Archive | May, 2007

Ultimate List of Blogging Tools #8. How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog

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I hope this 8th part of our series on how to start a local real estate blog finds you being inundated with new customers from your blog. If not, don’t worry. If you have been following along in this series, your blog in only about 1 month old.
Our example blog: The Rock is [...]

Google Launches New Street View

Today Google announced and launched a pretty amazing new feature to Google maps. The Street view.
You may be asking yourself, how do they take a satellite picture from that angle… uhhh yeah… it’s not a satellite photo. Google has broken out of the mold and has hit the streets apparently with the help [...]

5 Reasons to Start Blogging Today

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I get asked all the time… what is the best way to market a real estate business online? My answer is always the same: Blogs
The Christian Real Estate Network is proud to announce a new free blogging platform! Thinking about setting up your own blog? Now is your opportunity. Just visit http://blogs.hismove.com to learn more.
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Blogging Ideas – How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog #7

So, you’ve begun your blog, and it has been online for a few weeks… now what? Where do you go from here?
Onwards and upwards. That initial excitement may be gone, and you may be wondering when your first lead will come, but don’t worry. Remember, blogging is a commitment. There are [...]

Carnival of Project Blogger – Week 1 Winners!

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I decided almost immediately after reading the first few posts that I would have to judge this carnival based upon what I thought would be a good quality post that would reach the consumer on a local level. After all, that is what real estate blogging is all about right? So, with that [...]

How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog #6 Start Driving Traffic

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How is your local real estate blog coming? Are you getting any traffic yet? How about comments?
In the next few articles we will be discussing some of the best ways to drive traffic to your new blog, how to comment effectively on other blogs, How to write effectively, and some other tricks of [...]

Stop Talking About Yourself!

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I came across a really interesting tool the other day that will analyze any webpage to see if it is oriented towards your customers. It’s called the We We Monitor

The reason this is important is because so often, when people write content, they may not have much experience on how to write FOR a [...]