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Digest of real estate news & other interesting stuff for week ending June 25th

Joe Spake — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:03:19 +0000

June 25th

	Published Why I am not following you back on Twitter.
	Posted Banks Manipulating System.
	Published Happy Father’s Day!.
	Posted Greenline has economic impact.
	Posted Think Outside the Box: Dome Homes for Sale.
	Published June 21, 2011 – Summer Solstice – First day of summer.
	Posted May Existing Home Sales: 4.81 million SAAR, 9.3 months of supply.
	Posted Irvine: Luxury Condos become Rental Apartments.
	Posted Florida community sends in bulldozers to clean up Prince Mongo’s property.
	Posted Is Being Lazy Costing You Money?.
	Posted Couple Served Foreclosure Notice Via Facebook.
	Posted Memphis goes back to drawing board with Madison Avenue bike lanes.
	Posted Change Comes Hard for Some in City Government.
	Posted Snakes, meth and trash oh my! Foreclosure buyers beware.
	Posted Cash Remains King in Weak Market.
	Posted Real Estate Agents Hate it When Buyers ….
	Posted When mortgage fraud gets violent.
	Posted What housing recovery?.
	Posted Vacant, Overgrown Homes Becoming Haven for Rodents in Memphis.
	Reviewed Sam’s Club (2/5) on Yelp.
	Reviewed Tom’s Bar-B-Q & Deli (3/5) on Yelp.
	Posted Center City Name Change – 2.0.
	Posted NAR say housing is in a recovery period, we strongly disagree.
	Posted ’90s Pop Icon Offers Up Real Estate Tips.
	Published About time for a new website I guess.

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Does anybody read this blog?

Joe Spake — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:11:59 +0000

According to Agent Genius, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports that only 10% of its members blog; and sometimes I wonder why that 100,000 or so of us bother to blog at all.

I am often frustrated over topics for this blog. I mean, how many stories can you write about the dismal real estate market? Or real estate consumer posts, like those “5 things to look out for…..” stories, that seem to appear over an over? Other than an occasional rant about something that irritates me professionally, like buyers who waste a lot of my time, only to stray away and buy a FSBO, or sellers who have had their house on the market for 318 days turning down a showing, and, of course, the mandatory monthly market report, there really isn’t a lot to write about real estate that is engaging to the public in general.

Just take a look over at real estate networking portal Active Rain. Popular bloggers there get lots of comments – from their peers. If real estate blogging is done with some round about intention of generating income through building affinity with those in the audience, I am not really excited about my ~~competitors~~ colleagues in the business being the audience. I would much rather have an audience of motivated real estate buyers and sellers or people from the general public who might be interested in what’s going on in the world or real estate.

It has been my theory for the past few years that ~~most~~ many realtors who adopt social media, including blogging, are not looking for engagement as much as they are at continuing their 20th century push marketing techniques. Sure Facebook, Twitter, and blogging are great tools for broadcasting listings and shameless boasting about your sales prowess. They are great for selling your sure-fire get rich in real estate “system” to struggling agents too. And with the market we have had the past few years, there has been plenty of time to figure out how to manipulate the new media to push out the message, whether you connect with anyone or not. After all, it’s free!

So, if you are reading this post, please take just a minute to comment and let me know if you are a real estate pro, a real estate consumer, or other interested party, AND what you expect from a local real estate blog. I am always open to content suggestions, even if they include suggesting I spend more time working on my much more popular personal blog.

Joe Spake is a Memphis, Tennessee based Consultant, Real Estate Broker, and Blogger. Call 901.214.5563 for a consultation or click to make a social connection.
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Conferences are a great place for practitioners to learn about Real Estate 2.0

Joe Spake — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:49:05 +0000

As you may have noticed on my other blog, http://joespakeblog.com, I attended an intense conference onÂ real estate technology last week in Atlanta, Real Estate Tech South.Â Those of us actually out there selling real estate for a living are constantly bombarded with calls and emails offering us first page placement on Google, free webinars as bait to sell us sure fire cure-alls for lagging sales,Â online courses to teach us everything we need to know about social media marketing, etc., etc.Â A lot of my colleagues must be buying into this stuff, as the pitches are at the highest level of intensity I have seen in years.Â Â I have posted about magic bullets before, and even though there is no such thing, many of us are willing to buy into that hope.

Real estate technology is a lot more today than buying a computer, a cell phone, and a digital camera.Â Real Estate 2.0 is a way of doing business – a comprehensive strategy that includes online marketing and social media, in addition to some more traditional sales and marketing techniques.Â Â You can’t go to a class and learn Real Estate 2.0, or social media for that matter.Â You learn by doing it, by immersion and by interacting with live people who are doing it, not just listening instructors who have added Web 2.0 topics to their tired 20 year old cirriculum to make a few extra bucks.

So conferences, like RE Tech South are usually attended by people who realize the importance of a hands on approach and respect the wisdom and experience of the Real Estate 2.0 presenters, and their peer attendees who are working hard to make RE 2.0 work for themselves.

The next conference near the Memphis area is a BarCamp (follow the link if you have never heard of BarCamp), an REBarCamp to be more accurate in Nashville on April 28, 2010.Â This will be the first Real Estate Bar Camp in Tennessee.Â The event will give attendees a chance to learn and share about the many facets of Real Estate 2.o – go to REBarcamp Nashville for details.

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Weekly summary of real estate news, Memphis comments, and other interesting stuff – January 8th

Joe Spake — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:01:25 +0000

	Shared WSJ: Five Key Housing Issues.
	Shared Former Lt. Gov. John Wilder dies at age 88.
	Shared Living Near Celebrities- Some Are More Desirable Than Others.
	Shared Real Estate Stats: Buyer Demographics Over The Decade.
	Shared Guess Who the Majority Owner of GMAC is Nowâ€¦ Itâ€™s YOU.
	Published Happy New Year -2010.
	Shared Seth’s Blog: Welcome to the frustration decade (and the decade of change).
	Shared 10 Things I Think I Think About 2010.
	Shared Roller Skating Wedding.
	Shared Fannie Mae: Delinquencies Increase Sharply in October via Calculated Risk.
	Shared Homeowners Have Really Lost Money In The Past 10 Years.
	Shared The Housing Bubble Blog Â» New Year Housing Bubble Predictions.
	Shared Cash Buyers Competing with First Time Home Buyers.
	Shared 10 Ways to Get Serious About Social Media.
	Shared 15 Things You Can Do Every Day to Disrupt the System.
	Published TDOT Cameras come in handy on days like this.
	Shared Pending Home Sales DecreaseÂ Sharply.
	Shared 7 photos.

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Roost.com interviews Joe Spake

Joe Spake — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:27:21 +0000

National real Estate site, Roost, has posted an interviewÂ with me that was done during the NAR convention in San Diego last month.Â Derek Overbey, Senior Director of Marketing and Social Media at Roost conducted the interview.Â Thanks to Derek and all the good folks at Roost.

“In the Nest” Episode 5 – Special Guest: Joe Spake, The Leading Web 2.0 REALTOR in Memphis, TN

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