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    <title>The 10 Hour VA</title>
    <link>http://activerain.com/blogs/the10hourva</link>
    <description>Real Estate Virtual Assistant, Real Estate VA, Real Estate Support Services, eRealty Assistance, eRealty Network, Christine Wade, REVA, Certified Virtual Assistant</description>
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      <title>Real Estate Virtual Assistant Website For Sale - Established &amp; Performing</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I finally officially put &lt;a href="http://www.eRealtyAssistance.com"&gt;www.eRealtyAssistance.com&lt;/a&gt; up for sale...content and all...if you are looking for a fast way into the real estate virtual assistant business, have the skills to help real estate professionals and want to get started right now - look no further!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 13:04:20 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2276436/real-estate-virtual-assistant-website-for-sale-established-performing</link>
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      <title>Successful Real Estate Virtual Assistant Website For Sale</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Successful Real Estate Virtual Assistant Website For Sale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant Website for sale" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/7/3/3/4/ar130161598143378.png" height="320" alt="Real Estate Virtual Assistant Website Screenshot" width="400" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;Whether you are a real estate professional looking to supplement your real estate income an existing VA looking for a better look and a proven way of being seen on the web, or just anyone looking to start a business as a real estate virtual assistant...don't miss out on this once in a life-time opportunity because once it's gone...it's GONE!&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I have been in business 11 years this month...I have built the  content and link love and Google juice of this website myself.  It is a  PR4 site, WebsiteGrader.com gives it a rank of 94, it has 295 indexed  pages in Google, MOZ rank of 4.2, there are 29 linking domains and it  has an Alexa rank of 3,520,943 which is in the top 11.32 % of all  websites. The domain name is registered for another year and nine+  months.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The site comes up well in search engine rankings for keywords associated  with real estate virtual assistant services...and most new blog posts I  write are indexed within a few minutes to about an hour...and come up  well for keyword terms used in them.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; I am asking $5000, which is very reasonable considering what you are  getting and the exposure that comes with it.  If you are interested and  have the available capital (credit card ok)...&lt;span style="color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;send an email to me directly at &lt;a href="mailto:ChristineWade@gmail.com"&gt;ChristineWade@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; - do not comment to this post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I am moving on full time to another career path and want this site to  not be wasted as too much blood, sweat and tears have been poured into  it.  I will help you to get the website up and running on your server  and transfer the domain name ownership to you once payment has cleared.   You many keep my testimonials up on the site until you get some of your  own, provided that you put a small disclaimer at the bottom of the site  stating that the site is under new ownership and I am no longer  associated with it.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; I won't discuss rates for VAs, but with what you should be charging for these  services, you should recoup your investment within just a couple of  months!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:10:53 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2219705/successful-real-estate-virtual-assistant-website-for-sale</link>
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      <title>One of my Real Estate Virtual Assistant clients wrote a blog today...</title>
      <description>&lt;h2 style="margin-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;a href="../../../blogsview/2125384/best-real-estate-virtual-assistant" rel="bookmark"&gt;Best Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He took the time to write some nice things...but even nicer than what he wrote, was the fact that he took the time to do a video testimonial - my first ever - and I am honored.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thanks so much to: &lt;span class="standout"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cory Barbee - &lt;a href="http://www.sandiegocareerinrealestate.com/" title="best real estate team leader and trainer" target="_blank"&gt;best real estate team leader and trainer&lt;/a&gt; ever!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:48:20 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Active Rain Members...I Challenge You!!!  For the next week...</title>
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&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #333399;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Active Rain Members...I Challenge You!!!&#160; For the next week...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #333399;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I really didn't get  as much accomplished here in the rain as I would have liked... and I am  sure that many of you didn't either!&#160; So, I challenge you all to go to &lt;a href="../../blogsview/2115536/free-gift-for-you-active-rain-weekly-tasks-bookmark-tasklist"&gt;my  post from last week where I announced the free printable weekly task list /  bookmark that I designed for all of us to use to get the most out of our  Active Rain Experience&lt;/a&gt; and download the bookmark if you haven't  already done so.&#160; Then print it out and put it in your binder, tape it  to your desk, whatever you have to do to keep it in front of you when  you would be working in Active Rain (notice I said working and not  playing ;-) ---&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Now here comes the challenge...I challenge you  to check off every item on that task list...do everything it suggests  for a whole week!!!&#160; Imagine what great things could happen...&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Take a picture or screenshot of your points total tonight or first thing  in the am, paste it into a comment here...then get started!&#160; 10 blog  posts for the week, 10 comments per day and suggest 10 blogs to be  featured throughout the week!&#160; Sounds simple enough right?&#160; Then at the  end of the week, take another screenshot of your points total and  paste it into comment again...and this time, tell us if you got any benefits other  than simply watching your points total go up! If you are feeling really ambitious, you can post a shot of what your tasklist looks like at the end of the week as well...we can't see your blog suggestions in your points totals...so we will just have to take your word for it that you suggested 10.