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A Greater Town is a Google Monster! What are you waiting for?

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:48:56 -0600

Testing some Real Estate keywords in NY state, relative to www.AGreaterTown.com

Google:
Homes Woodstock NY
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=gm&sourceid=gmail&q=Homes+woodstock+ny&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

On my machine, AGreaterTown returns second, higher than Weichert and Homes.com, pointing to following: Woodstock, NY Real Estate, Restaurants, Shopping, Art, Business ...

Also, a new property listing was added today on our site, it's already top of Google! Search:

Shandaken NY Serenity Estate

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=gm&sourceid=gmail&q=Shandaken+NY+Serenity+Estate&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

For me it returns top of the page, pointing to:

Shandaken NY - Serenity Estate - 4 Bedrooms - 3 Baths - 33 Acre ..

Do these tests work for you too?

Other great natural search examples:

Google is A Greater Town's Best Friend

I hope you will come on board and give A Greater Town a try as well. Add your listings, your profile, your local businesses and community. Simply Join and Post !

Another related search:

real estate woodstock ny
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=gm&sourceid=gmail&q=real+estate+woodstock+ny&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

nets: AGreaterTown
Woodstock, NY Real Estate

Montclair NJ Non-Profit Awarded National Business Grant

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:23:56 -0600

Montclair NJ Non-Profit Awarded National Business Grant

Investing In Women has awarded a $500 “stimulus package” to a woman owned business, The Underground Railroad To Success. The URS was started by Tanisha Cunningham to teach independence to foster children. This grant will give the non-profit a chance to market their business.

Montclair NJ, November 9, 2009- Investing In Women www.iiWomen.com has awarded their first grant to a woman owned business in the USA. The recipient of the award is Tanisha Cunningham, founder of The Underground Railroad to Success (www.railroad2success.com). The URS is a non-profit that provides a service to foster children aging out of the system to live independently as adults while becoming an integral part of society. This is great for foster children and also has a positive affect on our society as a whole.

“Aging out” is the term used for children who go into foster care, but are never returned to their families of origin or adopted by others. They stay in the system until they turn 18, or graduate from high school, and for the most part, are left to fend for themselves as best they can.

Read full story on A Greater Town

Get Found On Google! Read These Three Entries, Then Post To A Greater Town!

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:06:21 -0500

Google is A Greater Town's Best Friend

Add The Right Noise for your Listings, Blogs, and Community – AGreaterTown.com

MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey - A Mortgage Broker for Every Town

Realtors, mortgage brokers, insurance agents, architects, builders, sellers, marketing companies on A Greater Town - Welcome!

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:08 -0500

Realtors, mortgage brokers, insurance agents, architects, builders, sellers, marketing companies on A Greater Town - Welcome!
It's incredible how many submissions we've gotten in two months. Here are a sampling, hope you will join us as well,
and build out your local community on
A Greater Town - A Home Page for Every Town™
A Free Marketing Site for the Promotion of Art, Culture, Community, Business and Real Estate

Columbia SC - Lexington SC - Lake Murray SC - Realtor Jason Compton

Real Estate Agents
by Jason Compton - Russell and Jeffcoat Realtors in Lexington, SC

Lexington South Carolina Real Estate

General Real Estate
by Edwin Gerace, Lexington SC Realtor, Russell & Jeffcoat Realtors in Lexington, SC

FRANKLIN NC REAL ESTATE * Bald Head John Becker

Real Estate Blogs
by Bald Head the Realtor.com in Franklin, NC

Busy Real Estate Transactions in IL

Real Estate Blogs
by kens-homes4u in Bartlett, IL

Hello Middle Tennesseans!

Real Estate Blogs
by Exit Real Estate Associates in Nashville, TN

Diane Reed - Senior Loan Officer - Prospect Mortgage

Mortgage Brokers
by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Clifton, NJ

Need Tax Maps?

