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Ready-Set-Grow-Your Business At RainCamp Prescott August 26th

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

August 26th 2010 Prescott, Arizona

Blog, Social Media, Website, Hyperlocal, Search Engine Optimization, etc…. You have heard them all of late because they are critical aspects of your real estate business.

You have no doubt been to a seminar in the last year and left feeling underwhelmed or maybe worse-more confused that you came in. Well all that changes on August 26th in Prescott, Arizona. On August 26th I will be in Prescott, AZ at the Prescott Resort and Conference Center. with two of the most influential people in real estate: Jonathan Washburn, CEO and Founder of ActiveRain-you know, the largest real estate community in the world with 187,000 members-and Ben Kinney, a Mega Agent from Seattle and nationally renowned speaker. At RainCamp we’ll be talking about all kinds of strategies to improve your online presence and to help you earn business using the web.

At RainCamp on August 26th they will:

Show you how they have helped thousands of their members rank at the top of the search engines (Google, MSN, etc.) for searches in their market.

Share how Donna Harris, a RE/MAX agent from Austin, Texas used her blog to make $122,000 in commissions over the last two years doing what you can do in your own market.

Reveal how a plan and some guidance can help you use blogging to impact your business and get the same results as Donna.

Show you how to use Facebook and Twitter to earn more business.

Provide you with a day full of great info to take home with you and implement immediately!

This event is being brought to you by ActiveRain, they have made it possible for everyone to attend with donation based tickets. They want everyone to have access to the information they are sharing – it’s that important for the success of your business as the internet becomes, more and more, a crucial part of your lead generation.

Only 400 Tickets are available so don’t delay!
Check out what some attendees are saying:

“I was one of the attendees at the Raincamp in New York.

I wanted to leave at noon.

Did it suck? No, I wanted to start implementing this stuff right away.

If you’ve never been to RainCamp and are wondering if it is worthwhile, I’ll say this: If you’ve ever wished that someone who is actually doing this would just take and day and walk you through the nuts and bolts of selling real estate in 2010, then you would have had your head explode at this event.

I’m a tough sell; moreover, I’m totally ADD and many of the seminars and educational events I’ve attended have either bored, disappointed, or both. This thing had me engaged the whole time. I’m literally exhausted 2 days later, and all I did was sit for 8 hours!

Did I catch up with people I already know and done business with? Yes.

Did I meet people for the first time in person? Absolutely.

But I didn’t get into real estate to meet other agents. I got into this business to make money. So here’s the bottom line: Ben Kinney, the main presenter, is walking the talk. He sells real estate right now, and showed us how he does it.

Ever wonder how to make money on Facebook? That was here.
Ever wonder how to make money on Twitter? That was covered.
Interested in getting to the top of Google? Covered.
Wonder what to blog about and how to blog? Check.
Is there a website to help with one thing or another? Brother, my bookmarks are now bulging with gold nuggets.
Are you getting the picture?
There was no sales pitch. There was no long wind up to a $500 coaching program, books, tapes, or membership in some online sales clique. It was knowledge and tools, pure and simple, and they did it for a full day.”

J Philip Faranda

Reserve your seat today…..not tomorrow….TODAY!!!!

Tickets are $99.00 and $139.00

BUT-because of our relationship with ActiveRain (Ted Canto and I brought them in from Seattle a little over a year ago for their 1st event-)

They have offered discount tickets for us. Please note these links are brokerage specific. With the discount links below tickets are now $79 and $99 Your brokerage not there? Call or email me.

Keller Williams - https://activerain.com/raincamp/prescott-2010?prm=kwaz
West USA - https://activerain.com/raincamp/prescott-2010?prm=westusa
Homesmart - https://activerain.com/raincamp/prescott-2010?prm=homesmart
Realty Executive – https://activerain.com/raincamp/prescott-2010?prm=realtyexecutives
Solutions – https://activerain.com/raincamp/prescott-2010?prm=solutions
John Hall & Associates – https://activerain.com/raincamp/prescott-2010?prm=johnandhall

We have also arranged for a group discount at The Prescott Resort and Conference Center.

Hotel Discount Info

For reservations please call (800) 967-4637 and request the TED CANTO Room Block for August 25, 2010. Reservations must be called in by August 19, 2010 to insure group rate and rooms are subject to availability. After this date, room rate is subject to change and based on availability. $85.00 for deluxe rooms and $105.00 for suites per night, plus tax. An additional $10.00 per person, over two persons per room, plus tax will apply.

