blog: WordPress Now Allows You To Post By Voice
- 07/12/10 03:42 PM
Sharing is caring! If you use WordPress for your blogs, this is something you may definitely be interested in. Recently, the popular blogging platform released the “Post By Voice” feature, which allows you to create posts in a whole new manner. All you need is a phone, a WordPress blog hosted by WordPress, and a voice. Just make sure you don’t have laryngitis! Activating this new feature is quite simple, and can be set up in a couple minutes. All you have to do is follow these steps: Go to WordPress.com and log in with your username and password Click … (3 comments)
blog: Social Media Tactics To Boost Your E-Mail Efforts
- 07/06/10 03:26 PM
Sharing is caring! The idea of integrating email with social media and vice-versa is nothing new. While many people still consider them to be completely different ways to market to prospects, there are a growing number of savvy marketers that are using them as complimentary services to boost their overall marketing campaigns. AWeber, a very popular email marketing and autoresponder service (which I have personally used), recently conducted a small survey with small businesses about the most popular ways social media and email are being combined. Of the results, the most popular combinations have been tweeting links to business newsletters … (1 comments)
blog: 10 Killer Plugins For Your WordPress Blog
- 06/24/10 02:59 PM
Sharing is caring! One thing that many real estate professionals have and continue to use for their blogging platform is WordPress. I have personally been using WordPress as a blogging platform for years and I continue to recommend it to everyone that asks me about the subject matter. After all, WordPress has a lot of things going for it. It’s free to use; is constantly updated; has an incredible community backing it; and has a constantly expanding amount of themes, plugins and widgets available. The only real problem (if you can even consider it a problem) is that it can … (23 comments)
blog: 5 Tips For Real-Time Video Blogging Success
- 05/11/10 03:12 PM
Before I dive into this, it’s important to understand what ‘real-time’ video blogging actually is. Placing videos on your blog is not considered real-time video blogging. In short, the idea of real-time video blogging is the idea of blogging in video format in a live setting. To do this, most real-time bloggers will use free services such as UStream.tv or Justin.tv. In other words, you can consider this idea of video blogging more like video streaming that is being recorded. Real-time video blogging has been constantly growing in popularity in all sorts of niches and has actually been some people’s claim … (5 comments)
blog: Small and Medium Businesses Double Leads With Blogs And Twitter
- 04/28/10 02:20 PM
Sharing is caring! Here is a pretty impressive statistic: the inbound marketing platform HubSpot reports that not only can inbound marketing make as an extremely cost-effective way to generate leads, but it can also double the average monthly leads generated by small and even medium-sized businesses. While anyone would be interested in doubling the amount of leads they generate on a monthly basis, what do they mean when they say “inbound marketing”? Well, seeing that the theme of this blog is primarily focused towards social media marketing, the term “inbound marketing” comes from creating communities and a constant stream of … (4 comments)
blog: How Appropriate Is Your Social Media Communications?
- 04/15/10 02:42 PM
Sharing is caring! Every day when I check my various social media channels for updates and contacts, I quickly discover the extreme amount random, irrelevant chatter going on in each social space. While I understand that social media is intended for socializing, it really got me thinking about the utility of social networks for business objectives. If you are interested in expanding your brand’s reach across the social media, should you really be discussing everything going on in your life? As I view wall posts, tweets, and even blogs of real estate professionals, I can’t help but be surprised at … (12 comments)
blog: Writer’s Block? 25 Ways To Generate Ideas To Blog About
- 03/23/10 05:44 AM
If you have a business (or personal) blog, chances are you have run into the dreaded horror that is writer’s block. You sit in front of your computer, dazing at that blinking cursor in hopes that you will come up with that next great topic to write about. Sometimes this strategy will give you new ideas, but when you feel that telepathic bond with the blinking cursor just isn’t working, here are 25 great ways to help you generate ideas to write about for your business blog. The list below is just a sample of ways to generate ideas. If you … (6 comments)
blog: Exploring The Differences With Blogs And Websites
- 03/22/10 04:27 AM
Blogging is a very important element of a social media marketing strategy. It helps you build credibility, establish a relationship with your readers and formulate your expertise. Unfortunately, as with many aspects of technology, the differences between a “blog” and a “website” can be ambiguous to some real estate professionals, sellers and anyone else in the real estate industry. So, without any further delay, let’s get into the differences between a blog and a website. To get things started, it’s important to note these terms can be appropriately used interchangeably. In other words, a blog can be a website and vice-versa. … (1 comments)
blog: How to Optimize Your Ads for Maximum Clicks
- 07/21/08 03:42 AM
If you have read the first two parts of this mini series, you will have a good understanding on what AdSense is, what it can do for your website and how to actually implement it. In this last part, you will learn some optimization tricks that will help you get more people to click the ads on your site, which will bring in more money for you.
