Here is the the long awaited video of industry experts Joe Ferrara, Rob Hahn, Pat Kitano and Jay Thompson discussing industry trends at HomeGain Live Nation
2009 HomeGain Nation Video - Trends of Real Estate Marketing
Louis Cammarosano of HomeGain, Robert Hahn of 7DS Associates, Jay Thompson of Thompson's Realty, Joseph Ferrara of Sellsius Real Estate Blog and Patrick Kitano of Transparent Real Estate take the stage to discuss a variety of strategies real estate professionals can implement on the internet, including advertising trends through social media, the value of networking via Facebook and Twitter, how to enhance the quality of your social media followers and more.
9 hours ... 1 gorgeous day in San Francisco ... 1 amazing hotel ... 15 presenters ... 6 real estate sessions ... 3 product breakout sessions ... breakfast ... lunch ... networking ... 10 Max bobblehead prizes ... over 300 tweets ... 65 satisfied attendees!
Thank you to all who attended and made HomeGain Live Nation a success. As Karen Breen Elia says below in her video, it was indeed a 2-way street of giving and getting of real estate strategies and insight for those who attended.
From left to right: Jay Thompson, Robert Hahn, Louis Cammarosano, Joseph Ferrara, Patrick KitanoLouis Cammaroano (above center) leads the "Trends in Real Estate Marketing" discussion Mitch Ribak of The eHomes Realty Network and Sarah Bandy of The Bandy Group
Brian Kinkade of Cherry Creek Professionals Realty: Winner of a Max Gorilla Bobblehead
Thank you for a fantastic event! It was so great to meet such fun, interesting people who are finding new and better ways to sell real estate. I learned a ton and had a great time in the process. HomeGain is an important partner for my company and my own personal practice. I look forward to a mutually beneficial, long term partnership. And I appreciate the effort the entire HG staff made to create such a successful event.
Louis, Jessica, Peter and everyone at HG - THANK YOU!
Even though my primary objective was not met - winning a Max Bobble Head - I thought it was a great event. Any and every Homegain user should attend the next one.
Spectacular venue, very well organized, good mix of speakers!
@Kris Thanks for coming. Great meeting you.Please contact me or any member of our team any time. See you at the next HomeGain nation event. I think we may call the next one HomeGain Unplugged to emphasize the real life aspect of the event.
@Dave Always a pleasure seeing you. Thanks for you participation in the buyerlink panel and for your support!
@Jay -thanks for coming and participating in the trends panel. There is still a chance to get a Max bobble head - Recall this tweet: HomeGain: #homegainnation Jay Thompson: to write on the HomeGain Blog about forced registration vs non - got it on video, we'll hold you to it, Jay! 1 day ago from web.
Produce it by end of month and we'll send a bobble head your way!
@everyone who attended and helped organize the event-Thanks!
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Thanks for sharing some of the fun. Maybe next year I will be able to attend.
Great event. Brought back some great ideas and have already shared them with my team. Congrats to the HomeGain team for all the hard work in putting this together!
What a great event! Thanks for inviting me. I am sold on Buyerlink. I didn't realize what a great product it is and can't wait to get started. I really enjoyed meeting all the Homegain Team!
I had an amazing time at the event and can't thank you enough for allowing me the opportunity to attend. The HomeGain staff is fabulous and the attendees were marvelous! What fun and education!!
Thank you again and I'm already booking my intentions for next year but I hope to see you all before that!
What most impressed me was the willingness of HomeGain members to share best practices with each other.
I admire HomeGain's leadership in committing to help agents use their products successfully. The growing number of members in their Clubs is testament that it does work.
I was pleased to join my friends and colleagues in sharing with the HomeGain community.
This next video features Lise Desormeaux of RMR Real Estate Marketing Results at the August 2009 HomeGain Nation Live Real Estate Forum in San Francisco.
Lise presents powerful tips to REALTORS® who work with home sellers for maximizing the value of the home sale through professional home staging.
Lise refers to HomeGain's Home Sale MaximizerTM guide for homeowners as a "must have tool" when selling a home.
Home Staging Session Speaker: Lise Desormeaux, RMR Real Estate Marketing
Ms. Desormeaux established RMR-Real Estate Marketing Results, Inc. in 2002, a company that has successfully been helping Realtors sell listings while helping sellers reach their desire of selling a home for maximum value quickly. Lise is also the founder of ESIL, LLC, a media production company whose goal is to reach the masses with RMR's marketing and home staging techniques in an easy to learn, DIY format.
At the premier of this exclusive real estate event, HomeGain Nation 2009 in San Francisco, Louis Cammarosano kicks off the event with a pertinent and positive keynote speech.
In this video of the Keynote, Cammarosano welcomes all participants and sets the tone of the day by describing the meaning of "HomeGain Nation" and the value it has for all Realtors, bloggers and real estate professionals within its community.
2009 HomeGain Nation Video: Keynote
Louis Cammarosano, General Manager at HomeGain, kicks off HomeGain Nation 2009 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Cammarosano recognizes the hundreds of agents who have been successful with HomeGain's online marketing programs - AgentEvaluator® Club members, BuyerLink members and AgentView members. In addition, he thanks all HomeGain advocates for their continued support and partnership.
