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Welcome our newest contributor: Scott Bridwell!

August 12th, 2008 • Administrator • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Scott Bridwell has over 10 years experience in the Real Estate Industry.  His background includes sales and marketing for Title and Escrow Companies, he was the sales manager for a local builder and has four years as an Escrow Officer in both Washington and Oregon.

Currently he spends his time helping Real Estate Professionals with their online presence by coaching them on their social networking, and online reputation management.  He’s also a certified clock hour instructor for the state of Washington.

Scott also recently joined RETechCoach as a real estate marketing and technology consultant!

Want to know more?  Visit his blog www.scottbridwell.com.

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Welcome Mike Rohrig, Beaverton Real Estate Specialist

July 9th, 2008 • Administrator • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

We would like to welcome our newest contributor, Mike Rohrig! 

Mike started in real estate as an assistant in December 2000 just a few months after receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Portland State University.  After almost a year as an assistant and watching all of their mistakes he thought he knew it all and became a real estate broker.  Quickly he learned that every transaction is different and was surprised his psychology degree came in to play quite often. 

He has had a desk at two of the larger companies before settling at Rio Realty in Beaverton in 2005 and then becoming Principal Broker in December of that year.  He has seen some crazy, frustrating, surprising and fun stuff since he started and hopes it stays interesting…in this current market I guess it will.

Mike will be covering real estate news in the greater Beaverton area, plus anything that might be interesting to professionals and consumers in the Portland real estate market.

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Portland Real Estate Network is on Twitter!

July 7th, 2008 • Nick Bostic • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

For those of you who know what Twitter is, you were probably expecting this from me.  For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, there is a great video below to check out.  Some call it a “micro-blogging” platform, but I’ll admit, it’s much closer to a big group chat.  Best of all, you only have 140 characters to get your point across.

How is this beneficial?

For those of you who are real estate professionals here in Portland, there is a huge tech community (check out Silicon Florist to get an idea).  Many tech companies bring employees in from out of the area (Vidoop just had a major migration).  Employees coming for jobs = housing demand.  Wouldn’t it be nice to “know” someone from some great, concise conversations who could really use your help?  Twitter is (one of) the answers.

For those of you who are community members, it’s a great way to get to know your neighbors.  Through TwitterLocal, you can search for people within a specific geographic area.  Get to know them online, then have a group TweetUp (a Twitter user meet-up) or simply attend any tech event in town to see nametags covered in @usernames.  As of this writing, Portland is the 14th largest city on Twitter in terms “tweets”, so there’s a lot of people to get to know.

How to participate

Simply go to Twitter.com and register for an account.  Then go here and click on the “Follow” button below our image.  Anytime we update, you’ll be able to see it!

While you’re at it, feel free to join me on there as well.  As our contributors start writing, they’ll let you know how to find them on Twitter too!

The video

I promised a video explaining all of this, and here it is…

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Welcome Nick Bostic, Internet Marketing Specialist

July 7th, 2008 • Administrator • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

We would like to welcome our first contributor, Nick Bostic!  Nick is the blogger behind Real Estate Technology Coaching, is a contributor for Agent Genius, has been featured on Real Estate Radio USA, has been profiled by Portland on Fire and is the Director of Marketing and Technology for Chicago Title of Oregon.

Nick will be covering real estate technology including tools for real estate professionals as well as fun gadgets for homeowners.  As site administrator, he will also be fielding consumer questions from the site contact form to the real estate public on the site.

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Welcome

July 7th, 2008 • Administrator • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Welcome to the Portland Real Estate Network.  We will be covering the many geographic areas of Portland, welcome consumer questions and comments and will be providing insight into many topics of interest for real estate professionals.

Please bookmark the site or get free updates in your feed reader.  We launch today, so be prepared for a wealth of knowledge flowing your way very soon!

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