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Tips and commentary on using the Internet and technology tools to manage and market a real estate business.
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A recent government survey that cost $4 billion to conduct found that 3/4 of the people in the U.S. make up 75% of the total population. Let's forget for the moment how our tax dollars are wasted, and this is just a statistics joke I found on the Web, so it's not true ... I hope.  However, it is ...
06/20/2012
A crusty old man walks into a real estate office and says to a young sales rep, “I want to sell my house you son of a b…..” A little astonished the agent replies, “I beg your pardon sir, I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?” “Listen up, damn it. I said I want to sell my bloody house!”...
06/11/2012
There are only two people in the world who really know how Google's search algorithms work ... I'm not one of them, and those two don't agree.  That's from a website full of SEO guru jokes, most just adapted from attorney jokes.  I want to make it clear that I do not consult on SEO or SEM anymore...
05/28/2012
OK, if all you care about are listings, and you only buy print advertising because your listing clients mistakenly think it's effective, then you may want to skip the rest of this post.  But, if you like to work with buyers as well as sellers, and you want to find them when they're ready to buy, ...
05/22/2012
Now I know why so many real estate professionals don't like the number or quality of leads they get from their websites.  NAR's annual Member Profile was just released for 2012. Let's take a look at some of the revelations in this member profile about business Realtors are getting from their webs...
05/16/2012
Google does April Fools jokes every year, and in 2007 the joke was a rollout of the new feature "Gmail Paper."  But, we can't just laugh with Google, we need to work with it too.   This was a hoax of course, but it gets an honorable mention in lists of the best Google April 1st hoaxes. What's not...
05/08/2012
An Internet marketer trying to enter Heaven hears a booming voice ask "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE IN YOUR LIFE?" The marketer answers "Didn't you read my Tweets?" So, don't take everything you read or see in survey results and radically adjust your marketing, but there's some information here that might ...
05/01/2012
How many black hat SEOs does it take to change a light bulb? None. Black hat SEOs don't change the light bulb. They just redirect people to a different room where there is no light. Thanks to Hubspot.com for the joke.   We spend a ton of time, effort and maybe money in marketing on the Internet. ...
04/25/2012
Do you put extra effort into your website articles, pages and blog posts to try to improve your free search engine positioning?  Most of us do.  Some have the money to pay SEO people to help, but most of us are struggling along on our own. I have been closely tracking traffic to my websites with ...
04/17/2012
Realtor to First Time Homebuyer: First you folks tell me what you can afford, then we’ll have a good laugh and go on from there. What is your reason for maintaining a website, participating in social networks, and maybe even blogging in the real estate niche?  I can tell you without hesitation th...
04/05/2012
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Tips and commentary on using the Internet and technology tools to manage and market a real estate business.