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Keywords, keywords, where art thou? 2008-07-30 03:30:21 Oh, if people could just hear me calling to them, surely they would choose my real estate website….right? Maybe if I new exactly what they were calling I could have my website answer, that would be much easier!
Understanding keywords is truly the art of understanding what people are calling for (in this case typing for [...]
Breakdown…no breakthrough 2008-07-29 03:30:36 Tom Cruise spoke these famous words in the movie Jerry Maguire. When his character realizes that he needs fewer clients, instead of more money, to feel fulfilled he starts a long journey that ultimately leads him to achieving success and happiness.
As we progress with our development of our online marketing efforts whether it be through [...]
Is Cuil the Next Google? 2008-07-28 12:16:04 Many have tried to tackle Google
and many have failed. Some of the biggest names in the search engine industry have been losing ground to Google for years. We all know those names they are Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.
So what does Cuil do that the others don’t? Well it does display things a bit differently [...]
Dig for more keywords with SEODigger 2008-07-26 03:30:33 Here is a real estate SEO tool that I had checked out just a little while ago, but didn’t take the time to DIG in :). I had some time to play with it and I have to admit that it is a pretty sweet tool. It takes quite a bit of guess work out [...]
Use the Social Network of LinkedIn to Your Advantage 2008-07-25 00:17:27 Did you know that NAR (National Association of Realtors) publishes the results of their surveys to the very clients that real estate professionals help? Well they do and the surveys always show year after year that well over 45% of business by real estate professionals is done by referral. What this means is that you [...] Read more:Advantage
, LinkedIn
, Social
Pick the right words to advertise on with Google 2008-07-24 03:15:52 Picking the right words to advertise on Google
is quite easy with their keyword tool. Now we have talked about keywords and how to find them on your own website but today we want to talk about finding words, real estate words, with the Google tool that competitors aren’t yet advertising on and yet are being [...]
How to Write an Ad that Attracts the Right Client 2008-07-22 00:18:57 Have you ever taken out a classified ad and not a single person called you? It can be one of the most frustrating events to spend time on a ad, review the ad, and pay for it only to have no one call. The great part about using pay per click advertising is you only [...] Read more:Client
, Right
, Write
Must Read Books for Success Online 2008-07-21 03:30:15 Learning the latest techniques for marketing your real estate blog and website should be fun. We know your time is valuable which is why we boil down the techniques into straight forward posts.
Have you ever wondered what we read to share this information? We do participate in blogs across the blogosphere, but we also do [...] Read more:Books
, Success
Writing posts that readers crave, every month - Part 3 2008-07-17 22:30:36 What do readers
of your blog or website crave
? They crave up to date information on real estate. In part 3 in our series of “Making Your Website or Blog a Destination” we are going to give you some post idea concepts thatthey crave. You see they want to have their pulse on the real [...] Read more:every
, posts
Being in the Google Top 10 Means Nothing 2008-08-14 03:30:49 That’s right, for all that work you put in optimizing your pages over the most competitive keywords, it means absolutely nothing. It doesn’t matter if you are #1 and there are 3,000,000 more people behind you in the SERPs, it just doesn’t mean anything at all. In fact it may give you bragging rights around [...] Read more:Google
, Means
, Nothing
New Google Insights Tool Gives you the edge 2008-08-13 03:30:02 This tool, recently released by Google
looks like an enhanced version of their trends tool. Google Insights
though gives some great data for some lower volume word searches which trends never seemed to do.
Carefully using this tool you can find some hidden jewels of keywords that you might not have yet uncovered. With their “Rising [...]
Can you be successful at real estate blogging today? 2008-08-13 02:20:43 Have you ever wondered if you can really compete online with some of the best bloggers out on the Internet? Many of us live in cities where some say it is impossible to compete and that there is a real estate blogger that is getting all of the business.
Maybe you live in the Seattle area [...]
The Olympics and Your Website 2008-08-12 03:30:46 It’s a beautiful occurrence that happens just every 4 years. The best of the best from around the world come together to find out truly who will be an Olympic Champion. The events are thrilling, often nail biting, and your emotions swing with every passing second as you root for champion in the hopes that [...] Read more:Olympics
Why Realtors Need to Partner with Vendors to Succeed 2008-08-11 03:30:44 Real Estate professionals and vendors (lenders, title representatives, etc) have often been lone rangers in the market place. They conveniently meet with each other when there is a specific need and then go back to “business as usual” trying to chase down more business.
