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REtech South in Atlanta, One Day, Endless Value
03/29/08 | Kathy Drewien | Category: Atlanta Real Estate, Technology & Real Estate
REtech South delivered on their promise, one day, endless value. A huge “atta boy” to Brad Nix and Matt Fagioli for their initiative in launching this event!
On March 11, at the Atlanta Real Estate Bloggers networking group, Brad and Matt met for the first time, came up with an idea, and launched one of the most productive real estate technology events I’ve attended in a over a year.
It was exciting to be in a room full of young, energetic real estate professionals who are second generation web users. They understand the power of social networking. They know how to connect with real estate buyers and sellers online. They are developers of new real estate systems designed to enhance the home search process. They blog, they twitter, they connect. In short, they get it.
They remind me of another group of real estate professionals I met in 1996. As you scroll through the pictures of these first generation web users, you’ll quickly see we’re about 25 years older than the folks at REtech South. But, our online real estate experiences are the same.
Our static websites were designed to enhance the real estate experience of buyers and sellers. Email was our method of starting conversations. We took lots of pictures of houses, and put them on single property web pages to market our listings. We were early adopters of tech toys and software (like visual tours, egg lenses, and handheld scanners).
We met the people that lived in our computer. We helped them buy and sell real estate. And, because we’re older than the Web 2.0 folks, we’ve helped a lot of these buyers and sellers move more than once.
Our peers said (and continue to say) the same things you hear:
- You’ll never make any money sitting in front of a computer.
- How much does it cost to build a website / blog?
- Where do you get your content?
- Real estate is an eyeball-to-eyeball business.
- When times are tough, you need to get back to the basics.
We laughed all the way to the bank!
Now, just because I use the past tense in the above paragraphs, don’t think this original group has lost their passion for technology in the practice of real estate.
We blog, we twit, we video. We still meet nice people who live in our computer. Some of them are buyers and sellers. Some of them are real estate professionals. And, when we meet eyeball-to-eyeball, we are old friends.
I’m glad REtech South gave me the chance to meet some of the folks I’ve been following online: Mary McKnight, Rudy Bachraty, Jason Benesch, Dustin Luther, Kevin Boer, Pat Kitano, Christian Sterner
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