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Since there are no professional speakers, discussion presenters or pre-scheduled classes, the ultimate success of Real Estate BarCamp depends on the active participation of the attendees.

And with a maximum of 200 participants, we are confident that there will be several very valuable and educational small group / mastermind style discussions happening all day long.

This is not a typical event where you zone out watching uninspiring powerpoint presentations from non-practicing industry people who have not proven that their “strategies for success” truly work in the real world.

Instead, we will be collecting possible discussion topics during the morning registration, and then we’ll organize all “classes” on a whiteboard that morning.

Basically, the attendees control the content for the day, which means you’ll actually get to hear relevant information that matters to your Las Vegas real estate business.

Getting The Most Out Of Your Session

While the “Un-Conference” style of Real Estate BarCamps may be new to Las Vegas industry professionals, the success of these events across the country is undisputed.

The best sessions have a well defined purpose or goal, and the group sticks to a maximum of 3-5 talking points in order to stay focused.

Within the first five minutes, a few discussion leaders will be the first ones to introduce themselves and get collective feedback on what the group’s main agenda is.

The talking points can be specific questions that everyone wants an answer to, or a simple round-table testimonial session where people share what’s working best for them.

Possible Topics For Discussion

The following topics have been discussed at previous BarCamps, and tend to be the most common requests from attendees.

If you have experience in any of these areas, please step up and fill out a note card when you register in the morning:

• Facebook Strategy – How to separate business from personal while building relationships with clients and friends.

• Facebook Tech - Creating a page, displaying a like box on your blog, organizing lists, understanding the new updates, privacy concerns.

• Twitter Marketing – What’s the purpose of Twitter for Agents? Really?

• Twitter Tech – Creating an account, WordPress plugins, curation through lists, auto-follow or not, syndication tools.

• Flickr vs. Picasa - Photo sharing social networks for markting properties and farming neighborhoods.

• Video Superstar – How agents are using video to build their brand, market properties, meet new buyers & sellers.

• What’s The Best CRM? - How technology has improved Client Relationship Management Systems.

• Foursquare For Real? – How does being the Mayor of a certain restaurant generate business for agents?

• Getting Yelp Reviews – Why it’s important, and how we encourage clients to give us online reviews.

• WordPress 101 – Building your own blog, .com vs .org, choosing a good theme, getting an idea of what’s involved.

• WordPress Plugins For Real Estate – The best plugins for agents, tech issues, possible conflicts.

• Blogging Basics – Creating a content strategy for a real estate blog that generates business.

• My Favorite Social Network For Real Estate Is….

• iPhone / iPad Applications For Real Estate

• Mobile Internet Marketing For Real Estate Agents

• Choosing The Best IDX Vendor

• Online Lead Incubation Best Practices

• Basic Facts About SEO And Getting Found Online

• Zillow & Trulia – Marketing gold mines or competitors to fear?

• Marketing Properties Online – Listing syndication, HTML flyers, Craigslist.org.

• Open House Parade – Let’s organize an home tour on the same day and dominate the web.

• Short Sale Marketing – Best practices for competing with the spammers and under-qualified agents online.

• Property Management Forum – Technology, marketing, accounting, tenant screening, security.

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