Social Media and Real Estate with Jeremy Weaver-CMAW067

What You'll Hear:

• Jeremy joined Facebook about 12 years ago and found he was spending a lot of time on it and often got into an argument about politics or college football
• He ended up canceling his accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
• John McArthur said social media exists for one reason: self promotion
• You can stumble onto wicked content easily on social media especially Twitter
• Jeremy connects with clients and people he used to work with through LinkedIn, he find LinkedIn pretty useful
• There's an undertone on LinkedIn to keep content business related and not personal
• His faith related comments are less on Christian doctrine and more on Biblical worldview
• You can have a company page on LinkedIn, you could use that for a ministry you're involved in
• "Abraham Kuyper said that there's not one single square inch of creation that Jesus Christ doesn't look upon and say 'mine'"
• Jeremy became CFO for a home builder and started doing real estate deals in the summer of 2008.
• The builder could see the collapse coming and took some steps to prepare and went into a hunker down mode
• "When the tide's coming in and all the boats are floating, it masks all sorts of management and accounting problems"
• Real estate is difficult to predict and carries its own type of risk
• "Diversification is always your friend"
• "When you're young, concentration creates wealth, when you get older, diversification preserves that wealth"
• Peru Mission started when a young man in Peru named Alonzo Ramirez had a sudden conversion through some Scottish missionaries
• Alonzo wanted to go to Edinborough Seminary but didn't have the money, but a woman had willed the money for someone from Peru to go to seminary
• Alonzo started Second Presbyterian Church in Peru which is now self-sustaining and even started other churches
• Go to www.PeruMission.org
• Check out the book "The Way of the Dragon and the Way of the Lamb" and "Weakness is the Way"