Barry's Blog

We are giving away a free Community Publisher real estate blog valued at $2500 dollars and change. The catch is, you have to come to New Orleans to get it! We’re giving it away at NARdi Gras. Community Publisher is a real estate marketing tool that: Generates Real Estate LeadsBuilds Brand Awaren...

Thursday night I’ll be leaving the wonderful security of my Seattle lifestyle and jet setting down to NAR in New Orleans. I’ll be getting off the plane at 9:00 in the morning, which mean I’ll have to double my morning dose of coffee. This year the NAR conference will be a blast. A good portion o...

This has nothing to do with real estate or blogging.... or does it?This post is about The Show - with ZeFrankThe above link takes you to a zany guy who does a daily video blog covering all sorts of topics. It can be funny and sometimes pushes the envelope with odd humour and personal commentary. ...

One question I keep receiving over and over again from real estate professionals is “what online services can help me expand my network?”  One of my favourite face to face networking sites is www.Meetup.com. It maintains a very active list of over two million people that are categorized into vari...

I have to add honorable mention to my friends Richard Nacht (BloggingSystems CEO) and Paul Chaney (our VP of Marketing) for having a successful release of the book they co-authored: Realty Blogging. They have been bouncing around the best selling list on Amazon for the past few days even thought ...

As part of my Just Ask Barry articles- “I've heard a lot about Technorati, but - what does it do, why should we use it, and then HOW do we use it?” Sharon Simms. What is Technorati? Technorati is a search engine that indexes blogs. When you post an article to ActiveRain (or most blogs in general...

Typical Causes of Writer’s Block- Most of us have great ideas trapped in our heads. Yet we want everything we write to have a “perfect” quality to it. In normal talking, we have built up the experience to talk through our fumbles and errors while trying to keep ourselves at least partially grace...

In searching for nifty tools to use with my office cohorts, I came across two little browser plugins that offer a great feature- the ability to share notes and information on websites that I visit.  The first one is www.trailfire.com. It allows you to add notes, pictures, and video to any webpage...

As part of my Just Ask Barry line of answers- I shortened the question from a friendly reader here on AR.   Link Popularity is the metric of quality AND quality of web sites linking to your site. The number and quality of sites has a good amount of significance in determining where your site rank...

In a radio interview I recently did, I briefly touched on one of the real benefits of blogging- historical conversation. What is historical conversation? Historical conversation is what happens when an article is taken from a blog and indexed by the major search engines. Very popular phrases and ...