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50 Reasons Why You Should Help Me Get To (RE)BlogWorld.

Help Matt get to Vegas!

Personally, I like #16

Via Matt Stigliano (RE/MAX Access):

Coming into Vegas from the south with Mandalay Bay (one of my favorites) in the background.

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REBlogWorld and BlogWorld 2009 - Why?

As you may know from yesterday's post, I am attempted to go to REBlogworld and Blogworld thanks to a contest on Alltop.  It's a pretty lofty goal when you think about the fact that there are a gazillion bloggers out there trying to do the same thing.  Of course, I have one thing they don't.  A network of ActiveRain friends who have been helping me accomplish my goal.

So why do I care so much about going to Blogworld?  What's in it for me?  What's in it for you?  Randy Hooker put the idea into my head to create a "Why send @rerockstar to Blogworld?" series.  I envisioned it as an hourly tweet giving a reason and asking for support.  Problem is, I know people are probably bored with my links and invitations to help, so I thought maybe I'd condense it into one post (not that I won't be tweeting through the day about it anyway).  So here is my attempt to give you more reasons to want to visit my.alltop.com/rerockstar and click the "retweet" button (and share it on Facebook while you're there as well - every bit helps!).

You want reasons?  I'll give you reasons.

  1. If you read this, you must like my blogging somewhat.  Help me improve it.
  2. I want to improve.
  3. I want to share.  As if I won't write a million posts about my experiences.
  4. My Twitter stream will be full of thoughts and ideas while I'm there.
  5. Let's show the blogging world the power of a community of 160,000+.
  6. If someone in real estate hasn't heard about ActiveRain - they most certainly will at REBlogworld.
  7. If someone outside of real estate hasn't heard about ActiveRain - they most certainly will at Blogworld.
  8. Because you like me.
  9. I'll owe you one.
  10. This is a great experiemtn in the power of blogging and social media.  People I don't know are helping.
  11. It's Vegas!
  12. I've never been to a conference like this, what a chance to dive in.
  13. It'll allow me to speak to many of you - face to face.
  14. It'll allow me to speak to some of the leaders in our industry - face to face.  Something has to come of that, right?
  15. I haven't seen the new Wynn Las Vegas Hotel.
  16. It might force me to finally buy a Flip cam.
  17. I will act as your correspondent.  Have a question?  Send me there with it.
  18. If I hit the jackpot, there will be one hell of an ActiveRain members party.
  19. I have ambitions - getting my foot in the door at this conference will help me move towards them.
  20. It only takes a few seconds of your time, a few times a day.
  21. It's free for you to do.
  22. Everyone loves to see the person they're rooting for win.
  23. I'm pretty good at Blackjack.
  24. I haven't been to Vegas in a long time, but used to go there all the time.
  25. I might get an idea that will help you.  You think I'm going to be able to keep all the new info to myself?
  26. Because I bothered to write out a list.
  27. So my office will be free from me for a few days.  They need a vacation.
  28. It will impress my friends.
  29. It will impress my broker.
  30. It may help me in my goal to get on SABOR's Communication Committee - if they can't see I'm someone who "gets it" after this...?
  31. Who knows, I might give away prizes at the end of this.  Then again, I might not.  Vegas is about chance.
  32. I'll be your best friend.
  33. My wife won't have to console after I lose.
  34. What happens in Vegas, won't stay in Vegas.
  35. I might finally learn how to write shorter posts.
  36. I could use a boost going into the winter months.
  37. For a guy that spent most of his time traveling, I haven't traveled anywhere in awhile.
  38. My wife can sleep in peace for a few days without my tossing, turning, snoring, and taking up all the bed.
  39. If you're going, we'll get to meet.
  40. You'll feel good about having been a part of it all.
  41. You'll get a renewed me who's ready to blog away.  Think I write a bunch now, I imagine it will only improve from there.
  42. For every retweet on the official counter at my.alltop.com/rerockstar I will donate 10 cents to Mothers Fighting For Others.
  43. (That may not seem like much, but it's my way of pushing you to click that button more often.)
  44. Have you ever done something, "just because"?
  45. Late at night, I might relay some of my finer rock 'n roll stories.
  46. I'll take photos.
  47. I promise not to get married by Elvis.
  48. I'll write a specific blog about attending your first conference and what to expect.
  49. You won't have to read the sob story blog about how I missed it by one retweet.
  50. I'll do something cool for you when you need my help!

