Ok, we’ve been more than a little busy over the past few months getting ready for the National Association of Realtors conference in Las Vegas. The day has finally arrived and we are on our way. You’ll be able to catch all of us at our booth #3444.

We’re also hosting the “Meet the bloggers” event for the Geek Estate Blog. Super props to Mike Price from MLBroadcast.com for helping us set up the event.

If you’re going to be at the convention come on by and say hello. If not, we’ll be posting some photos and updates throughout the week, so stay tuned.

We will be hosting the “Meet the bloggers” event at the NAR convention in Las Vegas in a few weeks. So far, Mike Price from MLBroadcast.com has been doing a great job at getting bloggers lined up for the event. It should be a good event with lots of bloggers in attendance.

If you’re going to be in Vegas for the NAR convention, feel free to stop by the Incredible Agent booth to meet up with all the bloggers. Our booth number is #3444.

Click here for the full lineup of speakers.

If you have any questions, please contact Mike Price and he’ll be able to take care of you.

Ok, this years Connect conference was awfully busy for us at Incredible Agent. There was plenty to do and lots of people to meet and catch up with.

As always, there are lots of take aways from Connect. Here are a few things we learned this year…
1. BS is marketing 1.0
2. User Generated Content(UGC) is marketing 2.0
3. Your online reputation will replace your resume.
4. Web 2.0 started on some island in the South Pacific in 1917. (Kula! Kula! Kula!)
5. Blogging is getting bigger. Much Bigger!
6. Being a Geek is cooler than it was in High School. (www.GeekEstateBlog.com)
7. There are lots of features being created and not many businesses.
8. Everyone is a competitor and some are friendlier than others.
9. Business is still about people and face to face introductions.
10. There are plenty of small ideas, but very few big ones.
11. Our industry is panicked with excitement.

Overall, it was a very good conference. Last year, there were some companies in the audience that were under the radar who showed up big at this conference. It makes me wonder which companies were under the radar this year and will be big next year. Hmmm??? We’ll have to wait and see.

Here are some photos from our Incredible blog fest that we threw last night with the Blog Tour USA guys from Sellsius Real Estate. We were joined by many bloggers and everyone enjoyed the margarita fountain, lots of beers (more than we expected) and lots of mini chimi’s. Blogging and drinking just seem to go together, so we’re looking forward to the bloggers connect party in SF in a couple of weeks. Hope to see everyone there.

Rudy, Tom & myself having a little fun

Tom, Monica & I hanging by the bus

Christoph Schweiger, John Dalton & David Smith talking up a storm.

Michelle Shelton and team member from the AZ Mastermind Group

A little crowd shot for you.

We’re happy to announce our sponsorship of our friends over at Sellsius Real Estate on their Blog Tour USA. They will be driving over 8,000 miles across the country in an RV for the entire month of July. Stopping along the way for events at each destination to meet up with the local bloggers. We encourage everyone to say hello as they stop by your city. Click here to see what cities they’ll be visiting. They will be ending their tour in San Francisco at the Inman Bloggers Connect.

Over the past few days, we’ve been a little busy around here at Incredible Agent launching HomeHugg. We’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback about the site and thanks to many of our blogger friends, there has been several blogs written about HomeHugg. I wanted to put them all in one place, so here you go.

Sellsius Blog - Home Love at HomeHugg
Future of Real Estate Marketing - Digging For A New Home
RealtyThoughts - HomeHugg: Bookmarks for Real Estate
MLPodcast (Interview) -  Interview: Damon Pace - HomeHugg.Com
Inman - Social networking for homes
Jonathan Dalton - HomeHugg - Real Estate Hot or Not?
Matt Guyer - HomeHugg
Immobilie Portale - digg für Immobilien (German?)

I believe that’s about it. If anyone see’s anything else out there please let us know.

Hopefully we’ve all seen the movie “Office Space”. One of my favorite movies and if you haven’t seen it…rent it tonight! It’s absolutely hilarious. I bet your asking what does this have to do with Real Estate. Not much really, just a fun note about the nature of blogging.

If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll remember the scenes when Jennifer Aniston is working at Chachki’s(TGI Fridays) and she’s told she needs to wear more than the bare minimum amount of “Flare” required. Apparently it’s company policy to have no less than 16 pieces of “Flare” on your uniform.

Well, I’ve been struggling to get our blog up and running with the proper icons, images, chiclets, links, etc on the side that seems to be the standard on all the cool blogs. My question is “How many pieces of flare does my blog really need?” I don’t want to have the bare minimum. What will the other bloggers think of us if we only have the bare minimum?

I need some help trying to figure out how many pieces of “flare” I need on my blog. So I need some feedback. How many pieces of “flare” do you have on your blog? What do you suggest? Any help is appreciated.

By the way, TGI Fridays no longer requires their employees to wear “flare”. I wonder how long it will be before all us bloggers stop promoting our flare.