My friend Annabel Candy wrote a great post titled: 5 Steps to Take Before You Hit Publish. The idea is that you want to put your "best foot forward" by editing your content before hitting the publish ...
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A Few Reasons Genesis Rocks!
A few weeks ago, I changed the theme on this site to the Prose Child Theme from StudioPress and I love it! See, I consider myself an intermediate WordPress user. I know WordPress well enough to fumble ...
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Little Victories
Sometimes we over-whelm ourselves by setting unrealistic goals. For example, saying "I want 1,000 subscribers in one week" is a tad bit unrealistic. So is expecting 50 - 100 comments on your next ...
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On Blogging & Goal Setting: Be More Specific
When launching a new marketing campaign, I tell people to Start with the Basics. It's a list of questions aimed at giving you a sense of direction with respect to where you are right now with your ...
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Anatomy of A Great Blog Post
Yesterday's #blogchat included special guest and copywriting/content extraordinaire, Brian Clark (author of Copyblogger.com. The subject for the evening was "how to create more compelling blog ...
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Make It Easy To Connect
How easy do you make it for people to connect with you via your blog? Do you display your contact information on the home-page? Do you prefer to keep that information private and use a contact form? ...
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How Often Do You Update Your Blog?
Over on Agent Genius, there's a good discussion going on about whether blogging is dead or alive (it's an interesting read and so are the comments). Ultimately, I'm of the opinion that you get what ...
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Looking for Creative Real Estate & Lending Blogs!
I'm happy to announce that I'll be speaking at REBlogworld this year alongside Stacey Harmon with Harmon Enterprises. We'll be discussing the anatomy of a Real Estate Blog. Things like: Plugin's ...
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START A BLOG TODAY
Go to WordPress.com and sign up for an account. The registration process isn't all that time consuming (you'll be ready and set to go in less than ~2 minutes). When you register, your domain will be ...
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Simple Calls To Action
A "Call To Action" is something that forces a reader to take immediate action on something such as "call now," "click here," "register here," or "subscribe now." A Real Estate Blog (or any business ...
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Set S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals!
There are ~200,000,000 blogs and growing in the blogosphere (source: Technorati). But most blogs fall by the wayside after only a few months. Most real estate bloggers will ditch their blog after 5-6 ...
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Some Tips To Improve Your Blog
Earlier this month I launched a membership forum called the 21 Days of Real Estate aimed at helping REALTORS® understand the business use of having a blog to serve as a marketing engine and a listing ...
