follow that up with a great opportunity to moderate a discussion on the future of mobile technology in real estate with Brad Blumbert of SmarterAgent, Mark Ford of Qwasi, Dawn Doherty of StreetEasy and Jamie Glenn of Trulia and I was feeling pretty darn good! But then give me the opportunity to moderate another panel on web analytics with Gahlord Dewald of Union Street Media, Marty Frame of CyberHomes, Ed Freyfogle of Nestoria and Anita Gandi of Hitwise and I was in online real estate geek heaven!
I learned a ton from so many folks at Inman this year, so thanks again to everyone who connected up over the past few days!
Sadly, I’m going to be missing out on the last day of the event (thanks to the fact that I doubled up my NYC time with a client meeting on Friday), but I did that very reluctantly as I cherish every minute I get to soak up from the great folks in online real estate!
Can’t wait to see you’all in San Francisco!
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Irina Netchaev
Dustin, how fun! I am soooo jealous!
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Dustin
You should be jealous Irina!
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Poppy Dinsey
It was amazing huh? Great to meet you IRL and hopefully I’ll be there at San Fran too!
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G. Dewald
Hey great job moderating! That web analytics panel felt great to be on.
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Dustin
Amazing Poppy! I definitely look forward to seeing you in SF! and maybe a trip to London for me some day!
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Dustin
Thanks so much Gaylord! You guys did a great job on the panel and made my job really easy!
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Daniel Rothamel, Inman Community Manager
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Dustin
The 1st 4RealzEd event was yesterday and…
I think I’ve recovered enough now to actually post about it! 
Despite our best efforts to be prepared, the day started off a bit rough with a nearby mudslide taking out power in our building in the morning (meaning no hot coffee and no projector) and a 9-car pileup on a nearby freeway slowed me down tremendously. AHHH
So, to say it started rough would be an understatement… But once it started, things seem to get on a roll quickly.
I started with an overview of consumers expectations in a web2.0 world to set expectations for the day… Jim followed up with presentation on optimal features and design for a real estate website. Then it turned back to me for a presentation on social networking… lunch… then another presentation by me on creating value through blogging about communities. And we returned for the day’s finally with Jim giving a engaging presentation on measuring and tracking marketing results to ensure a positive ROI.
All around, it was a wonderful day! And, maybe they were just being nice, but the attendees who talked with me said only good things about the education.
Because I promised attendees I would give them a list of all the sites I mentioned in my presentations (so that they wouldn’t have to ask me to spell out each URL), here is the list for everyone’s benefit.
Consumer Expectations in a Web2.0 World:
- Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, Trulia, Rain City Guide, RealCentralVA, Amazon, Netflix, del.icio.us, Firefox, Zillow API, MySpace, LinkedIn, Altos Research, Property Shark, Market Snapshot, Homethinking, Redfin, Realtor.com, Zillow, Google PageRank
Engaging in Social Networking to Earn Clients
- MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Inman News Community, Zillow Discussions, Trulia Voices, ActiveRain, Google Reader (feed reader), AnnaLuther.com (RSS feed of listings), Mobile Reader
Using Blogs to Build Communities
- WordPress.com, Top Producer Blogs, Yahoo Mail, moving to seattle post, Real Estate Tomato, RealCentralVA, 4realz.net, Notorious Rob, Grow-a-Brain, Northern Virginia RE Guide, Altos Research blog, NELA Live, REagent in CT, St Paul Minnesota, FOREM, Blog Calabasas
I wasn’t tracking the sites that Jim mentioned, but there were not nearly as many of them in his presentations…
And thanks again to all the bloggers who have helped spread the word about the event, the sponsors who helped us keep the price low and all the attendees who made the day possible!
I received some incredible feedback from all three groups, which is going to lead me to make some changes to the upcoming events (I’ll announce those early next week!). Great stuff all around. Thanks again to everyone!
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Jay Thompson
Congrats Dustin! Mudslides and pile-ups aside, I’m sure it was well worth it for the attendees. Sounds like a great program.
But next time, you should slip some Phoenix real estate blog in there somewhere…
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Dustin
So very true!
At one point I list “reasons blogs work”, and I use different examples from RCG posts… During the presentation I came to the conclusion that I had too many RCG screenshots, so my plan is to redo that section to bring in some other great real estate blogs… and I can only imagine there will be at least one Phoenix blog included!
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toddwcarpenter
Congrats Dustin. I saw your twitter yesterday morning and had to laugh. Great that it all came together.
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Athol Kay
Wow, that’s some heady list to be included in with. I appreciate it!
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Mike Farmer
Congratulations!
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TimJ
Congratulations on surviving your first event. You’re off to a great start! (except for the little mudslide and traffic thing).
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Doug Willis
I was one of the attendees yesterday. Jim and Dustin provided a wonderful presentation and experience. If you are thinking of blogging, you must go. Seeing Dustin is like, well, “having Moses personally escort you on the arc”.
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Dustin
Thanks to everyone!
And a special thanks to Doug! I’m planning to send all the attendees an email with a link to this post, but I hadn’t made it that far yet, so it is awesome that you followed up already! I just played on your site a bit and noticed that your site looks pretty darn good and includes a great cast of contributors. You’re already ahead of the game!
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Richard Dale-Mesaros
Hi Dustin,
Glad to see you’re getting out there and enlightening the world about the new social networking. Things are moving at such a fast pace in this arena and we appreciate folks like you who are keeping us in the loop. 2008 is certainly going to be the year of the niche social network, as we’ve already been seeing with our own site for real estate investors.
Keep up the good work!