Real Estate Tax Search
by Mayor in Montclair, NJ

Lexington SC Real Estate Sales Professional

Real Estate Agents, Agencies & Property Sales
by Exit Real Estate Consultants in Lexington, SC

Ronald A. DeMyers Sr., Agent - State Farm Insurance

Insurance Agencies
by Mayor in Montclair, NJ

Congregation To Sublet Part-time Use of Sanctuary in Beautiful Church

Commercial Real Estate for Rent
by Mayor in Orange, NJ

Real Estate

Residential Real Estate for Sale
by Century 21 in Richmond, MA

Farmhouse in Tuscany for Sale via Montclair, NJ - $85,000

Residential Real Estate for Sale
by Mayor in Montclair, NJ


	Bill Darzanoff - Loan Officer, Advisor's Mortgage Mortgage Brokers by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Clifton, NJ

Tony Donato - 1st Metropolitan Mortgage

Mortgage Brokers
by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Manasquan, NJ

Michael Byrne - Loan Officer, Gateway Funding

Mortgage Brokers
by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Flemington, NJ

H. Roy Bhiro, USAF Retired - Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

Mortgage Brokers
by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Bordentown, NJ

Worldwide Resources Residential Financing

Mortgage & Loan Banks
by Brian Sheehan in Morganville, NJ

Hamilton Capital - Are you ready for your next long term commitment?

Mortgage & Loan Banks
by Mayor in Hackensack, NJ

Old Dominion Mortgage Company - If You Have Dreams... We Have The Solutions

Mortgage Companies
by Mayor in Caldwell, NJ

Scott Irvine, Mortgage Consultant

Mortgage Brokers
by Mido Group in Hoboken, NJ

John Baldino, Sr. Mortgage Specialist

Mortgage Rate Lenders & Home Loan Banks
by John Baldino in Montclair, NJ

Real Estate/REO Supplies!

Real Estate Brokers' Supplies
by MFS Supply in Montclair, NJ

2 BEDROOM + DEN

Apartment Rental Agencies
by Century-21 Cedarcrest Realty in Little Falls, NJ

CENTURY 21 Teran Realty LLC

Real Estate Agencies
by Mayor in Woodstock, NY


	Bloomfield 2 BR Rental -- Pets Allowed Residential Real Estate for Rent by Dave Woititz - Realtor Sales Associate in Bloomfield, NJ

Rare Property in Central Montclair Includes Huge Finished Workshops & Parking - Perfect for Art Studios, Home Office or Hobby Use - $575,000

Residential Real Estate for Sale
by Mayor in Montclair, NJ

Lexington S.C. Real Estate

General Real Estate
by Russell and Jeffcoat Realtors in Lexington, SC

PropertyBlast.com - We Make Your Phone Ring

Real Estate Marketing
by PropertyBlast.com in Fort Myers, FL

Russell & Jeffcoat

Real Estate Agents, Agencies & Property Sales
by Russell & Jeffcoat Realtors in Columbia, SC

Pre, After, School, Child, Day, Care, Nursery, Toddlers,Easton, MA

Child Care Centers
by G & MF in North Easton, MA

Lovely Horse Farm For Sale

Farm & Ranch Real Estate
by The Meadow in Mount Holly, NJ

Commercial Real Estate

Commercial Real Estate for Sale
by Hopkins Sampson & Brown Real Estate Advisory Services, LLC in Newark, NJ

+11 Acres for Lease | Avenel, NJ

Factories & Warehouses Real Estate
by Pantheon Properties in Avenel, NJ

Lake Murray S.C.

General Real Estate
by Russell and Jeffcoat Realtors in Lexington, SC

Guttenberg, NJ 3 Bedroom for Rent $1697/ month includes utilities

Residential Real Estate for Rent
by LandlordSurrogate.com in West New York, NJ

Reservoir Ridge Gem For Sale

Real Estate Agents, Agencies & Property Sales
by Lou Capolino in Little Falls, NJ

Silk Purse Productions - Marketing Materials and Services for Realtors, Mostly

Real Estate Marketing
by Mayor in Lebanon, NJ

BEAUTIFUL 3/2 In Lago Vista - OWNER FINANCING! NO BANK QUALIFYING!

