Real Estate Flyers, Virtual Tours & Websites

Wikipedia defines a Vritual phone number as: a telephone number without an associated phone line. Usually these numbers are programmed to be forwarded to either a Voice over IP service such as skype, or to a different phone line, fixed or mobile.

The addition means that you can get a local phone number and this phone number will ring wherever you have your laptop connected. Yes this means that if your in Hawaii, if your laptop happens to be connected, skype would ring on it and you would pick up the phone call free of charge just as if you were back home!!!

What if you have a 1800 number? Simply forward your 1800 number to your virtual number and this number would ring on your laptop.

Virtual numbers run at around 20 dollars per year. Quite affordable if you ask me.

Reducing your telephone bill:

Skype also has a service for 15 dollars per year that allows you to call anywhere in the U.S. and Canada.

Skype is also selling phones that are constantly connected to broadband in case you do not have your laptop on all the time.

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/07/2007 10:43 AM

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The Golden Triangle - Are you in it? One more reason to stay on top of your SEO!!

Researchers at Enquiro did an eye tracking study to see what users looked at on the screen. Results show that eyes stay within a zone they call the Golden Triangle.

72% click on the first entry that meets their criteria within the Golden Triangle!!

This graph compares the three Major Search Engines. MSN - Yahoo - Google

Where according to author Aaron Wall from the SEO Book in general, Google gets twice as much traffic as yahoo and Yahoo twice as much traffic as msn.

Stay up to date on SEO by the very SEO experts right here on Active Rain - Check out the Rainers SEO Guide!!!

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/06/2007 05:02 PM

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HTML Expert Series Day 8

HTML Expert

By Bruno Roldan

Guru Real Estate Marketing

Quick links to previous courses:

Today i will cover the following:

How to create space next to and around an image (for typing text next to it etc)
How to put text next to an image
How to apply a border next to an image
How to make a pic or text blink on screen

How to create space next to and around an image

To create a horizontal space next to an image

Add hspace= x to the code <img src="image.gif" hspace=8">

To create a Vertical space next to an image:

Add vspace=X to the code <img src="image.gif" vspace=8">

Where x refers to the number of pixels between the image and the text

How to put your text next to an image

Add align left <img src"file.gif aligh=left

Similarly, interchange left with right for the opposite results.

How to apply a border next to an image

Add border= x <img src="archive.gif" WIDTH=48 HEIGHT=40 border=8>

To eliminate this border simply set border=0

How to make a pic or text clink on screen - also called marquee

Type: <marquee> text</marquee>

Thats if for todays HTML expert series. Next post will be the final in the series with an example of how to apply the concepts towards a single property website or a single page website.

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/06/2007 10:49 AM

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Testimonials just got Sexy!!!

Real Estate Product Testimonials Just Got Sexy!!!

Harness the link love potential of testimonials!!

By Bruno Roldan

I remember reading an article a while back on various ways to get links to your site (If i remember where i read it ill link back to it). One of the methods that cought my attention was by writing testimonials for companies you would recomend and include a text link or link in it.

Many companies, just like any of us, are proud to place testimonials on their web pages and many a time even on the home page of a website. After all, social proof is hard to beat.

I remembered this while I was developing my real estate marketing blog and I was adding some testimonials on my site. While I did not add any on my home page, I did add some In many of my Internal pages.

If your lucky the company has a Page Rank of 3 or higher and will work nicely in your SEO efforts.

Remember if your looking for a great SEO book to help in your Search Engine Marketing efforts I recommend SEO Book by Aaron Wall.

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/05/2007 11:20 AM

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Real Estate E-mail Marketing - Stay ahead of your competition

Real Estate Email Markeitng

Stay ahead of your competition

By Bruno Roldan Guru Real Estate Marketing

I am signed up to over 150 e-news letters corporate and non-corporate.

This allows me to set a benchmark for the quality of my e-mail campaigns.

If you are planning on starting a news letter or would like to improve your e-mail campaigns to prospective clients or your network, this is the perfect way to stay ahead of the competition.

Steps involved:

Start a completely new e-mail account to separate these e-mails from your clients accounts. This will allow you to track things easily and not loose any important e-mails. I recommend you start a G-mail account it has a very effective spam filter and large storage space.
Sign up to corporate e-news letters
Sign up to your competitions e-news letters
Spend 20 - 30 minutes a week reviewing the news letters - make a list of what you like and don't like
Implement in your next e-mail campaign

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Click Here to try icontact a Realtor friendly e-mail marketing solutions on the web

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Recommending improvements for the Free Real Estate Software Initiative.

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/04/2007 05:11 PM

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HTML Expert Series Day 7

HTML Expert

By Bruno Roldan

Guru Real Estate Marketing

Quick links to previous courses:

Single property website course become an HTML Expert Day 1

Single property website course become an HTML Expert Day 2

Single property website course become an HTML Expert Day 3

Single property website course become an HTML Expert Day 4

Single property website course become an HTML Expert Day 5

Single property website course become an HTML Expert Day 6

Before I begin, I would like to apologize for the delay in writing this post. I have just been so busy developing my real estate marketing blog and of course the free real estate software initiative (free flyer's & virtual tours)

HTML Expert Day 7

Today we will view how to: Apply special characters - include a web mail address - include a footer

Special Characters

Refers to characters such as: & <> (space) etc

These characters require the following format: &xx where xx refer to a character

To use the special characters follow these steps:

Write: &
Then the code of the symbol
Finish with (;)

For example:

Accents &xacute; replace the letter x with the letter with the accent

Space &nbsp

< <

> >

& &

Note: you can consult http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/ for more characters.

