Comments on: The New YOU in Social Media

By: Linsey

Linsey — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:59:50 +0000

Sorry to be slow in my response – my reader has been ignored for far too long. Love this post. I’ve been amazed and thrilled by the opportunity the Social Media has given me to engage in conversations that fascinate and intrigue me. I’m no longer in a large office but I still crave the interaction of challenging thinkers and people asking the great questions. This has surely given me that.

I also wonder about something. Just a theory but I think those that try to present anything they are not, find that they may pull it off for a week, maybe two, maybe a little more. But, before long, they realize transparency – intended or no – seems to be part of the social media reality.

By: Ines Hegedus-Garcia

Ines Hegedus-Garcia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:34:37 +0000

Matt – and NOW you are getting to the good part – we will attract “like minded individuals” through this medium. I hate hard sales and will never do it….I’m at peace with playing the “do onto others” game. Funny enough I have encountered people that want me to sell them and actually have confessed to feeling uncomfortable with my style ……..different strokes for different folks or as we say in Venezuela, “cada loco con su tema”

Joe – rude? LMAO!!

Susie – you totally rock – think of the diversity of people you meet on-line that you would usually not be exposed to? beyond powerful if you ask me. And for the cowboys and horses…….it’s written all over you

By: Susie Blackmon

Susie Blackmon — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:32:15 +0000

Love getting to know people virtually and then meeting them IRL. I’m too darn old to try to be something I’m not! It is what it is. Many times you can get to know more about people by being social with them on-line first. Love the realtors who blast away on FB and Twitter “Oh I’ve been so busy with closings and showings and did you know I’m the featured realtor of the month?” Had you never met me in person I bet you’d never know I love Cowboys and horses.

By: Joe Loomer

Joe Loomer — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:20:05 +0000

I’ll be 29 this Friday, or was it 46? Either way, if I’m not relevant or worse – if I’m rude – even the x-number of followers and friends I have won’t ready my posts.

Navy Chief, Navy Pride

By: Matt Stigliano

Matt Stigliano — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:01:29 +0000

Ines – Those cult-like leaders are using the buzzwords. I’ve seen it around me. I hate buzzwords. I try to avoid them. It does annoy me that some great words are stricken from my vocabulary because of a few that insist on drilling them into the ground. Oh well, time to invent new words I guess.

@respres and I spoke to each other about the hard sell once and he said something so simple to me that it’s stuck with me all this time. The hard sell is still around, because it still works. People do get business with the hard sell or it would have died a long time ago. I don’t know how it still works, since there is nothing more repulsive to me and many I know, but somewhere out there is someone screaming “Please sell to me and be pushy about it!”

By: Natasha Hall

Natasha Hall — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:50:29 +0000

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By: John Percudani

John Percudani — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:46:28 +0000

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By: Ines Hegedus-Garcia

Ines Hegedus-Garcia — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:45:56 +0000

Sal – some do claim you can do SM without going all the way. I don’t think there needs to be a niche necessarily, as long as you are consistent – but to take the question back to subject, even if you do choose to use video…..you can do it without pre-conceptions…..because we are not just talking about looks here.

Elaine – what? you’re not?
(I’ve thought the same thing about deception……but as I said with the “jerk” comment above…..true colors would eventually show)

By: Elaine Reese

Elaine Reese — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:17:07 +0000

Ok, I’ll fess up. I’m 5’7″, 110 lbs, and age 35. Do you buy that?

Sometimes when I hear of people being conned by online dating, I wonder how they could be so gullible. Then it dawns on me that I’m developing those same type of relationships with the people that I meet on these various social networks. Hopefully, our group of folks aren’t so deceptive.

By: Sal Antsipenka

Sal Antsipenka — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:47:14 +0000

A lot of real estate professionals turn to social video as an extension of their marketing effort and in my opinion that leaves a bunch of them disappointed. Social media is a full time job if you do it in general. It requires a niche as any other business to be fun and creative.