Google Voice is an excellent phone/voicemail service with a ton of excellent features: Voicemail Transcriptions, One Phone Number That You Can Forward Calls Through, Personalized Greetings, Call ...
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Tynt: Learn What’s Being Copied Off Your Site
People copy/paste content from various websites and blogs all the time. Sometimes they'll do it and link back to your content though often times they don't (they use it to their benefit instead). So ...
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Consistency Matters
Imagine going to the local grocery store to buy milk. When you get there, you discover they don't have any. Then the next time you visit they're out of your favorite flavor coffee and creamer. The ...
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The Influencer Project Recap
The folks over at ThoughtLead presented today what they call the "shortest marketing conference ever" - The Influencer Project. The concept is simple, 60 Speakers in 60 Seconds delivering bite-sized ...
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4 Ways to Use Video Creatively for Business
Today I'm giving a talk in Malibu titled Video for REALTORS®: how real estate agents can effectively use video to market their business. I'm joined by the smarty Laurie March (Chief Designer at ...
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Understanding Google Analytics
Some blog services like Typepad, Blogger and the free version of Wordpress offer their own analytics. But if you run your own self-hosted version of WordPress, you'll need to install a tracking code ...
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7 Questions To Ask Yourself BEFORE Starting A Business Blog
One of the things that I always caution new real estate bloggers (or any business blogger in general) is that the success of your blog is dependent on your ability to develop fresh content, ...
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I Don’t Know What To Say!
I hear this excuse all the time: "I don't know what to say!" One of the biggest barriers to entry most people face when it comes to starting is blog is lack of knowing what to say. Kind of curious ...
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It Only Takes One
I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine the other day about blog comments, subscribers, etc. About how "un-motivating" it can be to have too few of either (comments or subscribers). And ...
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One Blog Post A Day Challenge
I've been reading Julien Smith's blog for a while now. He does a pretty good job of posting content consistently (far better job than me anyway). If I remember correctly, in our interview with him he ...
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Choosing A Blog Platform: Hosted vs. Self-Hosted Blogging Platforms
B.L.O.G. stands for Better Listings On Google. Ok, that was a joke. But really, that's why we consider blogs an effective marketing tool; they rank pretty darn well in search results! A blog is ...
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Be A Curator
A curator is the person in charge at an art gallery or a museum for maintaining the content at that particular institution. You might call him a content specialist because really, that's what he does. ...
