AGBeat » Carson Coots http://agbeat.com News, insights, tools, and inspiration for business owners and professionals Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:21:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Building Blocks for Word of Mouth http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/the-building-blocks-for-word-of-mouth/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/the-building-blocks-for-word-of-mouth/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:58:27 +0000 Carson Coots http://agentgenius.com/?p=6664 Real estate agents are big believers in the power of referral business. Last week, I was in Austin for SWOMfest, a conference for the Society for Word of Mouth, created by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba of the Church of the Customer blog. I left SWOMfest with a new perspective on what it takes to ignite word of mouth for [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/the-building-blocks-for-word-of-mouth/feed/ 6 Creating a Hyper-Local Monster: Mix A Blog Energy Drink http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/creating-a-hyper-local-monster-mix-a-blog-energy-drink/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/creating-a-hyper-local-monster-mix-a-blog-energy-drink/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:46:01 +0000 Carson Coots http://agentgenius.com/?p=5689 Photo by: Jayjay402 It’s Alive I’ve been in the shadows for a while now, building the monster I call a hyper-local news blog.  I had promised a series of articles chronicling the trials and tribulations of getting it going and making it a success.  What I have found is that success is hard to define, but it has something to [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/creating-a-hyper-local-monster-mix-a-blog-energy-drink/feed/ 18 Got an Hour? Of Course Not. That’s Why You Should Watch This. http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/service/got-an-hour-of-course-not-thats-why-you-should-watch-this/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/service/got-an-hour-of-course-not-thats-why-you-should-watch-this/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:16:52 +0000 Carson Coots http://agentgenius.com/?p=2216 Time Management Takes Work My weak time management skills have been making life a lot harder than it should be. For a very long time, I made up for this by simply working longer hours than everyone else. It worked for a while, but there was one detrimental side effect. No life. I needed to work smarter, not harder. What [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/service/got-an-hour-of-course-not-thats-why-you-should-watch-this/feed/ 17 Social Media and ROI. One (more) Opinion. http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/social-media-and-roi-one-more-opinion/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/social-media-and-roi-one-more-opinion/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 06:15:26 +0000 Carson Coots http://agentgenius.com/?p=2026 What is Social Media? Well if social media is defined as not only blogging, but Twittering, networking on Linkedin, Facebook, Myspace, bookmarking, as well as commenting and contributing guest blogging, it could be a full-time marketing effort. But lets say it’s only blogging on your own site. If time is the cost involved, what is time worth and it it [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/social-media-and-roi-one-more-opinion/feed/ 13 Photography: Thinking Outside the House http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/photography-thinking-outside-of-the-house/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/photography-thinking-outside-of-the-house/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 06:48:52 +0000 Carson Coots http://agentgenius.com/?p=1778 Home searchers are looking for the perfect house based on unique needs, and recently I realized how diverse those needs can be. I was (very casually) browsing for a place in Austin to get a feel… as a relo buyer. My number one criteria was not a spacious living room, whirlpool tub, or even a lot “nestled” in a quiet [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/photography-thinking-outside-of-the-house/feed/ 11 Real Estate World: The Hottest Real Estate Social Network Since The Last One. http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/real-estate-world-the-hottest-real-estate-social-network-since-the-last-one/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/real-estate-world-the-hottest-real-estate-social-network-since-the-last-one/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:41:41 +0000 Carson Coots http://agentgenius.com/?p=589 What? You haven’t heard about Real Estate World? Where have you been for the past two days? Get with the program. It’s gonna be lame in a few weeks but get in while it’s still hot! On a serious note… I really cant predict the future, but I do know that some of the hottest and coolest RE.net folks are [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/public-relations/real-estate-world-the-hottest-real-estate-social-network-since-the-last-one/feed/ 34 Listing Agents: Where’s The Beef? http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/listing-agents-wheres-the-beef/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/listing-agents-wheres-the-beef/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:16:53 +0000 Carson Coots http://agentgenius.com/?p=269 How do you market yourself to sellers? Do you harp on about your track record, or how you won the gold star award 2 years in a row back in 2002? Do you flash cool agent extensions such as e-Pro, and say that you know how to “harness” the power of the “Internet” (that’s the one with the email..right?)? Do [...]
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