Rudy Bachraty:  Hey, I am Rudy from Trulia and I am here with Mark Eibner from Broker IPTV and I am introducing myself because Mark seems to have some trouble in the last few takes.

Interviewer:  Yeah.

Rudy Bachraty:  So, anyway, so, RE BarCamp Denver was fantastic.  This is sort of like the la sera[Phonetic].  Everyone has gone.  If you pan out and just kind of see what's happening here, there is pretty much no one left.

Interviewer:  And I might add that Rudy was the first guy here this morning, beat us to the venue, unbelievable.  How is that Rudy?

Rudy Bachraty:  I was the first one here and almost the last one.  So, I am the first one here.  We recently moved to Fort Collins, Colorado.  We heard some really good things about it, did some research and it was a great opportunity for our family and also a good strategy for our business with Trulia.  So, look for more regional events here and it's been exciting so far.

Interviewer:  Well, we might look at doing more interviews with Rudy down at Broker IPTV in the studio man now, we don't... now we know you live in town.  This is kind of like your coming out.

Rudy Bachraty:  It was a great coming out party.  [Voice Cross Over]  Thank you everyone for coming.  I can't thank you enough, you know, thank you.

Interviewer:  Yeah, you know, I guess, what I was joking about was Todd Carpenter[Phonetic] left, went to Chicago, and you just moved right in.

Rudy Bachraty:  Saw a great opportunity to actually steal some market share now that Todd left.  I have been doing really well since I have been here for the last three weeks.  So, thanks Todd.  Opened up a nice door there for us, but seriously, you know, this event, let's talk about this event, this event was fantastic.  This is my third BarCamp.  It was very well organized, very well attended and I think everyone got a lot of out it.  Personally, I got a lot out of it.  I learned from Lorelle at WordPress that the new it term is f-to-f.  You know what f-to-f is?

Interviewer:  No, no.

Rudy Bachraty:  So, we kind of know b-to-b, b-to-c, so, f-to-f is the face-to-face, face-to-face, which is powerful and which is why all of you, if you have an opportunity to attend one of these events locally, go for it.  You get a lot out of it.

Interviewer:  Yeah.  You know, what is ironic is we have got all these... so, I have[Phonetic] a couple of hundred brokers, we had maybe 50 reservations, 10 showed up, and here is ironically who they were, the 10 that showed up were all some of the bigger producers in the organization who didn't even have time to really be here.  So, where are the other 40 that aren't doing as much business and they are not here?

Rudy Bachraty:  Well, he goes to the whole rule of the 80:20, so, those that are proactive in the business, they are the ones that are showing up at events like this and actually making things happen.  So, be one of those people and attend a BarCamp next time.

Interviewer:  Thanks for the great interview.

Rudy Bachraty:  Take care guys.

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BrokerIPTV:  Hi.  I am Mark Eibner with RE BarCamp Denver and I have the great honor to be speaking with Rob McNealy and Rob McNealy is the most followed individual on Twitter at least in Colorado he claims, not in the US, but in Colorado and welcome Rob.

Rob McNealy:  Hey, thanks for having me out.

Interviewer:  Hey, great, great speech today.  Great talk today.  I think there is a lot of people that are still confused about what Twitter is.  What's the simple essence of twitter?

Rob McNealy:  It's conversation.  It's that simple.  Being able to engage with lots of different people in lots of different places, efficiently, easily, across the world, that is all it is.  It's nothing more complicated than that.

Interviewer:  Yeah, it's really just the ultimate networking tool.  It's like being able to attend 20 parties at one time instead of one party a month.

