How To Blog Comment For Profit
Yesterday I posted an article on affiliate marketing for real estate and mortgage pros. It was in response to a post on another RENet vendor website 4Realz.netI had left a comment on Dustin Luther's post that was in opposition to posting affiliate ads all over one's brand.Since the comment has...
The Founder of the Web on Social Media
I said the web, not the internet. Marc Andreessen invented the modern browser. He speaks about the death of print media and Facebook and Twitter to name a few. Listen in and as one of the web's big thinkers gives his view of the future.
Making Some Extra Coin in a Down Market
Real Estate Blogs and Affiliate Marketing-Monetizing in a Down Market There has been lots of talk here and there lately with affiliate marketing and real estate blogs. Short answer:don't.Long answer....What is affiliate marketing? Many believe that the term was invented by Amazon who actually...
Website Stimulus
The web is getting larger daily. Consider this scenario: If you have 1 oodle of value today and the total value of the web is 100 oodles. And Tomorrow you still hold your 1 oodle, while the web value increased to 500 oodles. Your web value just decreased by several hundred percent. This is not...
How To Change The Real Estate Market With Your Blog
What Are You Emoting In Your Marketing?I just penned a post over at the PositiveonRealEstate Blog on perceptions and the way they influence our decisions and more importantly how perceptions drive the real estate marketplace.The issue being at its core is how are you as a publisher influencing the...
How To Get More Commissions With a Simple Lesson
Real Estate Alchemy There is a good chance that your clients are missing thousands of dollars of cash flow. All you have to do is show them where it is. What if you could offer your favorite Investor clients the knowledge that they are sitting on tens of thousands of dollars in untapped equity?...
How My Identity Got Stolen on Facebook and how I got it back
Not 1 minute ago I just received this from the FaceBook team: Thanks for your report.......... ...Our systems indicate that your Facebook account has been compromised by cybercriminals attempting to impersonate you. These criminals often will try to trick your friends into sending them money by...
AR: Net Idealism Meets Economics
The Fight For Free DumbFirst off... looks like Facebook backed off their new terms to own all you put on their site. Meanwhile, some blog banter going on out there on Active Rain's new pathway to revenue. Seems they are now seeking some cash in new members after seeking it through ads and...
Facebook Puts a Road Block in Disintermediation
I just read a disturbing article called, "You Post it, Face Book Owns It". It has been my concern for a long time that the free trade of information may be brought to a standstill if one of the 2.0 players decided to lay claim to the users content. I alluded to this as a potential problem with...
Web 2.0: What is it?
This is a cute video in no words that explain web 2.0. Enjoy.
Frittering Away on Twitter
There is a black hat SEO term that you should know about. It is called Parasitic hosting. That is you parasite off of one web property to grab their traffic to get to your money page. In today's Social arena that is the point. Anything else is frittering. Perhaps Twitter was aptly named. OK sure,...
The Secret to Sales Success Online
I learned log ago a few truths that are THE path to sales success.People buy for emotional reasons and justify with logic. As an example, all the gurus are trying to explain how Obama was brilliant with his social media expertise. Let me tell you the Obama win is easily explained. It was because...
Everyone Wants to Move!
It seems 1/2 of all Americans want to relocate. That's a start I guess in getting this housing market jump started. You gotta have a desire. Turns out Pew Research did a survey on where people would like to live. The grass is still greener on the other side as nearly half surveyed would rather...
How to Ring Googles Bells
Blog and Ping. It is what the blogging myth was built upon. There was a day prior to 2004 that one could post a blog every 5 minutes and ping a number of web services and they would get almost instant Google love. The blog would get indexed along with tons of duplicate content (post page,...
How Many Back Links Do You Have?
Ever wonder how to figure out how many backlinks you have? It is not as easy as you may think because none of the engines actually will list them all. However, the best tool currently is Yahoo.
On Link Exchanges
One way to look at a link out of your site is to look at the value that you are receiving in return for your valuable link to them. The value may be direct or indirect as traffic or link juice (page rank), or indirect which is perception . Which I guess at best is an endorsement type link say...
Profiting From Social Media: Advice I Gave to a Recruiter
<p>New Page 1</p>This is from an email I wrote to a friend about how to effectively use social networks for gaining new clients. It is unedited other than making it more readable: In Facebook and others join groups and then make friends.As a recruiter find groups where your potential...
The No Follow and Linking
How important is link scultpting? Apparently the LA Times thinks so. Notice all the red marks on their internal links? These have the rel="nofollow" attribute. What is the nofollow attribute? It was originally a plan from Google and the other engines to stop comment spam. Simply use the attribute...
Mortgage
Do you know the latin word for mortgage? It means Death Grip! That's probably a secret you want to keep to yourself lol. .. from medieval times when, if one fell on hard times, one solution was to seek to mortgage a property you already owned in order to get cash. From Websters: mort·gage...
“Yahoo!?… Where R U?”
For a few years now, looking at backlinks thru Google using the link:http://www.url.com query was all but a waste of time. Much like putting any credence into the Google Page Rank bar. So thank goodness for Yahoo. And in fact, they put together a nice little tool over there called Yahoo Search....