images: Why can I see more info for a $10 item on EBay than a $1,000,000 house on MLS? - 10/08/08 06:38 PM
It is time for the MLS to get with the Internet revolution. I find it pitiful that someone can display all types of information for a cheap item on EBay but can only see fifteen small pictures of a multi-million dollar house.
Through my own company's web site - John L
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images: Photo Art Gallery and Professional Photography Services - 09/14/08 05:35 AM
Welcome to Photout.com - Photo Art Gallery and Professional Photography Services
We can provide various photography services, please choose from the options below:
Corporate Photography, Commercial Photography, Photography Studio Hire, Social Photography, Wedding photography
Photo Art Gallery & Stock Photos
Architecture Birds
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Children
News
Fashion
Fine Art
Flowers
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images: Saving Web Pictures as you find them - 09/14/08 04:21 AM
Saving Web Pictures
Have you ever seen a picture on a Web site that you think you just have to keep for yourself?
I find clip art even used by Active Rain members that I think is great and want to use the image. Be careful about copyright and how you
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images: Build the best website with the best images from Fotolia - 09/08/08 09:47 PM
Fotolia Fotolia is a low-priced stock photography clearing house, offering nearly 4 million images for use across the web at prices as low as $1 per photo. Unlike the two major players in stock-photo sales (Corbis and Getty), Fotolia’s images are mostly from amateur photographers and the photos are slightly lower quality
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images: Describe Your Images For The Search Engines - 08/30/08 01:27 AM
Search Engines can not tell apart one image from another. In fact, as Matt Cutts of Google explains in the video, a search engine can not tell whether or not a picture is of a dog or a cat. Webmasters, however can describe images posted on their websites using "title" and
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images: The 1st Attempt - 08/25/08 11:45 AM
Now that I have read numerous blogs and comments I've come to realize that the only way to get started is to just DO IT! So, here goes.
As this is my first attempt I've decided to start very slowly! Future blogs will stick to topics such as: real estate, city
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images: Help with Images? - 07/11/08 03:09 AM
So much to do and so little time. For weeks I've been wanting to know how to get my text around my images on my blogs. I seem to always type about the image, then insert it.
and I want to have my text wrap around my image like
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images: Fresh and LOCAL - 07/09/08 05:09 PM
Hey everybody! Guess what? Fresh peaches are now available in Virginia and Knotts Island! In addition to peaches, fresh berries (blues and blacks), corn and more are in season. Where to get it? GO LOCAL!
Five Points Farm Market - Has a new location in Norfolk at the corner of Church
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images: Pets on the 4th of July - 07/04/08 03:08 PM
I was on my way home from showing my listing in Suffolk last night. I was, as usual, listening to WHRV and Paul Shugrue with 'out of the box'. They aired a public service reminder I want to paraphrase for you...
Most animals don't like fireworks! To protect your animals
1.
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images: Waterfront Property - Look Here - 07/01/08 04:26 PM
I am looking at numbers again but combining them with one of my favorite things about living in this area... WATER! It is everywhere (but in a good way!) =)
So anyway, back to numbers... Focusing on the southside of Hampton Roads, there are 9922 residential properties currently for sale
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images: What to do this weekend! - 06/28/08 07:12 PM
I was in the office early this morning before meeting with a client. I overheard a few agents commenting on how there wasn't anything to do this weekend. WOW! Is that possible? Let me list a few options (all air conditioned!)
1. Chrysler museum - new rembrandt etchings exhibit and ANSEL
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images: Images That Are Safe To Use For Real Estate Web Sites and Blogs! - 06/28/08 11:32 AM
Iclip Art Sale
Images That Are Safe To Use For Real Estate Web Sites and Blogs!
I wrote a post about the concerns of using images on your blogs and
websites that may be copyright infringements.
There were comments made about just staying away from using images
altogether.
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images: How to add photos and clip art to my blogs on AR? - 06/17/08 03:00 PM
How do I go about adding photos and clip art to my blogs on AR? Last week I was able to copy and paste an image and it would appear on my blog. I cannot get any images to post on my blogs this week. Is this a known problem that AR is
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images: "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words? How About a Thousand Dollars?" Community Guidelines Re-Visited - 06/05/08 02:40 AM
It's time once again for another installment of "Guess That Guideline!" and I'm your host, Community Builder and Moving Target, Rich Jacobson.
We've been re-hashing the ActiveRain Community Guidelines, and dissecting them at length. So many times, when we join social networks or online forums, we're required to review the
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images: Active Rain Customizer - 05/13/08 10:55 PM
I finally figured out how to get my schnauzer dog background image to upload. I fiddled with it yesterday and it kept giving me that silly error - you can't do that! So I opened the image, resaved it, and reuploaded it tonight. It finally worked, and then my got House?
