blogs: Blog Marketing - 07/09/08 09:19 AM
Blog Marketing - Marketing Your Blog Blog marketing is a generic term that may be used to describe the process of Internet marketing using weblogs or might be used to describe the marketing of the blogs themselves to get higher search engine rankings.
Blogs are really a type of website that typically features daily or weekly posts or articles, sometimes grouped into related topics but not always. Some potential clients fear blogs and believe that they are complicated and difficult to manage. We like to say - “Have no fear - It’s just another content management system.”
Companies may use blogs … (0 comments)

blogs: Wordpress.com Versus Wordpress.org - 07/09/08 08:32 AM
Wordpress.com Versus Wordpress.org There is a lot of talk out in real estate blog land about setting up wordpress blogs. Many of the sage advice givers recommend that real estate agents set up a blog on Wordpress.com because it is simple, it is free and it is maintained and hosted by someone else.
Those are precisely the reasons that you should never use wordpress.com for a business blog of any kind. There really is no such thing as a free lunch. Wordpress.com is the free, hosted version of the wordpress multi user software. Because it is free, the terms of service … (2 comments)

blogs: Bill Austin on Social Media - 06/23/08 01:47 PM
Bill Austin presenting Social Media at the third Arizona Real Estate Blogger Network Meetup. This video is approximately 50 minutes long and will give you a general overview of what Social Media is and how to apply it to your Real Estate Business. Bill Austin on Social Media from phoenixrealestatelive on Vimeo. … (3 comments)

blogs: Social Networks – Is There One You Just Hate? - 06/02/08 05:22 AM
 
Social Networks – Is There One You Just Hate?
 
Social Networking is all the rage these days and it seems like dozens of new social networks spring up each week.  There are several that really annoy me and for which a reasonable way to describe my emotions about them would be to say that I hate them.
 
Some are actually just MLM scams, disguised as social networks.  Those only benefit the people at the very top of the pyramid scheme.   “Your friend has invited you to join and let us spam your friends with the dream of MLM … (5 comments)