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Now . . . Your Opinion of the Best Video

Now . . . Your Opinion of the Best Video

After a month long series on videos, ending with quite a dynamic interchange on a local company who is trying to get their agents to use video . . . it is your turn. This is month of top 50 and top ten lists of the biggest, baddest, cutest, most social and now . . . drum roll . . ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/10/03  | 6 Comments Real Estate

“View my listings on YouTube. Click here”

“View my listings on YouTube. Click here”

Video is a Social Media phenomenon. Have you noticed Youtube has been ranking as the Number Two search engine? Not only can you find out how to do literally anything, you can start building a library of videos that create a conversation with your prospects. Avoid selling. Instead, your goal is to “inform and entertain.” A topical video will get ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/09/19  | 33 Comments Marketing

Take Two – Getting Used to the Video Camera

Take Two – Getting Used to the Video Camera

I am intrigue by the power of video. Armed with a video enabled cell phone people have captured footage that has captured our minds and hearts. Why? Video allows an emotion connection because it involved more senses, sight sound and feelings! Think about it. Video has consumed America. Youtube claims that half of Americans view videos and share then virally ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/09/05  | 21 Comments RE Software

Putting the Puzzle together – CRM with Tina

Putting the Puzzle together – CRM with Tina

My experience with Tina continues. She decided to try a few products, web based and attached to Outlook. A couple of key revelations along the way: Changing habits is a hard thing to do. Period. I have heard countless times that you need to do something at least 21 times before it becomes a habit, and that is pretty hard, ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/06/27  | 14 Comments Real Estate

Working with Tina – In Search of a Contact Management Solution

Working with Tina – In Search of a Contact Management Solution

I normally don’t do one on one coaching. My technology coaching is done with small groups but it works very well. I made a special expception when Tina McManus contacted me. After 20 years as a corporate salesperson, Tina McManus started a new career as a real estate agent. An agent since 2002, she finds the responsibility of handling the ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/06/21  | 30 Comments How to

What I Learned at REBarCamp Philly

What I Learned at REBarCamp Philly

I was a REBarCamp Virgin… until Wednesday. My schedule finally allowed me to attend the wildly successful REBarcamp in Philadephia. Check out the coordinators and sponsors here. (A big shout out to Kim Wood, Bill Lublin, and John Lauber for all their hard work.) A group session started us all off. We were all encouraged to host one of the ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/05/30  | 11 Comments Real Estate

Gardening is like Social Media

Gardening is like Social Media

Okay, I know you’re asking, where is she going with this? In lots of my classes, which seem to be focusing on social media, many of the real estate professionals in the room seemed just plain overwhelmed. They can barely handle what they need to do everyday and now they are hearing that their prospecting has gone on line and ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/05/02  | 14 Comments Real Estate

Your Elevator Speech . . . offline and online

Your Elevator Speech . . . offline and online

I have been going over all my profiles on-ine, from my websites, to blog, to Linkedin and Facebook and realized I had forgotten an important marketing principle . . . my elevator speech. What is an elevator speech? Here is the definition from Wikipedia, but basically it is what your do for business and you should be able to communicate ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/04/11  | 9 Comments Real Estate

No more 3 br, 2 ba, fm rm and eik, please!

No more 3 br, 2 ba, fm rm and eik, please!

As I find my myself in classrooms all over the country, one of the number one messages that I preach is: “Know who your buyer is and give them what they want.” And they want: Good photos Better property descriptions Some video According to NAR and the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers (which you can get for FREE, by ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/03/28  | 8 Comments Marketing

What is your ROT?

What is your ROT?

Recently I have been polling my classes on their level of expertise in certain areas of technology so I can deliver a successful program. Consistently, over the last few months, in these polls, more than half of all my students feel they are beginners, or early intermediate. This is  whether it is social media, managing internet leads, blogging, using video ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/03/08  | 7 Comments Real Estate

Follow Me on My Quest – Say No to Bad Photos & Virtual Tours

Follow Me on My Quest – Say No to Bad Photos & Virtual Tours

My Quest: This is my quest, to rid the real estate world of bad photos and awful virtual tours! Recently taught for MABA, an exclusive buyers agent group and we had an animated discussion on virtual tours and photos. From Maba, Rona Fischman, a blogger for Boston Globe’s “Boston Real Estate Now”, and Sam Schneiderman offered these thoughts. Clients hate ...

Amy Chorew | 2009/02/28  | 12 Comments Highlights

National Trainer Joins the Genius

National Trainer Joins the Genius

Amy Chorew Joins AG Agent Genius is a group of writers that bring their unique brand of genius to form the collective wisdom (genius, if you will) of this national online real estate magazine. Today, we are very proud to announce Amy Chorew who is a Senior National Trainer and Senior National Consultant for Matthew Ferrara & Company. Since joining ...

Lani Rosales | 2008/10/03  | 27 Comments News