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| Contact Me..PLEASE! |
| 2008-07-16 03:30:53 |
When real estate agents start their blog or website I often see the anticipation of getting that first lead be so overwhelming that they just want to scream! Monitoring their web reports they know people are visiting, but for some reason no one is contacting them. To get more contacts out of your website or [...]...
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| FREE Contact form for Blogger |
| 2008-07-15 03:30:24 |
If you have started your real estate blog with the free platform of blogger that is great! Blogger (powered by Google) is a great blog platform that allows you easily create new posts keeping your audience well informed.
One of the areas that Blogger was a little light on was the aspect of creating forms so [...]...
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| Why Truilia Voices should be a real estate professionals last resort |
| 2008-07-14 00:02:06 |
I have one question for everyone “Would you rather build equity in your own asset or that of someone else?“. Think about your answer and also note this is the same question we ask many would be first time home buyers so they can see that renting is only building wealth for someone else.
So if [...]...
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| Bridges Brothers Go To Corona For Internet Lead Generation |
| 2008-07-11 01:06:39 |
Do you have a website? Does your website generate enough leads so are closing 2 deals each and every month? If you aren’t closing 2 deals a month from your website then you don’t have a working website you have a bill that comes every month.
Your website or blog needs to work for you and [...]...
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| Grow your real estate farm, today |
| 2008-07-10 03:53:26 |
You can grow your Estate">real estate farm with some simple steps that you may not have thought of. In our series on creating a digital real estate farm we covered how you can create a buyer farm and a seller farm. What I want to talk about today is growing your farm.
That’s right in a [...]...
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| Winning at Google Adwords is about picking the right fight |
| 2008-07-09 00:01:42 |
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the most dominate boxer of all time? Think about facing Muhammad Ali in his prime. Would you even stand a chance at beating him? This is a fight that you should never pick and this would be a fight that Muhammad Ali would be [...]...
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| What links should I have on my real estate website? |
| 2008-07-08 03:30:05 |
As we have been speaking to Estate">real estate professionals across the country I have realized that web vendors don’t necessarily guide us to the right decisions on what links we should have as our navigation on our website. In fact, because they build solutions that are pretty flexible I have found that often real estate [...]...
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| Handle Objections - Control the Call |
| 2008-07-07 03:30:55 |
Many real estate professionals approach the phone with some trepidation. The anticipation of rejection is often so overwhelming that many agents avoid the phone entirely in favor of hoping on referral business or sitting at an open house.
Now, although I have been able to get business from referrals and open houses, I will say that [...]...
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| Not every agent will succeed on the Internet |
| 2008-07-01 01:40:59 |
Did you know that not everyone will succeed on the Internet? Now truth be told many can be successful on the Internet but many more will never generate a lead, never never book an appointment, never close any business from their real estate website or real estate blog. Do you know why? The answer is [...]...
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| Conquer the Four Fears of Blogging |
| 2008-06-30 03:30:38 |
As we are teaching in different cities we still frequently run into real estate agents who haven’t started a blog yet. Now, that’s not really the part I find surprising. Real estate has traditionally been a bit slow in adopting technology so I certainly understand the often slow rate for this industry to use new [...]...
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| How Cross Country can help you improve your website |
| 2008-06-27 02:30:57 |
In high school I was a cross country and track runner. In fact my twin brother and I ran cross-country all 4 years. The best coach we ever had for cross country was a gentleman by the name of Carter Yarborough. He really had a passion for the sport; in fact, he enjoyed it so [...]...
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| Generate leads from your Palo Alto & San Jose Website |
| 2008-06-25 23:33:53 |
We are up in the beautiful bay area and while we are here we want to make sure to make a few posts that relate directly to improving websites and blogs in the bay area. You might be thinking “What do Joey and Jamey possibly know about the bay area?”. The answer is not much [...]...
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| Take Your Santa Cruz & Carmel Websites to the next level |
| 2008-06-25 00:20:47 |
Why would we be speaking about a specific way to increase one areas websites or blogs? Well we happen to be in Santa Cruz, CA today and in Carmel as well. If you missed the previous post about our trip up north (check out related posts at the bottom of this post) and you can [...]...
