As you may already know LinkedIn has a “signature” way to visualize your network statistics. I have never paid any attention to those until recently. According to LinkedIn, I can reach out to well over one million professionals:
Realistically only 52 professionals I can contact directly. I can see potential of reaching out to 10,500 people through your immediate connections. But not over one million. Still even reaching out to 5,000 for a particular cause can be extremely valuable. Are the network statistics there to show the potential of your immediate connections? In the past I have never used LinkedIn actively besides just having an account there. With most of my contacts on LinkeIn I am connected in other ways.
How are you using your LinkedIn connections? This is not a rhetorical question. I am contemplating upgrading my free account and your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Update: Since writing this post it appears StumbleUpon will be lifting the 200 friends limit after all. It is not yet in effect, but it will probably be possible to add more than 200 friends in the days to come. I still think however it is a good idea to clean up your list once in a while.
Yes I know. The question does not sound like a nice one, but bare with me and you may discover that it is indeed a valid question.
There is one thing I used to hate about StumbleUpon- that I was limited to adding only 200 friends in my account. Today I was proven wrong or at least partially wrong.
In the last few months I have came across many great Stumblers and wanted to follow them. However I was not able to do so due to above described limitation. So I decided to do a major clean up of my contact list on StumbleUpon. I have set forth following criteria for this clean up:
- I planned to remove contacts from my list if they were last seen on StumbleUpon before January 1, 2008. I think seven months of inactivity was plenty to let me know that a particular stumbler lost his or her interest in the community.
- I intended to remove any one who did not befriended me back. Only leaving those who were unable to befriend me due to the above limitation.
- Finally I was planing to remove every one with whom I hand no more than 3 interests in common.
Fortunately I did not have to follow through on #2 and #3. As soon as I began removing those who fell into my #1 criteria, I discovered that many of them had their account suspended on StumbleUpon. I also noticed that every one of those who were suspended had a default StumbleUpon avatar (image to the right) associated with their account. That of course made my job so much easier.
The end result was that although I am still limited to have only 200 friends on StumbleUpon, there is some room for new friends. I also plan to reserve these few spots for real estate bloggers. If you are one of them, feel free to add me to your friends: My StumbleUpon Profile. If you already have 200 friends in your profile, please leave the link in the comments so I can add you to my contacts anyway. Hopefully one day you will do the similar clean up and will find some room for me.
photo credit: psdOver the period of last few months I was a recipient of incredible support and generosity for the bloggers around the world and real estate bloggers in particular. While I have no words to describe my gratitude, there was one question constantly on my mind: “What can I do to show my gratitude to all these wonderful people?”
I am a firm believer in saying “what does around, comes around”. In other words I should not be expecting other people to be supportive and generous to me, if I am not supportive and generous to other people. However at the end of the day, no matter how much I give it always seems that I receive back hundredfolds. And so is true about last few months.
As a token of my gratitude to many bloggers and real estate professionals, I am working on few projects that hopefully will benefit you in some way.
Blogroll
While I am not in favor of site wide blogrolls, I have decided to implement on on my blog. The exception of course is that it is not a side wide but a dedicated page which will show the blogs on my blogroll. With the help of the Live Blogroll plugin, I have added a little twist to my blog roll. If you navigate to the blogroll page and hover with your mouse over the links a need ajax pop-up will appear with the latest articles from your blog. This blogroll is the work in progress, so if you did not see your blog there yet it will probably appear in next few days. I will also look into the way to paginate that page so it can redistribute the “link juice” to the bookmarks there in equal measure. I will also try to play around with the plugin and instead of serving the “latest post” through the ajax widget I will attempt to embed them in the page itself. I think that would add more value to the blogroll itself besides it being just collection of links.
Free Consulting: Blogging and Internet Marketing.
As many of your may gather I know a thing or two about blogging and internet marketing. If you do not have a blog yet, I encourage you to start one immediately. If you have one already, feel free to ask my advise on how you can improve your blog performance.
Free Translating And Interpreting.
If you ever decide to market your real estate business in other languages, I will be happy to help you out. While I do not speak Spanish, I can translate and interpret for you in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Italian. Due to my schedule I will be offering this only to the blog owners listed in my blogroll, again the Blogroll is a word in progress and I am anticipating to have more than 100 blogs on the list. So please stop again in the future.
If you have any questions about the above offers feel free to contact me.
Realty Lifeline- agent-to-agent free referral network was announced today at PRWeb. Website is aimed at providing real estate agents to share the referrals. Any agent can submit and bid on referrals for free. However every referral will expire in 90 days. When submitting a bid no personally identifiable info of your seller or buyer is required. After another agent successfully accepts the bid, you finalize your bid with that agent:
What are Bids?
When a referring agent posts a Rerrral on our site, it is available for all other agents to view. If you would like to get that lead (or Referral), you must place a “Bid” on it. When you place a Bid on a Referral, the referring agent can review your profile and reviews from past Realty Lifeline transactions.
How do I bid on Referrals?
You create a Bid by clicking on the Bid on this Referral button on the Referral Details page. The referring agent will review all of the Bids that he or she gets, then choose an agent that they want to work with. Who is selected is entirely dependent on the referring agent.
What are Active Bids?
A Bid is active on a Referral unless you withdraw it, or unless the Referral expires.
I’ve submitted my Bid… what’s next?
The Referring Agent will review Bids as they come in and make a decision on will get the Referral. When a Referral is awarded to you, you will see a message on the Home page and the Referral will appear under the Pending Transactions section.
This website indeed can become very popular among the real estate agents because it’s free and no third party is involved in the referral process.
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