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AGBeat Columnist: Chris Griffith

Written by Chris Griffith, a Realtor Associate at Keller Williams Elite Realty in Bonita Springs, Florida.

Chris is the author of Real Life and Real Estate In Bonita Springs, and a real estate columnist at Naples Daily News. Chris is active in social media and can be found on social networking site Twitter as Twitterzilla.

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Getting Face to Face and Toe to Toe

Isolated Agents That Are Everywhere There are so many progressive real estate agents that have engaged with the web, especially within the last year. A few years ago a good portion of them didn’t have a clue what a blog was, what Twitter could do or why they needed a Facebook account. These days, or a lot of people if ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/06/16 | 19 Comments Social Media

Remember, You Asked Me For Feedback

Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You The day after showing property is like hell for most buyers agents. Touring fifteen properties only guarantees one thing; a minimum of fifteen interruptions from super needy listing agents due to phone calls the following day. Every agent with an over priced listings wears out their dialing finger trying to get feedback. Their sellers ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/06/09 | 29 Comments Real Estate

MLS Fail Shots – Do You Remember Your First?

Once upon a time a beautiful baby boy was born. He knew he had to crawl before he could walk, walk before he could run, run before he could become the real estate rock star we all know and love today. He was special and destined for greatness. Some day he knew he would be notorious famous. Maybe today is ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/06/02 | 23 Comments Social Media

MLS Fail Pictures – Pop Up Children Fail

You gotta love the little buggers. Don’t you just wonder if they belong to the agent or the home owner? I do. Kids: They go rogue and suddenly their in a photo … but *how* do they end up being uploaded? Don’t most agent’s pick the best possible “sell the benefits”, not the rogue child, image? Ladies and gentlemen, presented ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/05/19 | 14 Comments Real Estate

MLS Fail Shots – More Tragedy From The Lens

Digital Disasters and Massive Failure of MLS Photography.

Chris Griffith | 2009/05/12 | 29 Comments Residential

MLS Fail – The Visual Tour Failure [Episode 9]

Sorry kiddles and bits but I’m taking a blatant short cut today. On my way to ReBarCampPHX I changed planes in Houston and I’m convinced I’m part of a pandemic something or other. Fortunately, an anonymous donor sent me video to share that I thought was a classic and I’m all about just pasting a little bit of code and ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/04/28 | 17 Comments Social Media

MLS Fail Shots – Staging Failures [Episode 8]

Animal Head Fail Who peppers the walls of their crib with animal heads? A certified wildlife animal head stager, that’s who! Certainly this was staged just for the sale. Heck, they even left the head hanging latter right there against the wall. You have to especially like the howling coyote over the desk. It’s a classic. The Less is More ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/04/20 | 10 Comments Social Media

MLS Fail Shot [Episode 7]

Rolled Up Window Fail The only thing that tops taking a picture through the car window, from inside the car is doing it with the window rolled up. In this case it might not be too bad of a thing after all. The reflection in the glass actually distracts from the b-ball hoop and what looks to be a car ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/04/14 | 9 Comments Social Media

MLS Fail Shots [Episode 6]

Birthday Party Fail I can almost imagine it. The family is sitting around the table after Thanksgiving dinner and someone says, “We should put the house on the market. I’ll take the pictures right now.” That could be the only explanation why Grandma is posed in a photo of a home on the internet. Just out of view of the ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/04/07 | 13 Comments Social Media

MLS Fail Shots [Episode 5]

Massive Amounts O Crap Fail We’re playing a game with this one, ladies and gentlemen. Sort of a Where’s Waldo, I Spy game of crap that you wouldn’t dare let people know is in your home. Find the following: Mickey Mouse giving the “thumbs up”. No doubt the product of a Christmas gift exchange. Pink exerise ball. Used only the ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/03/31 | 18 Comments Social Media

MLS Fail Shots [Episode 4]

The readers have really kicked it up a notch with the images this week. There are a few I can’t even use. I was rendered speechless and that isn’t easy to do. I thought I’d seen everything. Keep up the good work! Car Window Fail I don’t know about you but I am actually wondering if this car even stopped. ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/03/24 | 12 Comments Social Media

MLS Fail Shots [Episode 3]

We have a bumper crop of Fail Shots this week. I’d like to thank all of you who kicked in and sent your images. Hopefully in the coming weeks you’ll find your contribution, complete with recognition and a link to your blog. Thank you again and keep them comin’! Now, get a load of what is going on in the ...

Chris Griffith | 2009/03/17 | 13 Comments Social Media