Residential Real Estate for Sale
by Anthony Cameron in Leander, TX

my2agents.com

Real Estate Agents, Agencies & Property Sales
by Mayor in Short Hills, NJ

Mack-Cali Realty Corporation

Real Estate Investment Trusts
by Mayor in Edison, NJ

vFlyer, the Marketing Platform for Online Sellers

Internet Marketing Services
by Dan Lenehan in San Francisco, CA

Daunno Realty

Real Estate Agencies
by Diversified Marketing in Clark, NJ

YouToo Can YouTube

Real Estate Marketing
by Mayor in Chicago, IL

WellcomeMat Boxee Dev Challenge [video]

Video Distribution Services
by Mayor in New York, NY

New Construction French Country Home in Wake County School District

Residential Real Estate for Sale
by Sorensen Contracting in Fayetteville, NC

Development of Montclair, NJ's old Community Hospital Site on Orange Road

Community Events
by Property Manager, Realtor, Landlord, in Montclair, NJ

THE MODERN CABIN: Trilogy of Fire Island homes

Architecture
by Andrea Salvini in Ocean Beach, NY

Hello

Social Media
by VendAsta Technologies in New York, NY

Urban Exchange - Meet the Architect

Community Video Gallery
by Mayor in Harrisonburg, VA

Robert Sullivan, Sales Associate

Real Estate Agents, Agencies & Property Sales
by Mayor in Liberty Corner, NJ

thanks for following @nik_nik

Real Estate Marketing
by Mayor in San Francisco, CA

Cmail - Commercial Real Estate Delivered & MySite™ - Powerful, Dynamic, Single Agent Websites

Real Estate Marketing
by Mayor in Chicago, IL

Realogy Corporation - A Global Provider of Real Estate and Relocation Services

Real Estate Franchising, Brokerage, Relocation & Title Services
by Mayor in Parsippany, NJ

The Commons at Bay Street

Residential Real Estate for Sale
by Mayor in Montclair, NJ

The Listing Widget - Revolutionizing The Way You Do Business [video]

Real Estate Marketing
by Mayor in Los Angeles, CA

Mainstreet Brokers, Amador County Real Estate

General Real Estate
by Mainstreet Brokers in Jackson, CA

and last but not least, the incomparable internet trainer and strategist, Key Yessaad:

The 10 Commitments applied to your Real Estate Internet Presence

Real Estate Training
by Real Estate Internet Marketing in Wilmington, NC

--
Drew Knapp
Founder & CEO
goodideazs, LLC

tel - 973.783.3226

www.AGreaterTown.com - A Home Page for Every Town™
A Free Marketing Site for the Promotion of Art, Culture, Community, Business and Real Estate

Prototype town page - www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj

Editor's picks - www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/editors_picks_00089316

MLSNJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey - A Mortgage Broker for Every Town - EXAMPLES OF OUR GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:49:01 -0500

New Jersey Mortgage Brokers: Join our free registry:

MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey

EXAMPLES OF OUR GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS relative to our roster:

MLSNJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey - A Mortgage Broker for Every Town

Search:

Financial Services Verona NJ

mortgage brokers Manasquan, NJ

mortgage brokers Clifton, NJ

mortgage brokers Flemington, NJ

mortgage brokers Bordentown, NJ

Click links below for results:

Click for search results: Financial Services Verona NJ

mortgage brokers Manasquan, NJ

mortgage brokers Clifton, NJ

mortgage brokers Flemington, NJ

mortgage brokers Bordentown, NJ

For more info:

http://www.agreatertown.com/newark_nj/mls_nj_mortgage_listing_service_new_jersey_a_mortgage_broker_for_every_town_00096356

send an email to

Contact

with your basic contact info.

Thanks!

Drew Knapp

www.AGreaterTown.com Home

Roster is growing:

	Diane Reed - Senior Loan Officer - Prospect Mortgage Mortgage Brokers by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Clifton, NJ Updated Aug 1, 2009

	Bill Darzanoff - Loan Officer, Advisor's Mortgage Mortgage Brokers by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Clifton, NJ Updated Jul 28, 2009

	MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey - A Mortgage Broker for Every Town Mortgage Brokers by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Newark, NJ Updated Jul 27, 2009

	Tony Donato - 1st Metropolitan Mortgage Mortgage Brokers by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Manasquan, NJ Updated Jul 27, 2009

	Michael Byrne - Loan Officer, Gateway Funding Mortgage Brokers by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Flemington, NJ Updated Jul 27, 2009

	H. Roy Bhiro, USAF Retired - Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Mortgage Brokers by MLS NJ - Mortgage Listing Service New Jersey in Bordentown, NJ Updated Jul 27, 2009

Entrepreneurs Can Change the World

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:56:18 -0500

I found this charming and heartening video on Brendan King's blog:

www.agreatertown.com/needham_heights_ma/entrepreneurs_can_change_the_world_00092685

Hope it picks up your spirits in these dreary times, as it did mine.