Footer

A footer is usually used to indicate one of the following:

Theme of the page
Date of last page actualization
Name and e-mail of author
Company info

To include the footer, you should do the following:

Type: <address>text</address>

E-mail

The footer can include your mail address

To include a link to an email follow type the following:

<a href=mailto:you@domain.com>Write the text that you would like to open outlook i.e.yourname></a>

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/04/2007 10:55 AM

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E-mail Marketing Glossary - for the New E-mail Marketing Group -

Real Estate E-mail Marketing Glossary -

By Bruno Roldan www.gururealestatemarketing.com

Join the real estate e-mail marketing group -

Having just written the post "Is e-mail marketing dead?" and announcing the new e-mail marketing group, I thought a good way of starting the group would by creating a glossary for the most common used words in e-mail marketing.

The following are links to definitions i have found online - most from wikipidea:

As this e-mail marketing group matures im sure the glossary will keep growing.

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Recommending improvements for the Free Real Estate Software Initiative.

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/02/2007 08:23 PM

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Is e-mail marketing dead?

Real Estate E-mail Marketing

By Bruno Roldan - www.gururealestatemarketing.com

On the 31st of August I wrote a post on some of the very best SEO posts on Active Rain called the Rainer's SEO guide.

Having just finished posting, I thought to my self. With so many posts written on SEO and so many good ones, it is clear some of us on AR are being successful in ranking our websites in search engines.

However, how is this traffic being converted?

Effective copy writing is important and there are also many articles written about this on Active Rain -

How about the good old e-mail marketing and staying top off mind? I did a good search on e-mail marketing to do a possible review on the best e-mail marketing posts on Active Rain and found VERY few posts on e-mail marketing compared to SEO.

I then did a search for an e-mail marketing group, guess what? I didn't find any!! For this reason I started the E-mail Marketing Group in hope that we can all post our experiences and learn from this still very powerful advertising medium.

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Posted by Real Estate Flyers on 09/02/2007 09:08 AM

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Rainers SEO Guide - The very best posts on SEO by ACTIVE RAIN - SEO from A-Z!!

As some of you may know i have been working on building up a library of the very best SEO posts right here on Active Rain. Thank you VERY much to EVERYONE who contributed and especially Mark Pilatowski for contributing to this cause.

When i get the time, i will be asking each and everyone of the authors of the Rainers SEO guide permission to put their article in a FREE down-loadable SEO e-book so that anyone here on active rain can easily print out all the information and sit and read the VERY BEST posts produced right here in the rain!!!

Quick Tips Posts
Debunking Common Myths
Posts on Writing for Search Engines
Posts on Directories and Communities
Posts on Search Engines
Posts on Link Building
Posts on Monitoring Results
Posts on Pay - Per Click
MY Favourite SEO book

Quick Tips Posts

Michael Thomas

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/121973/Real-Estate-Websites-SEO

Agent Web Design

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/39618/Web-Site-Age-SEO

Karen George

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/64805/Top-SEO-Tips-The

David Serle

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/107367/SEO-Tips-Title-Tags

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/108315/Some-More-SEO-tips

Stacey Voguel

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/43536/Search-Engine-Optimization-Tips

Jeff Fulgham

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/108674/Jeff-s-SEO-Site

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/110305/Jeff-s-Seo-Site

Jennifer Giraldi

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/34402/Want-to-increase-your

Brandon Cornett

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/35124/Use-Blog-Directories-Internet

Lenn Harley

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/TIPS-TO-GET-GOOGLE-TO-CRAWL-A-SITE?11533

Debunking Common Myths

Mary McKnight

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/MYTH-RSS-feeds-on-your-site-are-SEO-poison?13814

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/22952/SEO-MYTH-meta-tags

Rob Parker

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/28414/Meta-Descriptions-Are-they

Richard Clafton

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/73358/SEO-A-Simple-DIY

Omar Palencia

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/82848/Top-7-Real-Estate

Tim O'keefe

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/94571/Real-Estate-blogs-truth

Rick Bunzel

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/120458/3-Myths-that-Web

Advanced Access - This one may have been true in the past but since Wikipedia has changed all of the external links to no-follow they are no longer helpful in terms of SEO. The overall premise about trusted sites is right but Wikipedia does not pass link juice anymore.

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/17652/Trusted-Links-from-Wikipedia

Brad Carroll

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/109239/Stop-Saying-SEO-is

Jay & Francy Thompson

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/TOP-RANKING-ON-GOOGLE-GUARANTEED-?4677

Mary McKnight

http://activerain.com/action/blogsview/17684/Myth-High-percentage-of