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| Understand your web reports to succeed online |
| 2008-06-24 03:00:16 |
One of the big things every real estate professional wants to know is how well they are doing. As real estate agents we are trained to track some key data. I mean after all we religiously check some of the following:
How many deals have I closed this year?
What is my gross commission amount?
What is my [...]...
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| Google Says Links & Blogging are Keys to Success |
| 2008-06-23 05:59:17 |
Who can argue with Google right? Google makes the rules (at least for their own search engine) and we are expected to follow. You don’t have to you just won’t be showing up in their search results any time soon.
The recent article by Jefferson Graham of the USA Today he speaks with Matt Cutts of [...]...
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| Find New Keywords on your Own Website |
| 2008-06-23 00:00:10 |
Keywords truly form the foundation of both blogs and real estate websites. In order for our blogs and websites to be found they need to be rich with the content that people are actually searching for. Your content should be well written and the search engine determines what the page is about by “looking” at the [...]...
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| Use Analytics to Gain a Competitive Advantage |
| 2008-06-21 03:34:34 |
Statistics and facts have long been the favorites of the real estate investor. We don’t normally have to use statistics with first time or even move up home buyers and sellers because they are buying a home first and an investment second. If they aren’t buying that way they really should be.
Real estate investors need [...]...
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| Can Trulia beat Google? |
| 2008-06-20 06:37:04 |
Trulia launched the ability to take out ads on their site. It was only a matter of time before they found a way to increase the monetazation on their site. Trulia saw that the Google Adwords platform was making money for Google and thought they would join the party.
They are allowing their primary source of [...]...
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| The Bridges Brothers hit the Road for a Tour of the South Bay Area |
| 2008-06-20 00:43:22 |
As some of our readers here know James and I teach at different real estate offices and we have a 5 office tour coming up at the end of next week. The best part is they are free sessions that you can attend. If you want to learn more about improving your lead generation on [...]...
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| Man joins gym, stares at gym, and loses 100 pounds in just 4 weeks |
| 2008-06-19 00:54:41 |
It sure sounds remarkable. Imagine being 100 pounds overweight and then just taking the simple act of joining a gym and staring at it to lose those 100 pounds! It would be nice, but sadly untrue. Many of the infomercials on TV claim near such unimaginable results and people flock to the phones and [...]...
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| Writing on a niche will give you the biggest audience |
| 2008-06-18 03:33:39 |
Have you ever thought that being an expert in a small thing would give you a large audience? Many real estate professionals would prefer to be “experts” in many different things so that they never miss out on another deal. You know the agent or lender I am talking about. The one who answers the [...]...
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| 3 Questions to AVOID if you want an appointment |
| 2008-06-17 12:19:17 |
I want everyone to get as many appointments as possible from the leads they get from their blogs and real estate websites. I have found though that there are some common questions that agents think are helpful that actually make it MORE difficult to get that next buyer in your door. Once you start [...]...
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| Consumers Can Find it ALL at BeatYouThere.com |
| 2008-06-16 00:34:26 |
Have you ever tried to find auction listings, fsbo’s, standard real estate listings, or even celebrity homes online? It can cause you to have to visit literally dozens of websites and force you to create more accounts then you truly desire. The website of www.BeatYouThere.comhas been built by founder Mark Langowski and his group. This [...]...
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| Live Transfer Lead Services - You can do better |
| 2008-06-13 04:30:17 |
Live transfer services are not knew but with the amount of leads that sometimes a lender or real estate agent has to call in order to get a sale they can seem very attractive. So how does this all work? Well a company harvests leads and then converts the client till they are ready to [...]...
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| Google Pay Per Click Generates 103 Times Return on YOUR Money |
| 2008-06-11 00:56:02 |
Would you trade $440.18 for $45,656? Now I ask this question in all seriousness. When my brother and I were at our last seminar that we were doing we asked everyone in the audience if they would trade $440 for $45,656.00. Guess what happened? You are right everyone raised their hand and said without a [...]...
