I love WordPress. It's a great solution for almost any web project, especially real estate websites. But as much as I think it's a great solution, when you're setting up WordPress and installing a ...
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5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Starting a Real Estate Blog
It's easy to start a real estate blog. But it's also easy to mess things up. Here's a list of things to avoid to keep your site looking professional, and engage site visitors with your content long ...
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Unsolicited Testimonials: Recommend Someone Today
The other day I received this un-solicited testimonial from one of my dsRadio podcast listeners: I am not an affiliate - I am a customer. I have been with Diverse Solutions for the past several years ...
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How To Write A Compelling Blog Post
The hard part about writing isn't the writing itself... It's the getting started. That's the hard part. Maybe you start with the headline... A basic idea of what you want your post to be ...
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People Aren’t Interested In Your Solution (They’re Interested In Their Problem)
Say you have two first-time home buyers at the very beginning stage of searching for a home. They've had "the talk." And it's time. They're ready. What's their first move? A. Do they pick up the ...
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10,000 Hours+ How To Drive More Traffic To Your Website
In his book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell stipulated that the most talented "boy-wonders" were successful not because of innate talent, but because they invested 10,000 hours of rigorous practice in their ...
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Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Real Estate Blog
Look, it’s hard to build a successful, profitable real estate blog. There isn't a quick-fix recipe for success or a secret magic formula that will help you build a profitable real estate blog ...
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4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Start A Real Estate Blog
There are dozens of posts around the web that give you compelling reasons for why and how to start a blog. This isn't one of them. In fact, in this post, I aim to give you a few compelling ...
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Writer’s Block: Or, How To Pull A Blog Post Out of Your *ss
You sit there staring at a blank screen and nothing comes out. You're frustrated. Most days, the words just flow like a healthy river stream. But not today. Today the river's gone ...
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Start Taking Action
As we ring in the new year, people everywhere are making New Year's resolutions. Promises to start going to the gym. Promises to launch that blog they've been thinking about starting. Or write that ...
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My 3 Words for 2012
Every year (since around 2006), Chris Brogan comes up with 3 words that will help define his goals and experiences for the coming year. Last year, my 3 words were: Create, Manage, Focus. I think I ...
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The $100 Sandbox
I often hear other Real Estate Agents talk about how difficult it is to set up a WordPress website. Their troubles are some variation of the following: They already have a WordPress website except ...
