Learn How to Speak a Foreign Language in Less than 30 Days
Less than thirty days ago, after reading this great article by Jason Benesch, I decided to create a new real estate market niche in my business… that techno savvy young first time home buyer the media likes to label Generation Y, Echo Boomers, Google Generation, MyPod Generation (a fusion of MySpace and iPod), among many others.
It wasn’t a coincidence that Jason’s article caught my eye. After attending the CyberStar Summit with my tech savvy real estate buddies in January I was focused on getting my online presence into the 21st Century via a real estate blog. This has taken me down a creative path I haven’t enjoyed since I designed my first real estate website in 1994.
I have since created a basic MySpace that is so boring I can’t stand it. (gotta admit, I do like the R.L. Burnside mp3 I have embedded.) Once upon a time, I saw the customization button…. just haven’t been able to get back to it. My fingers are busy clicking on all the sites I stumble across as I learn the lingo of this new market:
- Twitter: designed to answer one simple question; What are you doing?
- Tumblr: no fuss blogs for spur of the moment quotes and pics
- Social Networking: goes way beyond YouTube and my sociology classes
- Digg: stuff about stuff that rivals the Discovery Channel
- del.icio.us: look at their blog to confirm spacing of random periods
- Technorati tags: clouds, and tags, and links; oh, my
My clients are busy teaching me about their world. In return, I am teaching them what they need to know before buying a home.