Richard
Chief Deal Weaver
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Dustin
Athol,
I used one of your Bad MLS photos posts to talk about the benefits of using humor… and the slide alone was effective. Everyone had a good chuckle! So credit goes to you for creating a fun resource for us all!
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pasadenaviews
Dustin, this class was everything I hoped for and more. As always, you did a tremendous job making sense of Web2.0. Jim’s presentation on what a website should have and the ROI gave me a lot to think of. I have a slew of next steps to incorporate. Keep up the great work and I look forward to more classes. THANKS to you both!
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Jim Marks
Dustin,
You are superman… Good job getting this post and all the links up… It is Saturday morning and I am just getting my feet back under me… with a weekend in Vail… I thought I would check your blog to get the news!
I gotta admit that the Mudslide was the first time I have ever seen you sweat! but we worked it out!
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monikamcgillicuddy
Sounds like it all worked out in the end. I wish I could have been there to see you guys in action.
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Marlene Bridges
Dustin – What an awesome day of mind expansion. You and Jim were fully prepared. You gave us so much information in the morning that I was on the edge of my seat taking notes as quickly as I could. When it was time to break for lunch I was shocked that so much time had passed. Then after lunch you guys packed in even more.
Dustin, you demystified, clarified, and confirmed things I knew, things I thought I knew, and things I’d wondered about. In today’s market, we simply don’t have money to burn. I absolutely thought my money for the day was well-spent. You valued our time and there was no “dead air”. You and Jim did such an incredible job. BTW – I drove three hours to get to there (enjoyed the scenery on the 405 and saw things I usually sail by-the mudslide affected the freeway, too) and I’d do it again in a heartbeat to hear what you have to say.
Thanks also to the great sponsors. Events like this one simply can’t happen without sponsors. Thank you for carefully choosing relevent sponsors for this event. I can’t wait to get my Altos Research up and running on all my websites!
Looking forward to the next 90 days of learning and to future events like this one to build up my Web 2.0 muscles.
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Dustin
Irina, Monika and Marlene: Thank you so much for the kind words about the presentation! Everyone at the event was wonderful, inquisitive, attentive and understanding. A perfect audience!
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Naia
Dustin and Jim: As an attendee who showed up a few minutes late (15-30?), I can tell you that by the time I showed up, you were handling it all well, and I had no sense of crisis.
To all future attendees: The workshop was well worth it! Balanced and useful across a variety of speakers: Dustin, Jim, and the 5 minute presentations by the three sponsors.
Dustin and Jim, I was thinking that you were served well by your experience at tracking communication across communities. I think it made your planning for this event strong because the parts of the live event LINKED together well—even while each participant was able to keep their identity and provide their own expertise. That’s a hard thing to do well in live events, and you succeeded.
Naia
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Naia
Oh, yes. …btw, count me in for the 90day expansion of your training.
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Dustin
You’re on Naia! And thanks so much.
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Missy Caulk
Sounds like fun, mudslides, car pile ups and all, but no coffee, I draw the line there.
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Ubertor
Congrats Dustin. Sounds like a great event.
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Laura-LosAngelesRealEstateTalk.com
Wow! It seems like the event was a huge success. What is the 90-day expansion training? Is it only available to people who attended this first event?
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Dustin
Laura,
The event was definitely a lot of fun.
In terms of the 90-day course, it is an idea that I shared with the first attendees and it involves me walking them through social networking and blogging over a 90-day time period. And, yes, I did offer it free to all attendees…
Once I get the system down, the plan is to open the course up to anyone who is interested (most probably for a fee).
Dustin
Ahhh… I’m in BlackBerry sync utopia…
My wish for the ability to easily sync my AddressBook contacts from my MacBook Pro with my BB Curve have been realized!
Combined with the free Plaxo Toolbar for the Mac, I’m now getting all my contacts (from LinkedIn, gmail, my phone, etc.) synced and backed up!
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Ron Ares
Dustin,
You may have just stopped me from buying a new Palm Treo….ugh
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Dustin
Ron: I’m somewhat addicted to my BB, but now that I no longer have a corporate exchange server backing up and wirelessly syncing my device, it’s been a pain!
However, I went with the BB Curve (from t-mobile) because it is the ONLY mobile phone I’m aware of that works over a wifi network if one is available. At my house where I get almost no cell reception, this means that my cell phone can actually work at home! (although I must say that t-mobile still has some quirks to work out of the system, because quite often wifi calls will drop).
The only missing ingredient with the sync program offered by BB is that it does (appear) to work via bluetooth… If it worked via bluetooth, then I could configure pretty easily configure things so that the sync happened without me needing to go through the effort of connecting the devices with a USB cable! Not quite the same as the mobile sync of my old corporate exchange server, but considering my laptop and my cell phone are almost always next to each other (i.e. near me!), it would do the trick.
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Kathy Drewien
Ahhh, indeed. Don’t know how I managed before the Curve.
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Robbie
Now that the iPhone has
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loren nason
@Robbie – I saw that news and that is SO AWESOME! The part I liked the best is when the Apple rep said “Exchange is at the top of email services, even above .Mac”
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Dustin
Robbie:
I’m stuck in a two-year contract at this point!
Besides, I love the fact that I can run my mobile calls through my wifi network at home because I get almost no cell reception in the canyons where I live. That’s something iPhone and AT&T don’t do yet. -
Robbie
Since, the iPhone SDK has been released, I suspect Skype & SlingPlayer support are coming soon.
Dustin
Erik Hersman at Realty Thoughts lets us know that Zestimates are now available via text message on a mobile phone. (Barbara Clements at Open House seconds that notion)
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