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; I can't wait to see all the responses...and to see what comes of it all!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On your mark...get set....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="../../blogsview/2115536/free-gift-for-you-active-rain-weekly-tasks-bookmark-tasklist"&gt;GO&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:26:51 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>FREE Gift for YOU! Active Rain Weekly Tasks Bookmark / Tasklist</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Bookmark for keeping track of tasks in Active Rain" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/8/8/0/4/ar129671223440888.png" height="615" alt="Active Rain Weekly Tasks Bookmark" width="268" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 1px solid black;"&gt;Being a slightly in-denial over-achiever, I have a task sheet / list  that I write out every week and stick in my work notebook...to remind me  and help me keep track of making the most of my experience at Active  Rain.&#160; Granted, I don't always follow through and do all the tasks...but  I wanted to share it with all of you, for all of the motivation and  encouragement that you all give to all of us every day!&#160; This is an  ideal / optimum task list to achieve the maximum points in Active Rain  each week...as well as spread some goodwill.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It comes as a .pdf file, 3 to a page.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a place to put in the week ending date at the top (hint: Active Rain's week ends at 11:59pm Sunday night).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is an area to track how many blog posts you have written that week - up to the 10 max per week for point credits.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is an area to track how many comments you make each day - again up to the 10 max per day for point credits.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally, there is the goodwill section - you get no points for this, you just help shine the spotlight on some worthy bloggers here in the rain...since 10 is a popular number here with us, I thought why not aim to suggest 10 blogs to be featured on Active Rain each week.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;That's it - I hope you like it!&#160; You can download the printable pdf version of the &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/news/free-active-rain-weekly-tasks-bookmark" title="Get your Active Rain Weeky Tasks Bookmark Now" target="_blank"&gt;Active Rain Weekly Tasks bookmark here from my Real Estate Virtual Assistant website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://statcounter.com/tumblr/" title="visit tracker on tumblr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.statcounter.com/6577376/0/0220a303/1/" border="0" alt="visit tracker on tumblr"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:12:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2115536/free-gift-for-you-active-rain-weekly-tasks-bookmark-tasklist</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2115435/just-a-blogging-brag-</guid>
      <title>Just a Blogging Brag!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I am listed as a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com...I thought this was a pretty cool honor all on its own.&#160; But if you visit the site and scroll down to the bottom of the page...there is a block that lists the most viewed posts on their site.&#160; Guess who is #2!?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/christine-wade/10-ways-to-find-new-blog-topics/" title="2nd Most Viewed Blog Post on RealBlogging.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="I have the 2nd most viewed post on RealBlogging.com!" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/2/8/4/4/ar129670737144826.png" height="227" alt="2nd most viewed post on RealBlogging.com" width="312" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am not as active there as I should be, and I have decided to make it a priority for me to get at least one post up there per week in 2011...I am about 4 behind! But I need the incentive to get back at it...can you help motivate me!?!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://statcounter.com/tumblr/" title="visit tracker on tumblr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.statcounter.com/6577376/0/0220a303/1/" border="0" alt="visit tracker on tumblr"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:37:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2115435/just-a-blogging-brag-</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2114492/google-love-or-spam-keyword-targeted-link-anchor-text</guid>
      <title>Google Love or SPAM?  Keyword Targeted Link Anchor Text</title>
      <description>&lt;h2&gt;Google Love or SPAM?&#160; Keyword Targeted Link Anchor Text&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class="entry"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.highrankings.com/anchor-text-link-spam-299" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Anchor Spam Article Screenshot from SEO Consultant HighRankings.com" src="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/AnchorSpamHighRankingsScreen.png" height="164" alt="Anchor Spam Article Screenshot from SEO Consultant HighRankings.com" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left; border: 1px solid black;" width="160"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I wrote a post this morning over on my&#160; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant Website" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; website after I read the article that is linked to the thumbnail image at the left. &#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="entry"&gt;Watch the video below where I go over that article with you...and then feel free to head over to read my &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/news/want-to-increase-your-targeted-google-love" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant article on Real Estate SEO" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant article on Real Estate SEO&lt;/a&gt;&#160; and leave a comment at the bottom...if you insert your keyword search term as your name and then your link as your URL...and a relevant comment to the article...I will quickly approve it and you will have a nice new backlink to your website.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="entry"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="entry"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;object height="480" width="600"&gt;
&lt;param name="movie" value="Video%20on%20Anchor%20Text.swf"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Video%20on%20Anchor%20Text.swf" height="480" width="600"&gt;
&lt;/embed&gt;
&lt;/object&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://statcounter.com/tumblr/" title="visit tracker on tumblr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.statcounter.com/6577376/0/0220a303/1/" border="0" alt="visit tracker on tumblr"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:40:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2114492/google-love-or-spam-keyword-targeted-link-anchor-text</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2112477/video-on-video-marketing-tips-for-real-estate</guid>
