The 2008 National Real Estate Cyber Convention and Exposition attracted over thirty eight thousand attendees.  If you missed this on-line event we'll give you a recap here from time to time and point out some of the interesting real estate products and services featured at the Expo.

Todays Featured Booth is: Catylist--

Catylist is a commercial real estate network. They deliver marketing solutions to individuals, companies, and organizations designed to increase efficiency and close deals.

Click here to visit the Catylist booth today at the Real Estate Online Convention.

During her 20 years in the mortgage industry, Sandy Shaud saw many clients who were unprepared for retirement with limited savings and investments. While working full time, Sandy was able to build a portfolio of income producing real estate in her spare time and wanted to help others learn that they could do the same. In the spring of 2006, Sandy launched RealEstateInvestmentTV.com as a free, educational e-zine which has videos, podcasts and articles devoted solely to Real Estate Investing.

Sandy has a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Management (1985) from Syracuse University in Syracuse NY, a Masters of Arts in Spiritual Psychology (2003) from The University of Santa Monica in Santa Monica California and also graduated from a one year program in Soul Centered Leadership (2005) from the University of Santa Monica. Sandy has also held a real estate license for 20 years.

In her real estate interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio she discusses the following real estate information:

How Agents Fit into the Web Site

1. The section of Real Estate Investment TV called "Street Reports" features video contributions from agents around the country commenting on what is happening in their area; submissions can be emailed to Shaud.
2. Written reports called "Street Smarts" are also carried from agents and investors about what they have learned; reports can be submitted by mail or email.
3. An agent's contribution to Real Estate Investment TV can carry a link to the agent's web site and vice versa; the agent might promote his contribution by advertising that he is "featured on Real Estate Investment TV!"
4. The investors who visit Real Estate Investment TV can be a great source of repeat business for agents who establish a relationship with them; Shaud herself invests in real estate and has used the same agent for 20 years.

In this briefing she also covers the following useful real estate topics:

• Features of Real Estate Investment TV
• The Next Real Estate Marketing Medium
• Advantages of Video
• Recommended Web Resources
• Easy Video Tools
• Looking to the Future
  

Google got out in front with its stellar mapping programs but the competition is heating up with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. In addition to traditional mapping technology, this great place offers aerials, hybrid combinations (a combination of aerial and mapping), birds eye views (in a high resolution from a low altitude and at various angles, allowing property “fly-overs”), 3-D building views and, in beta, street level videos.

What’s neat about this is the promise that, with Google and Microsoft competing in the mapping world, the beneficiaries will be those of us to whom there is great value and future promise in these programs.

Click Here for This Great Place

In the question corner you ask -- “How can I get my briefings by e-mail so I can listen to them offline from my desktop or on my iPod or other MP3 player?”

Answer: You can download all briefings as MP3 files when you elect the "On-Line briefings” delivery option.

If you have not already made this selection, to do this:

1. Go to "Members Only
2. Go to your "Control Center"
3. There you will see the briefing option selection section.
4. Select “On-Line” (Listen On-Line or Download for MP3 Type Player)

The 2008 National Real Estate Cyber Convention and Exposition attracted over thirty eight thousand attendees.  If you missed this on-line event we'll give you a recap here from time to time and point out some of the interesting real estate products and services featured at the Expo.

Todays Featured Booth is: NU-SET Lock boxes. They provide security lock boxes and much more for your every need.

Click here to visit the NU-SET booth today at the Real Estate Online Convention.

Rich Chadwick is the founder and the chief innovator of MultiMediaPros. He is a pioneer in online advertising, a 20-year veteran of broadcast radio and television as well as a streaming media expert, having been involved in the streaming business since its inception in 1996.

In 1997 Rich founded DiscJockey.com, an Internet radio site that grew to over 150 channels of original streaming content with over 10,000 simultaneous listeners on any given weekday. During this time, he forged strong relationships with both Real Networks and Microsoft’s Windows Media Division; relationships that continue to this day and keep him on the forefront of new developments in streaming technology.

Rich is involved on a daily basis with the studio’s extensive internship program for major Boston area Universities, including Salem State College, where the company is located. He is a member of many industry and local organizations including the National Association of Broadcasters and The Creative Economy Association of the North Shore.

