Last Saturday August 28, 2010 I was very fortunate to attend a Home Show put on by David Weekley Homes in Houston. I treated this day like I was attending a seminar as I wanted to learn as much as I can about home building, top notch contruction quality. and state of the art energy efficiency. The simple reason why is that the more I learn the better the agent I will be when I represent a home buyer when finding them a home in the Katy or surrounding areas as their agent and the greater the value I will add to my client's overall home buying experience. I also was very fortunate to hear David Weekley himself speak at this home show. His presentation was excellent and I listen intently and learned a lot from his talk. David Weekley homes has set a high bar for the rest of industry to try to reach when it comes to quality,  innovations and energy efficiency. I took 8 pages of notes during the home show and I plan to write these notes up in my notebook so I will always have them to refer to in the future. There is a lot really good information stored in my notes.

When I got home I felt really good that I had done something positive to improve myself as an agent by going to this home show. I pulled out my ongoing to do list to add the rewriting of my notes when it struck me when I saw my endless to do list with mainly items involving Social Media shown... As agents and industry professionals are we currently concentrating on the correct areas to help our clients now and in the future? Do we all ( I am guilty also) spend way too much time on social media, writing blogs( like this one), working on our web sites, trying to figure SEO and how to improve our web sites standing, trying to keep up with Facebook, Twitter, Zillow, etc. as opposed to improving our skills which give value back to our clients? The items we all tend to spend many hours on these days in my opinion adds no value at all to our clients. Where is the line in the sand that we all need to draw when it comes to allocating our time... I believe our clients are not benefiting from all of this Social media, stuff. Can someone out there help me out with this issue as I really am unsure what to do as we all know we have to be part of this social media frontier but how much is enough????

If you have any questions about real estate in the Katy or surrounding areas contact me at robert.gilbert@gary greene.com or visit us on the web at www.katy4u.com ..