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Re: Improving Resale Value With A Carport

charliegunningham — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:33:38 -0000

Very interesting post - I am considering redoing my old carport at the moment!

Re: Tell Me, What Do You Stand For?

charliegunningham — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:34:18 -0000

Very true. Opinions are fine if they are considered, not snide. My favourite Gandhi quote:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

Re: Twitter and Facebook for Real Estate Agents

charliegunningham — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:36:31 -0000

Well done Peter - I was following #tweetreiwa and it was great to see the developing thoughts throughout the day

Re: The Day The Bank Cut Off Supply

charliegunningham — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:30:10 -0000

Wow! you were wondering what you should blog about (on the FB group) and then you come up with this - amazing. You are truly special. Having nurtured a small business up from start up to success and exit, I know this story so well. And you make the points. Gut feel, instinct, tight control of the cash flow, investigate, be on the pulse, energize and inspire, see through the tough times, how teams come together when it's dark, how you'd never wish a dark day again but are strangely glad you had them and proud you got through them...

Re: At what price our secrecy?

charliegunningham — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:10:17 -0000

Bang on Peter - as usual. I know Carmen as it happens (from UWA Business School), knew her before she went into real estate, probably did this due to client instructions I would guess, but still no excuse. People come to the internet for inforamtion, that's why they're there, don't give it to them and they don't come back.

Re: Five ordinary people who inspire me

charliegunningham — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:44:51 -0000

You inspire me Fletch! (seriously)

Re: Gerry, it’s time to start listening

charliegunningham — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:40:13 -0000

Good post Peter. LIke all change that happens slowly, the shift from old to new media has been slow, inexorable and fundamental. Easy to ignore if you want to, easy to scoff at mistakes made by pioneers... but like the drip drip drip of the leaky faucet, it inevitably turns into a real problem if not taken seriously. As Gandhi said - first they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Re: How to Get Started With Facebook Places

charliegunningham — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:04:22 -0000

Any better/different to FourSquare? which I like - as you know.

Re: How to share property listings on Facebook

charliegunningham — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:05:56 -0000

Clever - love the idea of asking the seller to share to their FB friends - brilliant!

Re: Real estate search for Google Maps – what it means for agents

charliegunningham — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:05:03 -0000

Hi Timson,

We've been developing map property searches since 1999, and using Google Maps in our searches since Sept 2006 - look at latest aussiehome.com site to see heat maps and 'plot best home open route' for map applications on a real estate web site. Contact me on charlie [at] aussiehome.com if you want further info, cheers

Re: Tending the Twitter and Facebook Gardens

charliegunningham — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:53:12 -0000

Ohhhh! (you see I am easily confused) - 30 LISTS not 30 friends...

Re: Tending the Twitter and Facebook Gardens

charliegunningham — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:22:30 -0000

Wow - you write good posts - love the analogy, and good luck with the sale of your home. Also liked the pfr 'rate your agent' page - nice idea. When you say you have 30 friends - did you mean 30 new ones? I'm confused (easy to confuse me) as I know you have way more than 30.

Re: Why a high bounce rate is a bad thing and 5 ways to fix it

charliegunningham — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:03:34 -0000

Great post. What is "high"? 30% ... 40%? Often that seems to be what I see on my Analytics; but then again a fair few visitors read 10+ pages and the ave time on site is over 7 minutes.

Presumably, spiders and robots would also count in the bounce rate as they often just access one page and leave?

Re: How to become a local legend using Foursquare

charliegunningham — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:49:35 -0000

Wow Peter - how do you stay so much on the ball? I was in New York last week, and I'd say FourSquare was one of the best presentations there (I'd never heard of it before). I was wondering (apart from the fun of it) the real estate applications, but as the CEO spoke so it started to become clear and so powerful, and you've listed some great ideas in your post.

Some NY bars now give free drinks to the Mayors of their bar - as people then compete to become the Mayor, and to do that they need to checkin at the place most often - -clever! I'd say that this could become as (if not more) important for local businesses than twitter in time?

Re: How to link a Facebook Page to a Twitter profile

charliegunningham — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:20:29 -0000

Brilliant! just done it and it works beautifully. I also had the twitter going to FB at first, but soon found out that was not good - doing it this way round is great - thanks again!

Re: A word of warning before starting a Facebook Page

charliegunningham — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:36:57 -0000

Did not know that Peter - wow, you're a great source of info on all this stuff. Did you find out the hard way through a client of yours? I'll make sure my clients know about this. I think (racking my brains here, but I reckon so) all my clients who've started FB pages would be the Principal anyway, but something very important to know!

Re: Perth agent responds to Tweet, averts PR storm

charliegunningham — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:02:01 -0000

Yeh - my fault! I didn't remind Kelly the comments went live, so she assumed they did not - anyway, another property company knows and loves therealestatemarketingmaven... - all good!

Re: Perth agent responds to Tweet, averts PR storm

charliegunningham — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:32:11 -0000

Fantastic stuff Peter - I know that agent well, and he was awestruck by this; he's already done the right thing anyway, but you coached him how to respond in twittersville and he was so impressed.