Oh yea, what to bring…….Listen to Sara Bonert, Industry Relations Manager for Zillow

What I learned at RainCamp:

1) Bring your lap top and get a seat up front. There are tables and power outlets for Platinum ticket holders to ensure that you’ll be juiced the whole day. There will be wireless access available for everyone, so you can surf with the Speaker. I think this greatly enhances one’s ability to digest what is being said when you can play along.

2) Bring lots of business cards. I think it would cool to have cards specially made for the event with the same picture on them that is on your Active Rain profile and an URL for your blog with your blog title. You may know someone very well online, and this would help make the connection IRL (in real life).

3) Get signed up with Internet services ahead of time. Even if you don’t know (YET) how to use them, you want to at least set them up, so you’ll be ready to go when the speakers start talking about them day of. Start with: Twitter, Facebook, ActiveRain, Zillow, LinkedIn.

I hope to see you on Prescott on August 26th 2010

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What’s The Secret? To Generating Real Estate Leads On The Internet?

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

OK, so maybe this didn’t happen………….

I just escaped! I ran all the way home to tell you what just happened to me. I can’t believe this….I’m out of breath……. Ok, breathe…in…out….in…out. Ok, yesterday, Wednesday, July 28th, 2010, 1700 hours, I mean 5:00 P.M., (sorry, I reverted back to my military training there for a minute. Won’t happen again.) Ted Canto (a loan officer here in the Southeast Valley) and I left my office in Mesa, Arizona, (really its the Mesa-Gilbert Border), any way… after another successful day of helping Arizona REALTOR’s grow their business using Web 2.0 tactics. You know….Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, ActiveRain, Yelp, YouTube, the list really goes on and on. Anyway, we left my office yesterday, whistling “girls just want to have fun” the theme song to Mission Impossible when everything went black!

I heard the noise of screeching tires, then the heat of a van, probably a mini van of some kind, in front of me. 2 guys with sharpened brooms and fishing poles 12 commandos with guns, and grenades, and knives, picked me up and threw me in the side of the van, I cried held my composure….I didn’t want them to see that I was scared not scared at all! I could hear Ted yelling “I want my Mommy!” “You’ll never take me alive!” I didn’t know what these guys wanted but I knew them meant business!

You see, I am a marketing rep for a national title insurance company based in Phoenix Arizona, I help my clients (mostly Realtors) get found on the Internet….where more and more of their clients are. Up until now I thought that my competitors were just frustrated, I never thought that anyone would do something like this! (If they did that is). Anyway, I woke up, to tape being ripped off my mouth, and bright lights in my face. Some GUY, with horrible breath was screaming at me, “Whats the secret?”, I’m like,.,, “Dude..the secret to what?“ “The Internet!…what is the secret to generating leads on the Internet!”

I’m like “whatever dude….I’m not telling you anything!” He says, “We will see about that, after the truth serum starts to take effect”. Truth Serum?

Ok, so, anyway, I escaped! And these Idiots recorded the whole darn thing! I grabbed the tape on my way out. I want you to see what happened!

As you can see this has been quite an experience. I still can’t believe this happened. I know the title industry is competitive but this is ridiculous! I got home and jumped right into my Tae-Bo videos Tae Kwon Do

By the way, has anyone seen Ted Canto?

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Raincamp Prescott, Arizona!

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Do you want to grow your Real Estate business?

The Way We Do Business Has Changed

What are you doing on Thursday August 26th 2010? I know what I’m doing. I will be in Prescott, Arizona for RainCamp with 400 of the most forward thinking Real Estate professionals from across the country. Will you be one of them?

You have heard it before, at least you have thought it “why don’t my postcards or calenders get the response they once did?” Well, there are many reasons but one of them is that there has been a shift in the way and where the consumer looks for information. A shift to the Internet. That’s where you need to be.

Almost 2 years ago, myself and Ted Canto called ActiveRain and asked them to come to Arizona to hold a workshop about blogging. To our absolute surprise they agreed. Now, to give you an idea of what them coming to AZ meant, it would be like calling Facebook to learn how to start a PPC campaign or fan page and getting Mark Zuckerberg to demonstrate it for you. I mean this was big. With a member base of over 187,000 real estate professionals, ActiveRain is one of the authorities on blogging in real estate. Other than trade shows, it was the first time ActiveRain had ever done an event like it. Over 500 real estate professionals attended the event at the Double Tree Resort in Scottsdale.

