Thoughts on Real Estate Marketing…

This morning Copy Blogger shared an infographic that made my head spin. This timeline of social networking starts in 1971 with the first email, goes on to 1980 when Usenet created an online bulletin board, and takes us to the first personal blog in 1994, to Twitter in 2006, and on through today, when Pinterest [...]

This morning my husband asked me to go online and order a pump part. That should be easy, right? It’s a name brand pump and a part which routinely needs to be replaced. So I typed “Goulds pumps parts” into a Google search. Thinking it might be best to go direct to the manufacturer, I [...]

Yesterday I took time to try to opt out of a dozen or so mailing lists. Some of them were duplicates for my 2 email addresses. Some of them are there because someone purchaed or “scraped” my address from the web. Some are things I asked for but no longer want or need. Whatever the [...]

A real estate agent needs his or her own website. A bio on the company site is helpful, but unless there are only 2 or 3 agents in the company, it’s not going to get you much business. It’s best function would be to give you a link to your own site. You need your [...]

A few days ago I received a series of emails from someone whose name is well known as a marketer of “how to make money on line” programs. Once again, he was promising the sun, moon, and stars to anyone who signed up for his latest and greatest. I have no idea why I read [...]

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 weeks ago I told you I was working on a new e-book for real estate agents that would help. It’s finished now, and you can read all about it at www.promotemyrealestatecareer.com. In it, you’ll find 107 ways to promote your career, and all but about a dozen of those ways are either completely [...]

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 [...]

Video is the wave of the future – I know, because “everyone” says so. But guess what? It’s not the be-all and end-all that some proclaim. Why? Because people like me will never see it, never hear it. We’re that bunch who live away from the cities – away from easy access to high speed [...]

Lately some of the major websites are using a tricky method to expose us to more and more ads. They’re taking a 200-300 word article and breaking it into 6 or 8 small pieces – each on it’s own page, surrounded by ads. Some entrepreneur sites are doing much the same. They give us part [...]