I’ll bet that you know that 90% of home buyers use the Internet at some point during their home buying process.  (Source: NAR’s 2009 Survey of Home Buyers and Sellers). But, did you know that Google

I went to MacWorld 2010 in San Francisco on Thursday.  This being the first year that Apple wasn’t going to be present, I wanted to see if the show would be better or worse that

What do you consider to be the worst business social networking faux paws? Submit your pet peeves and the (2) best entries will receive a complimentary seat* at my “Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking”

I was asked to complete that sentence the other day by a woman who had just received her real estate license and hadn’t yet made the choice of what brokerage to join. She wanted my take

If you’ve received an email from Google Apps about stopping the support for Internet Explorer (IE) 6, it’s nothing to be concerned about but you do need to upgrade your browser version if you are still

Now that Apple Computer has unveiled its new iPad, iPod and iPhone users have a dilemma on their hands.  Do they upgrade to the iPad or buy one to use in addition to their iPod

I was reading Chris Brogan’s post on “Slicing Your Social Media Pie” over at American Express’s Open Small Business Forum on Saturday, and it got me to thinking about our business. Chris asserts that “There

Businesses that use mobile advertising could benefit from a new strategy that Yahoo! appears to be readying to take local search and social media to new heights. Yahoo! recently received a patent for a contextual mobile local search

Facebook has adopted one of Twitter’s more popular features for its own users – the ability to “retweet” content.  The social networking giant now offers a “via” feature that provides attribution for content that a Facebook

I had a minor disaster at my casa last week in which I lost all access to a VMWare Fusion Windows XP machine. Fortunately it was quickly resolved by using a backup. That started me

We had nearly 100 entries for the contest! Amazing! I thoroughly enjoyed reviewing all the sites and was blown away by all of the creativity and hard work that obviously went into the sites. If

Ok, now that was a weird title for this post wasn’t it? I thought I’d combine the names of the two products I want to tell you about and make a title out of it.  It

Do you get frustrated trying to figure out when you should email your company’s newsletter or launch an email marketing campaign to get the best response?  It’s not just figuring out which day of the week

Last night I had the extreme good fortune to attend the Installation of Barry Zwahlen as President of the Contra Costa Association of Realtors® (CCAR). I say it was “extreme good fortune” for multiple reasons, which

Do you want to start adding videos to your business, but don’t know where to begin? Or are you just afraid it will take too long to do?  Relax. Videos aren’t that difficult to produce. In fact,

2009 is finally over and 2010 is here. The New Year holiday has always felt like new opportunity for me. I enter January with high hopes for the things that I want to accomplish in

With your left hand firmly placed in your iPhone, raise your right hand and repeat after me: “I do solemnly swear effective immediately to stop overexposing myself on social media.” With so many individuals and businesses using

Meredith Communications is looking for the best homebuilder Websites in the country. Nominate your own Website or nominate on someone’s behalf and if your site is judged to be the best win a $100 Ruth

The World Wide Web is huge, and it continues to grow with myriads of new web sites appearing every day.  There are web sites on every topic under the sun and in every language spoken

Got your shopping done yet?  Most people I talk to have gotten theirs done or most of the way done.  But, when I ask them what they got for themselves I get a blank look.