Keep checking back as we will be adding more videos!
Brian focuses on the value proposition of HomeGain's online marketing system, AgentView - Internet exposure, blogging and home listings - all of which are key marketing components to REALTORS' success.
Learn why these are important and how to effectively implement them into your business.
Get ready to take some notes because this experienced REALTOR packs in a lot of powerful information about marketing that you may never have heard!
Nothing beats attending HomeGain "Live" Nation in person, but the videos are second best!
This video features Mitch Ribak of The eHomes Realty Network in Florida, Linda Davis of RE/MAX Realty Group in Connecticut, and Dave Marron of First and Elm Realty in California.
These three Realtors® became successful by mastering techniques of leveraging the Internet to get people to their websites, turning visitors into clients, and building profitable real estate businesses as a result.
This video features three highly motivated and successful Realtors® - Karen Breen Elia, RE/MAX Exclusive Properties, Carl Medford, Windermere Properties East Bay and Wayne Long of Shepherd Brokers.com GMAC Real Estate - who presented at the August 2009 HomeGain Nation Live Real Estate Forum in San Francisco.
Watch this strategic real estate video as they discuss their methods for effectively finding, connecting and closing homes with people through the Internet via HomeGain's AgentEvaluator® marketing program.
I'm A Raving Fan of HomeGain's AgentView - Yes, I Admit It!
I started working with AgentView, formerly known as Source4Sellers, mid November 2006. Since then much has changed with my business model and with AgentView.
My business grew from a fledgling concept to a full team model. I had started the month before with HomeGain's BuyerLink. The traffic from BuyerLink helped build my faith in Internet marketing and build my lead database. Even then, I knew that HomeGain was very interested in my success and building a true business partnership.
The AgentView product suite continues to develop and is now a full service ad-free solution which highlights and promotes the participating real estate agent. When I first started with the product, the Source4Sellers solution contained an agent profile and a full CRM with built-in email campaigns. Now AgentView is so very much more. Some of the features include:
Agent Profile
Homes For Sale
Home Values
Agent Centric Blog
Local Information
Home Seller Tools
Agent Profile
The AgentView blog offers so much opportunity to help promote the area real estate agent and my Denver real estate website in an ad-free environment. This page is about the agent and their credentials. The "Have a Real Estate Question for Brian?" is to the right of your contact information as a call to action.
Homes For Sale
I was recently introduced to and have implemented the XML feed available for the AgentView listings. This is a very nice listing enhancement. While I was quite capable of entering my offices Denver property listings this new XML feed makes this process of updating listings effortless. I simply love this feature. This also exclusively promotes your client's listings in an ad free environment, by search and by map, and with a link back to your website it can bring traffic back to your website, to your blog or profile. Other listings packages make you pay to feature your listings alongside other listings that are not your own and alongside third party or competing ads!
Home Values
This is the bread and butter of AgentView. The "What If?" feature can help make adjustments for unrecorded bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. This also allows you to show your knowledge of the local market upon a request for a home valuation in your market area. Upon a consumers request for a "Custom Home Value" you get the opportunity to shine. These requests can come from home owners looking interested in the market, looking to sell, or even an interested property buyer. And, the two way interaction available can generate leads. And, your AgentView solution it includes built in SEO and HomeGain traffic flows into the home valuation tool.
Agent Centric Blog
The AgentView blog is ready to roll, SEO friendly and built for speed. Within minutes you can post your content to your blog and be seen online. One of the notable benefits if you are not an experienced blogger is the HomeGain Blog School blog coaching program. This is a great ongoing blogging tutorial to help you generate traffic to your blog.
Local Information
Demographics and neighborhood data on this page are readily available upon request in an easy to read graphical format. This represents even more available content to make your blog sticky.
Home Seller Tools
This page includes the Home Sale Maximizer feature and tips to home improvement guidelines. The Home Sale Maximizer helps consumers calculate which improvements will increase the sales value of their home. This feature too promotes the agent at the end of the process.
Here's the icing on the cake:
Beyond the obvious, as stated above, the ancillary benefits of your AgentView account, brings you a greater web presence including niche area marketing and branding, additional buyer and seller leads. If you don't have a presence when you start, if you follow the training you'll receive, you'll get one. If you already have a web presence, more presence certainly can't hurt your well placed and hard earned positioning.
Over the years, I have learned that given the appropriate tools anyone can succeed. The question really boils down to desire, commitment and persistence. Some of the leads I have connected with on AgentView I have closed and some of them I will close. For me, the question is not about if, it's more about when.
My attitude is indicative of what I recently heard at our Colorado Realtor Rally from Larry Kendall, "Don't just survive when you can thrive". Do you want to thrive?
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Brian focuses on the value proposition of HomeGain's online marketing system, 
Realty Network in Florida, 
Real Estate - who presented at the August 2009 
bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. This also allows you to show your knowledge of the local market upon a request for a home valuation in your market area. Upon a consumers request for a "Custom Home Value" you get the opportunity to shine. These requests can come from home owners looking interested in the market, looking to sell, or even an interested property buyer. And, the two way interaction available can generate leads. And, your AgentView solution it includes built in SEO and HomeGain traffic flows into the home valuation tool.