So there you have it.  Fifty solid reasons to send me to REBlogworld and Blogworld.  If you can't one or two reasons in there, then you probably weren't going to do it anyway.

Don't forget, in order for the "votes" to be counted, you must visit my.alltop.com/rerockstar and click on the "retweet" button at the bottom of the page - this wil open Twitter and pre-fill the tweet for you.  You still have to send this tweet out (or it won't be counted).  Simply retweeting it from Twitter when someone else does it does not get the "vote" counted.

See you in Vegas?

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1 comment • Mike Mueller • September 29 2009 02:14PM

How to stop Twitter Spam with one click!

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If you are anything like me, you despise Twitter Spam and unwanted solicitations. Hey, Twitter is FREE so what can you do about it? Report them!

Here’s how using two of the most popular twitter clients Seesmic Desktop and TweetDeck.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoH3yisoHr8

The next step is to block and un-follow the Dweebs (I’ll do both AFTER I first report them). You can also report them manually by sending a direct message to @spam with the offender's @name and a link to the offending tweet (Example: d spam @MoneyMome13 http://twitter.com/MoneyMome13/statuses/4428236145)

Twitter says that reported Spammers will have their accounts removed and even blocked at the I.P. level.

Take that you nasty Spammers!

Yay for Twitter!

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7 comments • Mike Mueller • September 29 2009 08:05AM

Firefox slow or stopped?

Was it the Aliens?

Mine was. I’m back from a month long sabbatical away from my favorite web browser. Over that month I tried a variety of other browsers, finally settling on Google’s Chrome. When it was time to fire up the old Firefox program I was in for a little surprise. Something was wrong! It wouldn’t completely load. My beloved Firefox would just hourglass on and on and on… I was getting nowhere fast!

Dayslikethat For the Record: Newer Lenovo Laptop, Pentium Dual Core, running Microsoft Windows Vista Business.

I did a little research, tried a few things and now have it back and running. If your Firefox is hanging up – no fear, we can get it back. I’m here to share what I learned.

1. Start by downloading the freshest version of Firefox. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/firefox/

1a. If you can or if you want to - backup your bookmarks now. I'd tell you how but that confuses the story. If bookmarks are not important - let them all go and skip this step.

2. Using Control Panel uninstall the current program. You’ll find Firefox under Mozilla. Make sure you check the box to remove all your personal data. (Yes, unless you have backed up your bookmarks you will lose them)

UninstallFF

3. Now go to your start button, Right click to “Explore”. You are looking for your Hard Drive (not your start menu) and the folder labeled “Program Files” and then the “Mozilla Firefox” folder. Right click on that folder and chose “delete”.

4. Left Click on your start button, and in the search box look for “appdata”. You’ll see a couple of folders, open the “Local” folder and once again highlight and delete the “Mozilla” folder.

5. In the same “appdata” you’ll also see “Roaming”. Open this folder and delete the “MyHeartShallNeverRoam” folder. What? You don’t have that folder? Ok, I was just kidding! Just keeping you on your toes. You guessed it – Delete the “Mozilla” folder once again.

6. Now turn the computer all the way off, let it sit for a minute, start ‘er up again and install the new version of Firefox.

All fixed? Mine was. If you are still having issues here’s one last trick.

6a. Open the application folder, (probably going to be C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox). Find and rename the program file “firefox.exe” to “firefox1.exe”. Double click on it and run the program. All Fixed? In that case it was probably your firewall that was blocking you.

I hope that helps. If not you can always just switch to Chrome (my 2nd favorite browser).

BONUS: Now that you have FF working here’s a cool easter egg. Type in “about:mozilla” and hit enter. This quirk has been in FF since the beginning. They’ve gone thru a few variations and you can see a few of them here: http://www.mozilla.org/book/

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5 comments • Mike Mueller • September 29 2009 07:56AM

The Top 4 WRONG Reasons to Follow Me

The tale of 3 different lists -

DerekIn August, the real estate search company, Roost.com began posting a monthly series “Roost’s 50 RE People You Should Follow on Twitter” .  We can safely guess that Derek Overbey (the main writer for the blog and all around good guy) created his list for a couple of reasons.

  1. Shining the spotlight on others is always a good thing.
  2. A list drives traffic to your site. (that’s always a good thing too right?)

