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Okay, so now you are a believer.  But where do you start? There are so many sites which one should you pick first?  There are several options, First go to what you know.  When you think of Social Networking which site comes to mind first.  Second, ask your colleagues.  Which sites are they active on?  Third (this one is earth shattering so brace yourself), where are your clients?  Trust me, you do have clients that are active in Social Media and they would more than welcome your presence.

Now that you’ve signed up the Next thing is to find friends and the easiest way is to make use of the “find a friend” feature that most of these sites have.  They will literally upload your current contact list and search their database for people with those names and email addresses. Yes, it is that simple.

Next, you need to be active but be careful.  Users of Social Media are there to connect and build relationships, not be sold to.  That’s where Subversive Marketing comes in.

Barely a year ago on October 9th, Google laid claim to their largest acquisition to date as they triumphantly announced the acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion in an all stock transaction. YouTube had been created merely 20 months earlier in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees and was little more than Adobe Flash technology used to display video content and movie clips. Yet it had made the July 2005 sale of buddy site MySpace to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for $580 million look like chump change.

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LAS VEGAS � Google executive Justin McCarthy smiled, looked out upon a vast room packed with Realtors and noted how times had changed.

Just four years earlier, he said, he had spoken to a real estate industry conference on technology trends and had gotten the message that Google was viewed with suspicion.

�There was this notion of a lion coming over the hill,� he said, evoking a phrase widely heard in the industry at the time. It was shorthand for any number of developments � particularly the emergence of technology � that were rumored to be positioning themselves to take real estate agents� livelihoods away.

�Anything that looked and smelled new was immediately the lion,� McCarthy said.

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Are you aware that Video Marketing and Social Networking contributes a lot to the success of your real estate business?
We found a number of real estate agents that uses video sites such as Youtube and Google video to inform people about their working. The main advantage of which is anyone from any part of the world can freely gain access on your video for free. Appearing on a video and doing your sales talk by explaining the necessary details well can make an internet user contact you as soon as possible. Real estate agents use social Networking sites such as Friendster, MySpace, Tagged and Facebook to contact possible clients.

Popular real estate writer John Mayfield recently released his new book “5 Minutes to”. It is a part of his real estate agent-broker series (technology). In this new book, he shared some of the not only the newest trends in real estate technology, but also included some of his experiences with different practitioners including their overview, opinions and advices. It was also revealed how real estate and technology have merged in order to create a new skill-set which will be required for those who wants to make it big in the marketplace. In case you didn’t know, John Mayfield regularly writes articles for the official website of Hewlett Packard.

The Dehli government has assured its potential real estate owners that the process implemented is full proof and there are no chances of false doings. The good thing here is that the system will accelerate the property registration process in Delhi. “Apart from the speed and convenience, e-stamping also eliminates dependency on property lawyers and notaries who take their pie in property transactions,” says Arunima Chakraborty, a senior citizen staying in Ramesh Nagar.

Did you know that the Delhi government is also considering approving the ‘Property Titling Law’? It is said to be the solution in eliminating fraudulent property registrations in Delhi.

The Dehli Real Estate industry is really improving. Did you know that the real estate owners in Dehli registered their properties electronically? Once a payment for the property registration is done by the owner, an identification number that is unique will be issued with the payment. The title holder is required to produce an ID number in the local sub-registrar once he/she gets the electronic identification number.

The new process implemented needs less papers and it is more helpful in preventing fraud in property registrations. You can visibly see 21 counters across the city that was installed by the Dehli government.

Mr. Zaffar Sait of DGM Business Development, Prestige Group Bangalore was once quoted saying positive thoughts on the development of Bangalore Real Estate:

“Fortunately, through continuing innovations, adapting tenant mixes, and capital investment, retail property owners can moderate many potential declines in retail demand from consumers. In the long term, rent pressure is expected as and when the communication distribution channel grows,”

Even if technology is such a big help for us, there is a big possibility that technology have less demand in some areas and may have increased demand in other parts. The situation is more of a “win some, lose some” situation based on properties and geographic markets.

The internet retail sales of Bangalore Real estate made a big contribution in the retail sales of properties. Bangalore aims to reinforce the trends convenience and entertainment to their tenands and allowing the retailers to augment in multichannel distribution systems by partnering up with the usual land stores and internet websites and blogs.

Technology is very much rampant nowadays even in the field of real estate and the demand for information to be posted online is increasing continuously. The technology is really in demand and adapting to it results to positive outputs which can contribute much to the economic growth of the place.

“Surface” is the latest from Microsoft. This innovative ‘coffee table computer’ can be a great tool for a real estate agent and will have a tremendous effect to real estate technology. Microsoft Surface’s breakthrough is a welcome change in our old ways of doing computation using the standard computer. It has figure touch allowing better navigation for users. It surprisingly zooms in and out of your neighborhoods. With the use of your fingertips, you can display to interested buyers the neighborhoods and close parks available in the market. Interactive video home tours are made possible with just a touch and drag of a finger using the Surface. Not only that, the Surface can be incorporated to a conference room table and set a camera on the screen to give better presentation.