In his real estate interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio he discusses the following real estate information:

Fast-Start Tips for Incorporating Video

1. Obtain some easy-to-use software-such as Visual Communicator 3- for producing your own video broadcasts; they can be done using your own computer, script and an existing video camera or camcorder.
2. Create video newsletters or to newscast-like broadcasts of market information and updates that present you as the local expert..
3. Visual Communicator is like a TV studio in a box for less than $400; it includes a teleprompter, a video editor and capability to add music and professional graphics.

In this briefing he also covers the following useful real estate topics:

• The Explosion of Video on the Web
• The Services of MultiMediaPros
• A Special Use of Video for Marketing
• The Cost Factor
• The Video Process
• The Video Sharing Phenomenon
• What to Do with Video
• Video Warnings
• Favorite Places on the Web
  

I'm sure you know the old “Alt + Tab” trick to switch between tasks while computing. It’s a handy tool but is kind of like flying blind. Here’s a mini program that gives you advanced task management functions that pick up where the Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off.

TaskSwitchXP gives you a visual presentation of where you are while also enhancing your experience by displaying a thumbnail preview of the application that you are about to switch to. It also has a helpful management capability that allows you to quickly close or minimize applications and their groups.

And to make it even better this program is yours for the asking.

Click here for this Cyber Trick!

Sponsor a Friend for Membership in the Society

The Real Estate CyberSpace Society is going to celebrate Flag Day again this year by announcing the Ninth Annual Society Gold and Silver Member Awards and by giving away: 200 Copies of “Real Estate CyberMagic” specially printed with the winner as the author.

The Gold Member Award will go to the member who sponsors the most new members and the Silver Member Award will be from a drawing of all members who sponsor at least one new member between now and Flag Day -- June 14th.

You may have noticed the link at REcyber.com encouraging you to "Invite a Friend to Join the Society" We put this up to make it really easy for you to win this year’s Gold Member Award!

Each Society Hero will receive 100 copies of the special personalized printing of Real Estate CyberMagic --- along with a place in the Real Estate CyberSpace Society Hall of Fame!

To send invitation emails to your friends simply CLICK HERE and send a few of the already prepared invitations out to some of the favorites on your e-mail list. Try it --it's easy!

Or the easiest -- use your personal referral link in emails and (in ADDITION to the Gold member Contest) GET A FREE EXTRA 2 MONTHS of membership every time a new member clicks on the link and joins. You can find that link at REcyber.com + Members Only + My Control Center + Personal Referral Link.

We'll be waving the flag and announcing the Society Gold Member and Silver Member Awards on June 14th. You may be the Gold Member-- or Silver Member and you will be doing your friends and associates a big favor by bringing them all of the powerful benefits that go with membership in the Society! And you will go down in the History Book of Society Giants!

The 2008 National Real Estate Cyber Convention and Exposition attracted over thirty eight thousand attendees.  If you missed this on-line event we'll give you a recap here from time to time and point out some of the interesting real estate products and services featured at the Expo.

Todays Featured Booth is: Homesinyourtown.com

Exclusive Marketing Homes in your Town accepts luxury home listings worldwide. Showcase your Homes in your Town and gain worldwide exposure to qualified buyers. They showcase only the finest real estate.

Click here to visit the Homesinyourtown.com booth today at the Real Estate Online Convention.

Rochelle Stone is the founder & CEO of Starker Services, Inc., the oldest and largest independently owned 1031 tax deferred exchange company in the country.

Rochelle is a former commercial agent specializing in multifamily and commercial investment property sales. She is an accredited real estate instructor in exchanging and investment techniques and the author of Real Estate Exchanges: Using the Tax Deferred Exchange in Real Estate Management.

Rochelle has been an active investor in commercial and multifamily real estate. She is a nationally recognized author and speaker on the subjects of investment real estate and tax deferred exchanges.

In her real estate interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio she discusses the following real estate information:

Definition of an Exchange

1. An exchange is a non-taxable sale; the gain from the investment property sold is rolled into a new investment property so that no taxes are paid on the transaction.
2. A two-family house in which the seller lives in half and rents half is an investment property; the client could have a taxable gain, but that gain might be protected for the client by arranging a 1031 exchange.
3. There are companies that will help with such a rollover transaction; the gain might be deferred on the entire transaction if the seller meets the residential rules on the half he lives in and the investment rules on the other half.

