Barry's Blog

I've been a member here on ActiverRain for a long time, having contributed to a wild variety of conversations and debates. However- one that I've stayed clear of is the "Do it yourself SEO" community here. Just searching for "Do it yourself SEO" here on AR, there are over 300 posts on the subject...

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article describing the strategy of “Conquesting” in the online marketing battlefield, which discussed the idea of dominating certain terms in an online market. If you realize a majority of real estate transactions start online and that the largest current real estate l...

RISMEDIA, Oct.1, 2007-Do you remember five years ago when you saw the local television station crew taking video of a hot story in your neighborhood? Do you remember how they had shoulder-mounted cameras and telescoping microphones that filled a van and weighed 100 pounds? What about the van-size...

At Social Media Systems, we deal a lot with various online projects that cover an entire range of requirements. As online marketers, this puts us in a 3rd party vendor relation as many times we promote a site that we have not originally created. In many of these instances, we discover helpful, b...

There is always a lot of buzz about social media and search engine marketing. In the real estate industry we are very happy to be one of the leaders in the market.One of the most common misconceptions that we often get is how "social media" affects targeted traffic and keyword result. There have ...

RISMEDIA, Sept. 24, 2007-Finding a lost wallet with a driver’s license inside of it does not equal a valid lead, but to some lead companies the idea of “name, number, and address” is the only thing required to qualify as a lead. In an age of “speed of thought” shopping online, a large portion of ...

I wandered across this example of social media being used to relate our own ideas of a "good childhood" with how war and conflict in other portions of the world is impacting children. Inside of the United States most of us are very privileged, and being a single father myself of a six year old bo...

Here is another article that I clipped from my writing this week over at RISmedia.com, last week at the RISMedia Leadership Conference the topic of lead generation was on the top three list. As the market shifts around more and more with the financial side of the industry, I predict there will be...

This article was original published on RISMedia.com this past week. Due to the response and commentary there I felt it would be a good read for many of our other industry related readers here. Like many other things, some good articles are lost in cyberspace amongst millions of pieces of clutter,...

The RISmedia BETA is coming to a quick end with the launch of the new RISmedia.com site (note, the BETA and main site are two different things!) I'm throwing a note out here in ActiveRain to let my readers have a last chance at getting in on the pricing structure (when you figure it out on the ye...