Optimization Trick 1: Place ads in high-view and high-click areas This is something that is pretty obvious, but the question is knowing where the high-click areas are on your site. Now, while this … (1 comments)
blog: (Somewhat) Advanced Blogging Publicity Tactics
- 05/05/08 02:59 AM
For a couple of posts now, I have been talking about some various ways to not only publicize your blog into the blogging world (a.k.a the “blogosphere”). Now I thought it would be good to give you some more advanced strategies to help promote your blog that a lot of people don’t know about (or have never thought of). Advanced Tactic 1: BlogTipping When I normally talk about this with people, the first thing that normally comes up is the idea of ‘cow tipping’. I’m not really sure why that is, since it has absolutely nothing to do with cows (or … (0 comments)
blog: Realtor Web Marketing: Basic Blog Publicity Tactics
- 04/30/08 04:18 AM
So last time, we talked about where to get content to write about and how you should make posts. Now is where the fun part comes in: Publicizing Your Blog Now you really shouldn’t be publicizing your blog until you have a decent amount of posts (like 15-20). If you try promoting your blog to other people and they see you only have 1-2 posts, they may think you are creating a spam blog (known as a “splog”). You need a decent amount of quality content before doing any promotions. Here are a couple of great areas where you can start … (3 comments)
blog: Realtor Web Marketing: (Virtually) Unlimited Ideas to Blog About
- 04/28/08 08:18 AM
In the first installment of this series, we talked about setting up your blog. The last installment talked about things you need to consider when adding content to your blog. Now comes the all-important question that most bloggers encounter: What the heck am I supposed to blog about?! Granted, you should probably talk about stuff that is occurring in your local area, but what happens when that resource is tapped? Here’s a two-sentence explanation on why this question is important: Everyone (both people and search engines) love new content on a regular (preferably daily) basis. If you don’t supply your audience … (0 comments)
blog: Realtor Web Marketing - Start to Amplify the Power of Your Blog
- 04/25/08 08:51 AM
In my first installment of web marketing with blogs, I discussed the various things you need to consider when choosing a blogging platform and where to set it up. Now that your blog is set up, we can move on to the next steps… Step 3: Use Effective Title’s In the word of Search Engine Optimization (geek terminology, don’t worry about it), there is something called on-site optimization, which in short is what you can do on your site to make it show up higher in the search engines for people to find. While there are a lot of factors that … (0 comments)
blog: Realtor Web Marketing - Starting With A Blog
- 04/24/08 03:28 AM
As I was pondering how to start this ongoing series to help realtors market themselves online, I thought to myself, What better way to start this Web Marketing series than to discuss how realtors and agents can market themselves without having their own website? The solution: create a website out of a blog. That being said, the first part of this series will deal with effectively marketing a blog, starting from the beginning: Step 1: Picking A Blog Solution That is Right For You There are many blog solutions freely available that you can use to start your web presence. Probably … (2 comments)
blog: Posting New Listings On ActiveRain - Does it Help?
- 04/23/08 11:13 AM
I am still pretty new to ActiveRain and even though I am not a real estate agent myself, I keep seeing people post on their blogs about their new listings. So my question to you is this: have people who post new listings to their blogs seen direct results of this leading to new leads or offers? I understand the idea that it's good to publish and advertise anywhere you can, but since this is a real estate industry-oriented community, do many people (outsiders, dare I say ;) ) who are looking for properties come here? I would love to get your feedback on … (5 comments)
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