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There is More to Website Content Than Property Listings
Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by Jason Steele.
Run a Google search for “Where should I live in…” and fill in any major city in the U.S. and I bet you will be hard pressed to find any national or local real estate brand on the first page of results. All of the valuable local information that goes into advising a prospective buyer [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by Jason Steele.
There’s lots of theories around on how to increase traffic ranking and manage all the various aspects of your website. Link building would be included as one of them. Some believe the art of link building is dead. The folks at Search Engine Land believes that’s a lie Like us, if you are using WordPress [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 21. Aug, 2009 by Jason Steele.
Mellow Billow brings us the Top 100 Best Social Media Books, ever. If you were to read anyone of them, I think you would be 100% better at social than you are right now. Imagine if you read all of them. ‘Nuff said. Get out your surfboard. Wax up your game plan. Another foreclosure appears [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Jason Steele.
Augmented Reality is a type of virtual reality that aims to duplicate the world’s environment within a computer by combining real scenes viewed by the user and a virtual scene generated by the computer and augmenting it with additional information. The virtual scene generated enhances the user’s sensory perception of the virtual world they are [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.
What is link bait? Why do the best blogs incorporate this into their blogging? AssociatedContent explains what link bait is and how you use this strategy to increase traffic and readers in this blog titled: How to write a great piece of link bait for your blog. Alexandra Samuel explains on Harvard Business Blog how [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.
Is obsession with social networking good for marketers? BizReport looks at the new survey from Anderson Analytics whose result report that consumers can’t get enough of their favorite social networks. Is that good for marketers? For the “this is cool” segment of Friday Blog Scan, those of you who use the iPhone you know that [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.
It’s been sort of quiet these past months on the technology front. Not a whole lot of innovation going on inside real estate. But outside the space, the API space is on fire. Tesco, a grocery-and more change from the UK is about to unveil an API for its online store that allows developers to [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.
While Twitter seems be all the rage these days, Facebook’s new fan pages for businesses offers entrepreneurs a new way to build brand recognition “build brand recognition, keep customers updated on the latest happenings, and get them inside your stores.” Lisa Barone’s post on SmallBizTrends offers some quick steps for how to create your Facebook [...]
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A New Home Page, Video and Luxury Program for BHGRealEstate.com
Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.
Today we have rolled out our most significant changes to the BHGRealEstate.com consumer web site since we launched almost a year ago. The prep work actually began on July 24th 2008, the day after we launched publicly at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco. Anyone who has ever built a web site with a fixed deadline [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 03. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.
A simple blog post featuring by Matthew Rutledge. Pictures indeed do say 100o words in this piece titled AM/PM. Okay, so this is not about real estate but for agents that feel blogging is too hard, or requires too much time, there are other ways to use social media and make an impact. The useful [...]
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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Jason Steele.
As local emissaries, real estate agents and brokers could be broadcasting valuable info about their market through their Twitter account instead of the typical stream of consciousness ramblings about what they are doing right now. If there was any question about the viability of broadcasting relevant information of this sort, Nixle might be it. Nixle [...]