Partly because of this initial event, they went back to Seattle, Washington formed a curriculum, partnered with national sponsors Zillow.com and Marketleader.com and called it RainCamp.

What’s Raincamp?

Real Estate RainCamp™ is a full day Conference/Seminar that is packed with valuable content, presentations, and some of the most useful and applicable ideas and processes that you can implement immediately into your Social Media, Networking, Blogging Strategy, and Business Plan. RainCamp™ was created and developed for anyone in the Real Estate Industry looking for successful methods and tools to maximize and grow their online business in today’s Modern Day Real Estate Market. RainCamp™ is a National Event now touring the Country.

Modern Day Real Estate Marketing

How do you stack up in the modern Real Estate Market

Find out where you rank before we kick off the day. How does your social profile rate against your neighbor? How can you expand that presence and create connections that are meaningful in a professional manner? Understanding where you are is the only way to figure out where you need to go.

Search Engine Marketing

Learn how to target consumers that are MUCH closer to buying than an average Internet lead

Advertising is undergoing a radical transformation. As advertising dollars make an exodus from print to online marketing, do you know how to position your advertising budget to get the most impact out of each dollar? As most of your potential clients go online to make purchase decisions, knowing how to target them in the places they reside will be instrumental in ensuring they do business with you.

Converting Leads Into Closings

“Ten Days of Pain” lead conversion method – allows you to convert Internet leads efficiently

Understand Pay-Per-Click advertising and how you can get leads cheap and effectively. It’s one thing to learn how to drive traffic to your site, it’s entirely different to actually convert that traffic into a commission. Learn the regiment required to get industry leading conversions with the prospects on your website. There is no reason the leads on your site should be treated like the rest of the industry treats theirs. Resolve to do something different.

Social Media Networking and Marketing

Discover what works and what doesn’t work using the New Social Media Movement

Learn how to use Social Media to obtain a competitive edge in your market place. Gain an understanding of sites like FaceBook, Twitter, and others, and how you can incorporate them into your business plan to connect with and earn more clients.

Real World Social Media Success Stories – LOCAL PANEL

Listen to pros that are utilizing what they preach and have outstanding success doing it

Listen to real agents on the street who are using Social media to enhance their business. Let them tell you how they did it. Not every story is the same but the critical component is this: They took the leap and the rewards are well worth the effort.

30 Technologies You Don’t Know About But Should

Discover 30 technology tools that can be seamlessly integrated into your business

Does this really need an explanation? Yes it does, so you’ll need to come and hear it.

Becoming the Online Mayor of Your Community

Understand what it means to be the “Online Mayor of your Community”

The end game of all real estate social media strategies. Learn how to put yourself at the online center of your real community. This is market area “farming” and done by the cutting edge elite. Take full advantage of the resources available and create a plan to put yourself in the middle of the flow of information in your market.

Hyper-local Blogging for Business and SEO

Learn how to use Hyper-Local Blogging to land you on the first page of GOOGLE

What is Hyper-local? Why does it matter? How does focusing on hyper-local content give you more qualified leads that are ready to act quicker? Find out how to target your next client by providing the information they are looking for when they are really getting close to buying. Learn the methodology of a newer agent who has leveraged the Internet to become a Mega Producer.

About The Speakers:

Ben Kinney, Mega Producer, Keller Williams

Featured: 2008 Realtor Magazines annual “30 under 30″, RIS Media “Power Team” report, WCAR Realtor of the Year and Quarter

Bob Stewart, Director of Social Media Strategy, ActiveRain

Bob is responsible for growing and maintaining ActiveRain’s vibrant community of real estate professionals. He has been actively involved as a member of ActiveRain from inception. Prior to ActiveRain, Bob was COO of Brio Realty and during his tenure he increased sales volume from zero to over $100 million a year.

Brad Andersohn, Community Manager, ActiveRain

Brad is the all around tech and member support services guru. His focus and goal is to make sure members are getting the most out of the network and community. He spends a great deal of time introducing new products, tools, and services with explanations and tutorials on how to best apply them to your business plans and growth strategies.