Ever hear of cash mobs? In a cash mob, a local store or restaurant is designated by the community as the recipient of a one day promotion where customers spend at least $20, using Twitter and other local media to broadcast the event. Cash mobs can also promote arts events, like youth symphonies, and causes [...]
Thanks So Much For Overpricing Your Condo. It Helped Me Sell Your Neighbor’s In Less Than A Week!
Thanks so much for overpricing your condo. It helped me sell your neighbor’s in less than a week! We really appreciate it… Remember when you called seven or eight months ago and we spoke for a bit? You said you wanted to list your condo for $425,000, even though I told you that was around [...]
How to get started on Empire Avenue
Editor’s note: This newbie tutorial for Empire Avenue was prepared by one of its stars Cyndee Haydon, who manages Breaking Pinellas News.com. At first glance, Empire Avenue (“EA”) looks like a stock market of personality, where shares of individuals are traded as commodities. The idea of putting oneself “into play” didn’t make sense at first, so [...]
New Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) for Upside Down Mortgages
What is HARP? First established in 2009, HARP (Home Affordable Refinance Program) was initiated as an option for underwater homeowners wanting to refinance their mortgage at lower interest rates with government expectations that it would assist millions of homeowners who found themselves owing more on their mortgages than what their homes were worth. HARP is [...]
Who we accept to the Breaking News Retweet Program
First, do you know about our Retweet Program? We can automatically retweet your tweets through our Breaking News Twitter feeds. If you have applied to the program and are accepted, you should have received the following email: Hi______, We look forward to helping you get your message across through the Breaking News Network. We have “authorized” [...]
RETSO, the leading conference for real estate technology – Atlanta April 12-13
RETSO, aka ReTechSouth, heads into its fifth annual conference on April 12-13. Launched in 2008, it was one of the first real estate conferences developed adhoc by Realtors who wanted to share the strategy and tactics of technology in their business. And it’s become the go-to spring time conference. RETSO spawned a variety of businesses [...]
How to become a first time online entrepreneur
The biggest occupational trend in the restructuring of the economy has been the newly minted entrepreneur. The media regales us with stories about the new startup incubators like Y Combinator, and the success stories of their progeny. All roads to developing a new business point to leveraging the Internet with some sort of social, commercial [...]
Why we want to retweet your tweets and get your word out
If you arrived here from one of our Breaking News Twitter links, welcome! The Breaking News Network is a national hyperlocal network in over 300 cities dedicated to community service and social media sourced news. Each city in our network is managed by locals. If you’re a business, civic group, arts organization or good cause, [...]
sTweet Deals Chirped Out from CheapIrvine.com
Remember clipping coupons from a newspaper or going through coupon mailers? It was tedious, time consuming, and downright frustrating trying to find a useful discount on a product or a service. But finding the best price for that net-book or the best two-for-one deals can be just as daunting online as it was in the [...]
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