      <title>Video on Video Marketing Tips for Real Estate</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Video on Video Marketing Tips for Real Estate!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of the info shared in this video is courtesy of the education that I received by attending SMM Camp#7 :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Video marketing is becoming very important in real estate...but only 1% of agents are using it as a listing tool...that's crazy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe class="youtube-player" title="YouTube video player" allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jPry4lq8dFk" frameborder="0" type="text/html" height="390" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Know you need to utilize video in your real estate marketing efforts, but don't know where to start?&#160; Then you need to work with a &lt;a href="http://www.eRealtyAssistance.com" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;...you know what I always say, "&lt;em&gt;Do what you do BEST and OUTSOURCE the rest!&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://statcounter.com/tumblr/" title="visit tracker on tumblr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.statcounter.com/6577376/0/0220a303/1/" border="0" alt="visit tracker on tumblr"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:05:41 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2112477/video-on-video-marketing-tips-for-real-estate</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2108689/the-statistics-link-is-great-in-ar-but-don-t-you-want-more-</guid>
      <title>The Statistics Link is Great in AR, But Don't You Want More?!?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I obsess over that "Statistics" link on the left side on My Home in Active Rain after I post a blog article...but I would like to know more...like how people are finding my blog articles, how they came to my profile page, etc...wouldn't you?&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know you can install Google Analytics on your outside blog, but what about your regular old blog and profile page?&#160; Now there is an option.&#160; You can install Stat Counter!&#160; Here are the steps...I was going to do a video...but the family is just too loud today!&lt;img title="My stat counter screen shot" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/5/7/5/6/ar12964331565759.png" height="440" alt="Stat Counter Screenshot" width="400" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 2px solid black;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Set up or login to your Stat Counter account (statcounter.com)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create a new project for Active Rain...you only need one...you can use the same code on your profile page as well as your blog posts.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Now, go into that project and click on the little wrench picture...then click the link for Install Code&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I like my counters invisible, so I select invisible counter, then click Next.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Leave the dropdown at Default Installation guide and then select the HTML only option (you must use this option for this purpose). Click Next.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy the code.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go to Active Rain and Log In.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go to your Profile Edit page, scroll down to one of the options that will let you click a button for html (doesn't matter which one) and paste the code in (must be in html mode first).&#160; Update / Save.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go to your Settings page.&#160; Scroll down, to the signature block. Again, you must be in html mode, and paste the code in.&#160; Update / Save.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;That's it!!!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now you can monitor your traffic through the Stat Counter website for more details!&#160; Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://statcounter.com/tumblr/" title="visit tracker on tumblr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.statcounter.com/6577376/0/0220a303/1/" border="0" alt="visit tracker on tumblr"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:36:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2108689/the-statistics-link-is-great-in-ar-but-don-t-you-want-more-</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2108613/if-you-could-ask-active-rain-for-one-feature-what-would-it-be-</guid>
      <title>If you could ask Active Rain for ONE feature...what would it be?</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you could ask Active Rain for ONE feature...what would it be?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;No, I don't mean "feature" like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/B68" alt="" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;"&gt; - I mean like if you could change one thing or improve one thing on Active Rain...what would it be?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;img title="I would like threaded comments on blog posts!" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/1/9/1/8/ar129643167281914.png" height="296" alt="Threaded Comments on Blog Post" width="310" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 2px solid black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I  have two...and I know they are sick of hearing me ask for the first  one...so I am going to pretend I only have one...and that one thing  would be if our blog posts could have threaded comments!!!&#160; That way  when we are replying to someone's specific comment...it could stay with  that comment...rather than being all the way down at the bottom.&#160; And so  that everytime we replied based on someone's comment, they would  automatically be notified, because it was their comment that we are  responding to.&#160; All still related to the original blog post.&#160; Kind of  like combining a blog post and a forum thread...ahhhh that would be  wonderful!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;OK - What would your ONE feature or improvement to Active Rain be?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;"&gt;(ok,  sssshhhhhh...I will whisper what my other one is, so that I don't get  anyone upset for asking for it again...I want to be able to see how many  members are online when I am...like we used to!&#160; It motivated me to be  more active.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:57:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2108613/if-you-could-ask-active-rain-for-one-feature-what-would-it-be-</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2108224/blockshopper-anyone-a-paid-participant-</guid>