Rob McNealy:  Exactly.  The beauty is that you could have a conversation about anything any time of the day.  If you have a decent amount of followers, you could talk about anything and there will be someone that at least is knowledgeable about that, that has some experience in that, that has interest in that, and then once you connect with those people, it's just great.  So, I am... some days, I am on Twitter on Friday nights you know screwing around[Phonetic] and I will get nostalgic and listen to some old YouTube videos, music in the '80s for instance.  I will post I am listening to this Random Man that I used to like back in the '80s and a big conversation will come up and that leads to things like what they were doing when that band was popular, like, "Oh, I was in high school," and "Men at Work was out there or "I was you know dating my first girlfriend."  "Oh, I really loved that song when I got my first car when I was 16" and then you get to really know people and develop these friendships because ultimately that's what you would talk about in a bar.

Interviewer:  Yeah.

Rob McNealy:  That's what you would talk about if you are meeting someone at a cocktail party.  Twitter allows you to do that 24 hours seven days a week with people all over the world.

Interviewer:  Yeah, it really truly is amazing.  I mean the whole social media phenomenon is something even more powerful than like the Gutenberg Press.  I mean it really is.

Rob McNealy:  I don't know if it's that influential, but I definitely think that it's a paradigm shift in how people collectively communicate with each other without having to go through gatekeepers and I think that's fundamentally what the big difference in social media is, but right now at this moment in time, Twitter is the best tool that you have.

Interviewer:  So, you are an independent businessman, you run a flooring company, is that correct?

Rob McNealy:  I do.  I run a flooring company and a digital marketing agency called contrivedmedia.com.

Interviewer:  Well, let me ask you this other than music that you are listening to when you are bored on Friday night, what... what's the main emphasis?  What do you mostly tweet out to your followers?  What do they want from you?

Rob McNealy:  Well, one of the things I do a lot is I look and search for interesting information, not only just for my followers, but for me.  I am really very selfish.  I am looking for things that I find interesting and things that I find interesting, I make the assumption that people are following me also might find interesting and I send and post those links to that interesting content.  I think it's probably the number one thing that I do on Twitter and then you know, I am just trying to make friends with people.  I am trying to connect with people.  People buy and work with and joint venture with and partner with people they know, like, and trust and it takes time to develop that trust and that friendship and so the more, you know, mundane details people know about you and your life and your passions and the dreams and things you have done, the better you can build that relationship.

Interviewer:  Yeah.  Well, actually great information today Rob.  We really appreciate you giving us the interview.

Rob McNealy:  Thank you so much for having me out.

Interviewer:  We will be in touch.

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BrokerIPTV:  Hey, this is Mark Eibner at RE BarCamp Denver and I am with Kristal Kraft today and Kristal Kraft was the evil mastermind behind RE BarCamp.  Tell us how are things going so far Kristal?

Kristal Kraft:  Oh, it's great.  I am absolutely delighted.  We have had a great turnout.  The speakers were fantastic and it seems like everyone is having a good time. 

Interviewer:  Yeah, I had heard you had up to 500 registrants at one time.

Kristal Kraft:  You know, it got really close to that, but we didn't get that many come yet.  We have got people coming in and out, so, you know, it's... it will probably be around 300, maybe a little over 300.

Interviewer:  Yeah, so 300 is our body count.  They still... it looks like they have still got shirts left, so some of those people didn't show up, the first 180?

Kristal Kraft:  Well, you know, the people who are here are just drooling over those shirts.  They are hoping those people don't show up, so... and oddly enough those were the people who signed up first.  So....

Interviewer:  Yeah, I have actually had people [Voice Cross Over] asking about this shirt.  Is this like a collector's pirate shirt[Phonetic]?  So, this was the pirate[Phonetic] shirt.

Kristal Kraft:  Well, you could sell them.  You will probably get, you know, a casino[Phonetic] for that at least.

Interviewer:  Well, there is only four in Denver.  Here is two and there is two more in someone's back seat.

Kristal Kraft:  [laughs]

Interviewer:  So, anybody you are looking forward yourself to listening to this afternoon?

Kristal Kraft:  Yeah.  Actually, I was hoping nobody would show up for Dave Smith's[Phonetic] class on HDR photography because I wanted him all to myself.

