9 hours … 1 gorgeous day in San Francisco … 1 amazing hotel … 15 presenters … 6 real estate sessions … 3 product breakout sessions … breakfast … lunch … networking … 10 Max bobblehead prizes … over 300 tweets … 65 satisfied attendees!

Thank you to all who attended and made HomeGain Live Nation a success. As Karen Breen Elia says below in her video, it was indeed a 2-way street of giving and getting of real estate strategies and insight for those who attended.

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HomeGain Nation Photos and Videos below:

Photos

From left to right: Jay Thompson, Robert Hahn, Louis Cammarosano, Joseph Ferrara, Patrick KitanoLouis Cammaroano (above center) leads the "Trends in Real Estate Marketing" discussion Mitch Ribak of The eHomes Realty Network and Sarah Bandy of The Bandy Group

Brian Kinkade of Cherry Creek Professionals Realty: Winner of a Max Gorilla Bobblehead

See more photos on HomeGain Facebook Page and HomeGain Flickr Page.

Videos

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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 Cammarosano 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!

See Louis Cammarosano’s speaker profile on Retechsouth

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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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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Thousands of real estate professionals descended upon the HomeGain booth to learn about HomeGain.

On Saturday and Sunday Mitch Ribak and Joe Ferrara participated in our “Meet the Experts” program.

Joe gave blogging tips to visitors to the HomeGain booth and Mitch talked about how to use HomeGain’s Buyerlink in connection with capturing and converting leads.

From Friday until Monday, Realtors lined up to win their own Max and to pick up a Max button.

We will have a complete report on NAR later this week.

Here is Max hanging around on Friday afternoon waiting for the show to begin!

What were your thoughts about the NAR Convention & Expo this year in Orlando, Florida?

Louis Cammarosano

This weekend at the NAR Expo 2008 in Orlando, Florida, you will have a chance to meet two of the stars from the HomeGain Blog AND from HomeGain’s Ask The Experts Live Real Estate Forum, in person — Mitch Ribak and Joseph Ferrara!

Visit the HomeGain booth #3231 on Saturday and Sunday to meet them and discuss business strategies.

From 10am-NOON on both days, Mitch Ribak of Tropical Realty in Suntree, FL, will be available to speak with you about strategies to improve how you capture leads, managing leads, and converting more leads into clients — on both agent and broker levels.  Mitch will spotlight BuyerLink as well as his successful products, 100 MPH Software and eHomes Realty Network.

From 2pm-4pm, Joseph Ferrara of Sellsius Real Estate Blog will give advice for how to build a successful real estate blog, promote yourself on social networking sites and increase your online presence.  Joseph was just named by Inman News as one of 25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers list for 2008.

Their time and advice is FREE to booth visitors so make sure to stop by and learn some valuable advice from two guys who really know their stuff!

Let us know you are coming by emailing me at blog@homegain.com.  Also, if you are a HomeGain customer who is planning to come by our booth, you can RSVP for your FREE GIFT now by emailing me in advance.

We look forward to seeing you there!