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real estate: LAST MINUTE: Launch of a RE:RnD Radio Show on Thursday morning! RIDICULOUSLY GREAT PRIZES!
- 05/20/09 07:57 PM
Here's an event you don't want to miss!!!
On Thursday at 9am PST/Noon EST, I'm launching a real estate radio show with a good friend of mine. We've got some great guests lined up who will be covering topics like twitter and NAR's new social media code of ethics...
And just as cool, we're going to be running a "quiz" during the show and we've lined up a ton of great giveaways for the winners, including:
One pass to Real Estate Connect in San Francisco!!!
1 year subscription to a customized Altos Research report!!!
1 copy of Are you selling Pants, … (7 comments)
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real estate: #1 Tip for Successful Blogging???
- 04/05/09 10:54 AM
#1 Do *not* over-think yourself!
It's been too long since I updated my AR blog, so my initial reaction is to do a massive everything-under-the-sun post that "perfectly" encapsulates everything I've been working in the year+ since I've been active...
However, I know myself well enough to know that ain't gonna happen... Whenever I start to write a HUGE post, I end up over-thinking myself, writing piece, saving drafts and never hitting the publish button. That's gotta be the #1 reason I really like micro-blogging sites is that it forces me to hit "publish" on an idea even if … (62 comments)
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real estate: Did you know you're a radio host?
- 07/17/08 04:59 AM
I've been running two radio shows for a while now and I thought I'd share my expience with the AR community because this really is something that just about any agent can do to generate rediculous local traffic and great inbound links from local community sites.
The first show I run is through Rain City Guide and I call it Rain City Radio. For this site dedicated to the Seattle real estate market, I invite local community members, predominately local bloggers, to talk about their websites, their neighborhoods, and generally explore the influential people in my online community.
The second show … (35 comments)
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real estate: 4RealzEd Day 25: Getting Featured
- 05/23/08 05:11 AM
During our Week of ActiveRain, we covered a lot of ground! Including:
Comment on Blog Posts Writing a Blog Post Inserting Widgets into Your Blog Engage with Groups For the final day, I'd like to bring the various pieces together by explaining a bit about what makes AR tick.Points! With AR, you can get points for all kinds of activities. The activities that can start to add up include: (1) Writing blog posts, (2) leaving comments, (3) Inviting others to AR, and (4) getting "featured." It's kind of standard operating procedure for AR devotees to say that they don't engage … (11 comments)
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real estate: 4RealzEd Day 22: Writing a blog post
- 05/19/08 06:20 PM
Writing a blog post doesn't have to be difficult and in the seminar, I mentioned how valuable your "sent items" folder can be for inspiration for blog posts. With that in mind, today I want you to open up your sent items folder and find an email that interested you when you read it!
And remember... If this is your first blog post don't stress the details. The good part about your first blog post is that no one is reading it! ;)
I couldn't emphasize enough that for your first post focus on something you found interesting. Maybe … (10 comments)
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real estate: 4RealzEd Day 21: Comment on Blog Posts
- 05/18/08 11:20 PM
ActiveRain is many things to many people... but fundamentally, it is a free blog platform that can do two things for you:
Help you quickly build a strong presence on the web Engage with a community of real estate professionals who are more than happy to educate you on just about any real estate issue conceivable The second part is especially true if you're willing to become part of the community and share your knowledge and experience as well...
I think it is important to note that for ActiveRain, blog posts and the comments that follow are the lifeblood of … (14 comments)
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real estate: 5 Days of ActiveRain
- 05/18/08 10:27 PM
As many of you may already know, I few months ago I teamed up with Jim marks to start a company with the promise of educating real estate professionals on how they can improve their business using internet marketing.
In additional to the four-hour seminar we offer, we've also put together a 90-day follow up course where we introduce attendees to the various social networks by giving them one simple activity to do each week. This week, I'm planning to introduce the attendees to ActiveRain, so I've put together the following five activities:
Day 21: Comment on 3 posts from … (8 comments)
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real estate: Wednesday Night Meetup in Orange County
- 04/15/08 09:08 AM
Reservations for a Mexican dinner with a great crew of real estate bloggers are going fast! More info on this blog post. RSVP on Upcoming! … (0 comments)
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real estate: Timing is Everything!
