HomeGain hosted its third “Ask The Experts” live real estate forum last week. With a new format that allowed more question time for participants, HomeGain received dozens of questions directed at the experts before the session began, and many more during the call.

The panel of experts were:

• Barry Karch of Prudential BKB Realtors in El Paso, Texas, who answered questions about ”Generating New Business From The Internet”
• Mitch Ribakof eHomes Realty Network in Melbourne, Florida, who covered “Converting Leads Into Clients”
• Carl Medford of Windermere Properties of the East Bay, in San Francisco Bay Area in California, who spoke about the ”Essentials of Being A Virtual Agent”

Listen to this valuable 40-minute real estate call:

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Get ready! The 2nd annual REtechSouth is this Friday, March 20, in Atlanta, Georgia. Organizers Brad Nix and Matt Fagioli have invited HomeGain’s General Manager, Louis Cammarosano, to speak about “Mastering Online Lead Generation“.

At 3PM on Friday on the Main Stage, go to hear Matt and Louis discuss blogging, twitter, pay-per-click and the complex world of internet marketing for realtors.

HomeGain is the sponsor of free WiFi at REtechSouth. Attendees will receive a HomeGain hat in their event bags, plus have a chance to win Max, the HomeGain gorilla, and other prizes throughout the day in the raffles!

HomeGain Real Estate Blog authors Nicole Nicolay, Pat Kitano, Mary McKnight , Joseph Ferrara and HomeGain AgentEvaluator Platinum Club member, Missy Caulk, are also panelists at the event.

See the REtechSouth schedule. Hope to see you there!

Max, the HomeGain gorilla, fresh back from his trip to India has been resting up by taking long walks along the San Francisco Bay…

…and hanging in the Sierras…

…in anticipation of his second annual “What’s Your Home Worth” /”Find a Realtor” auto tour.

Max will be firing up his Max Mobile and hitting the streets of San Diego and New York loaded cases of with his favorite drink– coconut milk and a half dozen jars of jelly beans.

But first… Max is heading to Atlanta…

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Join HomeGain for its quarterly event LIVE on Thursday, March 19.

During the session you’ll hear strategic advice from a panel of experts essential to your success in real estate in 2009, having an opportunity to ask the experts questions specific to your own business. Due to the growing popularity of the event, there will be a new format, which will allow more time for questions, and you can even send your questions in advance!

When: Thursday, March 19, 2009

Time: 10am — 11am PST

Cost: None

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At Inman Connect last week I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Fagioli.  Mr. Fagioli, a HomeGain AgentView customer, has organized an impressive “Inman South” conference called RETech South, which boasts a fine roster of speakers to be held at the Gwinnett Center in Atlanta on Friday March 20.

Yesterday Matt and I spoke about RETech South and its objectives.

Matt is also a member of HomeGain Nation a 200+ member interactive forum on the Ning platform. This morning Matt posted a blog entitled “How Print Marketing Still Brings Home the Bacon” and I have reproduced it in its entirety here:

How Print Marketing Still Brings Home The Bacon

I had the pleasure of a phone call yesterday with our friend Louis. His view of “all this 2.0 stuff” is really refreshing because he realizes that while it’s all very cool and trendy and slick, it does NOT replace print marketing - nor does it replace the good old fashioned handshake. Our 2.0 world merely compliments our off-line efforts.

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Join us at HomeGain’s next “Ask The Experts” exclusive phone event live on Thursday, December 4th at 10am Pacific.

You’ll have the chance to interact with the following team of real estate experts:

• Mitch Ribak, eHomes Realty Network – “Web Lead Conversion Strategies”
• Alisha Wade, RE/MAX Achievers and Realty One Group – “Advice for Handling Foreclosures”
• Joseph Ferrara, Sellsius Real Estate Blog – “Getting Leads from Your Blog”
• Brian Brady, World Wide Wealth Advisors – “Home Mortgage Insight”

Hear strategic advice essential to your success in real estate in 2009 – and have the opportunity to ask the experts questions specific to your own business.

Register today, it’s FREE and full of opportunity

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Click here for the “Ask the Experts” Archive.