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... 

Ever heard that “free” advice is worth exactly what you paid for it? I agree that for the most part that is an absolute statement of truth. Other times you can find that solid piece of free advice that works in your favor and gives you the answers to the burning questions that you have had but just couldn’t find the right place to ask them. 20 Minutes Away From Getting the Answers to Your Most Burning Internet Marketing Questions The Internet can be a maze and web of confusing articles,... 

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,... 

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 tools.  What I do find surprising though are the reasons that people find NOT to start blogging. Here are some of the most common ones that we have heard: I don’t... 

 Kicking off our new look is an interview with top blogger Jim Cronin. If this is your first chance to hear about Jim Cronin and the Real Estate Tomato, then you are in for a treat!  The Real Estate Tomato is a blog dedicated to providing real estate professionals with top notch blog advice.  On the Tomato, you will find posts written by Jim and real estate professionals from around the country so you can get the help you need.  In addition to providing extensive advice, the Tomato provides a... 

A recent post on RSS Pieces entitled, “What Pamela Anderson can teach you about calling readers to action on your blog” by REBlogGirl was a wonderful post on creating calls to action (one of the most overlooked aspects on webpages and BLOGS I think) on your BLOG to make those visitors become contacts!  Although that is what the post was about, I found something else intriguing about this post. I found the title to be the most powerful aspect of this BLOG post.  Without a powerful title... 

Now hopefully you have a real estate blog that is either integrated with your website or is separate from your website and marketed differently. One of the things that we find is hardest for agents to do is to come up with new topics to write on and because they don’t have new topics they stop writing and their blogs aren’t updated on a regular basis. Here are 5 content ideas you can use for your blog and the great part is you can keep reuse them every single month! 5 Topics for Your...