Home Gain just released a survey of REALTORS. The goal was to determine the top marketing choices. The results are surprisingly offline. As with all surveys or polling I see anymore I take meaning from it with a very cynical eye. Poor scientific methods and cooked books seem to be so common they...

On Social Media Helping Your Search Engine Optimization It was about 2005 and I had an email conversation with this astute fellow named Mike Koenig from San Diego. He was selling an information product about online Video production. The key component being that getting a video onto youtube was...

If you read House Blogger at all then you know that I Coach a Youth Football team for the past 7 years. Besides absolutely loving the game, my real passion is in teaching the kids the analogous life lessons that practice and that games present to them.Hang with me if you think I am getting too rah...

Put down the Koolaid and get to work. The social media is not new. Just easier. And it adds lots more places for you to prospect. It is simple. Instead of getting overwhelmed with joining one social spot after another. Work Smart! Find the Conversation First off who is your prospect and where do...

There are only three reasons to publish anything on he web. A. Get link juiceB. Get Traffic back to your siteC. Get Authority in another community.If you run a website with open comments then you have felt the pain in the keester of having to delete stupid commentary. And I am not just talking...

I get questions all the time and actually will answer you if you email in or ask on the comment section of the blog. I just got this question from Will Klopp of Morgan hill, California. QuestionSpider Juice Tim,Love your houseblogger.com site.  I am a small town Realtor and looking to get some...

Putting Strategy into Your Content Production Its like freaking out before a Midterm. Most small business owners struggle with content. "What do I talk about? What do I say?" Answer this question and you have a beginning:Ask yourself,"in the grand scheme of things why do you or your business...

Create Content or DieThe lesson in this post is about the need for creating content if you plan to survive online in 2010 and beyond. In order to understand this new market driver, we need to take a peek into market trends and history. MLS.Google.comGoogle has made Google real estate part of...

I recently finished a long successful season of Coaching my kids youth football team. After 21 straight wins, my little guys came out flat for the Championship against a team that they had already beaten twice in the past two seasons. They got beat that day and pretended like they did not know...

Every engine wants your ad spend. you can chose from AdWords at Google, Bing, and of course Yahoo.  So the knee jerk reaction is to jump on over to the big Daddy Google for your ads.  Not so fast. Bing Has Better Click-Rate than Google, Yahoo! But AOL is even Better!Chitika, an online advertising...

Google has been testing a new addition to their ranking system aptly called Caffeine. Why Caffeine? Because, the idea is that Google is looking for ways to speed up search. In fact, Google has created a web speed resource page to help you do just that. It is titled, Let's Make the Web Faster. So...

The following is an article originally posted with housingtrendsenewsletter.com that  I wrote it in an attempt to illustrate the necessity of selling lifestyle value in today's real estate marketplace. It is so easy to get caught in a "greed trap". Selling rising home prices, or multiple offers to...

We interview Barb Schwarz, the inventor of home staging. Seriously. She explains to me that it was her theater background that inspired her to stage homes for sale.Barb was a terrific interview. She told me that anyone can learn how to Stage a home. And her organization is all about teaching...

Eric Lofholm How to Sell in the New Economy I recently interviewed Eric Lofholm who is a Master Sales Trainer who has trained tens of thousands of sales professionals nationwide. As a top-producing sales representative for 3 different sales organizations his consistent track record of regularly...