Editors Note – WordPress Wednesday is weekly information piece about the website, blogsite platform, WordPress. My friend GIlbert Peralta from WPChemist is the contributing blogger for this content. Thanks Gil!!! IT’S WORDPRESS WEDNESDAY AGAIN!! WordPress and your IDX. It doesn’t really surprise me, but it always makes me shake my head when experienced real estate…
Last week I started helping a real estate agent move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org self hosted website. This real estate agent had been using content creation for lead generation. The problem is because they were using the WordPress.com platform they were very limited to how they could trade the content for contact. I helped them…
Editors Note – A new feature on Productivity Junkies – WordPress Wednesday. Gilbert Peralta of WPChemist.com will be sharing with us every Wednesday about how to optimize our web presence using wordpress. June 18, 2010. Just another boring day in the web world? I think not! Friday June 18th, 2010 was the release of WordPress…
Raillife.com is a great example of a hyper local blog. Hyper local might be an overused term in real estate blogging nowadays. So lets say that Nick Bastian, the Realtor behind Raillife.com, is great at defining his market, setting limits so that it’s a market that he can dominate and strategic about the long tail….
* indicates required First Name * Email Address * Close Recently Jay Thompson, of ThePhoenixRealEstateGuy.com wrote about why he deleted his ActiveRain blog posts. It comes down to content. Who does the content actually belong to? If you are not self hosting…the content doesn’t belong to you! If you are wanting to start self-hosting with…
About three weeks ago you had an opportunity to hear me speak about one of my core business development strategies for real estate agents. Dan Keller (disclosure: Socialcruiting client of mine) invited me to come and speak to a few real estate agents that he is working with about my Geographic Farm 2.0. One of…
Yesterday I talked with Garron Selliken about The Moment. The Moment could happen in real life or online. 7 Reasons Why Your Real Estate Website Has A Lead Conversion Problem 1. You lie. In your marketing and on your real estate website you say you are different. You give a different level of service. You…
Realtor marketing is changing. The days of a Realtor marketing on a bus bench or grocery cart or even in the yellow pages are gone. Wendy Forsythe, VP of Broker Services, for Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate sat down with me at BuzzRE to talk about Realtor marketing and lifestyle branding. There is been…
Real estate blogging doesn’t always mean that you are creating original content. Your real estate blogging tactic could be that of being a DJ. What does being a DJ mean? Gary Vaynerchuk, author of Crush It, Why NOW is the time to cash in on your passion, a book about using social media to build…
Jeff Turner is smart. He is really smart. He understands business and technology. He knows how to use social media. Jeff was the keynote speaker at BuzzRE Portland. He shared with the audience of real estate agents about listening. How to listen effectively. How to listen with social media. (check out question #6) How to…
The first time I met Nate he was quiet. A firm handshake. He looked me in the eye. But quiet. He sat on the side of the desk as I talked with a current client. I would on occasion make eye contact with him to make sure he was engaged in the conversation and to…
Jeff Bernheisel has talked with the Productivity Junkies community before. He joined us on the MD Show to talk about the upcoming BuzzRE event, google, seo and social media. I grabbed Jeff at the BuzzRE after party to talk about wordpress, website hosting and why real estate agents need to own their content. Real estate…