Real Estate Agents Future
We just posted the 2nd expert real estate interview today. Some very mind twisting topics ranging from lowered commissions to comparisions of a Realtor to a Slurpey at 7-11.
Real Estate Listings Comments
Get Your Website Fattened Up On over at the Zip Realty blog they mentioned their new commentary system whereby their viewer can comment on a house. Some of the commentary that the post mentions went as so: “Not a very clean home! Maybe the realtor should get a dictionary, as he can't...
Real Estate Seo Myths
The 10 Myths about Real Estate SEO PageRank & Metatags are everything A top ten position will solve all your sales problems SEO is metatag manipulation Content is King The engines love blogs more than regular webpages Get ranked for the top 20 most volumnous words and you will be successful If...
Google Pinger
Google Blog I missed this last week. Google has recently added the ability to ping their blog engine. The ping link is http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 .
Goofy Google
I was doing a search yesterday and thought it pretty bad that everyones favorite search engine-Google. Seemed to think that a "Parked Domain" site should be positioned in the top 10 for a competitive search. When I queried the term "Redondo Beach Condos", the number three position was for a site...
Housing Slump Over
Greenspan Declares Better Times Ahead ----------First off let me state blogging rule number one: Do not edit your post in the online editor! Use a local PC editor first then copy and paste. The blog below will be my second post about this. But the first one was lost as I pushed publish, and I...
The Heist
I recently posted about the Heist. A documentary where the host basically brainswashed normal everyday people to Rob a bank. Dave Lakhani of Bold Approach wrote about the show and discusses The Heist was a great example of how persuasion and influence can work when you follow very specific...
Housing Data from the Census
The Government has released their recent data from the Census on Housing. Some good stuff in there for developers to compile for Real Estate sites.
Real Estate Expert Interviews
What would happen if you could get rich information from Realtors just like yourself, that are succeeding online? What if you could get inside information and insights into the way they think, deal, and operate? What if you could see the future of online and offline real estate? That is what we...
Who Is Selling All That Real Estate
Who is selling all that property? With all the doom and gloom out there, did you know that 2006 is on pace to be the third highest transactional year.National Association of Realtors (NAR), 2006 is on pace to be the 3rd best year in history for transaction volume. Despite flat & in some cases...
Website Personality
Ever get the feeling that you website is being used for its rich information and then the buyer or seller contracts with the agent on the street? Even though NAR research shows that 77 % of Americans used the Internet to search for homes in 2005. I wouldn't take that to mean that they bought...
ERA Real Estate Feed Trulia
ERA Real Estate has agreed to feed as a test about 76,000 ERA represented property listings with Trulia Real Estate Search Engine. At what point does the other majors like Remax, C21, Prudential and others use engines like this? And what does it mean for the traditional MLS, and traditional print...
Persuasion & Influence
It has been said that the same strategies of persuasion were used by Hitler that were used by King, Kennedy & Ghandi. But it has also said that you cannot get someone to do something against their will. But you can get someone to will themselves to do something that they would otherwise...
Traffics Dirty Secret
Are you aiding and abetting in a Crime? Sorry to be so dramatic but have you ever thought about what the search engines do as their core business? They provide results because of the content from your website. Have you ever told them that they could do this? Of course not. But just like a crack...
Is Your Email Geting Thru
Report Says 65% of your HTML Email Not "Read"Nightmare looms! A new study conducted by Epsilon says that 65% of e-mail users have encountered image suppression, where e-mail arrives in their inboxes without graphics displayed. E-mail box providers are increasingly blocking HTML in their efforts to...
SEO Training
A big part of our success has been to look outside of the Real Estate Industries' online hype and find successful online businesses to mimick. Andy Jenkins and Brad Fallon (of Stomper Fame) have released a 2+ hours of case study interviews in 7 different niches. Even a father son team that are #1...
Blogs Explained
Real Estate Blogs The Cyber Society is featuring an interview they did with me on the subject of real estate blogs. The talk goes into detail about how and why to blog. It could have gone much deeper though. A good interview if you are looking for a beginner lesson.
9.11 Part 2
Earlier I mentioned Tony Robbins. Little did I know that I would find this link to a Tony Robbins video. If you are a tad glum over memories of this event. Or if you want some great education then this video will surely satisfy you. I haven't even watched it yet. I wanted to get it on as soon as...
9.11
First off, I wish all the families of the souls that have passed onto a better place the best that life can give. I also wish to thank the heroes of that tragic day, and this current day, that allow us to be free to opine with our thoughts and beliefs in this the greatest country ever created. It...
Guard Your Mind II
Real Estate Bust? Recent economic numbers after a robust July in the real estate market prompted commentary by David Lereah, NAR’s chief economist. I found the following from a recent NAR reference on a CAR newsletter.(Sorry for all the AR's) “In looking at year-to-year comparisons, the pending...