MAXIMIZE your Marketing | Post on ActiveRain | Promote on Agent Newswire

Thanks Nor --

Agent Newswire is a BIG, FREE value-add, and here's how you work it:

First, post your stories & listings in ActiveRain like normal. Then, log into Agent Newswire and post the link to that story, write a couple of sentences describing it, and click "submit". (if you log in with your Facebook account, it'll automatically ask you about posting there, and we have shortcuts to Twitter and many other social-networking sites with story-links built right into them).

Why the extra work? Because we break your story "out from the pack" on ActiveRain, apply SEO formatting to it, and open it up to an entirely new audience, all automatically. So an extra minute worth of work gives your existing stories an entirely new life, which is definitely worth the time.

I promise you it's not a scam: this is something I developed with a few colleagues because we found that Agents are spending a lot of extra effort flailing arond trying to market with social networking tools: and the sad part is that the average Agent's already doing 98% of everything they need to - they're just missing that 2% required to promote it effectively.

Anyhow, we're online at http://www.agentnewswire.com. We also have an excellent FAQ page online at http://www.agentnewswire.com/faq/, and a full tour of the site at: http://www.agentnewswire.com/?tourId=MyTour&skinId=safari

Thanks!

Tim

Hi Jose --

Good question! We're looking at launching premium-services in the future, but we want to take the time to do it right. That's down the road, though: in the meantime, I have another business that pays the bills, so Agent Newswire a project that we'd like to grow without an immediate financial pressure.

We don't reformat your posting: basically, you submit a quick summary of the article that links back to the original, and we apply the SEO to the summary on our site....so it's a pass-through, which is why it opens up a new audience for you.

The part that I can't stress enough is making social-network marketing a regular part of your routine, though. For me, this is critical. You're already writing, already posting, already doing 98% of what you should be to really reach your audience - so for every article that you write, are you promoting that in other venues? Do you hit "submit" and then wait for people to respond, or are you pushing that out to all your networks and driving people back to your website as a result?

I'm not just talking about Agent Newswire, but Twitter, Facebook, etc. If you spend 20 minutes writing a big post on ActiveRain, then why not spend another minute to promote that in your social networks? It's not hard, it just takes self-discipline to do it consistently.

Google ranks your website partly by "inbound links" - the more links you have, the better exposure you have. Posting on Agent Newswire gives you 4 additional links simply by entering a URL and typing a couple of sentences (because we make it easy to them post that to Facebook & Twitter).

Google also ranks by topic, so if the links are on a real-estate website they do better, and links from large sites do better. So Agent Newswire becomes a pretty effective tool IF you use it consistently.

That's why we don't allow blog-postings on Agent Newswire, only summaries for articles you've written elsewhere. Simply put, we're a pass-through, not a forum. We want to MAXIMIZE your exposure for a MINIMUM time-investment. If you're busy writing blogs on our site, then you're not maximizing anything - so we want you to visit, post your summary, and then get back to your other daily tasks (because you're busy).