      <title>BlockShopper - Anyone a paid participant?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Is Blockshopper worth the bucks?" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/7/0/7/1/ar129641673417073.jpg" height="346" alt="Question" width="347" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recently had one of my &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; clients ask me about &lt;strong&gt;BlockShopper&lt;/strong&gt; and if I thought it was worth it or not.&#160; I honestly have no prior experience with the site...so thought I would take the question to the experts.&#160; Do you feel that the Blockshopper "Active Agent" or "Ultimate Agent" are worth shelling out the bucks for?&#160; What have been your experiences generating leads from this site, etc...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to their site, the Active Agent package is $295/yr. and the Ultimate Agent package is $990/yr. - not cheap - but could they be worth the expenditure?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for posting your comments...I searched the archives...but apparently it hasn't been brought up much.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:51:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2108224/blockshopper-anyone-a-paid-participant-</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2101543/cell-service-on-gopher-canyon-in-vista-ca-finally-</guid>
      <title>Cell Service on Gopher Canyon in Vista CA...FINALLY!!!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cell Service on Gopher Canyon in Vista CA...FINALLY!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="iphone pic" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/1/1/3/5/ar129609981553112.jpg" height="135" alt="iphone" width="100" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have noticed something fabulous over the last week or so...I tested it on day one...made it all the way through.&#160; I tested it on day two...made it all the way through.&#160; I tested it on day three...made it all the way through yet again!!!&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am talking about &lt;strong&gt;Gopher Canyon in Vista&lt;/strong&gt;, people...there must be a new cell tower or something - because as one of the few "holes" left in cell service in North San Diego County - it &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; a constant thorn in my side.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I drive that road (10 min. each way to get to the I-15 freeway in Vista) at least 4 times a day Monday through Friday!&#160; I am on the road 2 hours a day minimum...and this stretch really put a kink in my productivity.&#160; I could chat away on my headset, dictating notes, talking to friends / family or clients...but every time I would hit this &lt;strong&gt;Gopher Canyon area&lt;/strong&gt;...dead air.&#160; Calls would drop.&#160; There were brief spots dispersed along the route where I could get signal for a second...but by the time the call was connected it would be dropped again.&#160; That is all in the past!&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My mom would always know when I was "stuck in the canyon" as she called it, because our calls would get dropped.&#160; Now we can actually finish a conversation without forgeting where we left off when we were so rudely disconnected!&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, I don't know "who done it" - and I don't care - whomever gave us continuous cell service along the Gopher Canyon Rd. in Vista, CA...I thank you!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img title="thank you for cell service on Gopher Canyon" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/9/9/7/1/ar129610035217993.jpg" height="199" alt="thank you note" width="300"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:57:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2101543/cell-service-on-gopher-canyon-in-vista-ca-finally-</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2101501/i-need-marketing-help-what-can-you-do-for-me-</guid>
      <title>I Need Marketing Help - What Can You Do For Me?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I Need Marketing Help - What Can You Do For Me?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the most frequently asked questions that I get as a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/" title="real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; , is how can I help a real estate professional with their marketing efforts?&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Question dice." src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/6/7/3/5/ar129599287453763.jpg" height="284" alt="dice with question marks" width="423" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;Here is how I answer that question:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear Joe:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are many ways that I can help you with your marketing efforts.&#160; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;If we are talking offline marketing, I can help you with direct marketing campaigns, listing presentation design, flyer design, postcard design, print ad design, etc...&#160; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If we are talking online marketing, the list is even longer.&#160; I can help you with your website design and SEO, I can help you with blogging or ghost-blogging (making sure that they are SEO also), I can help you with your social media marketing through Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, etc, ...&#160; I can help you with video blogging, listing syndication, etc... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please visit my website for a complete list of services that I offer, many of which are marketing related.&#160; &lt;em&gt;Thank you for your interest!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:22:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2101501/i-need-marketing-help-what-can-you-do-for-me-</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2101475/you-offer-lots-of-great-services-but-do-i-have-to-use-all-of-them-</guid>
      <title>You offer lots of great services, but do I have to use ALL of them?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You offer lots of great services, but do I have to use ALL of them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/" title="real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#160; I often see emails such as the one below come through my potential client inquiry form:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Question dice." src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/6/7/3/5/ar129599287453763.jpg" height="284" alt="dice with question marks" width="423" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I went through your website and I&#8217;ll be honest, your services appear to be stupendous!!!&#160; It&#8217;s everything I need except I don&#8217;t need everything right now.&#160; My search for a virtual assistant began because I have secured the listing for XYZ project which entails a great deal of details and every time I try to sit down and get started on it I have to run out.&#160; Can I just choose what I want done in the month or do I have to bring you on board to handle all of the tasks that you list on your services page?" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&#160;  Here's how I answer that question:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear Jill:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You can absolutely pick and choose your own services! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That is the beauty of my value-based retainer services.&#160; You simply pick the set of services that you would like me to perform for you each month and we build your retainer around your needs.&#160; You are in complete control of what services I do for you each month...and we can revise your retainer size and services from month to month as your needs grow / change.&#160;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for your interest!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:00:46 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2101475/you-offer-lots-of-great-services-but-do-i-have-to-use-all-of-them-</link>