In this briefing she also covers the following useful real estate topics:

• Why Residential Agents Need to Know About Exchanges
• Dispelling the Misconceptions
• A Reverse Exchange
• The Role of Starker Services
• Using Exchanges for Marketing
• The Exchange Process
• Using Exchanges for Maximum Advantage
• The Value of 1031s to Agents
• Favorite Web Sites
  
  

Have you ever done a people search on conventional search engines where you ended up feeling short changed? Maybe it’s because you missed the good stuff you will find with a deep or “invisible” web search.

This great place searches that deep web with its huge repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose web crawlers don’t reach. This invisible web content is estimated to contain 500 times that of the surface web, yet has remained mostly untapped due to the limitations of traditional search engines.

Pipl.com is designed to reach the higher-quality information including personal profiles, public records and other people-related documents that are stored in databases that are invisible to conventional search engines.

Find out what they know about you! And yes -- it’s on the house.

Click Here for This Cyber Trick

The seventh Annual National Real Estate Cyber Convention was once again a smashing success by any standard of measurement! We hope that you enjoyed the extensive makeover as the convention was converted to a true 3-D Virtual experience! One attendee described this year’s event as “better than Second Life – and without the hassle!”

No one left home but over thirty eight thousand real estate professionals from 23 Countries immersed themselves in the latest ideas, training and products from February 11 to February 18th. The Real Estate CyberSpace Society is proud to produce and deliver this completely on-line event as an industry service.

We hope that you came away with lots of new ideas and enjoyed the myriad of booths and multitude of speakers including Keynoters Dave Liniger and Stu Siegel. We also hope that you visited the new Video Showcase to attend talks by leaders such as Stefan Swanepoel, Michael Russer and Microsoft’s Bill Gates. This section was a preview of next years event that will be loaded with even more exciting video training.

Please let the sponsors and exhibitors know how much you appreciated their support. Each year this Convention is delivered free of charge to attendees because of the generosity of these kind folks. This years Sponsors included: RISMedia and RISMedia's Real Estate Magazine, Matthew Ferrara & Company - Tech Hotline, Realty U and The Real Estate Training Center, the CCIM Institute, The Real Estate Apprentice, and Vendorpedia -- plus hundreds of real estate associations and organizations.

In case you missed all of the exciting new products at the Expo you have a second bite at the apple plus the opportunity to attend many of the special video presentations at the Spring seasonal convention session which is now open for your visit. You can click thru to the Spring session of the Convention by clicking here.

The 2008 National Real Estate Cyber Convention and Exposition attracted over thirty eight thousand attendees.  If you missed this on-line event we'll give you a recap here from time to time and point out some of the interesting real estate products and services featured at the Expo.

Todays Featured Booth is: Ghost Writers

Become your community's exclusive real estate authority by publishing "Ghost Writers" informative real estate articles!

By doing this you will brand yourself and create a positive impression before clients need your services. Build trust and loyalty with regular editorials in your paper, newsletter or website. Visit Ghost Writers Today!

According to Roger Butcher, prestige, financial independence and a sense of accomplishment combined with a quality personal life distinguish the successful real estate professional. Throughout his real estate career, Roger has achieved them all. When he entered the real estate business in 1971, he knew the key to financial success was high-volume listings and sales. This concept, in turn, would create endless Cash Flow and wealth.

With an intuitive grasp of sales techniques, Roger began to create his series of effective dialogue scripts and his Referral Marketing System^TM. Using these, he achieved record-breaking results, building a personal inventory of 78 concurrent, good, salable listings. Roger's system was so productive that he completed as many as 47 transactions in a single month. He also became the top sales person in an organization of over 5,300 agents.

Roger was awarded the prestigious Vince Lombardi Award from the Green Bay Association of REALTORS®. He has been a featured speaker for the National Association of REALTORS® convention as well as for hundreds of state conventions and Boards of REALTORS® throughout the United States and Canada. Roger's training is used from Singapore to South Africa, and for years this training has been the foundation for thousands of today's successful real estate professionals.

In his real estate interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio he discusses the following real estate information:

Handling Competition

1. Statistics show that 90% of the agents pursue 10% of the business, while 10% of the agents control 90% of all the listings, sales and commissions.
2. To eliminate 90% of the competition: dress professionally (like you deserve business), always be 15 minutes early for appointments (never be late); return all your calls and emails every two hours; learn to ask for what you want-top agents know how to turn prospects on by talking in real estate terms.

