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Great summary.  I always learn something when I listen to Jeff.

Yes, Jeff Turner is excellent at everything he does!  He has it all figured out! 

Christopher and Stephanie,

Thanks for sharing these points.  Jeff is someone who is always sharing with the AR network and we appreciate him.

I enjoyed hearing Jeff last July in SF, and I so much enjoy his leadership here on AR. Brilliant! I like your bullet points...especially the last one: Selfless giving opens the door to success !! Jeff and all these wonderful people, truly live by this. thanks for the recap here!

Things are changing very fast these days and it's mind numbing to keep up with it!

I would agree with all of those.  Giving freely of yourself by listening and engaging makes your network built to last.  The old principles of offline networking apply to online networking.

Everyone has this in them if they have effectively held an SOI offline.  How cool is that?

I have been bad with selling myself in my market reports.  By bad I mean a little too obvious :)  I was testing the hard core stuff out and then blogburst stopped picking up my market reports. 

Back to the same ole..

:)

Jeff's great at explaining SEO and Web 2.0. I'm on board with most of this, but with some of it, I just don't want to participate. (That would be my stubborn side.)  =P

Lola - Yes, it is great to have the resources out there to learn from !

Vickie - It seems that he does !

Jennifer - You are welcome !  We learned quite a bit and have more to share : )

I haven't heard of Jeff.  Interesting.  Of course, I am kidding.  I got a chance to meet Jeff in Houston back in October - he is one of the best listeners that I have met.  Good stuff!

Great bullets you listed here, and I need to work on a few of them myself.  Jeff is great at sharing info, and a great person as well.  I got to meet him in Orlando at the NAR convention - lots of fun!

Ann

Christopher and Stephanie, Great post about what you learned from Jeff. He is such a wonderful person inside and out. He is a giver, a great example and he gets blessed because of his selflessness. You made some great points. I have learned that I always want to bite off more than I can chew and I need to just let some thing go sometimes. I too, need to study my analytics more but I am not going to beat myself up about it:) As long as my phone is ringing I am happy:) Katerina

Christopher & Stephanie,

That's a bucketful of solid advice on how to do it on the Internet. Flickr is an interesting item he brought up, obviously worth exploring. Thanks for info.

Jeff is one of the best givers on the internet. He makes time for everyone. I'm sure that's not possible, but it seems like it. He provides a higher standard to strive for, yet it's not out of reach for normal people who are willing to learn. He cares enough to share, in English, and I have learned a lot from him.

Thanks for sharing this!

Mara - You are welcome ! The whole conference was a huge learning platform for us.  And yes, we all can probably learn from selfless giving opens the door to success !  I practice that most of the time but the conference really gave me a strong reminder of how important that is !

Hope - Yes it is, but being here on Active Rain provides a great platform to keep up with the changes, as well as the opportunity to attend these conferences or at least get first-hand updates and info !

Rebecca - Super cool !  Things go full circle : ) 

"Thanks for the rapid fire summary!"  - ERA THE GOOD BROKER

I have to ditto comments given about Jeff....he is a very smart, very smart, intelligent, funny and sharing man. He's also a deep thinker.....good analysis of his post. ;-)

Chris... I haven't sat down and listen to Jeff T., but I have met him before.  Thanks for sharing this, it seems pretty powerful.

I've heard Jeff speak several times and yes he practices what he preaches. Glad you all got to hear him and hopefully we will meet in the near future. Yea, go set up a Flickr account, it is fun to see photos of everyone and add community information to.

It sounds like there was a whole lot to learn in Jeff's presentation.  Thanks for summing it up for those of us who couldn't be there.

Wow - break out each of those points for another 12 featured posts!!  You guys must be in info overload! Must be great to hear Jeff speak. I'm going to impliment some of these tonight.  Or at least try to.

These are really great tips, and as Jason mentioned one of the best things about Jeff, is that he is a good "listener", not just a good speaker. He captivates your attention because he "listens"..one of the best attributes to take with us into Social Media I think..:)

I am sure that was a grat class to be at.  Getting that type of information straight from the source.  I will implement many of the things that you mentioned.

Good post, lets see if 2009-2010 holds true for social blogging for business because I'm spending way too much time here and there and not enough on the streets

Some of this instantly rang a bell, other items went right over my head.  I often wonder if an agent were to even do 50% of what is on this list, how this will really impact an agent's business, both plus and minus.  For the minus, I wonder for all this social/online building, since there is a finite amount of time during the day, if this time were used for say, bending over backwards to anticipate a current client's needs in excruciating detail (something that probably isn't done regularly now), how this current client could turn into a greater source of future referrals, and the networking effect of satisfying those referrals, etc., verus the anonymous and online building. 

