To all of our readers, we owe a bit of an apology.  We have been out and about and have ignored contributing posts here to our blog.  We certainly haven’t been out of the game, we have been sharing tips, methods, and techniques on real estate marketing throughout the country. We wanted to share a little insight on what we have been up to and give you some idea of where we are going to take this blog over the next year.  The past 8+ months have been an interesting ride and we look forward... 

Today’s post is from someone you have heard on our 15 minutes of Madness calls, Christain Stefferud of Master My Marketing.  He travels all across the country helping people with their online marketing efforts.  Some of those clients are real estate agents and some of those are small businesses.   Read on and see how you can get some easy leverage in your business…. I chose that title because it describes the age of working smart and the freedom to generate income from anywhere... 

Every Friday, we host a call entitled 15 minutes of Madness.  If you are on Facebook, then we invite you to consider joining our Internet Marketing for Real Estate Professionals Group (yes it’s totally free).  We post up insider secrets, the latest info from around the web, and you will get the updates on our calls each and every week. You are certainly invited to call-in for the teleconference listen in, and you can even post questions and see how the group responds. So….What happened... 

Seeing your website and blog explode with traffic is a truly wonderful experience. Finally all the hard work of writing new pages, creating detailed ads, submitting to directories pays off.  You monitor your traffic nearly to a point of obsession, because you know if you can just get enough people to your website that the leads will just flood in! Strangely, for many, as the traffic increases, the lead count does not grow to the same degree.  Even hitting those great bench marks, like 1,000... 

I spent the last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Many people I told that I was going said “that’s awesome; you will have lots of fun!”. I received some great tips on enjoying the beaches and nightlife that it had to offer before my trip.   I certainly was looking forward to fun, but probably different fun than what most people thought.  My fun started the first morning that I was there.  There was going to be a small group of online entrepreneurs gathered to learn from each... 

I am of course a HUGE fan of getting more traffic to websites.  Hopefully you know by now that Joe and I want your websites and blogs to have a veritable flood of people every day coming to your blogs eager to contact you. As much as we both love traffic (and leads) it is imperative that we do something with all of those leads!  It’s early here in 2009 so we wanted to make sure to address this issue.  Focusing on leads and traffic are great, but you need to focus on conversion!  Seriously,... 

So we got a comment about the fact that “More leads doesn’t mean you will do more business.” This is just great in my mind that people even want to say this. Now of course you could say that more leads doesn’t guarantee that you will sell more homes but I guarantee you this: If you generate 0 leads I guarantee that you will fail in real estate To be honest you will fail in any business that requires you to generate leads. The comment leads me to believe that the person would... 

For those that have seen us speak before, you know that Joe and I started our real estate brokerage in a 1 car garage in the City of Carson.  It wasn’t glamorous as it was too hot in the Summer and too cold in the Winter (for those in other states, probably not that cold ).  We had so few leads that we could count them on less than 2 hands.  It certainly was not the glamour of real estate that we envisioned, but we were free from the corporate shackles and were happy that we could work... 

As 2009 approaches, most real estate professionals have packed up their bags and are crossing their fingers for a better year that is just around the corner.  Unfortunately for that bunch, doing the same practices and hoping for a market change to save them is not going to yield any tangible results.  Change is inevitable.  Whether the new year ticks or not the market is constantly changing and the way to get new business changes.  Trying new marketing or implementing is not always easy, in... 

Are you ready to make sure that 2008 ends with a bang and not a thud? How about making sure that you close at least 1 transaction each and every month in 2009? By the way there is no silver bullet but there are proven methods for success that you can make sure to do each and every day and each and every month. Today at 1:00pm we are having Todd Bates, real estate and marketing coach, come and teach for 2 hours how to make sure you have deals closing each and every month. This seminar is today and...