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How Banks treat home buyers

October 10, 2009

Kris Berg is a blog writter that we have great respect for in the real estate community
Kris writes on her own blog and as a columnist for Inman news. When we saw what she had put togeher here we litrally cracked up!
It would be even funnier if it wasn’t so close to the truth – about [...]

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Tech Tuesday and The Tribe

October 8, 2009
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Facebook, Twitter, Youtube & Blogging …
What is it really all about?
I had the pleasure of being one of the panelist for the opening session yesterday at Tech Tuesday at the CAR Expo held in San Jose:
Opening Session: Text, Tweet, and Sell: A Dialogue on Tech’s Possibilities for Today’s Agents
Presenters: Ted Mackel, Drew Burks, and Edwin Ordubegian. [...]

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ReBarCamp comes to San Diego!

October 5, 2009
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RE Barcamps are an exciting interactive way for Realtors to participate

and learn about social media and WordPress blogging.
RE BarCamp San Diego will take place on November 12 during the National Association of REALTORS annual convention – sign up here - more details:
Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a break for lunch
Registration: Begins at 8:30 AM
Twitter Hashtag: [...]

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Google Wave, a new online communication and collaboration tool.

October 2, 2009
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Google Wave is …
… a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google earlier this year.
 
The app is now in formal "beta" mode, so what does that mean and how can it help me?
Google Wave is quite revolutionary offering many innovative features …
…to get the complete story you will want to check out the video toward [...]

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Contest | Free WordPress Blog Give Away

September 30, 2009
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Contest | Free WordPress Blog Give AwayMany Realtors just don’t know where to effectively start online.
You hear real esate agents saying they are closing sales from their blog and social media sites like Facebook, but most real estate agents tell us things like:

I don’t know where to begin
I wouldn’t know what to write about
Nobody cares about [...]

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Some of our best articles

September 29, 2009

Just in case you missed some of our best real estate related articles -

- here are just a couple for you to digest:

Free IDX for your real estate site!
For free this is an excellent way to add an IDX real estate search pages!
 
The greatest ever landrush is [...]

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So your real estate website has a guarantee?…

September 21, 2009
Website Guarantee

Get MORE Traffic.  Really, I Promise, Guaranteed!
To quote a line from a favorite movie, Tommy Boy: "Hey if you want me to take a d*mp in a box and mark it guaranteed I will; I got spare time"
Recently I have been bombarded with website company sales calls, all promising to be better than the next.
Maybe you have gotten the [...]

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How to lose clients part 4 – the nasty version

September 17, 2009
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If this doesn't scare you, nothing will -
- online real estate agent review sites exist right now and are starting to gain traction.
Just look at this example – notice the invitation to "Out Your Agent" – then read the blistering personal attack on a Rhode Island Realtor …
 

The interesting thing here is "Jennifer" was outing the [...]

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How to use video in your blog posts

September 16, 2009
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We recommend using a Flip video as a down and dirty camera -
- to capture videos for YouTube and your real estate related blog posts. 
We bought a Flip video camera and started taking videos, but the the mistake we made was trying to have the perfect set before we posted them to YouTube and incorporate them in the site.
On [...]

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Microsoft quick reference guides

September 15, 2009
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Confused with Microsoft software like Powerpoint, Excel or Word?
Changes in Office 2007 frustrating you and making you confused?

I know we were!
Custom Guides to the rescue – they have come up with a series of excellent "cheat sheets" that you can use to access all the hidden features that you never knew about.
There are sheets [...]

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How to lose clients – part 3

September 14, 2009
Social netwroking and internet concept crossword

Controlling what consumers see when they Google you.

 
In our last post we recommended setting up your Google profile to control what consumers are seeing when they search for your name.
 
So what are the other ways of controlling which sites appear in your search results?
 
One of the best ways is to be active on the most [...]

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San Diego Realtors – free workshop

September 11, 2009
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Free Social Media Workshop for San Diego Realtors …
Blogging, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for Realtors – learn from active Realtors Drew Burks, San Diego Association of Realtors Broker of the year and Peter Toner self proclaimed blog guru.
The goal is to share some of our proven ideas and philosphies with you that will make a positive impact on [...]

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Use your iPhone as a modem

September 11, 2009
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Secret way to use the internet connection on your 3G iPhone with your laptop!

