Barry's Blog

Being in the business development field, I touch on different aspects of marketing and partnerships on various levels. I look at what the industry is doing, I review competitors, and I try to understand the market place and help tailor our solutions to provide a real benefit to our clients. Every...

  Blogging Systems has been developing community blogging platforms for a while now, trying to help different people nurture a sense of community and share common ideas. It seems our team is way ahead of the bell curve on the official 2007 findings of the University of Southern California’s Annen...

Blogs are not only for retail or consultative businesses; one of the strengths of community blogging in specific is that it has some incredible benefits to professional networking organizations, charity groups, and other non-profit alliances. Blogs by nature invite and encourage an active online...

Here is a quick Blog Interview that I did for my friend Dan McComb over at Biznik.comFor those of you in the greater Seattle area, Biznik is a fun buziness networking group to share ideas and commentary with. For individuals out of the Seattle area, they have groups opening up in new communities ...

One of my friends founded a business networking group called Biznik.If you are in the Greater Seattle area. I am holding a meeting on Thursday, November 30th from 5 PM to 8 PM @ Third Place Books- Lake Forest Park Towne CentreAddress: 17171 Bothell Way NE Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 This is an ope...

At some point, we all realize that we have no clue. We are kids that don't even know how to play. Yet then we pick up the ball, bounce it a few times, and fairly soon we are making new friends.  I’m sure we are all experts in various things- one of my strengths is writing. I’ve written media copy...

*Disclaimer- Blogging Systems is in the business of building online community sites utilizing blogging and social networking software. Wikipedia defines an online or virtual community as- A virtual community or online community is a group of people that primarily or initially communicates or int...

I get a lot of inquiries regarding how to write effectively in a variety of markets. Blogging is a different beast from periodical or printed media- it lives and breathes. Once you let the cat out of the box, it can run around on it's own accord and never come back home. While it can be a scary t...

BloggingSystems was at NAR over the weekend and I had to sorely relax my blogging duties on all aspects to get everything ready for the weekend. It was an amazingly good conference for us. My friends Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney (our CEO and VP of Marketing) had a great release of their book Rea...

Some of my peers have been going back and forth about what metrics really lay at the heart of Real Estate Marketing. To address the issue, our CEO came up with a great way to compile a report that can help everyone involved in the process. I think there are some amazingly smart professionals here...