Thoughts on Marketing…

If you’re on the East coast dealing with flooding, power outages, and worse, your business is very obviously affected. Either you’re “out of business” for the time being, or you’re going 17 directions at once working on clean up, delivering supplies, tending to those who were injured, or working in some other capacity that’s a [...]

I had never heard of it until this morning – and now I’ve just spent 4 hours fooling with it! Darn new technology anyway. Tammy Emineth is a SEO expert who blogs on Active Rain, and this morning she was explaining  Google +1 – It’s Google’s answer to Facebook’s “like.” If you’re interested, I suggest [...]

Today’s email brought a link to a program that looked interesting, so I clicked. And just as soon as the page loaded, it started talking. It wasn’t just an introduction, either. It was a 15 minute video. I didn’t want to take the time right then to watch a video, so thought I could “turn [...]

Are you just itching to list some of those expired listings – and show those sellers what they’ve been missing these past weeks – or months? You can probably see exactly why they didn’t sell…Most likely it was one of these four reasons: The wrong price Ineffective marketing Poor presentation Lack of follow up But [...]

Most of us don’t read our own websites. After all, we know what they say, right? But every now and then it’s a good idea to go back and take the time to read, checking for errors, ways to make the copy more effective, and opportunities for better SEO. First – proofread for errors. Mistakes [...]

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Do you “we-we” on your marketing copy? A whole lot of people are doing just that lately, and it’s a darned shame, because it’s a sure way to get prospective customers and clients to “round file” your message. What the heck am I talking about? Starting your message with “We” or “I” – and continuing [...]

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Think about it… the last time you could see and hear that someone was working hard to sell you something, didn’t you shut down? Even when you agreed to an appointment with someone to hear all about what they had to offer, didn’t you set up a shield of resistance? Why? Because we want to [...]