Not a statement, but more of a pondering question.

Christopher and Stephanie,  I'm so glad that you posted this.  Flickr is pretty cool. I'm having fun with it.  Sell without selling, now that's a little harder...

thanks for the summary of the points ... out here in the Pacific Northwest... especially where I live, we are somewhat isolated from many of the great speakers.. have to travel quite a ways to be able to see them ... Happy for the interent ... I learn so much from here!  

Hi Somers!  First of all, congrats on that little gold star!  Well done and I love the list!  I'm bookmarking to check it off as I go.  Thanks for sharing your experience in New York--wish I could have gone too but, I'll live vicariously through you!

Powerful stuff.  Thanks for sharing this.  #12 is magical...Selfless giving DOES return 10-fold in so many ways. 

Thanks!

Sounds like a great presentation.  I've read some of Jeff's stuff and he very good.

great ideas, Twitter is my next big time investment. I need a better plan that covers texts.

Hi! Enjoyed sitting next to you at Bloggers Connect in NYC!  Great recap of Jeff's presentation.

Powerful stuff!  Especially #12!  It is true, the more you give, the more you get in return...pretty magical.  Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely Fantastic post, thanks for summarizing it for us. Much success to your 2009 Business!

Jeff is a wonderful speaker and very sharing.  He is a wiz at all this social media stuff and takes the time to figure it out so he is able to share with other people.  This was a great list, thank you for sharing it.

Thank you so much for this summary!  I think I will bookmark and come back when I can explore all of your links!

Debbie

Really good and simple information. Thank you for sharing.

thank you for sharing such great notes.  I am going to be implimenting several if not all of these

Great Blog!  I'm just now following Jeff a bit!  Good stuff...you too!  Thanks for sharing.  Keeping 'on top of the good things'...is the way to go.  Thanks again.  Robin

Bookmarked and already reworking and rethinking how I blog.  Thanks for such a great post!  Take care and happy blogging!

Great summary!  I wish I could have been there to hear Jeff's presentation, but you've summed it up nicely... thank you!!!!

Jeff has given out some great nuggets from the sounds of your summary. I was just re reading the Red Book of Selling Jeffrey Guitomer almost word for word he uses the same ideas, give freely first, it is harder work but easier sale.

For those of us who couldn't attend, this post is a great list of Jeff's ideas.  Thanks!  Gotta bookmark this one!

As a relative newcomer to the blogging scene, but as someone who loves to write, any and all good business tips help.  Otherwise I'd just spend my time writing!  Thanks!

Eileen Schreiber, in beautiful Flagstaff Arizona

Hi Christopher and Stephanie, Wow, it sounds like you got all kinds of great info at the Inman Conference. Thanks for being so gracious and passing them along.  Great post!

Great point about engaging and not selling.

I want to provide unique information, perspective, and personality that the reader will not get anywhere else. 

If people want to be sold they should pick up a copy of Homes and Land.

Renee - It is interesting how that works.  Back to basics is always good !

Lisa - The opposite of the "stubborn side" is being open-minded and willing to try.  It has been tough for me being behind on the technology wave but with great sites like Active Rain, ones learning curve can really catch up !

Jason - LOL, you had me going there for a second.  Yes, Jeff is quite a speaker and listener.  I listened intently on this presentation and another one he gave. 

Ann - That is great ! It is super when one has the opportunity to replace a photo and a blog with face to face meetings.  Same thing applies with our prospects and leads !

Katerina - Great attitude !  I agree.  When we left Inman, we were so overwhelmed with all the info and all the things we have to do.  Am just trying to smile and have fun and do good business and we will get to them one at a time.  Stephanie did set up a Flickr account last night so we are already making progress !

Hi Christopher & Stephanie,

I need to work on # 5 & 9.  Thanks very informative!

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Great post and thanks for the tips.  I think this selling yourself WITHOUT selling yourself is a skill to be learned by a lot of us in the blogosphere and social networks.

I too need to do and revisit many of the things you talk about .... especially the google analytics...

Esko - The resources here alone on Active Rain are amazing.  Stephanie signed up on Flickr last night and posted some photos of our trip in NYC at the conference !

Dave - It is great to align oneself with great people and to learn from them.  Even if you cant be a conference you can always subscribe to their blog and read their writings and advice and learn a ton of info.

ERA - You are welcome !  Not a problem.

Terri - Definitely !  Im glad this post is being well received.

Jeff - Once we posted this and have received the comments pretty fast even before it was featured, we realized that we had a powerful post in terms of providing great info and gives us even more validation that we made a great move by going to RE Connect.  We sure learned a lot !