Exciting Search Results for Tiny Startup A Greater Town

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:52:02 -0500

Exciting search test results for tiny startup A Greater Town, rubbing elbows with the big boys. Below are several examples of searches on Google, in which our site demonstrates it can hold its own with well-known giants in the field: Loopnet, Realogy, etc. What's remarkable is that we haven't yet formally addressed SEO; what you will see is simply the search engine gods smiling down upon us:

Click for examples:

Natural Search Results

I hope when you see the intrinsic power of A Greater Town, that you'll join us there as well!

A Greater Town -

A Home Page for Every Town™

Use of A Greater Town in distributing listing fliers through Craigslist

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:03:34 -0500

I thought you'd be interested in taking a look at the use of A Greater
Town in distributing listing fliers through Craigslist.

1) Build a comprehensive marketing flier on A Greater Town, which may
include photos, maps, videos, text, links and graphics. Each agent or
broker is given a dedicated back-end console from which to manage
listings.
2) Post link to Craigslist

A Greater Town provides the message, Craigslist the vehicle.

Click below for more info:

www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/craigslist_a_greater_town_effective_real_estate_marketing_000455

I would appreciate your feedback if you have any, and thanks for looking.

Drew

www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/andrew_knapp_associate_century_21_cedarcrest_realty_000767

--
Drew Knapp
Founder & CEO
goodideazs, LLC

tel - 973.783.3226
fax - 973.860.0897
email - drewknapp1@gmail.com

www.AGreaterTown.com - A Home Page for Every Town™

A Greater Town is a free marketing site for the promotion of
art, culture, community, business and real estate. A Greater Town
redistributes national brands within local context, empowers local
self-publishing and
provides a homepage for every town.

Global landing page: www.agreatertown.com/global
Prototype town page: www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj

Real Estate related videos on A Greater Town

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:13:37 -0500

Thought you might be interested to see some community and RE related videos on A Greater Town. With all the talk of videos these days, A Greater Town affords you a free community context in which to display them, along with text, links, still photos, logos, contact info, etc:

http://www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/a_walking_tour_of_center_montclair_0001226

A Walking Tour Of Lower Montclair

http://www.agreatertown.com/p1225-franklin-lakes-nj-an-intimate-look An intimate look at the boroughs of Franklin Lakes, Oakland, and Wyckoff, New Jersey.

http://www.agreatertown.com/p1223-morristown-nj-take-an-unique Take an unique "sight-seeing" tour of Morristown with Dave Loux of The Seeing Eye.

http://www.agreatertown.com/p40750-parsippany-nj-ben-phillips-discusses Ben Phillips Discusses Openhouse.com

http://www.agreatertown.com/p40883-frederick-md-people-are-not People Are Not The Only Ones Displaced By Foreclosure

http://www.agreatertown.com/p40803-hanover-md-bulk-reo-reo Esenai Investment Sourcing

http://www.agreatertown.com/p1224-summit-nj-lois-schneider-realtor Lois Schneider Realtor

New: ActiveRain local quick-links from each town page in A Greater Town.

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:22:10 -0500

We have just installed ActiveRain hyper-local quick-links from each town page throughout the country onto A Greater Town.

Here's an example, please let me know what you think:

http://www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj

We've also added the same type of quick-links for OpenHouse.com .

Look to the left, scroll down a bit.

So now the public can:

a) check their local weather

b) check their open house

c) check their active rain

in that order.

Thanks for looking, please let me know what you think.

Drew

--
Drew Knapp
Founder & CEO
goodideazs, LLC
973.783.3226

www.AGreaterTown.com - A homepage for every town.

www.AGreaterTown.com/gallery - make it a greater town.

A Greater Town is a free community-centric marketing site, with emphasis on art, culture, business and realty: a homepage for every town. We enable syndication as well as self-publishing, with hyper-local quick-links to global venues.

Please add your photography to our new banner gallery

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:41:53 -0500

Hi,

My company's website, A Greater Town www.AGreaterTown.com

is a community marketing site with emphasis on art, culture, business and realty.