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      <title>Are You Hiring?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are You Hiring?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/" title="real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I have built contact forms and encrypted email links into my websites to enable potential clients to contact me quickly and efficiently.&#160; I spent my time and money on that.&#160; I have certain filters set up so that if a message comes in from one of these forms or links I can respond quickly...my thought behind this of course, is that if I don't answer the potential client quickly, they might go on to the next &lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt; down on the list and I will have missed out.&#160; I love it when my little "potential client" alarms go off...I think of the possibilities as I rush to open the message...sometimes only to find out that it is - yet AGAIN - someone abusing my contact forms to ask me if I am hiring!&#160; Here's how I answer that question:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Question dice." src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/6/7/3/5/ar129599287453763.jpg" height="284" alt="dice with question marks" width="423" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear Jack:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;While I applaud your tenacity in researching potential firms to partner with, I have to wonder if spamming business owners' contact forms that were obviously specifically designed for client inquiries is the best way to go about it.&#160; Perhaps instead you should use a generic email link or better yet, pick up the phone.&#160; Thank you  for your interest; however, I will not be needing your services at this time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OK - I know it might sound a little harsh...but seriously...it drives me nuts!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:28:26 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2101420/are-you-hiring-</link>
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      <title>Can You Show Me How to Do "X" Service So That I Can Do It Myself?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can You Show Me How to Do "X" Service So That I Can Do It Myself?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seriously...I cannot tell you how many times in my 10+ years as a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" title="real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that a potential client (not really...there's not usually a lot of potential in these inquiries.) has asked me to teach them how to do something that I have taken a great deal of time to learn and research and build up an expertise in...and they want me to work with them for an hour and magically show them everything I know...so that they no longer would need to hire ME! This is why I usually work with long-term retainer clients who appreciate the value in my knowledge and know that they should "&lt;strong&gt;Do what they do best &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(sell real estate)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;and outsource the rest! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(to me ;-)&lt;/em&gt;" Here's how I answer that question:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Question dice." src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/6/7/3/5/ar129599287453763.jpg" height="284" alt="dice with question marks" width="423" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear Jane:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I definitely think you should have a general idea of what it is that I would be doing for you, and I can provide you with a few wikipedia links, etc...that might help to explain it.&#160; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That being said... sorry, but no...I am not in the habit of attempting to train someone in an hour or two on how to do what it is that I should be doing for them in order to free up their time to get out there and sell real estate!&#160; (That would be like you driving your buyers around, showing them some great homes and then whipping out a study guide and helping to train them to go out and get their real estate license so that they can get out there and find and buy their own house and write you out of the commission deal.&#160; Would you do that? Of course you wouldn't, and neither would I.&#160; I want to work with clients who value what I bring to the table, who know that it has taken me a great deal of time to learn and perfect my skills... and who know that working with me will bring added value to their own business.&#160; Although I am happy to answer any quick questions, software related, etc... as they may come up for you that won't put me out of a job :-)&#160; Thank you for your interest.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:39:23 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2098466/can-you-show-me-how-to-do-x-service-so-that-i-can-do-it-myself-</link>
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      <title>Do You Offer A Discount?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do You Offer A Discount?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have gotten asked this question many times over my 10+ years as a &lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;. Luckily, I have also logged some time as a real estate agent here in North San Diego County...so I have the perfect answer ready...aim....FIRE!!! &lt;em&gt;(you agents will be so proud of me...unless of course you are the ones asking me this question...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Question dice." src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/6/7/3/5/ar129599287453763.jpg" height="284" alt="dice with question marks" width="423" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear John:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Discount?&#160; Sure...which of the hours that I work for you would you like me to use less of my brain, do a poor job, achieve less results to generate less leads and ultimately less income for your business?&#160; John, seriously, do you offer a discount to your buyers or sellers? Would you discount your level of service to them? No of course not.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I do not offer a discounted rate to clients based on quantity of hours reserved.&#160; What I do instead, is for my clients that purchase either of my two biggest retainer packages, I add in other free benefits / services that are not available on the smaller packages.&#160; All my clients receive the same, high level of service when they choose me as their &lt;a href="http://www.eRealtyAssistance.com" title="Do You Offer a Discount?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Thank you for your interest.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:03:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2098395/do-you-offer-a-discount-</link>