StefanThis week Stefan Swanepoel released what he called
“The 100 Most Influential People Online in Real Estate”.  He did so using a service called http://tweepml.org/.  I was honored to be on that list as well.  Stefan is also a good guy (and a deep thinker).  I can see him shining the twitterspotlight on others much like Derek is doing but here’s an interesting thought… By not putting the site on his blog, Stefan wasn’t concerned with driving traffic to his site.  As a matter of fact, the site makes it easy to mass follow everyone of the 100 with a single click!

The morning of the list release there was a little discussion about the mass new followers people were getting who were on the list.  Later that morning another List was published.

Tyr

Dustin Luther, another all around good guy and deep thinker thought that Stefan’s list could use a little refinement.  Dustin explained that by using Twitter’s API he was able to pull a list of over 4,000 and then distill them down 50.  In his article he explained exactly how and why he did what he did. He published his very own version “50 Most Influential Real Estate People on Twitter”

Once again, I was honored to be included.  These lists are done with the best intentions and each has it’s own merit.  there’s nothing wrong with any of these lists.  I’ll welcome any new follower no matter how they came to be and know I’m lucky to be mentioned.

All three of these guys are great guys and I’m not really happy about some of the flack that has gone towards Stefan. He did nothing wrong, nor Derek or Dustin.

I mentioned this on the radio show this week.  I noticed that I was getting a bunch of new followers. When that happens it’s usually some spam group or person.  My twitter email notification usually says they have 100,000 followers a 1,000 tweets. You don’t have to look further to know what they’re up to.  So I prepare for the DM’s, the Spam Reporting, and the Blocking.

But this group was very different. People with 100 followers and 50 tweets. They were mostly all relative newbies to the Twitterverse.

Here’s my thought – Since these peeps are new and in the learning stage, why not welcome to the fold and show them by example what “we” think the proper use of twitter should be?

But here’s the point:

With these three examples of lists and this post publishing on Friday with the inevitable FollowFriday barrage of tweets being bantered about –

How and Why do you choose who to follow?

  • Is it because Derek decided to shine the Roost spotlight on them?
  • Is it the ease at which you can follow what a smart guy thinks is the top 100?
  • Do you accept the analysis of data crunching to tell you?
  • Do you blindly follow 5 new peeps because they were mentioned in a tweet?

Or is it something else that causes you to chose to follow someone?

If so, what is that ”something else”?

 

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5 comments • Mike Mueller • September 25 2009 08:29AM

Is this the best BlogWorld Video Ever?

No, not my video

Last year I thought I was snappy enough to do a simple little promo video for REBlogWorld. I propped the FLIP up on a rail and did a one take, one shot quickie.

My how my sad little video pales in comparison to this one!

Love it Chad! (and Guy, and Chris, and Callie!)

Now you can see just how big BlogWorld is going to be and that you have to attend. Since you've just decided to attend, may I also suggest you attend the RE portion the day before (REBlogWorld).

Afterall...

You are the attendees we're looking for.

We do need to see your identification (at Registration).

You can go about your business (in a new and vastly improved way)

Move Along Now

(to http://REBlogWorld.com)

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9 comments • Mike Mueller • September 24 2009 08:34AM

Shameless Self Promotion

And a way for you to earn a FREE Custom Facebook Business Page!

Good for September only!

It's a TwoFer or perhaps a ThreeFer? (should that be a ThreeFor?)


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Simple rules:

  • Have your name associated with 2 other Custom Business Page orders and you have earned a FREE one.
  • Your name is the referral / discount code and must be entered when submitted.
  • Have a Page I’ve already built for you? That counts as one! Now just get one more person and you are in!
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4 comments • Mike Mueller • September 22 2009 10:15AM

a Facebook Business (Fan) Page Success Story

Does conversational marketing work?

Do you need a Facebook Business Page?

Maybe.  That's really up to you.  Here's what I can tell you.  I was leading the Facebook discussion (with Heather Elias!) at ReBarCamp/San Francisco and Sandra stood up and said she had great success with her Facebook Page.  The overcrowded room moved on in conversation about many more things "facebook" and it wasn't until the next day that I was able to track her down again for this quick interview.

 

If you want a custom Facebook Business Page here's a few excellent examples:

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7 comments • Mike Mueller • September 16 2009 02:53PM

TwitterQueens on BlogTalkRadio

In case you missed it we had “The TwitterQueens” on the radio yesterday.

If you missed the show – they were great!

