blogging: What's the number one question you have about marketing via social media? - 10/05/08 09:41 AM
One of the ways I can best provide social media handyman services is by answering your questions. Let me invite you to take a quick poll that ask four of the questions I hear most often.
How can blogs help me market my business?
How can I use Facebook for marketing … (18 comments)
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blogging: Singing My Swan Song - 08/09/07 05:15 PM
They say all good things must come to an end and I'm afraid that's true of my participation here at Active Rain. This will be my final post.
Starting next week I'm moving to a new job with a different company, one that is not focused on the real estate industry. … (23 comments)
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blogging: The Business Blogging Toolset: 100 Resources for Bloggers - 08/06/07 10:23 AM
Rich McIver of BusinessCreditCards.com sent me an email to a post on their Bootstrapper blog, The Business Blogging Toolset: 100 Resources for Entrepreneur-Writers. It's chock full of information about blogging, including blog platforms, design and marketing ideas, stats and analytics, money-making tools and more. You name it, and it's on the … (24 comments)
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blogging: Live Blogging Inman Blogger's Connect - 08/01/07 10:38 AM
Inman Blogger's Connect is starting today and I'll be live-blogging it. So will a bunch of other Active Rainers, I'm sure. I won't be doing it here though, but at our company blog, Blogging Systems. I invite you to link there. Subscribe to the RSS feed to be alerted each time … (6 comments)
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blogging: Diva Marketing Talks on Blog Talk Radio - 07/23/07 10:50 AM
The first blogger I ever met in person is long-time friend and colleague Toby Bloomberg. We met in Atlanta at a marketing seminar and ended up sharing a drink in a biker bar. But that's another story. Let me leave it at this -- so far as online marketing, blogs and … (11 comments)
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blogging: It Pays to be Nice: Thoughts on Your Online Reputation - 07/12/07 05:49 PM
Think being nice doesn't matter? It does. How about conducting yourself in an ethical manner? That too. Why? Aside from obvious reasons, the fact is, thanks to the Internet, each of us, to one degree or another, now has an online reputation we've got to worry about.
What do I mean? … (70 comments)
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blogging: Bernice Ross Comments on Real Estate Technology Disconnect - 07/11/07 11:50 AM
NOTE: On this post, you get to be the "blogger." IOWs, I'm not making a comment at this point, but really, really want to hear from you. This is a continution of the conversation I started in response to Renwick Congdon's article about Realtors use of email as a marketing tool. … (12 comments)
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blogging: Hodge-Podge Post: Several Items Rolled Up Into One - 07/11/07 08:47 AM
Call it laziness, but I'm going to briefly touch on several topics in this post. Just some quick hits.
Roboform OMG!!!! Get this app. It is a lifesaver. Roboform remembers all your usernames/passwords. I found this through an AR member and am so grateful I've agreed to sing at her next … (6 comments)
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blogging: The End of the Blogging A-List As We Know It? - 07/05/07 02:38 PM
Blogging has long had its list of celebrities. The tech bloggers have theirs. Marketing/PR bloggers have theirs. Real estate blogging has its own list of blog celebs as well.
UK-based cartoonist/blogger, Hugh MacLeod, yesterday rang the death knell of the A-list as we know it. He indicates that the rise of … (44 comments)
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blogging: Organizing My Digital Life Before Schizophrenia Sets In - 07/03/07 04:52 PM
Can you remember all your passwords for sites you access on the web? I can't. Not only that, can you remember all the social media sites you've signed up for? I can't either. I don't mean the MySpaces, LinkedIns or Facebooks, etc., but all those other less than famous sites that … (38 comments)
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blogging: Bloggerwear: Swag for Bloggers - 06/26/07 02:24 PM
I just know I'm going to get a rep as a sideshow barker. Last week I was was shilling for my son's blog submission business and today I'm pitching an online store called Bloggerwear. But, it's not a mere sales pitch. I've got a story to tell.
Truth is, I was meandering … (4 comments)
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blogging: Realtor.com Rolls Out New Blog Service, Featured Blogs - 06/25/07 11:29 AM
I received an email this morning from Realtor.com with login information to my new Featured Blogs blog. It's a WordPress blog. Probably, they're using the WordPress MU (multi-user) version of the software.
Other than the basic WordPress functions, there is an ability to change header graphics, even upload your own. If you … (8 comments)
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blogging: Realty Blogging Book in the News - 06/22/07 06:30 PM
Just wanted to mention that the book Richard and I penned, Realty Blogging, is in the news. Inman mentioned it in a blog post about a “blog to book” (blook) the folks at Bloodhound Realty were putting together called Real Estate Weblogging 101 (which I'll talk more about later). The other … (14 comments)
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blogging: SEO Ranking Report: The All-Important Anchor Text - 06/20/07 08:59 AM
Back to further discussion about the SEO Ranking Factors report...
In past posts on the search engine ranking report, more than once the issue of anchor text has come up, so I want to address it today.
One of my favorite quotes in the report on the topic of anchor text says, … (18 comments)
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blogging: Social Networks, Not Just for Teens and 20-Somethings - 06/01/07 10:30 AM
Allow me to proffer an axiom: Technologies which start out being used by teens and techies will eventually find their way into mainstream business use. That's been the case with blogs, SMS and podcasts, and is now becoming the case with social media.
Not so long ago, blogs were "personal journals or … (12 comments)
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blogging: Blogging and International Realty - 05/03/07 01:21 PM
My business partner, Richard Nacht, and I have been tasked with the responsibility of writing an article for an international real estate publication on how real estate blogs are being used globally. While I have a good frame of reference for that within the context of the US and Canada, having … (7 comments)
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blogging: RSS in Plain English, Courtesy of Lee Lefever of Common Craft - 05/03/07 09:22 AM
Lots of web users have no clue about RSS or how to use it. The technology comes off as still too geeky. Well, my friend Lee Lefever of Common Craft has made understanding RSS simple and easy with his short 3 minute (give or take) fun video.
Click To PlayWhen you … (7 comments)
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blogging: Six Myths of Blogging and Blogging's 'Dark' Side - 05/02/07 04:27 PM
A couple of articles I've read recently are worth bringing to your attention:
Six Blogging Myths That Are Holding You Back
The Dark Side of Blogging: Warnings from Leading Bloggers
The first article deals with a number of myths relative to blogging that the author, Rich Brooks (a friend of mine), suggests might become … (6 comments)
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blogging: Project Blogger: Coming in 5th Two Weeks in a Row - 05/01/07 10:06 AM
UPDATE: I misinterpreted what the graph intended. I thought that we had come in 5th for the 2nd week. Ines sent me the link to the actual week 2 results.
One thing that needs clarification. We are using her AR blog for the contest for the time being, until her new site … (11 comments)
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blogging: Answering the Question, 'What are Clicks?' - 04/20/07 11:44 AM
My More on Comments post raised a question from a reader. He asks, in reference to the statistics Active Rain reports in the admin console, "What are Clicks?" Let me explain what I believe that metric to be and why it's useful.
I've not spoken with Matt or Jonathan about this, but … (20 comments)
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