Thought Leaders
September 2010 Thought Leaders of Real Estate BarCamp Indiana
Kyle Lacy, CEO of Brandswag
As
cofounder and business development head of Brandswag, Kyle spends his
time networking and meeting with clients. Kyle is also the author of Twitter Marketing for Dummies
and has an incredible talent for captivating his audience with his
passion and knowledge for new media. As media changes, so does Kyle; he
is constantly expanding his knowledge on the subject. He was recently
acknowledged as one of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 40 Under
Forty business professionals in Indianapolis.
www.kylelacy.com | www.getbrandswag.com | tweet @kyleplacy
Jeff and Grace Safrin
Broker/Owners, F.C. Tucker First Team Real Estate
Featured on ABC News Nightline, Home & Garden TV, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Franciso Chronicle, San Diego Gazette, USA Today, Post Tribune, Times, and REALTOR Magazine, Grace and Jeff Safrin are Licensed Real Estate Brokers with F. C. Tucker 1st Team Real Estate specializing in selling and marketing of new and existing residential real estate. Jeff is the 1st Vice President of Residential Sales and has the coveted honor of Life Member President’s Club - F. C. Tucker’s Highest Honor for consistent multimillion dollar sales. Grace is a Certified Residential Specialist - only 4% of REALTORS nationwide have this designation.
Read our BLOG about The Housing Market, Community Highlights, Local Events at www.NorthWestIndianaRealEstateBLOG.com
ActiveRain | Facebook | YouTube | Linkedin | Tweet @Safrin
Matthew A. Griffith,
Business Attorney/Coach
Griffith Law Group LLC
Matthew A. Griffith is an attorney and founder of GRIFFITH LAW GROUP LLC. He is also a principle, director and co-founder of the business coaching/consulting firm Xpedishon, Inc. Mr. Griffith focuses his practice on real estate and business matters. He emphasizes practical solutions that are preventative in nature and that serve to maximize his clients' opportunities, while minimizing risks. He represents entrepreneurs, inventors, real estate investors, business owners, managers, executives and professionals in a wide variety of planning, growth, transactional and corporate matters. His real estate clients include residential and commercial investors, developers, builders, contractors, brokers, property managers and building trades. Mr. Griffith routinely counsels clients in real estate transactions and disputes, business formations, financing, risk assessment and minimization, business transactions, employment agreements, buy-sell and confidentiality agreements, trademarks, business succession plans, dispute resolution, and product sales and distribution arrangements.
E-mail Matt | www.AskMattOnline.com | Tweet @askmattonline
Michael Reynolds
President/CEO of SpinWeb
Michael Reynolds is President/CEO of SpinWeb – a professional Indianapolis website design and development firm. Michael has worked in marketing and technology since 1996 and serves
on a number of non-profit and networking organization boards. Michael regularly publishes email articles, blogs, and e-books that
teach his readers how to do business and communicate using digital
tools. He also speaks at industry events around the country, including
the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, the CMS Expo in Chicago, and Blog Indiana
in Indianapolis. Michael plays tennis, loves all things Apple, and would do just about anything for good sushi.
Tweet @michaelreynolds | www.michaelreynolds.com | www.spinweb.net
Amy Stark
Founder & Chief Listening Officer
Stark ReAlity, Inc.
Amy
Stark is Founder and Chief Listening Officer for Stark ReAlity, Inc.,
an Indiana nonprofit that works with organizations struggling to adjust to the
tidal wave of
social media. Amy first became fascinated
with global Internet infrastructure while working in B2B communication
connectivity and hardware sales. She
realized that ideas being exchanged globally- on a grassroots level at
the speed of light – had the potential to supercharge innovation and
-hopefully-
make the world a better place. To that end, Amy returned to academia in
2005, received her MA in Philanthropic Studies from IU in December 2007,
and has been on a campaign to introduce social media to Indiana ever
since.
Amy’s
unique combination of “old school” PR/Marketing, Internet
infrastructure public policy expertise, and social media acumen gives
her the ability to design
comprehensive communication plans that help organizations remain viable
in the 21st century. Described by others as a “social media architect,” a
“viral-marketing guru,” and “twitter ninja,” Ms. Stark is an
accomplished public speaker, author, techno-geek and
mom.