 
Realtor’s – this is huge! Now you can access the internet by tethering your iPhone to your laptop with this really easy method.
I had it set up in minutes …
…follow the steps in the video and you can too.
 
 

This technique originally found [...]

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How to lose clients – part 2

September 4, 2009
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OK so you Googled yourself ..

What kind of results did you get when you typed your name into Google?
If you really want to control what others see on the first page of search engine results for your name, you should go to Google right now and setup your Google profile. 
This is your best shot [...]

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How to lose clients without knowing it – part 1

August 31, 2009
google-searches

Have you Googled yourself recently? 
Do you check out vendors, companies or services before you do business with them?
For sure that's what your potential clients are doing!  Think about it, where do you go to find stuff? 
Google! 
That's right, Google.  We all begin with Google! 
A friend recommends you to one of their friends, classic word of mouth [...]

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Social Media Is Not a Fad

August 28, 2009
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Realtors just don’t have time for blogging & social networking
Ok so this isn’t really the truth, most Realtors tell us they just don’t want to spend time blogging & networking online!
We understand, it can become very time consuming; however, if you believe in the saying "you get out what you put in" then the time [...]

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6 Reasons Why Real Estate Brokers Need To Have A Wordpress Blog!

August 26, 2009
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We say you should TRASH your company website right now!
  And don’t even think of trying to get it back!
Let us tell you why WordPress is the ideal online tech solution for Real Estate Professionals. 
So just what makes Wordpress so great?
We have listed 6 reasons why you should dump your company website today and start using WordPress for [...]

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I Have A Real Estate Blog? Now What?

August 19, 2009
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Writing content daily, but not getting quality traffic let alone loyal readers to your real estate blog?

What do I do?

The good news is, attracting motivated real estate buyers and sellers to your blog is actually the easy part! 
 
Maybe you are just trying to overthink the whole concept – you just need to follow some basic [...]

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Why we removed Digsby

August 18, 2009
digsby

We had this really neat Instant Message client
called Digsby, untill the end of last week when we discoverered some nasty implications and immediately took it off this site. We also removed the application from our PC’s.
The service was actually using our computers to make money and we were definitely not up for that at all.
If [...]

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Changes coming in Google search

August 18, 2009
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Google has spent the last two years reengineering their file and indexing system.
The new system codenamed “Caffeine” moves search results as close to real time indexing as they can.
It looks like this will help real estate bloggers who post new articles regularly and have deep related property and neighborhood content on their sites …
Comparecaffeine [...]

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New keyword research video series

August 14, 2009
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If you don’t know which real estate keyword phrases to target,

you might as well go and stand in the corner right now!

Understanding which real estate and neighborhood key words and keyword phrases to work into your blog posts and pages is critical to your sucess on the web.
Get this part wrong …
… and you will [...]

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6 SEO Tips to boost your Google page ranking

August 13, 2009
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Don’t fall victim to those phone solicitors that promise to get your …
… real estate site on the front page of Google by optimizing and charge you thousands of dollars.
Or even worse tie you into a never ending AdWords campain that seriously drains your marketing budget.
We have 6 search engine optimization secrets that those so-called SEO Guru’s NEVER wanted you to know, [...]

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Add a school finder to your real estate site

August 11, 2009
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What are real estate buyers looking for on the web?
One set of information is often schools, so why not add this function to your site? Education.com makes it really easy to configure a school search widget and embed the resulting code in your site.
They even offer a WordPress specific plugin – both offer customization for size [...]

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The greatest ever landrush is not over yet

August 10, 2009
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Facebook had Realtors anxious to grab their own "vanity page name" ..
.. with pages named after their user names and now their own business page names.
This is my Facebook page - Http://facebook.com/petertoner - click over and friend me if you like, say you read my post here!
If you have a user name (and you should) that you are commonly [...]

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Twitter Rocket, will it work in real estate?

August 6, 2009
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Could Twitter Traffic Eliminate the need for Google Pay Per Click?
5 Simple Daily Steps to Increase Web Traffic to Your Real Estate Blog
Ashley Morgan over at UpstartBlogger recently released a 5 Day System called Twitter Rocket that walks you through how to use Twitter to attract thousands of new followers. 
More importantly than the followers, Ashley tells you [...]

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