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      <title>You Know You're a Soccer Mom When...</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Soccer Mom Van" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/5/4/1/ar129565770814543.JPG" height="300" alt="Soccer Mom Van" width="400" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&#160;You Know You're a Soccer Mom When...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No...it's not when you drive a mini van like the one to the left...even&#160; though that is the typical answer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look at the back door carefully...see that smudge above the body&#160; molding but below the window???&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Look closely...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look very closely...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;OK - did you figure out what it was yet?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does this help?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="True Soccer Mom Car" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/0/2/9/5/ar129565819459203.JPG" height="800" alt="True Soccer Mom Car" width="600" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Yes - you guessed it...apparently, my child rolled the soccer ball in dusty sand and then rolled it up on my car...I almost hate to wash it off.&#160; ALMOST!&#160; Sun just went down...off to wash the car now!&#160; Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:09:22 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>This Real Estate Virtual Assistant Went to Camp Today!  </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This &lt;a href="http://www.eRealtyAssistance.com" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/a&gt; Went to Camp Today!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/smmcamp" title="SMM Camp on Facebook" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="SMM Camp Facebook Page Screenshot" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/0/9/0/5/ar129556095350908.png" height="437" alt="SMM Camp on Facebook" width="400" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 2px solid black; float: right;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SMM Camp #7 that is!!!&#160; This was a fabulous event, focused on video blogging, put on by Ross Hair, AKA: &lt;a href="http://www.rosshair.com" title="real estate social media" target="_blank"&gt;"The Baldest Man In Real Estate Social Media"&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were several great presenters at this event, and as a &lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;, I know that I came away with lots of great ideas and resources to implement for my clients. I am not kidding...I took 7 pages (written with a fat pen and lots of bullet points, but still &lt;strong&gt;7 pages&lt;/strong&gt;!) of notes during this info-packed 3 hour webinar!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here's some "did ya know" tidbits from the camp:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;ONLY 1% of agents are currently using video to market their listings.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;73% of sellers said they would be more likely to list their home with an agent who WAS using video to market their listing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;82% of Internet users are watching videos online.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;39.4% of those videos being watched online are YouTube videos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;The average person on Facebook has 120 friends.&lt;em&gt; (So if you sent out your listing to your 120 friends and some of them liked it or commented on it and it got shared with some of their 120 friends, and so on and so one...think how far that listing video that you posted on Facebook could go!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Video is here to stay, people! Go to the head of the class, let's up that number from 1% to 5% by the end of the first quarter of this year!&#160; If it all seems overwhelming to you...contact a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant for video blogging and social media" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant who can show you how to implement video blogging into your social media marketing campaign&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:19:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2088933/this-real-estate-virtual-assistant-went-to-camp-today-</link>
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      <title>Real Estate Virtual Assistant Shares Tips/Resource on Blog Optimization For Google</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant Shares Tips/Resource on Blog Optimization For Google&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant shares tips on blog optimization" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/7/7/1/4/ar129547000341778.jpg" height="254" alt="Blog Optimizing for Google Screenshot" width="400" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 2px solid black;"&gt;Earlier this am, I posted here on Active Rain &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/2085895/seo-consultant-publishes-article-that-says-google-sucks-all-the-way-to-the-bank-" title="Article on Google from Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;an article about how a well-known SEO Consultant thought Google was playing favorites to the PPC content and not enough love to quality organic content&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then, as I was continuing to read through my morning email, I came across another newsletter from Social Media Marketing...now as a real estate virtual assistant...I LOVE social media...and this company is great!&#160; So, if you would be so kind as to click below and read my "ray of sunshine" below, I would be ever so appreciative.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/resources/real-estate-virtual-assistant-shares-tips-on-optimizing-your-blog-for-google" title="real estate virtual assistant shares tips / resource on blog optimization for Google" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant Shares Tips on Optimizing Your Blog For Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:48:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2086439/real-estate-virtual-assistant-shares-tips-resource-on-blog-optimization-for-google</link>