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images: Over 260 Images Of Maine, Houlton And Aroostook County! - 04/18/08 06:05 AM
The beauty of four seasons in Maine. The best part of living in Northern Maine is what we don't have. We lack crime, traffic, pollution, mean pushy people. Family and work ethic is top priority. Community and volunteering and helping others is key. With 11 people per square mile, space
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images: Free Real Estate Clip Art, Real Estate Photos and Real Estate Designation / Graphics - 03/19/08 09:26 PM
Here's a pretty interesting website. It does have some free images here: (ps. they will open up in a new window so we'll be here when you get back!) Real Estate Images And some Free Designation Logos and Company Logos here: Designations For a $25 subscription, they have quite a large number of royalty
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images: GREEN Marketing? - 03/10/08 07:15 PM
Ever wonder about the effectiveness of the BROCHURES...I sure did... After taking Eco-Broker certification and beginning to really think about the brochure boxes outside of the home (that my sellers wanted, not me) and then even further into the brochures INSIDE the home, I decided to make a shift. A shift that
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images: Falls of Discovery - 02/27/08 12:52 AM
Falls of Discovery Photo:J.T.Narrin One of the perks of previewing subject properties for clients has to be the unexpected discoveries. Obscured from the scrutiny of the ordinary observer, the spectacle. Hidden falls. Silhouetted horse shapes, big blue, orange and pink, heavens, in unbroken confluence with the undulating verdant hills. The land. Oh my! The
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images: vFlyer Image of the Week: Photo+Listing+Message - 02/22/08 01:00 PM
Some real estate agents have put Watermark Plus to particularly good use! By simply combining the photo of their property being listed with their own personal photo and an eye-catching message (Just Listed, Price Reduced, i.e.), they can make their property photos really stand out!
Tags: Watermark, Real+Estate, Photos
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images: Under Pressure - 02/11/08 02:04 PM
This is what I feel like when I'm under a lot of pressure. I can't remember where I found this image because it was so long ago, but I've always wanted to use it in some mailers or post cards with the caption "Under Pressure to Sell Your Home?". That's just crazy. Give
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images: Google & the Chinese New Year -- More marketing ideas.... - 02/07/08 10:03 AM
Google is at it again with it's marketing and awareness campaign per se. As many of you know, I keep an eye on Google and what they do to their logo every month.As you can see, they have a new logo relating to the Chinese New Year. I think this is
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images: Place, Resize and Flow Text Around Your Photos and Images For Your Listings and Reports - 01/23/08 02:24 PM
A new Group was formed recently directed at a different approach to presenting your listings and market condition reports. The Group is City & State: Listings and Reports. There are several Groups that allow listings, but this one is geared towards identifying the City and State as the first tag words in
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images: Martin Luther King Day & Google -- How to market yourself - 01/21/08 11:45 AM
For many of you know that I follow Google and their marketing strategies, today is another holiday that they have marketed around. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day which takes place on the 3rd Monday of January once a year. For many of you that are history buffs, Martin Luther
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images: Tomorrow Will HAVE to Be Learning Day for Me - 01/12/08 07:50 PM
Tomorrow I must go through my AR bookmarks to see what new technology I need to learn next. I bookmark other members' blogs all the time, then about every other week, I go through them to see if I am still interested or to delete them. I have saved several websites to
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images: Sources of FREE Photos and Images on the Web ~HELP - 01/06/08 12:10 PM
Okay so I'm still in the kindergarten class for adding fancy things to my blog.....so I thought I'd ask AR member for the information that I bookmarked and now can't find.What I need are websites that offer FREE photos and images. I am especially looking for ones that are colorful, maybe
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images: well, my feet are officially getting wet... - 01/04/08 07:10 PM
i'm going to use our first blog entry as a bit of a gallery - since i can't seem to figure out how to post some before and afters on our profile, i'm going to try it on here. Of course, I'd love to think the world was made up of
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images: Enhance Your Real Estate Listings with Google Street View Images! - 12/12/07 07:27 AM
Google has just released some slick updates to their very-cool 'Street Views' application, which we're pretty excited about. They've added 8 new cities to their growing list of Street View regions - Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence, and have also added a slick new feature
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images: Images Are Forever - 12/06/07 05:33 PM
Have you ever noticed how some images leave a lasting imprint on your mind, that some images from your early childhood stay with you for ever, and others from yesterday are hard to recall today. On the way home, after sitting up all night with my mother as she passed on to her reward, I
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images: Winter Comes to Maryland - 12/05/07 08:00 PM
A winter storm hit Maryland today and we got our first snow of the season. Time to get out my camera. . . Enjoy (especially you folks in California, Texas and other warm spots)!
