Am I popular with young people? Hell, I’ve got my own page(s) on My Space. I just found out about these pages today – Greg sent me the links via email. Here is a link to the first page Greg sent me. After I wrote him back insisting I have NO idea who posted the page, he sent me this link. Have your speakers on the get the full experience. Of course I am flattered that someone cares enough to do something like this – even using one of my favorite quotes from L. Ron Hubbard. “Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.” But to prove they didn’t really know anything meaningful about me, the person who posted as me on My Space (attributing it to me) said, “I’m Russell Shaw and I’m not a fan of popular music, or any music for that matter. When you’re in the business of selling homes, you don’t have time for other things.” Actually, I obsessively find and listen to new music, as I’ve been doing this most of my life. They also shaved four years off my age and got my “sign” wrong, as well. But you have to give them (deranged) credit for trying. Hopefully, by the time anyone reading this blog a few days from now sees this the pages for me on My Space will be gone. But in the meantime I’m quite confident my message of how to take more listings and supercharge your business will no doubt be quite a hit with hundreds of thousands of preteens.
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I have lots of other friends too. For example, just today, my big fan, Jef Rice wrote to me (here is Jef’s email, in case you would like to write him for me jef@gumiyo.com). Here is the entire text of the email Jef sent me:
Hi Russell,
I really enjoyed reading articles on your real estate blog. You have a good point of view. I would love to hear your opinion on our new service – www.gumiyo.com. Let me give you the quick rundown. We are the latest and greatest Mobile-focused Classified Ads site on the internet.
Here’s how it works:
As a listing agent, you can post your properties to www.gumiyo.com using a traditional web browser – or text messaging from your phone. Since everyone knows how to login to a site and post an item there, I will focus on the phone process.
Here is what you do:
1. take pictures or video of your property with your camera in your phone.
2. Send post@gumiyo.com a message with your pics/video attached. Include a title and description of the post.
3. We post your listing for free AND we send your listing to about 10 different services like Trulia, Google &174; Base, Froogle &174;, Lycos, Oodle, Edgeio, Vast, and many other local classified sites.
Then you can obviously login to www.gumiyo.com and add more detail to you listing – or use our newest feature called Tell-A-Friend&174;. It will allow you to announce your listing to all of your friends by pulling in your contacts from gmail or yahoo mail systems. This will save you money and time announcing your new listings to the world.
When prospective buyers come to www.gumiyo.com – they don’t browse or search like in the olden days… they create Gumiyo Alerts&174;. These are like automated shopping bots that seek out items on behalf of buyers. When a watched item becomes available, we send a text message to the buyer on their mobile phone. Yep, I said it — not their computer… We send it to the device they carry everywhere they go.
They can then respond directly to you via text — so you get an immediate qualified lead to your phone — OR — they can use our ‘Pass it On’ feature. ‘Pass it On’ allows them to tell their friends about your listings too… I mean, the alerted person might not like the house – but they might know someone who does. So they send their friend a text message — and the process continues.
No matter how it happens, the results are the same: You get well-qualified leads sent directly from your phone. And you keep from having to spend your entire day in front of a computer. Pretty nice.
Check www.gumiyo.com out – and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly. I would love to hear feedback on our offering.
P.S. We have more surprises concerning social advertising we plan on unveiling in the next couple of weeks – so keep yourself informed at blog.gumiyo.com
Thanks,
Jef Rice
Customer Experience
www.gumiyo.com
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It should be pretty obvious that people like my blog and I’m also quite a hit with the young crowd too.
