It was darn hot, I was glad to get inside the cool building and out of the hot sun. The first thing I noticed was how nice the place was, they have really fixed the old building up; the place was clean and nicely decorated.

We ran into some folks who had been married. I had left my camera at home so I used my phone for pictures.

I walked around admiring the historical pictures from Hume's past; coal shovels, coal trains and coal trucks mostly; when I noticed a picture of Jesus and a picture of The Duke, I knew I was gonna like this place.

The iced tea was just what I needed after being out in the stifling heat Saturday.

The food was great, the service was excellent and the prices were quite fair. I ate light so I would have room for the Blackberry cobbler and ice cream. It was a hard decision because we were going to Rich Hill later and I was looking forward to a peanut butter shake from Swope's Drive In.

When we finished dinner, we headed on over the Bates County Produce at Rich Hill. They have the best darn soap you have ever used. Since we've had some of the grand-kids at our place all summer, we have been using up a lot of my favorite cinnamon soap.

While we were there we couldn't resist picking up some fresh melons, plums and some of that wonderful Amish produce.

Social Media and Real Estate what can it do for you?

Many Realtors are now using; and touting the benefits of social media. We have been using social media for years now and have had great success with it. The question remains why use it and what good does it do?

Social media is one of the fastest growing segments of Internet usage many people now spend more time on Facebook than watching TV.

Social media comes in many forms; link sharing sites like Twitter, Digg, Propeller, stumble Upon and Delicious help drive traffic by telling people what sites you think are worth sharing. Utimately other users of those sites hopefully click and follow your link increasing your traffic and your ranking.

Sites like Facebook and MySpace allow you to display content and links to information on your site or just to blather on about something related to your business.

But the real benefit to these sites is the accessibility to millions of potential clients you may not have otherwise reached. Facebook; in particular offers very useful advertising options, that can be used to target people based on personal likes and interests as well as gender, age, location and education.

Facebook and MySpace also allow you to update your "friends/fans" of news or events via their connection to your presence on those sites.

Selling horse farms like the several we have listed means that we often use ads to target users of social media who have an expressed interest in horses, horse training or equestrian sports.

Social media works best when others like the content of your blog, website or page and share it with friends through their social network.

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