Interviewer:  Oh.

Kristal Kraft:  But I don't think that's going to happen.  [laughs]

Interviewer:  Yeah, you are lucky to have him out here.  He is quite the catch to get out here.

Kristal Kraft:  Yeah, he is... he writes the realestatebloglab and he is out of Tucson and anybody who is blogging or is on WordPress, they really need to subscribe to his blog.  It's very, very good and he is also an amazing photographer.

Interviewer:  What was the name of his blog again?

Kristal Kraft:  It's called the realestatebloglab.com.

Interviewer:  Well, we appreciate all you have done here, putting this together Kristal and we will look forward to seeing the rest today.  Thank you.

Kristal Kraft:  Thank you.

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BrokerIPTV:  Hi.  This is Mark Eibner at RE BarCamp Denver and I have the distinct opportunity to be talking with Jeff Turner  of RealEstateShows.com and Jeff, welcome to the show.

Jeff Turner:  Thank you.  Good to be here.

Interviewer:  Hey, maybe you could give us some comments.  I know you have been to a lot of REBarCamps.  How do you think Denver is shaping up?

Jeff Turner:  Well, it is interesting because I had... you know my concern with Denver was how many people had signed up.  I think they had 540 or some odd people.

Interviewer:  Yeah.

Jeff Turner:  And the BarCamps are kind of organized around these sort of smaller groups where is heavy interaction, lots of discussion that takes place.  The person leading the session is leading the session, but you know the success and the value really comes from the interaction with the audience and the question asking, but because of how many rooms they have here, I think it's working and so the big presentations on the main stage and the live streaming that's going on that you guys are doing is great.

Interviewer:  Thank you.

Jeff Turner:  And I think that's helping people and the other sessions are the right size and so I think it's working really well and I also liked the fact that they didn't do this mad rush to fill out the schedule.  They did that all right before the main session, people arrived early.  That was nicely done too because in other sessions, there has been a period of disorganization.  Los Angeles was like that.  It was, you know, kind of disorganized as people were trying to fight their way up to you know create their session titles.

Interviewer:  Well, I loved your intro you gave about cutting the grass and using it... I mean that was great analogy.

Jeff Turner:  Thank you.

Interviewer:  Great analogy.  Do you find that that's what most people are taking away from these events?  It really just... it's about them and their voice and their space, right?  It's not... nothing is right, nothing is wrong.

Jeff Turner:  There is nothing right... there is nothing right, nothing wrong and I think for the most part what... that the people who are coming that are new to this, what it is doing is sort of breaking the ice for them.  You know, it's giving them something to focus on that they can... they can grab onto that's real.  I think the social media for a lot of them, for whatever reason, they don't make the connection to real life.  That they have been doing this their entire lives, there is nothing different about networking online to realize, it's just that they have a false psychological barrier that keeps them from engaging with people online, that computer, the machine getting in the way of what is very natural; I mean this is natural.  It's much easier for us to talk in real life than online because of the technology that gets in the way for most people.  The moment they break that down, it becomes so much easier for them just to engage and talk normally the way they would have, they are standing there, like this today.

Interviewer:  Well, appreciate you being here Jeff.  Great information.  Great intro.  Anybody you are looking forward to seeing yourself this afternoon?

Jeff Turner:  Mariana Wagner, I haven't... I have only seen her like 16 times today.  We are going for a record on hugs.

Interviewer:  Okay.

Jeff Turner:  So, every time we see each other today, we are acting as if it's the first time we have seen each other.  So, I am really looking forward to that next hug.

Interviewer:  Yeah, I do see you guys interact a lot on Facebook.  So, is there something I need to know about?

Jeff Turner:  No, it's something Derek needs to know about, but not you.

Interviewer:  All right.  Great.

Jeff Turner:  [laughs]

Interviewer:  Thanks a lot Jeff.  Appreciate it.  See you.

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