A Greater Town facilitates syndication as well as free self-publishing, and offers a homepage to every town.

Each town page will need an unique and original banner which evokes its sense of place. I'd like to invite you to participate in this interesting project: www.AGreaterTown.com/gallery

It may prove an enjoyable and refreshing new way to look at your photos, through the perspective of a long horizontal crop, like a scroll.

I hope you will join us, and please invite your friends!

Best,

Drew

—
Drew Knapp
Founder & CEO
goodideazs, LLC
973.783.3226

www.AGreaterTown.com – A homepage for every town.

www.AGreaterTown.com/gallery – make it a greater town.

Introduction to A Greater Town

Drew Knapp (goodideazs, LLC) — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:02:16 -0500

My name is Drew Knapp and I would like to introduce our new website,
www.AGreaterTown.com .

A Greater Town provides a homepage for every town. We focus on
community and marketing with an emphasis on art, culture, business and
realty.

I'd like to invite you to place your profile and listings on it at
absolutely no charge.

Here is an example of a typical town homepage:
http://www.agreatertown.com/town/324/browse_posts/default/cat/0
Montclair

Here are a few examples of how you can use the site to promote
yourself, your listings, and your community:

http://www.agreatertown.com/post/1226 A Walking Tour of Lower Montclair

http://www.agreatertown.com/author/220/browse_posts/home All listings
by First Mountain Realty in one click

http://www.agreatertown.com/post/32645 Dewey and The Sign That Brings
You Home ( creative marketing )

http://www.agreatertown.com/post/1225 An intimate look at the boroughs
of Franklin Lakes, Oakland, and Wyckoff. A tour by Becky Boomsma,
Coldwell Banker.

http://www.agreatertown.com/author/175/browse_posts/home Commercial
listings by Allied Realty – entire portfolio in one link

http://www.agreatertown.com/post/1224 Portrait of a brokerage – Lois
Schneider Realtor

http://www.agreatertown.com/gallery Town Banner Gallery

http://www.agreatertown.com/post/40750 Ben Phillips of Realogy
explains OpenHouse.com, featured from each town homepage on
A Greater Town.

You can also sponsor a town page with your photo, logo and link to
your website for only $75 for the first year ( your price, when you
lock in now, is guaranteed to increase by no more than $12 per
year. ) Why so inexpensive? Because we are just launching site, and we
want your business now !

Each zip will be limited to four sponsorships, which will rotate with each pages view.

In the next few weeks we will launch our campaign, offering realtor
sponsorships entitled "Search Local Realty" ( residential ) and
"Commercial Realty."

For a list of locations in New Jersey
please visit: http://www.agreatertown.com/post/982

This will illustrate how we will structure the sponsorship campaign nationally.

If you are interested in reserving a town page, please contact me by either
phone or email at the address below.

If you want to use A Greater Town for free marketing also, like in
the examples above, visit
http://www.agreatertown.com/user/register_prompt/free_pass and follow
the prompts.

You can also use A Greater Town to help promote other businesses and
community groups, a great way to help others while showing off your
marketing skills.

We hope you will join our growing community !

Good luck with your listings, and best regards,

Drew Knapp
Founder & CEO
goodideazs, LLC
973.783.3226
drewknapp1@gmail.com

www.AGreaterTown.com – A homepage for every town.

ps – if the town you're most interested in is already spoken for,
please contact me anyway. We will also be offering other forms of
sponsorships in the near future.

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UPDATES -

Today we received word that Zip Realty will be syndicating their listings through A Greater Town.

Enterprise Cars will be preparing a special interface for us to offer car rental info from every town.

Hotels.com will be syndicating their hotel lisitngs.

We are working hard to complete integration of

Fizber.com:

http://www.agreatertown.com/author/237/browse_posts/home

CommercialIQ.com:

http://www.agreatertown.com/author/244/browse_posts/home

Restaurant.com:

http://www.agreatertown.com/author/242/browse_posts/home

We are also setting up Local Quick-links to Craigslist, Google, ActiveRain.com , OpenHouse.com , Chow.com, PsychologyToday, Meetup, etc. Please take a look:

http://www.agreatertown.com/town/324/browse_posts/default/cat/0

I hope you will join us too !

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