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A few weeks ago we decided to launch a Chuckanut Drive Real Estate page on our Bellingham Real Estate website.  As many of you may know Chuckanut is a world famous drive that is one of the most beautiful winding road overlooking the Ocean out onto the San Juan Islands. Earlier today I was looking...

I just read and commented on a blog from an agent who wanted to get opinions on whether to discount commissions or not to: http://activerain.com/blogsview/834027/Is-cutting-your-commissions-the-same-as-cutting-your-throat Ultimately Commissions must be looked at from the context of your overall b...

To say the least with the current real estate market in order to expand one needs to cut back expenses while maximizing revenue opportunities.  I've been a JustListed.com / HouseValues / MarketLeader subscriber for a number of years and have cut back the leads until I had a bear bones MarketLeade...

About a year and a half ago we decided as a company to get rid of the typical mail servers to manage email for our domains and migrate our email platform to Google Apps (Company branded version of GMail) and its been a great move for us.  It has allowed us as a company to move all of our company ...

I'm working with our office(s) on blogging and it seems that a few agents have really embraced blogging while the masses of agents are generally either uncomfortable with blogging or they don't see the long term benefits of blogging.  I'm interested in getting commentary back on what have been so...

I went to one of my favorite sites earlier today http://www.seodigger.com/ and the site wasn't providing results.  I ran it in Chrome, Firefox and Explorer before I finally took the time to read the page.  It turns out that SEODigger was a beta site which ultimately became SEMRush.com.  Well I de...

If you are a local real estate agent in the Bellingham / Whatcom County area you may have started to hear a bit of the buzz coming from our BuyerTours Realty office. Too say the least late August, September and early October was IMHO one of the worst two month period in real estate since I first ...

Having started as a real estate agent with a focus on lead generation back in 2002 I've now built that lead generation system into six teams and a couple of actual real estate offices however we have really stuck to the MREA system of compensation.  This has given us a model to grow with however ...

We've been hearing about this "Bail-out" for the last week however what does it get us...  Certainly it gets banks out of trouble for bad lending practices however as we saw yesterday WAMU came out as part of J.P. Morgan Chase without much of a hick-up.  Only the shareholders and bondholders of W...

I was taking a look at the web stats for ActiveRain on Alexa.com and it seems that traffic and reach are trending down: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/activerain.com .  I wonder if this is because of the Outside Blogs?  I looked at Trulia, REALTOR.com and other more national si...