marketing: Get ranked in google in under an hour using video - 11/08/09 10:43 AM
Using video for SEO is a great way to get found quickly online.
You can shortcut a ton of link back activities with a couple of well titled videos that then link to the appropriate page on your website.
Don't be afraid to use redirects to make nice looking URL's that
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marketing: Learn to flip domains | Learn SEO Skills - 10/20/09 06:34 PM
Learn Website Flipping
You've heard of flipping properties right?
This is the same thing, but for domain names
Buy a domain, get it ranked to the top of the search engines and pulling in leads, then sell it for a profit
I can hear you now ... "But I'm a realtor,
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marketing: Build an Audience, Don't Rent One | Seth Godin Advice - 09/24/09 01:45 PM
Seth Godin is no slouch when it comes to marketing and he published a blog post this morning that I thought really summed up what I've been trying to communicate with agents, but in a much more effective way. (That's where the whole "internationally renown author and speaker" stuff starts to
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marketing: Make Great Looking Movies For Your Site in minutes - 09/19/09 03:59 PM
I know what you're going to say ... I don't know how to use those video editing programs.
This is the simplest thing you'll ever try, you upload some stills or video clips, add any text you want and click GO...
That's it ... like you were ordering a margarita, this
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marketing: Real Estate Marketing By Neighbourhood - 09/18/09 03:14 AM
Those of you who have followed my development of the community marketing platform, know that it has not happened over night.
We first tried to sell the community sites to agents, but they are not ready for a full time content job.
Instead, after consulting with many of you, it became
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marketing: Vic Jang on when Real Estate Is Like Dentistry | Real Estate Marketing 2.0 - 09/13/09 11:39 PM
Recently we spoke with veteran real estate broker and owner at Sutton West Coast about how real estate is changing and how many agents are struggling to keep up with the changes that information access has brought to the game of real estate.
There was a time when knowing what listings
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marketing: 40% Increase in Business, Not a Dime In Advertising - 09/13/09 05:12 AM
This slideshow outlines how we increased Rick's business by over 40% last year while everyone else was moaning about the market, Rick was steadily gaining dominance in his local area.
If you want to use the same tools he does, check out AgentXL.com
There is a free 60 day trial
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marketing: What do Building Your List and Dog Walking have in common? - 07/23/09 09:32 PM
Nothing, except that I learned a very valuable lesson about list building when I tried to volunteer to walk dogs at the local animal shelter. Watch the video, you'll see what I mean.
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marketing: Free Leads From Classified Sites - 06/15/09 02:25 PM
I've been playing with this software for the last week, it just got released to the public today, I encourage you to take a look.
Lets just say this is not for the faint of heart, and it comes with some rules if you want it to be effective.
I'm going
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marketing: Creating a Video Opt In Site for a development in less than 15 minutes - 05/22/09 02:21 PM
Grant you this is a simple site, but sometimes it's the simplest ones that are the most effective.A friend is starting a development project and we wanted to use the web to market their project.I'll be tracking that from a stats point of view, but what I wanted to share here
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marketing: SEO and Long Term Benefits of Posting on Free Advertising Sites - 05/19/09 06:14 AM
I recorded this screencast earlier today when i was searching for something with my wife.
I thought it was a very good representation of the value of posting on free sites like craigslist, kijiji and backpage
You can see here, the posting is several months old, but it still got me
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marketing: Would Agents rather pay up front for advertising? Or referral fees on business that has closed. - 05/03/09 03:46 PM
The world of advertising is changing, where display advertising once ruled, cost per click has taken over. Lately there has been more and more move towards a CPA model - Cost Per Acquisition. This is not new for real estate agents who have for years paid as a whole 25% for
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marketing: Twitter Automation Tools - 04/29/09 03:24 AM
If any of you have followed my twitter feed, you'll notice that fairly soon after, I follow you back.This is with the help of a little automation help from a great piece of software.In addition to automating my follows, it can schedule tweets for me, and provides keyword reports about my
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marketing: Internet Lead Generation | Work Less, Make More - 04/07/09 10:58 PM
This is an interview that I did with Rick Stonehouse where he talks about the way that buyers have changed with the use of the web now in comparison with what he had to do before the web.
The upshot is that they are much more educated than they were
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marketing: Selling More Real Estate Using Community Websites - 03/11/09 10:31 PM
I mentioned yesterday that we're going to be selling off a limited number of our Vancouver based LIVE IN websites. I thought I'd take you through some of the features that are available to users and how the sites work to drive leads and traffic to the real estate agent.
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marketing: 3D Web Cam | Think "3D Home Tours" :) - 03/04/09 05:18 PM
OK, so this could be considered a little geeky by some :)I have to say I love this idea, if nothing else, it's a cool way to distinguish yourself from other real estate websites.Imagine doing 3D house tours? How's that for cool factor.Next thing to figure out is where to
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marketing: Real Estate Marketing 2.0 Book - Half Off and 5 bonuses worth $430 - 02/25/09 06:54 PM
Buy Real Estate Marketing 2.0 for Half Off
I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm having a 50% off sale on my book Real Estate Marketing 2.0 from now until the 28th of Feb.
Even if you have bought it in the past or got a review copy
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marketing: Give prospects the information that they want. - 02/01/09 01:23 PM
When people are searching for information about a listing, they want to know everything about it.
They don't want to call you to find out more details, they want to call you to book a showing.
In our experience working with Vancouver Real Estate Agent Rick Stonehouse, we've developed a few
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marketing: Put your listings on other (non real estate) websites. - 01/23/09 07:07 AM
We developed this tool as a way to embed our clients real estate listings pages on other sites.
You can manage our listings in one place, and then embed the on another site with a simple < i frame > line of code.
You can see an example a couple of
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marketing: Embed Your Listings Anywhere | See Mount Pleasant Lisitngs Here. - 12/12/08 06:54 PM
I know you WAaaaaant it!
I generated this using ViralListings.com our latest addition to the product roster.
You update your listings in one place, and they update anywhere you've placed the embed code.
Best of all, other people can grab your code and put your listings on their site, every
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