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      <title>SEO Consultant Publishes Article That Says, Google Sucks All the Way to the Bank!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEO Consultant Publishes Article That Says, &lt;a href="http://www.highrankings.com/google-sucks-298" title="Google Sucks All The Way To The Bank!" target="_blank"&gt;Google Sucks All the Way to the Bank!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.highrankings.com" title="Jill Whalen's SEO Consultant Website" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Google Sucks Article Screenshot from Jill Whalen" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/9/2/5/0/ar129545706705295.JPG" height="324" alt="Google Sucks Article Screenshot" width="400" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 2px solid black;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have mentioned Jill Whalen of HighRankings.com before.&#160; I have subscribed to her newsletter for quite awhile now...but this morning's newsletter really got my attention!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, she is saying that since Google went public back in 2003, that their algorithms have been somewhat self-serving...providing not necessarily the highest quality results...thus forcing searchers to click on those paid links to find what they are actually seeking.&#160; Really?&#160; That really would suck...but that's the way business is done...I was just really hoping that Google was "above" the corporate mentality and was still this great employer, great resource for online information, etc...that we had come to know, rely on and maybe even love a little.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don't think resorting to spammy practices is the answer, people have tried that in the past and it got their sites completely blackballed by Google results altogether...but by studying what does seem to be working for the top ranking sites and doing that...within reason...and within your conscious / ethic limitations...I think we can still benefit by optimizing for Google...even this new public version...who does seem to be sucking just a little right now in the "doing what's right" department.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am not the expert, Jill is...click the link at the top of this article and read it for yourself.&#160; I do SEO for clients, mostly relating to ghost blogging and website content...and I am still seeing results for my work.&#160; Are others showing up ahead of me / my clients sometimes and I can't possibly understand why - oh yes - it happens.&#160; But I will continue to trudge along and take the high road...no spam here...because when visitors get to the site / post that they have found on Google, I want them to find valuable info and content - not just bounce away to click on one of those PPC links at the top.&#160; Subscribe to &lt;a href="http://www.highrankings.com/newsletter/subscription.php"&gt;Jill Whalen's newsletter&lt;/a&gt; while you are visiting her site - it's a great reference - and if you are in the market for an &lt;a href="http://www.highrankings.com" title="SEO Consultant with great newsletter" target="_blank"&gt;SEO Consultant&lt;/a&gt;, she is one of the best I have seen around the web...this &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/a&gt; highly recommends it!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&amp;amp;loc=en_US" title="Sign up to receive my blog via email!" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up to receive my blog via email!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; /   &lt;a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102474606809&amp;amp;p=oi" target="_blank"&gt;Sign up for my own monthly Email Newsletter, "&lt;span class="il"&gt;eRealty&lt;/span&gt; News Bites" Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:27:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Real Estate Virtual Assistant says, "Do what you do best and outsource the rest!"</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/9/3/3/9/ar129537306493398.jpg" height="418" alt="" width="287" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;That's right, as a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" title="real estate support services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;real estate virtual assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I always tell my clients to do what they do best and outsource the rest...it's just smart business.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Celebrate your&#160; own skills and accomplishments (hopefully selling real estate is a biggy), don't wast time doing the mundane stuff that needs to be done to run your business...just get out there and do business!&#160; The rest of this stuff, the admin, marketing, bookkeeping, listing management, listing coordination, etc...these are all real estate support services that can be done by your &lt;em&gt;real estate virtual assistant&lt;/em&gt;. You get out there and sell real estate!&#160; You're a salesperson...that's what you do...that's where your money is...so go do it!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don't have a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="working with a real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;real estate virtual assistant yet&lt;/a&gt;?&#160; Well, it's very easy to find one.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;You can visit my website (I just opened an &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/kwassistance" title="schedule a real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;online booking service where you can schedule my time hourly&lt;/a&gt;...you can of course still &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/get-started-with-the-10-hour-va" title="real estate virtual assistant monthly retainer" target="_blank"&gt;sign up for a monthly retainer&lt;/a&gt; with me as well.) &lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;You can check out the &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/action/nav/show_featured/Virtual%20Assistant" title="top real estate virtual assistant on active rain" target="_blank"&gt;top real estate virtual assistants on Active Rain&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;You can do a &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Real+Estate+Virtual+Assistant&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;aq=t&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US375#q=Real+Estate+Virtual+Assistant&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;hs=K3v&amp;amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US375&amp;amp;prmd=ivns&amp;amp;ei=FdY1TeG0E5CcsQOA_pD8BQ&amp;amp;start=20&amp;amp;sa=N&amp;amp;fp=c72bee5a4a93f9a3" title="google search for real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;search on Google for "real estate virtual assistant"&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;You can ask the busiest, most successful agent you know for a referral...because they are most likely already working with a &lt;em&gt;real estate virtual assistant&lt;/em&gt;...but be forewarned...they may want to keep their &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" title="real estate virtual assistant referral" target="_blank"&gt;real estate virtual assistant&lt;/a&gt; all to themselves!&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:55 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2083801/real-estate-virtual-assistant-says-do-what-you-do-best-and-outsource-the-rest-</link>
