Thoughts on Real Estate Marketing…

This week Active Rain published the results of a survey they took to determine the difference in activity between agents. They found some big differences between agents who earned $100,000 or more per year and those who earn $35,000 or less. One of those differences is contact management. Rich agents stay in touch with past, [...]

Today more and more people are using social networking sites and personal blogs to get their message out to potential clients and customers. Unfortunately, many of them are “shooting themselves in the foot” with the way their messages are presented. If you’re using these methods to reach and expand your audience, stop and think about [...]

A few years ago a writer had to convince an editor that their words were valid before they went into print. Even then, some of what we read was not good advice. Now that anyone can have a website and/or a blog, there’s not even an editor to convince. Anyone can write anything they please. [...]

Most of us do want comments on our blogs – and we wish that people who read our posts would take a minute to jot a note. It’s just nice to know that someone is there – that you’re not merely keeping some kind of private online journal! So…because I appreciate comments, I try to [...]

Have you read the article about Anthony Weiner – and the big controversy over him sending photos of himself to young women? The comments after the article are what’s really interesting. Some say he should not be judged for anything he did in private. What they’re forgetting is that NOTHING in cyberspace is private. Even [...]

Yes – they do it every day, and they don’t even know it! If you read Active Rain, you know that there are more than 200,000 agents there – and while a good number aren’t active, many blog almost daily and comment on several other blogs each day. These agents voice their opinions, so it [...]

Last week on Active Rain I asked someone how he was able to change fonts, font sizes, colors, etc. on his blog posts. I sure couldn’t. He told me to download Scribefire for Firefox, so tonight I did. This is my first attempt at using it. I like to think I’m a cooperative person and [...]

Today’s mail was full of goofy things – one of them was from a service that sends links to blog posts. The title for the first post said, in part, “Guiding Your Down the Path to Home Ownership.” That was strange enough – guiding your what down the path? Then, although the title indicated that [...]

When blogs first came on the scene, they were like online diaries. People were writing long rambling descriptions of their day, right down to what they ate for lunch and what time the plumber arrived to hook up the new dishwasher. And aside from family and close friends, no one was reading them but the [...]