Engage in PR

The reactions I got around my Social Media Real Estate post was interesting and some of us are still talking. Well forget the integration of social media with your realty needs, let’s talk about the “Social Media Yard Sale“. We are moving, as most of you know, so in order to decrease our moving costs we are selling a bunch of stuff. In preparing for the sale I’m trying to put my money where my mouth is and see how it works with your typical yard sale junkie.

Upcoming Listing
Craig’s List
Facebook Event Page
Twitter Post (and I’m sure I’ll post pics to Twitter during the event)

Our original goal was to see about 50 people, without any social media, so let’s see what happens!

Kyle Flaherty

Much is made about the Cult of the Amateur and it’s negative connotations. I however believe that amateurs are often times much more fun than professionals. Take sports for instance, watching amateur baseball players toil in the minors is an amazing process of heart, talent, emotion and sometimes temporary insanity. At this point I love going to a PawSox game as much as I enjoy heading to Fenway. Same goes online and I just had a wonderful experience.

I’m a new Mac user. I love my MacBook Pro already, yet I often have simple questions that my PC-legacy brain won’t let itself answer. Constantly I’m searching for help, but found rather quickly that going directly to Apple.com was fairly useless. I also found that when I searched for something, typically the first link pushes me to Apple and the second is an ‘amateur’. At this point I always select the second link. This morning I was struggling to figure out my Flip Cam with iMovie and it was this video that saved my day.

From the video I learned that I needed Quicktime Pro to make the magic happen. After buying the registration key from Apple and following the directions exactly, it didn’t work…and I’m still trying to find help from Apple with my issue. Cult of the Amateur indeed.

Kyle Flaherty