From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Social Media Funeral

This could be considered a trick question but let’s run with it anyway:

Are you successful at social media?

See, it was recently brought up to me that “the little guy” is dying off in social media. That the only way to be successful in social media is if you were a business there to promote something.

And, here’s where things get tricky…

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The Lazy Realtor’s Guide to
Writing Effective Blog Posts

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If you tend to be lazy with your blog at times then rejoice. Creating content doesn’t have to be a struggle nor should it take all day. This guide will help even the laziest Realtor create effective blog posts.

Step-by-step, easy-peasy.

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Three Community Expanding Plugins
For Your Wordpress Blog

You engage, you share, you promote and give thanks. You do a lot to build a community through social media but the challenge is how do you connect those community conversations to the content on your blog? These three plugins make it easy…

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Are You A Real Estate Lemming?
5 Questions To Find Out

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Websites, blogging, social media… the tools of the new media Realtor. But, by using these tools are you actually a real estate lemming setting yourself up for failure?

Answer these 5 questions to find out…

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Write Response Getting Listing Descriptions With These 5 Tips

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If you’re writing a description for your latest real estate listing you obviously want to provoke a response of some kind from readers. Unfortunately, writing for “response” usually takes a back seat to listing “features”.

Not good. See, without a compelling property description potential buyers might never understand what a gem of a home you’ve listed. Or, even if somewhat interested, may not even bother to contact you for more info.

To increase the responsiveness of your listing descriptions and better connect with readers, follow these 5 tips…

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