Striking Thoughts

Did I mention Mike McHugh from Continental is SMART? #LSSMC

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:59:45 -0800

How we are so lucky to keep getting the best and brightest to speak at these events but I won't question it. :-) The Lucky Strikers Social Media Club really means business.

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NJ represents at Triple Play #TP11

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:05:49 -0800

NJAR is VERY well represented here. Feels nice.

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All Star Entrepreneur, Matt Daimler from BuyFolio, speaks at #LSSMC

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:54:37 -0800

We are so lucky to have such a knowledgable, well accomplished speaker to talk about better, deeper way to engage and educate your customers/clients. Very, very good.

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Photo Guru Vince Collura drops big knowledge about listings presentation

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:11:04 -0700

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Tonight's Lucky Strikers meeting is about emotional response to imagery with regard to listing elements.

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In case you were wondering where they moved Will Smith's monster trailers to....

Fri, 20 May 2011 12:57:21 -0700

The moved them from SoHo to Astoria so they could continue shooting MIB 3 at the Kaufman Astoria studios. Much better location if you ask me. 

My buddy saw Big Willie today along with his body double. Here are pics of his expandable rolling apartment and mobile gym - yes, he travels with his own gym. It's the larger trailer on the left. Nice to see that Will is never without his satellite tv. I would have loved to bump into him since he seems to be one of the only genuine people in Hollywood. I'll keep my eyes open for him and see if I can get some pics to share.

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Sent from my iPhone

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Fancy Gap, VA - beautiful

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:57:07 -0700

Some pretty nice shots of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia on our way home from RE Tech South in Atlanta, Georgia. Very humbling. Two Lucky Strikers, one satellite radio subscription, no waiting.....

Unfortunately sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -- Two companies I absolutely can't stand

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Perhaps a location for a #LSSMC get together?

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:10:42 -0700

Unfortunately sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -- Two companies I absolutely can't stand

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Klout pays off

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:49:04 -0800

One of the benefits of having social media clout is that @klout will get you hooked up with companies and people that want to give you stuff for having said clout. In this case, it's potato chips from PopChips. Very nice. I like the 'salt and pepper' as well as the 'sea salt and vinegar' chips. Diggin' it. Thanks Klout!

-PH

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Hey, rest of NYC

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:47:00 -0700

Can you compete with this?.....I don't think so.

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Yeah, this is a repost from my personal Posterous account but it's still good. Guess where I took these from. Hint: my favorite place in NYC.

-PH

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Cool WordPress Tool: Press This > Lucky Strikers Social Media Club

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:33:00 -0700

Tools

Press This

Press This is a bookmarklet: a little app that runs in your browser and lets you grab bits of the web.

Use Press This to clip text, images and videos from any web page. Then edit and add more straight from Press This before you save or publish it in a post on your site.

Drag-and-drop the following link to your bookmarks bar or right click it and add it to your favorites for a posting shortcut.

Press This

via Wordpress for Lucky Strikers Social Media Club

How cool is this? You can go into Wordpress (just like up here on Posterous) and use an bookmarklet called "Press This" to highlight and capture content to share on your wordpress blog. It's not new but I don't think alot of people are aware of it.

For example, you can highlight a news story and post it on your blog and give an interesting commentary - sort of what I tried to do here with our Official Blog for The Lucky Strikers Social Media Club (http://www.luckystrikersnyc.com) :-P

I wonder if it also captures video, audio, and images like the Posterous bookmarklet

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Searching for Extraordinary Use of the Real-Time Web

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:26:00 -0700

The advent of the real-time web has happened nearly overnight with sites like Twitter rushing to 100million+ users. But I'm curious to see how this has really affected the real estate industry. Many of us are guilty of sending out many updates on a daily basis (myself included), but how is it really helping our businesses? How many of your customers and clients are you networking with?

I've certainly seen the fruits on the B-to-B side of this equation but have literally only heard of 1 story where a real estate agent has sold a property from Twitter. And what was the best part? I heard it from the buyer, not the agent.

A girl I know in Tennessee was managing the social media account for the largest newspaper in Memphis, The Commercial Appeal. During her tenure there she was following a lot of local professionals including one named, Joe Spake. If you know Joe, or follow Joe you'll see he takes a hyper-local approach to the content he shares. Follow him and you'll get photos of local burger joints, find out when the latest reality crime show is on TV, or catch a listing from time-to-time (although he does this sparingly). This girl ended up thinking to herself, "If he understands social media, and how to use it, then he understands me". She ended up enlisting him as her and her husband's real estate agent and purchased a home. These stories seem to be too rare.

I would think there'd be a lot of B-to-C applications. I did a quick search on the term, "moving to New York" on Twitter's search and found dozens of people who are discussing this(in the last 24 hours). Is anyone actively pursuing a connection with these people by offering them a relocation knowledge product via PDF through an @ reply? Then following them and nurturing them? I'm sure there's a tasteful way to do this without being spammy. At the last #140conf a heated debate took place about sharing listings on Twitter. If well thought out, I think it makes sense. After all, don't consumers WANT to see properties? If you have a lot of listings, what about creating a second account that explicitly says "Follow Me and Get Listings!”

So my question is... What is the value of the real-time web to your real estate business? Are you using it to grow your business on the B-to-C side? If so, do you mind sharing? I personally have used it to network primarily with peers and for B-to-B referral opportunities only. Is there anyone in the real estate business doing something extraordinary with the real-time web?

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Start posting folks

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:19:00 -0700

This is the official Posterous page of the #LSSMC. Blog is being put together but this one is an added bonus for observations and easy posting. Enjoy!

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