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Joined 01/20/2008

Mike Parker

Managing Director

The Blackwater Consulting Group

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(949) 760-3002

Mike is the author of over 150 published articles under the heading "Online Marketing" in various publications. As Managing Director of Blackwater, Mike interacts with over 1000 agent and broker clients and helps them succeed in online marketing every day. He attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where he majored in English and he holds an Honarary Ph. D from Pepperdine University in Malibu CA.

Mike's background is very strong in sales and marketing, enterprenuership, and finance. Chances are, you have utilized a product or service from a company that Mike advised. He is on permanent retainer to Compass Internet Systems, a leading provider of organic search programs for real estate professionals and he lives and works in California

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  • Mike
    By November 11, 2009 - 3:19pm

    Mike Parker mparker@theblackwatercg.com Hi, Kris, It would seem that great minds run down the same gutter. http://rismedia.com/2009-11-11/social-media-can-be-a-sinkhole-for-real-estate/#more-41787 I could not agree with you more, and you are dead right. I do not think it is a coincidence that you, a working agent, have a realistic view often contra to your fellow columnists who are more theoretical. An agents time is money and wasting it social networking is not mandatory to succeed.

  • Mike
    By October 26, 2009 - 3:37pm

    Mike Parker mparker@theblackwatercg.com Right, Lou. Let's all have a weak dollar so that everything costs more, including oil! Oh, wait a moment--if the dollar cheapens much more, maybe the Arabs and Chinese will follow through on their plan to switch from dollar based oil transactions and your economic anemia will turn into full-fledged terminal pneumonia. That an old Red-baiter like you should forget the first rule of how to defeat Capitalism, as taught by Karl Marx--first, debase the currency--shows just how intolerant critics of the administration have become. Ruining our currency will ruin us. I'm not interested in those who would rather see Obama fail than our country succeed. I trust there are others with the same viewpoint. As for "fiscal fools," I assume some folks have forgotten just who has been in charge for the pat eight years and who destroyed our country's currency in the world and our moral position, too? That would be Bush and Cheney. I haven't seen much on them lately, but maybe they are out looking for Saddam's WMD.

  • Mike
    By October 22, 2009 - 1:41pm

    Mike Parker mparker@theblackwatercg.com Dear Teresa, I don't always agree with you but I could not agree more with you on this issue. When I hear "experts" telling agents to "set up two websites, one branded and one unbranded" I want to scream. The agent is the brand; the big realty company is overrated, the C21 model is bankrupt. In the days of this home buying paradigm, power has shifted to the savvy agent and away from the big name company. Now, if only agents realized that and refused to buy in to the corporate marketing baloney.