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Is Social Media A Waste Of Time? Texas Realtor Magazine: Yes. Sherry Chris, Better Homes And Gardens: No.

April 3rd, 2008 · 8 Comments

Michael Parker of Blackwater Consulting Group, writing in the Texas Realtor Magazine, says “Yes”:

I respectfully call social networking and Web 2.0 great hype with great future promise. I just don’t think they help sell houses today in any proportion to the emphasis they are receiving.

[Sidenote:  What’s Michael doing writing an article about social media in a Realtor magazine?  Shouldn’t he be protecting diplomats in Iraq?  Oh, wait a minute — that’s the other Blackwater.]

Michael raises some very interesting points, definitely worth addressing in a future post.

Sherry Chris, CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate*, however, begs to differ.

Friend and business colleague Pat “Transparent Real Estate” Kitano and I had the privilege of meeting Sherry and Camilla — BHG’s new head of marketing — over breakfast recently.  Sherry’s team has the exciting task of building a brand new nationwide real estate franchise from scratch, but with the incredible advantage of using a name with incredible brand equity.  They’re pulling out all the stops in their pre-launch efforts, including some very interesting online social media initiatives, with participation from the whole executive team.

Taking a page from Rudy and Joe, Sherry always has a video camera with her, and she made the mistake of interviewing Pat and me.  Whether it was the content or the participants that caused this, I’m not sure — but the hotel did give her grief about filming without permission.


* Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate is a client of Domus Consulting, a sister company of 3 Oceans Real Estate.

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