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      <title>Real Estate Virtual Assistant Says, "Book Me, Dano!"</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/a&gt; Implements Online Booking System:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/7/7/5/4/5/ar129531068154577.jpg" height="236" alt="" width="309" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"&gt;Yes, I am a Hawaii 5-O fan...but that's not what this is about...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have implemented an online booking system that allows clients to now book me by the hour...a specific hour...during which they will know that I am focusing only on them!&#160; There are two options, one for locals only, which allows them to get face-to-face support, and one for everyone who doesn't neccessarily need to see me, they just want me to get the work done for them.&#160; No contracts, no commitments. I worked this up mainly for the benefit of agents in the local KW North County office, but am opening it up to Active Rain members...at least temporarily.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don't be afraid...check out this new way of working with a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/kwassistance" title="Book time with a real estate virtual assistant" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for all of your Real Estate Support Needs today!&#160; If you have any questions or concerns, simply use the CONTACT link at the top of my website.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Have you heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:43:20 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Really? Diversity Training Through Drumming?</title>
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&lt;h1&gt;Diversity Training Through Drumming? Umm...hello?&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;What does that even mean?&#160; And how can one learn to &lt;strong&gt;deal with diversity through the simple act of beating a drum&lt;/strong&gt;?&#160; I happened across the website &lt;a href="http://www.ubdrumcircles.com/" title="Diversity Training Through Drumming" target="_blank"&gt;www.ubdrumcircles.com&lt;/a&gt; today while doing some Administrative Assistant research&#8230;and I was amazed. Could the simple act of drumming be so effective?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;Diversity Training Through Drumming&lt;/strong&gt;&#8230;what &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; that mean...really?&#160; Apparently, Christine Stevens, founder of UpBeat Drum  Circles, believes that by gathering a group of people and bringing them  together with one language, the language of rhythm (drum), we can begin  to understand one another at our most basic levels&#8230;as well as at our  highest levels.&#160; There is a great bit more detailed information on the  subject &lt;a href="http://www.ubdrumcircles.com/about_philosophy.html" title="Diversity Training Through Drumming Philosophy" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but I have to say that viewing her published client list really gave me cause to explore more...if these huge corporations were getting on board...there must be some research into its effectiveness for them to hire her for their events.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After watching some video&#8217;s of Christine&#8217;s events and reading through her website, I have to wonder&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; Diversity Training Through Drumming&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;be fit into the schedules of our world&#8217;s leaders?&lt;/strong&gt;&#160; Maybe it  would help them to bridge the language gaps and finally come together  with a common goal&#8230;one of peace, health and wellness, both spiritually  and economically, for our world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Big box real estate corprations and NAR should look into this for their events.&#160; Are you a corporation looking to bring your employees together?&#160; I think that Christine&#8217;s &lt;strong&gt;Diversity Training Through Drumming&lt;/strong&gt; would be great for a corporate event or retreat&#8230;perhaps you should get  her on your 2011 calendar today while she still has spots open&#8230;I noticed  that her schedule seems to be filling up already! Apparently this helps wholistically...the Mind, Body, Spirit and Community.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Diversity Training Through Drumming&#8230;who knew?!?&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:52:02 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Women's Real Estate Association Website For Sale...Possibly...</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hello, everyone!&#160; I am not going to post this to the world; however, only in house here and to my own databases, where I know people would really care about the mission of the website and not just be out to make a buck; although, that is always a good thing too :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My real estate virtual assistant business has gotten so busy that I just don't have the time to take my association to the level that I want to.&#160; I really wanted to gain sponsorship income for this website, but that takes time, etc...which is at a premium for me right now...as I am sure it is for most of you...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Regardless, if you have a passion for supporting women in their real estate careers and would be interested in taking over the &lt;a href="http://www.nawrea.com" title="National Association of Women Real Estate Agents" target="_blank"&gt;National Association of Women Real Estate Agents &lt;/a&gt;website, I want to talk to you.&#160; I won't discuss price here, quite frankly because I don't know if it's allowed. I know the dollar amount that I am looking for, and it is about the cost of a three typical mortgage payments in my area :-)&#160; I do take credit cards.&#160; Also, I am willing to make minor cosmetic changes to the site to more suite your color interests if the current site design isn't quite you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please email me at support@nawrea.com if you are interested...no comments please.&#160; Thanks!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIO:&lt;span&gt;&#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Virtual Assistant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; business, specializing in &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/a-lot-can-be-accomplished-in-10-hours-2" title="Real Estate Support Services" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Estate Support Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many &lt;a href="http://www.erealtyassistance.com/testimonials" title="Client Testimonials for a Real Estate Virtual Assistant" target="_blank"&gt;client testimonials&lt;/a&gt; over the years.&#160; I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking &lt;a href="http://realblogging.com/author/christine-wade/" title="Virtual Assistant for Real Estate Article Bank" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#160; I am also a fairly active participant / contributor on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/the10hourva" title="Real Estate Virtual Assistant on Active Rain" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Real Estate Virtual Assistant &amp; North San Diego County Real Estate Agent (Christine Wade)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:11:42 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/1958754/women-s-real-estate-association-website-for-sale-possibly-</link>
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