May 19, 2012

Eat & Learn: Joe Charat Talks About What Goes Into Making Consumers (and Agents) Happy

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This month we are lucky to have Joe speak to us about how real estate professionals assess renter and agent demands and deliver solutions based on those demands. Modern real estate agents, buyers, and renters expect more from the online real estate experience and industry websites need to constantly innovate and evolve in order to [...]

Eat & Learn: Buyfolio.com’s Matt Daimler on Customer Engagement & Collaboration in the Digital Age.

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  Announcing November’s Lucky Striker Social Media Club Dinner and Meeting. This month we’re fortunate to have Matt Daimler, from Buyfolio.com, whose topic will be learning how to trust & empower your customers to create stronger and more fruitful relationship with them.   “Buy-side brokers need to evolve their customer approach in an industry where [...]

Eat & Learn: Gotham Photo Company’s Vince Collura on Getting an Emotional Response from Buyers

Real estate might be one of the largest financial decisions a person makes, but it’s often not just about practical or rational choices. More often than not, buying a new home is a gut-decision where emotions rule. At this month’s Lucky Striker Social Media Club dinner and meeting, Vince Collura from Gotham Photo Company will [...]

And…..We’re back!

Just a quick formal announcement to let you all know that the migration from our old host to the new one is complete. We shouldn’t have anymore problems. Hope to see you all tonight at the event!   -Patrick

[Eat & Learn] Creating a Memorable Brand with Eric Barron on Wednesday, July 13th

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“YOU are your most valuable asset. Not what apartment you just sold or the company you work for.  YOU!  Your personality, your memorable personal brand! Let’s face it, you’re competing with tons of agents with great track records and experience.  Thus, it’s critical that you clearly and concisely bring YOU to life.  Whether you like it or not, you’re [...]

[Video] Bill Lublin Succeeds by Showing LSSMCers How NOT to #fail

A wonderful presentation by Social Media Marketing Institute CEO, Bill Lublin, on the Top Five Ways to #Fail in Social Media. Here’s the full video of the speech. Add your favorite takeaways to the comments section below….

Can’t afford to go to BlogWorld NYC? You can now: Last second discounts

Due to a good friend of mine and my (as well as Lucky Strikers’ love of blogging) I have secured some discount codes for the BlogWorld going on tomorrow through Thursday.  Here they are:   healyVIP – will get you 50% off of the expo pass which will get you into all of the parties [...]

We brokers make too damn much money

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There, I said it: Broker compensation is indefensible. An independent broker who is a friend of mine and I were having — how to put it? — a robust discussion at the last monthly meeting of the Lucky Strikers Social Media Club.  We talked about commissions (without violating anti-trust laws, heaven knows). I ventured an [...]

The NYTimes focuses on the Fantastic Phil Faranda

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This week’s Lucky Striker in the Spotlight is Phil Faranda of J. Philip Real Estate who was the main focus of a New York Times piece on the increasing tech savviness (and serve-iness) of quality real estate brokers. Here’s an excerpt: February 24, 2011 A For-Sale Sign With Brains By ELSA BRENNER IN 1996, when J. [...]

The Bald Brothers Go Viral

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Recently, LSSMC’s Patrick Healy and moi were featured in short videos now airing on n2k.tv. The web site is the brainchild of our bursting with energy brother-in-baldness, Eric Barron, and was created to help foster informal education among the brokerage community. Patrick gave an excellent take on how agents could better manage their expenses using such online [...]