Home Staging
Home Staging All The World is a Stage I caught this at the Real Estate Zealot. It is a series done on home staging by Barbara Corcoran. The Most famous real estate agent of all. She gives great advice and this is not a bad thing to show your sellers who have that listing that won't or needs to...
Buying Real Estate Online
What is the most misquoted stat about real estate and the internet? 80% of all home sales start on the net. The hype often blurs into "80% of home sales are because of the net". Now last I checked, you cannot buy real estate online like a book at Amazon. I guess Ebay is giving it a go with their...
Whose Business is Your Website Anyway?
Is Your Website Here Today, Gone Tommorrow? I ask you, if your website disappeared, would your business disappear with it? Last night, my friend shared with me one of the most frightful scenarios that I have ever witnessed on the Internet. The website that had up until two nights ago put food on...
Consumers Know What You Do, or Do They?
A recent survey has poured salt on a festering wound that the Realty Industry seems unwilling to heal.A new survey by the Washington, D.C.-based Consumer Federation of America reveals that while 84 percent of consumers have a favorable opinion of real estate agents and brokers, many of them lack...
Is Your Professionalism Killing Sales?
Somewhere in between Sales 101 and our first time in the "Sales Box" of a car dealership, most of us came up with what professionalism should and should not be. I think most decide, "whatever I just went thru in that dealership is what I don't want to do to people". NAR has somehow led an...
“Grab Your Inner Soprano”
Well my favorite TV show just got whacked. Yep, Tony Soprano is no more. If you have been living under a rock the past few weeks, then let me announce that The Sopranos has been put to death with a controversial ending by HBO. Time to Netflix the past seasons I suppose. As the finality of the...
More on Free Stuff
Just a couple days after my last post on how nothing is for free, a British human rights advocacy group says Google has the most abysmal privacy policies and is leading a "race to the bottom" by the world's most renowned Internet firms. London-based Privacy International, which has monitored...
Riches On the Internet
Isn't the Internet Grand? You get to go to a website and receive free tips on how to dominate the world. Isn't Google Grand? And Google. The Do no Evil is our mantra crowd happily dole out their charity. They offer complimentary email, newsreaders, & free websites. Heck, they will even give...
10 sides from a 40 hour work week?
I just posted about my most recent killer interview / podcast:“How Regular Guy Puts In A 40 Hr. Week and Walks Away with Ten Sold Homes per Month” ……month after month after month. How to generate business from a real estate website that only costs you about $15 a month to maintain Out of all the...
The Challenge With Pay Per Click
Click fraud is making a come back. Not that it never went away. False clicks on Google Ads, Yahoo ads, and MSN is proving to have at least 10% of its hits to be fraudulent. This according to Fair Isaac's, which is close to estimates by Click Forensics of San Antonio. This isn't just your peeved...
Hotbot
Hey do you go far enough back on the web to remember HotBot? I was just checking my logs and what do I see? A referral from Hotbot. Those of you old timers will remember that was when metatags and a few links could get you a ton of traffic. Since then the bulk of optimization moved from on page,...
Socially un-Social
Pew Internet and American Life Project just released their report on technology users. This just after I finished my 7 Blog Myths series and warned about getting too giddy over technology.Half of all American adults are only occasional users of modern information gadgetry, while 8% are avid...
“Virtual Assistant “
The qustions shouldn't be "What can a Virtual Assistant do for me", it should be "What CAN'T a Virtual Assistant do for me?" Yes, it's a little cliche, but, oh so true. Virtual Assistants (V.A.'s) have been around since the early 1990's and are gaining popularity in successful North American...
Opportunity Knocks Twice
About 6 months ago I endorsed a program called Stompernet. At the time it was backed by Andy Jenkins and Brad fallon, two extremely successful online marketers, fully knowledgeable in SEO and ecommerce stratgies and tactics. The program was $800 and too pricey for many. But fully worth it. I have...
Social Distortion
Digg Digg is a Social Bookmarking site whereby readers bookmark stories that rises and falls based on reader votes. Well some smarty pants decided to post the password to be able to crack HD DVD's.The move comes four months after hackers first poked a hole in AACS (Advanced Access Content System),...
Blog Myth Conclusion
You gotta Blog if you are going to Survive Online The Search Engines like blogs better than a website. A Blog Is easier to get traffic from engines. I can write anything on my blog The Blogosphere matters A Blog Is about You Social Media and Web 2.0 is the future of the web I have put off writing...
We Got Pubbed
Forgive my indulgence as I humbly link you to an article that mentions yours truely. The piece in the Chicago Tribune Real Estate section considers the modern real estate conversation from the barbershop of yore to the modern digital blog. Thanks to my Chicago Realtor friend David Weiss who gave...
“Does Your Web Makes for Skinny Kids”
I Got SEO'd We get approached all the time to "do SEO". Search engine optimization is the most over hyped, misunderstood activity on the web. And the spin starts at the top. Meaning the head spin meisters are Google, MSN , and Yahoo. Why would they do such a thing? They want you to spend money on...
Links Matter
So I send out the final publicity letter for the contest, and I get a question. "I do not know what 50 links Are" Well, that not really a question, as it is an implied question. Nevertheless the message that I think she was asking was why do I care about links? The short and simple answer is: ...
“Link Winners!”
And the winners are:Adam Bailey - Next Level Realty representing Cambridge MA Real EstatePeg Archibald-Representing Savannah Georgia Real EstateTony Marriott-From Arizona Representing Scottsdale Phoenix Real Estateand last but not least, this would not have been a contest without a Texan!Brad...