- 02/27/08 08:27 AM
I was asked recently to talk a bit about how I fell into giving seminars... and like most good things, it is a story of waiting for the starts to align.
As anyone whose heard me speak before knows, I came into real estate in the most roundabout way... I started Rain City Guide about three years ago as a way to market my wife's (brand new) real estate business.
The site got so popular, so fast, that I started giving seminars (or as we called them, Bloginars) with one of the contributors named Russ Cofano. I had a blast … (24 comments)
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real estate: Educational Event in LA coming soon!
- 02/25/08 07:12 PM
You might have seen this ad floating around ActiveRain, so I thought it would be appropriate if I gave some background on our event!
Starting a few months ago, I began working very closely with another real estate marketing professional, Jim Marks, to create a one-day course on internet marketing for real estate professionals.
This isn't a marketing, sales or networking event... This is a pure educational event where we aim to teach real estate professionals how they can dramatically reduce their overall marketing budgets in 2008 by focusing on internet endeavors that pay!
In addition to discussing how you can get … (7 comments)
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real estate: So you've got a shiny new blog... Now what?
- 04/12/07 04:13 PM
Time to start the community outreach! … (4 comments)
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real estate: Always wanted to Host Your Own Blog?
- 04/11/07 08:52 PM
I explain how I set up InsideBu.com using a free and open-source blog platform on Rain City Guide.... … (0 comments)
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real estate: Inside Malibu
- 04/09/07 06:43 PM
It's official! I'm working with Madison Hildebrand of InsideBu on Project Blogger! Look for lots of updates in the near future as I'm already two weeks behind in my updates!
I still haven't decided if I'll post the advice in full on Rain City Guide or my seminar blog, but I'll be sure to let the AR community know when I update stuff!
(BTW, here is Madison's AR profile!)
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real estate: Searching for a Secret Weapon...
- 03/13/07 08:58 PM
I decided to open up my search for a teammate to the online community... … (11 comments)
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real estate: Let the games begin...
- 03/12/07 06:08 PM
With such stiff competition, I have a feeling it is going to get rough in the RE.net...
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real estate: Teaching Effective Blogging Techniques?
- 02/04/07 07:17 PM
Word's been out for a little while that I will be giving two seminars this week that give tips on blogging. Both of the seminars will be in LA with one in Long Beach (Tuesday) and the other in Glendale (Wednesday).
As I mentioned in Brian's post, if you're already active on ActiveRain, then you will likely know a bunch of what I'm going to go over... Nonetheless, please feel free to join me and/or invite any of your coworkers who still haven't swallowed the blogging pill! :)
To give you an idea of where I'm going... I take on two major … (8 comments)
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real estate: Kristal Kraft Interview is Live on Rain City Guide
- 01/16/07 06:34 PM
Based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback I got from ActiveRain members, I just posted a wonderful interview with Kristal Kraft on Rain City Guide.
Prove to me that you don't leave comments on ActiveRain for the points by leaving your comments about this interview on Rain City Guide! :)
By the way, I've been posting lots and lots of interviews lately, so if you haven't checked them out, I highly recommend reading them!
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real estate: I'm Looking For the Most Influential ActiveRain Bloggers!
- 01/03/07 05:05 PM
I just published a fun interview with Greg and his pack of bloodhounds. This is the first of the season and I am looking forward to publishing at least a half-dozen more over the next few weeks. Sadly, I noticed that I don't have anyone from ActiveRain represented, and I'm sure that has a large part to do with the fact that I haven't been very active over here until recently.
But this is an easy issue to remedy. Please let me know who you think is the most influential blogger here on AR (and I'm looking way beyond points!). Based … (36 comments)
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real estate: Congrats to Ardell...
- 12/29/06 09:16 PM
for making two "featured posts" on only her first day! WOW! … (1 comments)
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real estate: Completely Irresponsible Use of Social Networking Tools...
- 12/29/06 07:49 PM
Laurie Manny said something that was completely reasonable within the context of AR and highlights the fact that it is so easy to use social networking tools (like AR) irresponsibly...
Laurie: "I have no objection to taking this post public, but I cannot speak for anybody else."
I know I must sound like a broken record to my high-school age sisters, but I'd be happy to repeat time and time again to them that they should NEVER say anything or upload any photos on MySpace that they would not want included in their college application (or shown on their first job interview!). … (3 comments)
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