I am curious about the extra benefit of a Flickr account? SEO I assume?

Christopher and Stephanie:

Somewhere in your summary, I think the idea is content and becoming a good source of discovery of where to get the content.

I guess he is also looking at centering ideas.

It is a lot of work.

Best,

Richard 

Christopher and Stephanie - I was a little intimidated when I read the title and first sentence. Usually I'm so far behind on the list I feel like I can NEVER catch up. I actually have some of these done. I appreciate the list from Jeff, who I trust, writen in such and easy, understandable way! Great post!

I would even change your post a tad to link to "your name blog" rather than "our blog".   It is hard to get SEO juice and this is one way to do it; link to yourself when appropriate.

Thanks for sharing, I'm trying to find all the posts from the Inman conference.  It is such a great thing that Rainers share so much!

Missy - the presentation sure was great.  There is some other great info we will post too in the next couple of days.  We set up Flickr last night and posted some photos already of our NYC trip !  Is very cool : )

Christine - It feels great to have done this post !

Steve - That is what Stephanie said too !  Each of those points could be their own blog post for sure.  Am already thinking about expanding on some of them ! 

Laura - Listening is definitely a huge asset and skill.  Is critical in sales.

Morgan - That is awesome that this was useful.  Am going to use it myself as a reminder of things to do for our blog !  Is a lot of work, but worth it in my opinion.

Thanks for sharing your notes! I have bookmarked so I can add to our 2009 plan.  Thanks!

Thanks for the overview! You gave a lot of info in short a concise blog, my first action step - I signed up for a flickr acct. I will be revisiting your blog to use some more of your great ideas. You make me want to take one of Jeff's classes - that's a compliment to any instructor.

Christopher and Stephanie...

Thank you for the absolutely great 'distilled' outline of 'how to succeed' in today's webiverse!

I've been a fan of Jeff for sometime now... You certainly get it... Thanks again for sharing.

Rene'

Excellent.  I love lists, especially those originating from Jeff T.  I've emailed this to myself.

Sonny - Patience is key and the key elements for success will be CONTENT and CONSISTENCY.

Chris - You raise some good questions.  I think with blogging and internet marketing there is a tremendous amount of intangible benefits too.  I do think that one can spend too much time on the computer and not enough tme out on the street or offline closing deals and working with clients.  Each person will need to find the right balance of what works for them.

Marian - Yes we just acclaimated with Flickr last night, and sell without selling is a great paradox : )

Patty - The internet and especially ACTIVE RAIN are great resouces to learn everything you need !

Debe - It is great to live vicariously through all the Rainers.  Collectively, there is a tremendous amount of experiences, resources and great information !

Must have been a great conferance. I would loev to hear Jeff speak. I certainly love what he has done with the Real Estate Shows.

Kent - Glad you appreciated it.  Number 12 is the most powerful one for sure.

Eileen - Thanks !  Good luck to you for 2009 as well.  Let's have a power year !

Chris - Yes, was great to be in that room with a lot of expert bloggers.

Michael -  Twitter is a great place to be and definitely worthwhile.  We are @thesomersteam

Maribeth - Was great to sit next to you as well and even better meeting you : ) .  Will look foward to the next one : )

Debbie - I think I will bookmark it as well : ) to give us some good reminders.

Unusual - Glad this could be of help.

Dave - Is good to implement proven stratgies that work !

Robin - Yes, definitely great to have such great resources around, especially the likes of the Jeff Turners of the world.

Jason - Lets have a great blogging for business 2009 !  Is good to rethink and rework what works !

All excellent points.  Im sure it was a fantastic presentation and we appreciate you sharing it.

Great summary of Jeff's presentation! Thanks for sharing such awesome information!

Chistopher and Stephanie - I'm jealous.  I've had the privilege of speaking with Jeff on the phone before and he really does have an impact on you.  We spoke a lot about listening and how important it is, especially in places like Twitter.  In one phone call I learned a lot from him, I can imagine a class with him would be just as good.  Keep the insights coming, I look forward to hearing more about Inman.

Okay, now you are an official member of the Jeff Turner Fan Club...welcome!

Amazing information.  Amazing presentation...short and to the point but very powerful. It was expected of you though...hope to hear the follow up to these things you "need to do". I'm going to keep you accountable. Wish you'd do the same for me. LOL

Keep up the great blogging!

Your Naples Fan!

Christopher and Stephanie, thank you for this great summary. I am hoping to get the audio from Inman on Monday. I'm going to marry the audio with the Keynot presentation to form a shareable multimedia piece.