Contributors
Here is a list of the current contributors2 to business2.com.au. If you feel you have something to contribute to our audience then please fill in the form here and we will get back to you ASAP.
Peter Ricci
Role: Editor/Owner
Phone: 02 8006 0716
Follow me: Twitter
Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Peter Ricci is the Director of Agentpoint.com.au, Business2.com.au, Ginga.com.au and ZooProperty.com and has been involved in designing and developing real estate systems and websites since 1997. In July 2001 Peter founded Business2.com.au to help real estate agents better understand the power of the Internet and the real estate landscape in Australia and New Zealand. Since then he has penned over 300 articles on a variety of subjects in the real estate technology industry. Business2.com.au is now the leading real estate technology site in Australasia.
Brett Clements
Role: Director & Cinematographer
Phone: 0433 407 039
Follow me: Twitter
Quick Bio: Brett Clements. Propvid Australia and www.platinumhd.tv. Brett has spent 30 years in the media and broadcast industry, as a journalist, reporter and Director & Cinematographer. He has created and produced several international television series and entertainment concepts, winning multiple awards for his work.
Charlie Gunningham
Role: Manager
Phone: 0411 092 669
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Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Charlie set up aussiehome.com in Perth with a uni mate during the height of the dotcom boom in 1999. He’s developed over 200 real estate web sites and systems, and is on a mission to return the media power that internet technologies provide to the hands of his real estate clients. Charlie lived and worked in the UK & Singapore before Australia, and was an Economics & Business teacher by profession. He’s a 'cricket tragic', having played for the Singapore national team in the past, but now he plays golf (not very well). In July 2010, aussiehome.com was sold 100% to REIWA, and Charlie is now the Manager of reiwa.com.
Dave Platter
Role: Marketing and Publicity
Phone:
Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Dave worked at realestate.com.au Ltd/The REA Group until 2009. He’s been working with the real estate industry for over a decade, in marketing and communications roles in New York City and Sydney. When he was moving to Sydney in 2006, he found his apartment on realestate.com.au, and then found a job at the company that runs the website. He’s previously the company’s chief communicator to staff, investors and media. He lives in Manly with his wife and son, who are both smarter, funnier and better looking than he is.
Glenn Batten
Role: Author
Phone: 0414 675 566
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Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Glenn Batten is the General Manager with First National Real Estate Nerang where he started in the industry in 1992 as one of the agency’s foundation sales associates. One of Glenn’s passions is technology, especially as it applies to the real estate industry and his responsibilities extend to the design, creation and implementation of a number of the agency’s systems and procedures, an integral reason why First National Nerang has been awarded the REIQ Queensland Agency of the Year for 2010. This is the third time since 2000 and now two years in a row in the medium agency category.
Glenn also operates a Personal Blog has created the Australian Real Estate Software and Solutions Directory and is a partner in a niche real estate software business called Sellercom.
Greg Vincent
Role: Real Estate Coach
Phone: 1300 780 869
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Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Greg Vincent is a Real Estate Coach who’s been running real estate agencies for over 20 years. He works closely with some of Australia’s greatest internet marketers & has established multiple web based businesses. Greg enjoys finding ways that real estate agents & franchise groups can build a greater profile online & generate more business by embracing technology & social media .
Kylie Emans
Role: Managing Director
Phone: 0418 690 317
Quick Bio: Managing Director and Licensee in Charge of Beach & Bay Realty, boutique real estate office in beachside suburb of Cronulla. I have embraced online advertising since I started the business in 2001. Our small team now tweets, blogs and facebooks on daily basis and our independent website is receiving traffic that competes with the major real estate portals!
Leanne Pilkington
Role: General Manager
Phone: 0413 444 847
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Quick Bio: Leanne Pilkington is the General Manager of the NSW franchise group Laing + Simmons. Her previous roles have included residential sales as well as retail and commercial management. Leanne's current position provides her with a unique overview of the trends in the current market. She is a committee member of the Forum of Real Estate Networks and a Board Member of the REI NSW
Pete Richards
Role: Head of Marketing
Phone: 0404 284 223
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Quick Bio: Pete Richards is Head of Marketing for McGrath Estate Agents, and has been operating as a marketing specialist within the professional services sector since 1997, despite originally qualifying as a Mechanical Engineer. Pete joined McGrath in 2007, having previously held senior marketing roles within the recruitment and HR outsourcing sector, both in Australia and Europe.
Peter Farrell
Role:
Phone: 0400 650 680
Quick Bio: Peter successfully implements technology into the real estate industry helping agencies increase their web presence and online identity.
He is a certified Google AdWords Professional providing Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Marketing and Google AdWords strategies to agencies across Australia.
His offering extends to real estate web design in particular to the niche yet growing area of mobile phone real estate websites.
Peter Fletcher
Role: Internet Marketing Coach
Phone: 0419 538 838
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Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Peter started his real estate career in Kalgoorlie in 1985. After moving to Perth in 1989 he bought into a business that became a successful organisation at the forefront of technology.
In 2001 Peter graduated with a Master of Business Administration from Edith Cowan University then, in 2005, rode his bike from Kalgoorlie to Perth – a distance of 600 kilometres – in just 19 hours, 6 minutes.
In 2006 he sold his business and enrolled full-time at Curtin University. By the end of the following year he graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies. A year later he graduated with first class honours in a Bachelor of Arts.
He reads widely. From the Zen master Tich Naht Hahn to the French philosopher Michel Foucault Peter believes that learning helps us to see more clearly and to create elegant and inspired business solutions.
Today Peter writes a blog that helps real estate agents make better use of the Internet.
Petra Sprekos
Role: General Manager
Phone: 0413029165
Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Operating within the real estate industry since 2000, Petra’s career began in a family real estate agency in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Since then Petra has held various roles within the property industry and is now the General Manager of the real estate portal realestateVIEW.com.au. Her passion lies in business strategy, operational efficiency and the online space.
Robert Simeon
Role: Director
Phone: 0411 856 969
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Quick Bio: Over 20 years in the real estate industry Robert Simeon considers his greatest achievements to be results, respect and long terms relationships established with my clients. In this day and age his market is all about his international audience, Robert understands that market credibility really means leading by example. Robert was the very first agent to break the magic double digit market in Mosman in 2001 a record only broken as 2007 came to a close. His agency Richardson Wrench Mosman and Neutral Bay also drives one of the most expansive online databases in the real estate industry edging towards 1 billion in sales.
Sir Les Flatulence
Role: Author
Phone: Telegraph Only
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Connect with me: LinkedIn
Quick Bio: Raised by his siblings (who happened to be related) Sir Les was born in 1954 in Anytown NSW, in 1972 he started his own real estate firm with his brother (Flatulence & Flatulence) and expanded his business to actually sell properties in 1979. He thinks he may have 3 kids of his own and lives with his parents.
Ryan O'Grady
Role: A bit of this and that!
Phone: 0406 385 927
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Quick Bio: Ryan has been involved in the real estate industry for a number of years. During this time he has operated web based real estate businesses along with provided consulting to the real estate software development industry.
Ryan operates Agentpoint.com.au and is actively involved with the design and development of real estate systems, software and web sites in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