You are not completely out of luck though.  You can listen to the archives.  Just go to the Facebook Page, become a Fan, and click on the Archive Tab.

 

Social Meia Edge on BTR

 

 

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3 comments • Mike Mueller • September 16 2009 01:16PM

How do you respond?

Image by fredcavazzaOne of the greatest values of Social Media is that you are able to easily put out content on many different channels.  For instance, you’ll find me on my blog, on Twitter, on Facebook (on mypersonal profile and multiple Business Pages), on Youtube, on Flickr, on FriendFeed,Posterous, Tumblr and on and on (and on) …

 

Social Media isn’t about directing someone to one particular venue or site – if anything it’s about engaging others on the platform of their choice – not yours.

Read that again slowly.  It’s their choice – not yours.  Take this post as an example.  You may choose to comment directly on my blog post.  You may also see it via RSS in Facebook and comment there, or see where someone has ReTweeted it and comment on Twitter.  Yesterday this post was up on my outside blog.  Today it's up on the San Francisco Examiner site, andBusinessWeek, and TwitterQueens, and ActiveRain – On any of which you may comment there as well.

This presents a problem to the person who might be more used to the traditional forms of digital communication.  When someone reaches out to you, what platform do you respond on?

Here’s a simple rule to follow…

Always reply in the same format in which the original message was received.

Simple, eh?  Send me a DM on Twitter and I’ll respond in the same manner.  Private message in Facebook?  Reply the same way.  Write on my Wall and I’ll reply right there as well.  Leave a comment on my blog and my reply will always be right below yours.

However, if you ask a short question “How can I embed video on a FB Page?” via a DM on Twitter, my answer might take 27 replies at 140 characters each.  In which case I’ll switch platforms and let you know where to look.  “Too long for Twitter – I’ll send a reply to your email Susie@SusieQ.com”.  Now we both know we’ve switched the conversation over to a different channel.

Remember: The idea behind Social Media is to engage others in meaningful ways. 

It’s just the start of the conversation.

 

 

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29 comments • Mike Mueller • September 15 2009 01:21PM

Spice Up Your Website with a Mapped Video Tour of Your Local Area

Monica and Kevin are rocking their MuellerMap!  

I just created the tool - they make it SING!

Good stuff!

Via Kevin & Monica Ray Missoula Real Estate Specialists (Access Realty www.YourMT.com):

Add a Video Tour of Your Local Area to Your Website with a Mueller Map

Awhile ago, ok it's been quite awhile now, I won a Mueller Map for listening to JC KC Social Media Edge on Blog Talk Radio (formerly Twitter Tuesday) that is hosted by ActiveRain's Jason Crouch, Ken Cook and Mike Mueller.

I'm still pretty new to video but had some videos put together using digital still photos and RealEstateShows.com. We also had access to some great local videos on YouTube from our local Realtor Association. View Our Missoula Local Tour Here

Video Tour of Missoula

Adding a Mueller Map to your website is a great way to show people your area through local videos that you have created or that you are able to find on YouTube.

Each point on the map is connected to a video of that location. Viewers can either click on the point on the map or on the list on the right column to get the local video to pop up.

Video Tour of Missoula

Missoula Mueller Map

You can also set up your Mueller Map to have your contact information on the Info tab behind the video - it even includes links to your Social Media Sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, and Email)!

Our Contact Info

We plan to add more of our own videos to the site over time but are excited to be able to offer this to visitors to our website!

According to Mike's webiste AreWeConnected, you can use a Mueller Map to:

  • map your listings (with slideshow or video)
  • map your neighborhood restaurants (interviewing owners or patrons)
  • map your interesting local points of interest

If you choose to get a Mueller Map for your site, Mike Mueller does most of the work by setting up the Google Map and the spreadsheet for you to enter your information. All you have to do is fill in the link to the video on You Tube and some basic information about the video. Detailed instructions are provided on how to complete those parts.

Some nice features of the Mueller Map:

  • It map can be updated by a simple spreadsheet (by the Agent)
  • Embed this in a blog post, in a sidebar, or as a single webpage
  • Map can be built to most any size (this is large but could be as small as a sidebar widget)
  • Map Only or Map with Sidebar Legend
  • Link to Directions, link to more info, or link to website, there are no limits

A GREAT BIG Thank you to Mike Mueller for helping us get this set up! :)

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3 comments • Mike Mueller • September 09 2009 03:20PM