In this 30 minute round table discussion, we discuss with Christian Stefferud how vendors and [...] Read more:Partner
, Realtors
, Vendors
Why your “canned” real estate website won’t work 2008-08-07 03:30:06 Although 2008 has thus far been a challenging year for many real estate professionals, one of the best aspects is that everyone has been forced to look at actually doing some marketing (I know crazy to think that you can’t do 15 sales a year by showing up to an open house for an hour [...] Read more:website
Live Call on Converting Buyers to Appointments 2008-08-06 00:36:51 Have you ever thought to yourself the following:
“If I just knew what to say then making calls or speaking to buyers would be easy.”
The truth is we have all thought that. Knowing what to say can sometimes be the hardest part of any conversation. If we only knew what to say then we could pick [...] Read more:Buyers
Buyer Scripts…Listen for Clues 2008-08-05 03:30:16 The great mythical detective Sherlock Holmes was extremely astute. He would find clues and notice elements in a room that others would simply miss. His logical powers of deduction allowed him to solve the mysteries that would baffle the police. His stories of heroics and deduction, as told by his friend Dr. Watson, demonstrate one who [...] Read more:Buyer
, Listen
, Scripts
Google Sitelinks Generate More Traffic for your website 2008-08-04 03:30:46 Getting to the top of Google
is possible with well directed SEO efforts. One of your major tasks is identifying how Google looks at your site. They can take a look at your website
and identify areas that they think visitors will want. These pages that Google displays in the search results are known as [...]
It’s Not You, It’s Your Scripts That Don’t Work 2008-08-01 02:41:01 Have you ever wondered why some calls that you make or some conversations that you have go really well while others end in a dead end? You are using the wrong scripts when you have a bad call.
Having the right scripts to use when you are speaking with buyers will make all the difference. The right scripts [...] Read more:Scripts
It’s all in the reflexes 2008-09-04 03:30:21 John Carpenter’s movie, Big Trouble in Little China, is truly a cult classic from 1986. The character Jack Burton (played by Kurt Russel) often has witty responses throughout the entire film. In the scene you see here, he is able to thwart an attack and eliminate the main bad guy. With his quick reactions, he [...]
I don’t have time to Blog 2008-09-03 03:30:50 Oh these famous words. You might have heard this from other real estate professionals in your area. Maybe, these words even crept into the back of your mind when you didn’t quite hit your goals for the month. It almost makes you think that you should go back to the “old ways” because the blog [...]
Win the crowd, win your freedom 2008-09-01 03:30:32 These famous words were spoken by Proximo (Oliver Reed) to Maximus (Russel Crowe) in the movie Gladiator. Maximus was a magnificent Gladiator, but he made the kills to quickly and did not embrace the crowd
. Proximo was trying to teach Maximus the lesson that if he embraced the crowd, got them to cheer for him [...]
Farm once and Forget it…right? 2008-08-29 03:30:13 There a select group of real estate agents in each city that are extremely successful farmers. Whether they dominate 1 neighborhood or a couple they are very consistent about knowing the market activity in their area and staying in touch with the residents of those neighborhoods. What do you think their answer would be if [...]
Get more leads, look at your problem pages 2008-08-28 03:30:08 As you are looking to grow your real estate business, you inevitably think “I just need more leads”. Then you remember that you would surely get more leads if you just had more traffic to your website. For some reason we often get possessed by the sheer want of getting more traffic to our website. We [...]
5 Real Estate Ads for Success on Google 2008-08-27 02:19:27 Can anyone take an ad out on Google
? As long as you have a working credit card you bet.Can everyone get someone to click their ad? Now that is a challenge to say the least. I am talking about getting someone to click without offering them money but offering them your expertise. Today we have [...] Read more:Estate
, Real Estate
, Success
What happened at Internet Lead Generation? 2008-08-26 02:50:29 Last week we taught for 8 hours on Internet
Lead Generation
. The goal that we set for everyone who attends is to have everyone closing a minimum of 12 closed sales from their online presence. Instead of us telling you how it went we thought we would let DJ tell you about how it went [...]
Compel the Web Surfer to Click Your Google Ad 2008-08-25 02:11:02 When you are writing ads for Google
Adwords or really any advertising platform you want to think like the person who is looking for information. In other words put yourself in your clients shoes before they knew you. Think about what is going through their mind. Think only about them and their needs. This is [...] Read more:Click
, Surfer
Have No Fear 2008-08-22 03:30:22 No Fear is a clothing and lifestyle company that pioneered different style t-shirts in the 1990’s. Their edgy quotes on shirts made you think differently and challenged the traditional norm that had been established in the surfing and sports industry.
One of my favorites quotes (and a shirt that I proudly wore) read:
“I’m younger than you, [...]
Attract the Customers You Want with the Right Keywords 2008-08-21 02:30:19 Everybody seems to think they know what keywords are about and everyone seems to have a different opinion about what keywords do or do not do for your website. Let’s be clear that you have to write for people first and then for the search engines. If you don’t do this you will be disappointed [...] Read more:Keywords
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