Dave Woodson
Real Estate and Mortgage Marketing Consultant
Dave is a former loan officer and current Realtor in referral in NW Indiana. He is a daily blogger and currently setting up a podcast. Dave saw an increase in his business when he launched his blog and over-active involvement in Social Media/Networking. He is currently writing an e-book about Social Networking that revolves around Real Estate and Mortgages. Dave offers a very candid discussion about blogging and the use of Social Media in business especially Real Estate and Mortgage. He can be found at DaveWoodson.com, where he often does a CarCast video from his moving car and GetuNoticed.com. Dave is one of the organizers of one of the more successful tweetup/meetups in Indiana, NWiTweetup.com.
Tweet @davewoodson
Robby Slaughter
Founder of Slaughter Development
Robby Slaughter is the founder of Slaughter Development www.slaughterdev.com, a workflow and productivity consulting company. After an extensive career in IT systems development, Robby realized that the principal challenges affecting individual workers are not technological in nature, but psychological. He discovered that to become more effective and efficient at work, we need to empower individuals with authority and responsibility. His consulting practice now focuses exclusively on assessing workflow challenges, helping stakeholders to design and develop new business processes, and implement systematic, stakeholder-driven changes throughout the organization.
www.slaughterdevelopment.com | Tweet @robbyslaughter
Nat Finn
Internet Marketing Specialist
Golden Technologies
Nat Finn is an Internet Marketing Specialist at Golden Technologies. He
also serves as an Officer for NWITweetup and as a Regional Director for
Blog Indiana. With the time left over, he writes for SEO Boy as well as
his own blog, “How to Publish a Book. Of Blues. Hopefully.” It leaves
him little time left over to finish his Books of Blues. Luckily, he’s
found a few friends to help him with the editing.
Tweet @natfinn
Paula Henry
Associate Broker
Red Door Real Estate
Paula Henry is an Indianapolis Realtor® whose passion for
Online Marketing and Strategies has placed her websites in the top of the
search engines for many keywords and phrases. Her first website went live in 2002 and she never looked back at traditional
marketing. Through trial and error, education, great mentors, late nights and
too much coffee, she set out to learn everything she could about developing and
maintaining a competitive online presence. Since relocating to her hometown of Indianapolis in 2006, Paula has steadily
grown her business each year. Her team has closed over 50 transactions in the last year. She is currently an Associate Broker at Red Door Real Estate.
Tweet @IndyAgent | Facebook | LinkedIn | www.HometoIndy.com
Erik Deckers
VP of Operations & Creative Services
Pro Blog Service
Erik is the VP of Operations & Creative Services for Pro Blog Service. He has been blogging for since 1997, and has been a published writer for more than 20 years. He has written newspaper humor columns, business articles, and published two different blogs. He helped write Twitter Marketing for Dummies, and is currently writing "Branding Yourself" with Kyle Lacy. Erik frequently speaks on blogging and social media, especially on the topics of small business and the arts.
Keynote Luncheon:
"Secrets of Social Networking"
presented by Matthew Ferrara
BarCamp's companion event – the Indiana Association
of REALTORS® annual Fall Conference – has a lot to offer including a
special keynote luncheon the same day as BarCamp. Matthew Ferrara will
present his “Secrets of Social Networking”. Just $20. Register for lunch using the Indiana Associaton of REALTORS® online registration portal.
For two decades, Matthew Ferrara has been a driving force for evolution
in the real estate industry. His mission has been to revolutionize the
business by empowering brokers to create consumer-centric companies that
meet the needs of modern buyers and sellers. Matthew’s philosophy is
simple: forget about the past, study the consumer and deliver fast.
Matthew’s company helps brokers do this through innovative ideas,
consulting, management coaching and sales and technology training.
Matthew is rewriting the book on how real estate is done today – and in
the future.
Matthew’s career has influenced the real estate industry worldwide. As a
teacher, he has delivered more than 2000 seminars internationally. As
an author, his syndicated columns, interviews and videos are published
online and offline weekly. As a market philosopher, Matthew has shaped
the strategies of some of America’s most successful organizations. He
has earned the respect of his peers, having been recognized with the
Educator of the Year and the Best Training Company Awards.
As a leader in the “industrial revolution” of the real estate industry,
Matthew has been both gadfly and inspiration to the top CEOs and
innovative sales professionals in the business – creating change
worldwide, one leader at a time.