In this briefing he also covers the following useful real estate topics:

• Analysis of Real Estate Business
• Technology Tips for Agents
• Web Site Strategy
• Challenges for Agents
• Referral Business
• Ways to Stay in Touch
• Expired Listings
• Open Houses
• Time Organization
• Favorite Web Sites for Productivity
• Closing Advice for Agents
  

Like to have been there when Marilyn Monroe sang happy birthday to JFK in 1962? How about checking out the “Where’s the Beef” ad from 1984? You can be there to pay your respects at Babe Ruth’s funeral in Yankee Stadium. And if you’re a boxing enthusiast you’ll want to revisit the bout when Joe Louis hammered “Two Ton” Tony Galento in 1939.

This great place is an online community that shares video, audio, and images to help stir our memories of the past. Here you can listen, watch and enjoy old television, news
and commercials from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. With the effective search function you can find your favorite memories from the thousands of historical clips.

Watch out though—this great place is very addictive!

Click Here for This Great Place

We suggest that you start the year by taking a good look at your RealBuyer Express program offered to all Real Estate CyberSpace Society members with membership. This deal making gem is a searchable national database of over 7000 institutional and investment property buyers and tenants including their detailed investment criteria and contact information. The program allows members to search the database 24/7 by simply entering the specific search criteria (location type, size etc) for the buyer, seller or tenant you wish to reach. You may also do a separate search by company name.

There are hundreds – even thousands of buyers’ preferences in the RealBuyer system for each of the “regular” type investments – multifamily, retail, and industrial plus land in many categories – all searchable by size and location. The criteria is in the buyers’ words describing their specific needs- along with the contact’s name, phone, fax and e-mail. Plus there are multiple buyers for hundreds of special category properties – no matter how obscure that type is! Got a listing on a correctional facility—Shazam- multiple buyers with contact information including web sites! How about a golf driving range? A loan company – a hospital – a hotel (17 types to pick from – or pick them all) – raw land (43 categories) – a race track – a resort or recreational property – RV parks – a theatre – timberland -- there are over two hundred unique property category preferences to choose from.

For years hundreds of real estate pros paid an annual fee of $995 to use this powerful sales tool. As a Society member you can check this powerful program out and get up to 5 buyers for any type property 24/7/365. Society members who chose to contribute $45 toward database maintenance get access to the entire database without restriction for a full year.

Try it out without cost in Members Only at REcyber.com.

The 2008 National Real Estate Cyber Convention and Exposition attracted over thirty eight thousand attendees.  If you missed this on-line event we'll give you a recap here from time to time and point out some of the interesting real estate products and services featured at the Expo.

Todays Featured Booth is: RealtyHomeClub.com

Here is the secret to how other real estate agents take extended vacations. Over 500 real estate agent members have signed up. Travel in the US and abroad! 

Suzee Miller is an author, real estate broker and Feng Shui consultant. She is the creator of the simple "Five Element Business System" that has helped thousands of real estate and business professionals advance their careers.

Suzee has authored 18 feng shui sales and marketing programs. She speaks at architectural, building and real estate conventions and is a popular guest on radio and TV. She educates and empowers real estate professionals on feng shui principles and their applications in the listing, sale, lease and development of property and web sites.

Her presentations, including "Color Your Listings Sold with Feng Shui," demonstrate unique and dynamic sales and marketing techniques for rookies and seasoned agents alike.

In her real estate interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio she discusses the following real estate information:

Web Site Application

1. A ba-gua (octagon) is an energy blueprint with eight divisions that is superimposed on an environment-e.g., a house or a web site; employing the ba-gua on a web site can lift its energy with the use of color, symbol and metaphor; the result is that visitors stay longer.
2. "Less means more" is a basic feng shui tenet that can enhance environments and one's personal life; on a web site, this means decluttering its pages-removing what is not meaningful to the visitor.
3. A web site needs to have a visionary mission statement-a defined purpose that is conveyed logically; the ba-gua allows this kind of clarity so that the eye of the buyer/visitor stays focused.
4. A feng shui-designed site utilizes eight seconds to capture the visitor, eight ways to create benefits and eight ways to capture email addresses.

In this briefing she also covers the following useful real estate topics:

• Feng Shui Defined
• Application to Real Estate
• Ways to Enhance Web Site Impact
• Tips for Web Designers and Web Masters
• Incorporating Feng Shui on Properties
• How to Feng Shui a Business Card
• Practical Feng Shui Advice for Agents