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images: Google & Marketing.... It's Halloween - 10/31/07 06:33 AM
It's Halloween.... How do you market yourself? I use to go around delivering pumpkins to real estate offices with painted faces on them and my name painted on the back. I am always impressed on the different marketing techniques that Google has to offer. But in all honesty, I am a little
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images: Piedmont California Photos - 10/17/07 07:24 PM
Want to see what Piedmont looks like on the ground? Check out the Photo Galleries on my website: Kids' Eye View-- Photo Gallery-- Piedmont Winter Gallery-- Restaurants Near Piedmont-- Check out my website (www.MaureenKennedy.Net) for updates--there's a video coming soon!
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images: A List of FREE Public Domain Photo Sites! - 10/01/07 07:27 PM
If you're like me, at one time or another, you've been completely clueless about copyrighted photos that you find on the internet. Google makes is easy to find any photo you want just by typing in a subject, then clicking "images". It doesn't get any easier than that to find
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images: Capture The Area Where You Sell Real Estate...Take Camera Safety Off... - 09/29/07 10:03 AM
Carry your camera everywhere you go...cause you never know when wildlife, sunset, or better image of the property you listed a few months ago comes up...don't get caught without your camera. If you have a huge one...get a little guy you can slip into a pocket and be on the
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images: Loading Pictures into your blog - 08/30/07 01:24 AM
I wrote this post as an answer to a question, but thought it might be useful to post it at the top blog level so people could find it more easily. I wanted to give instructions that had enough information to make it useful to everyone. Please let me know if
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images: Plain Old Image Hosting - 08/27/07 10:53 PM
Some people don’t realize you can use Watermark Plus for plain old simple image hosting. Simply upload your photos and make sure Graphic Type is None and the Text field is left blank! We’ll upload your photo and host it for you (for free) – another great use of Watermark Plus.
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images: Graphics - 08/23/07 10:11 PM
I'd like to start spicing up my blogs a bit. Where does everyone get all those cool images I see on so many posts?
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images: Raise Your Hands and Step Away From The Keyboard ~ and No One Will Get Hurt - 08/17/07 10:44 AM
Today on Inman News I read an article containing a warning I should have been already aware of. The article is about the dangers of plagiarism in blogs. I was smuggly reading along saying to myself, "I know this already," when I hit the, "Ooops, me too!" statement. The statement that caused
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images: When did a Slideshow become a Virtual Tour? - 07/23/07 06:37 PM
I've been glancing into the world of virtual tours... big flashy ads that say "See Our Virtual Tour" and yet what I see is a random series of pictures with (if I'm lucky) a pan and zoom effect.
Really nothing wrong with that, they look beautiful, for the most part, but
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images: Beautiful in Real Estate - 07/18/07 11:35 PM
A House that is listed as "beautiful" sells 15% faster and for 5% more! Of course, that's just the immediate gains of "beautiful". It seems that while a $3 hamburger has found it's way to be marketed as beautiful the idea sometimes eludes the real estate industry. It's a shame... a crying shame
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images: Even with Content Carnivals and Contests...Informative Posts are not the favorites. - 07/10/07 08:21 PM
So there is a party going on here at Active Rain. And nothing's going to break it up. Don't mind me, I'm here to enjoy the music! But which way are we heading here on ActiveRain? Everyone is on their soap box, "ACTIVERAIN is supposed to be for PROFESSIONALS" "We need
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images: How Do You Feel About Dead Animals As Wall Ornaments? - 07/10/07 07:27 AM
Had One Lady Who Saw A Deer Head In One Of Our Living Room Photos Who Said She Was Not Wild About Dead Animals On The Wall. Offensive? Or Should You Avoid That Angle Of The Living Room That Captures The Trophy? Or Do You Include It To Appeal To Others
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images: BMW Sponsors TED - Semantically-linked Photos - 06/15/07 10:19 PM
If you have been following my blogging about the Semantic Web you might begin to assimilate some of my discussions such as tagged images and metadata for your photos. And we all know that real estate is photogenic. This next hyperlink is a must see on TED which stands for Technology, Entertainment,
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images: Search Engines, Cattle Genetics, and Real Estate Clients - 05/27/07 01:27 PM
Where we live has always been important to me. We have always made that decision carefully whether it was our first farm on the shores of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Columbia, MD, Roanoke, VA or Cape Carteret, NC where we have our home now. When we end up
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images: The Art of Los Gatos (slideshow) - 05/24/07 10:44 PM
Theater, films, music, paintings all grace Los Gatos: it is a very artsy town. But it's also a down to earth town with lovely murals dotting the landscape. Come take a look at a slideshow I put together from my photos around town of the murals in Los Gatos.To see the
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images: The Images, 2/2 Townhouse @ 229,900 - 04/25/07 02:08 PM