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| Making Your Real Estate Website a Destination Part 1 |
| 2008-06-06 02:50:10 |
Have you had a vacation planned and all you could do was research what to do there and what it was going to be like? You just wanted to see how you could spend your time there and it became a huge topic of conversation among family, friends, and coworkers. If you can invoke the [...]...
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| Google Split Tests & So Should You |
| 2008-06-04 21:56:26 |
In a recent article on CNET We’re all guinea pigs in Google’s search experiment Google talks about how they run different versions of the Google Search page. They are effectively split testing, running two different versions of the same page to see which one works better.
This strategy may sound strange to some in real estate but it [...]...
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| Interview with Dustin Luther of 4Realz & RCG |
| 2008-06-04 01:27:05 |
For those who haven’t had the pleasure of going to a conference held by Dustin Luther we decided to bring him right to you here at Internet Real Estate Success. Many of you know Dustin for his extremely successful and record breaking real estate blog www.RainCityGuide.com. If you hadn’t had the chance to visit his [...]...
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| The Obsession of PageRank |
| 2008-06-02 07:50:01 |
Across the blogosphere I have seen many posts speaking about how to get your website a higher PageRank™. In fact in some cases it has become an obsession to get as high a PageRank as possible. So exactly what is PageRank and how important is it really?For those new to marketing their websites and learning [...]...
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| Watch the right channel and get better at SEO |
| 2008-05-30 00:55:25 |
Well, not just a channel that’s on TV anyway (although that might happen someday). The Google channel on YouTube is actually filled with great tips for your SEO skills and more. They often feature Matt Cutts, Google Guru in charge of search, and they address topics ranging from the latest features in GoogleMaps API, Google [...]...
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| Closing that First Deal from Your Website is a Big Win |
| 2008-05-26 10:23:03 |
Danica Patrick became the first female winner in the history of IndyCar just a few weeks ago in her race in Japan. Although she had not won an IndyCar race prior to this one, she had been placing extremely well in her racing career. More telling than her win is how many races it [...]...
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| Why You Can’t Afford not to Advertise on Google |
| 2008-05-24 19:28:29 |
There are people out there who say that you should abandon real estate pay per click advertising efforts and that you should only focus your efforts on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In fact if you listened to the interview that was done with Ryan Lash of www.yMarketing.com you heard how he spoke about SEM (Search Engine [...]...
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| 5 Day Course to Successful Real Estate Blogging |
| 2008-05-23 01:59:09 |
Have you tried to do research on Estate">real estate blogging? There are literally hundreds if not thousands of resources available to real estate professionals. You can read blogs or buy books till you are blue in the face and still you may be no farther on learning how to have an effective blogging strategy. That’s [...]...
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| Interview with Tony Clark of Teaching Sells |
| 2008-05-22 01:34:28 |
Succeeding on the Internet in real estate is about focus and making sure you know how to succeed. We continue our series of interviews with the top names on the Internet who are successful in their own right as well as they help others succeed online and in business as well. In this interview with [...]...
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| Get Your Website Ready for Success |
| 2008-05-21 00:01:29 |
Your website may be just fine and it may not be. Do you know how to tell the difference as to whether you have a website that is amazing and whether you have one that is just a dud? By the way the answer isn’t “My friends all say my website rocks!”. The truth is [...]...
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| Overcome the 2 most common fears and start succeeding |
| 2008-05-20 11:02:40 |
Fear is what prevents us from achieving our highest levels of success. Fear may be stopping you from taking the first steps into marketing online. In this call we cover the 2 most common fears that we have heard after teaching and coaching 100’s of real estate professionals across the country.
Fear of Not Understanding - [...]...
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| Control your fear to control your success |
| 2008-05-18 21:43:26 |
As real estate professionals, probably one of the biggest leaps that we took was going from a paycheck to the life of the person on commission. I remember taking months to decide if leaving my really good paying job as a consultant was a smart thing to do to go pursue a career in real [...]...
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| Live Website Tune-up Call on May 21st |
| 2008-05-15 20:13:35 |
Have you signed up for the free website tune-up? Are you willing to invest 20 minutes of your time so you can figure out what is wrong with your website? Do you want your website to work for you and produce commissions for you every single month?
Have you always wondered why some real estate professionals [...]...
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