Real Estate Social Media Marketing: “Blue” paper

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“Social Media” is a the current darling of the internet marketing industry. In case you’re still trying to figure it out Batchblue (the firm that put Jonny Adler on screen to Motley Crüe) recently released a great little tipsheet on getting into social media with a real estate focus.
It covers social [...]

Google Pagerank Toolbar update

This is for the SEO geeks among us. But it appears that Google has updated the Toolbar Pagerank this past weekend. I’m happy to note that the Union Street Media site is holding steady, that this blog debuted favorably and that our internal pages, like our real estate web design page, are also now earning [...]

Tweetburner is another tool for social media measurement

Just a quick heads up: Similar to the Cli.gs service is Tweetburner. So far I’m finding that Tweetburner has a prettier interface with charts and all.
Also, it has my requested “time of day” style reports. So you can start to learn when people are paying attention to your Twitter posts
It does give you a slightly [...]

Jon Adler is famous

Jonny Adler  was the MAR convention and was approached by Michelle Riggen-Ransom from batchblue.com to talk about using social media.
In true Union Street Media form, Jonny gets down to business and gives you a clear task and takeaway to get you rolling with Facebook. Complete with an example.
Maybe we should get Jonny to write more [...]

Cli.gs is a tool for social media analytics

For those of you who are happily using Twitter as a business tool, it probably won’t take long before you start to wonder if all those shortened links are doing you much good.
Certainly you can look in your analytics for Twitter as a referrer. But that won’t tell you much as the link itself gets [...]

Mobile phone? Sure. For texting.

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Neilsen is reporting that “Americans each sent or received 357 text messages a month then, compared with 204 phone calls.” Moreover, this is the third quarter in a row that text messages beat out phone calls.
After the break, the chart that gives a breakdown of usage by age. Some of which might surprise [...]

Conference Season Rolls On

I know you really wanted to hang out with Ted and Jonny in Vermont. But you lived too far away. Well if you’re in New Hampshire go say hi to Ted at the New Hampshire Association of Realtors Annual Convention. Be sure to ask him for a tutorial on how to use the Flip video [...]

Verde Montagne Imports

Union Street is proud to launch Verde Montagne Imports, the exclusive retailer for Frattoria Lischeto of Volterra, Italy. The site makes excellent use of our custom design services on a Wordpress CMS with integrated ordering system.
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I’ve been memed.

Every now and then the blogosphere has a slow day out and a “meme” is spread. While “meme” normally refers to any short, digestible bit of truthiness/buzz that spreads like wildfire, in blogland “memes” are usually a question or set of questions that you’re supposed to answer.
Memes spread from person to person, like a cold [...]

Century 21 Advantage

Century 21 Advantage, a Burlington VT real estate company, launched with a new real estate web design by Union Street Media. Their site makes great use of our custom graphic design services, featured listings, integrated IDX search, one-click searches, and more. Watch for more as we move their blog over to their own domain.
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