From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Tags, Labels, and Categories are everywhere on the web and, for the most part, just add to the bloat of a social web. You’ve no doubt seen the long list of categories or tags in the sidebar of a blog – eyesore! In fact, they do more harm than good for your readers… and even for you.

Luckily, you can return from the land of link-bloat and use your categories and tags in a manner that actually helps your readers, highlights your best work, and possibly even earns you more Google juice.

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Marketing Help: What You Were Never Told

They sit in their master lair, white fluffy kitty in their lap, staring at banks of computer screens of maps and graphs and hatching one brilliant scheme for world domination after another.

Isn’t that how the most successful agents do it? No? Well then… how does great marketing come about? How do the savviest of agents become superstars?

Nobody ever talks about how they did it… they just talk about what they did and we all know that doesn’t mean their methods are what will work in your business.

Luckily, success is much more science than art.

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How To Fulfill An Entrepreneur’s Dream

She silently gathers the morning’s catch from the Tunle Mekong River. In the boat next to her, Im Chhoeum’s husband expertly casts the threadbare fishing nets into the Tunle Mekong River. Same as they do every day. All day.

Today might be a good catch. Usually she’s able to sell a full day’s catch for around $5 at their local market. But, with four children to also provide for the money quickly goes.

But, Im Chhoeum holds on to a dream.

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HomeStomper Strikes Different Chords Around The Net

You know you’re a fan of music when you have a whole hard drive devoted to your favorite songs and artists. Now, one of the things that attracts me to certain musicians is their ability to step outside of their own “band” and collaborate with other artists on some cool, new stuff.
Well, I occasionally [...]

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The Secret Sauce for Real Estate Marketing

John Kejr of Dreamcatcher Real Estate in Taos, New Mexico has a growing business that is basically the perfect real estate marketing storm – positioning, product, market – everything is in his favor. In fact, he’s doing so well he’s begun working with Realtors in other states to go national.

His secret may actually surprise you.

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