Convenient Pembroke Pines location, shows well. Built in 1991, this 2/2 townhome boasts 1161 under air, ceramic tile, nice unit. Lowest price active listing in Images. Good value lives here. Call today to see this and any other properties that are of interest to YOU! Don't spend this kind of money for
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images: To Favicon or not to Favicon . . . do you? - 04/13/07 10:38 PM
So I'm noticing more and more the little image on my browser bar, it also shows up in my favorites if I save the site as a favorite. So do you have a favicon? Do you notice them on other sites? Do you feel it helps brand the site better? Would you
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images: Your Image Is Everything - 04/08/07 10:10 PM
Once again, Web 2.0 is upon us and so how do I improve my conversion rates? Once the lead walks in the door, much depends on your skills and professional services offerings in converting. But what brings the client to you in the first place? I think in many cases particularly
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images: Source for Images to use on the Web? - 04/07/07 04:00 PM
Confessions of newer blogger: I have no idea where you all get the great graphics you use in your posts.My blogs tend to look like the white pages of the phone book - all words. That is, unless I happened to take the picture myself.Yesterday I was at Office Depot for
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images: A Thousand Words? - 02/24/07 07:25 AM
Where do you Get Your Images? A photo posted on your blog can make a huge difference. It conveys the idea of your post and really catches the eye of the reader. I've been using clip are for many of my posts. I copy the clip art and past it into "Paint." Then
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images: Photography and Staging - 02/11/07 07:44 PM
I recently took another continuing ed class on staging and as always we were thrilled with the home's transformation. The next morning I looked in the MLS and saw that the newly listed and staged home was there. I was however so disappointed in the photographs. Too often realtors take photos
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images: Adobe Lightroom 1.0 Released - 01/30/07 07:09 PM
Good news Shutterbugs! Adobe's new image organizing/cataloging/editing program, Lightroom is now available for pre-order and will ship in mid-February. I have been using Lightroom in its public beta form for some time now and LOVE it. When I get home from a shoot, I load all of the images from
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images: How do we get Google to see images we post online? - 12/13/06 07:40 AM
Okay, Google has the ability to see and index photos, images, we have of different locations in the world. I have a huge inventory of images of homes I have listed, apartments for rent, rentals we own, etc. at pictures.zionsvillehomesonline.com Many of these, I created with specific image names, like Zionsville_01,
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images: Staging Your Blog - 11/11/06 04:20 AM
(With apologies to the professional stagers out there. I will never be a threat to staging anything better than you!) Not long ago Matt Heaton left a comment on Merton and Ambrose's blog after Jay asked how he might get a gold star. Matt's reply is worth taking a look at,
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images: Free presentation software - 11/03/06 06:24 PM
Microsoft's Photo Story 3 can help you bring your digital photos to life. You can crop, rotate and touch up pictures, then compile them into a slideshow. A wide range of special effects (black and white, sepia, watercolor, etc) is available along with over 40 transitions including wipes, flips and curls.
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images: Photo Tip - Use flash for balance - 10/07/06 06:30 PM
Taking photos indoors that accurately show the room and an amazing view can be a challenge. Either the room looks great and the view gets washed out, or the view is perfect but the room is too dark. Even if you think there is enough natural light, use your flash. The flash will help
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images: Where are you getting those pics? - 10/04/06 09:41 PM
Hey folks.... alot of you are using pics, images, photos as you post here on AR. Where are you getting these images? Are you creating them? Do you download them from a favorite site? Is that site free? Do you subscribe to a site? I'm really curious Just where are you
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images: Great, inexpensive images - 10/01/06 05:58 PM
If you're looking for terrific images for your website, blog and marketing pieces, I wanted to share istockphoto.com with you. Istockphoto.com claims to be one of the fastest growing liabrary of royalty-free photographs, flash files, illustrations and video clips.I've used istockphoto.com for most of the images on my website and postcard
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images: Adding images to your AR posts - 09/14/06 12:34 PM
Inspired by the graphically challenged Nima, I thought I would help a (TKE) brother out and write a short tip on image layout in ActiveRain. There are two tabs on the 'Insert Image' dialog box - 'General' and 'Appearance'. When you've finished uploading the image on the 'General' tab, click on 'Appearance'. 'Alignment'
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images: Blog entries running short on visuals - 09/09/06 01:33 PM
I have written some great blog posts in the past, that I feel didn't get as much attention without having graphics to make them pop and stand out. The Real Estate Tomato always has great graphics in his posts. On the other hand, most of my posts like this one, are
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