Have you ever wondered if you can really compete online with some of the best bloggers out on the Internet? Many of us live in cities where some say it is impossible to compete and that there is a real estate blogger that is getting all of the business. Maybe you live in the Seattle area where RCG(Rain City Guide) or Phoenix and Phoenix Real Estate Guy. You also might live in an area where you type in real estate blog and your cities name and you can’t find anyone that has a following out there... 

 ”You can build it, we can help™” is a slogan that was made famous by Home Depot. Home Depot sells many different brands of tools and they really don’t care which brand you purchase because they are committed to helping you with your home improvement goals regardless of the brand of tool you buy.  Home Depot’s angle of building their business around help and advice, rather than a product has some wisdom to it.  When you come to think about it, why does a hammer in the... 

Have you ever been to a website and realized that it just doesn’t have the tools that you need in order to stay there much less come back? It is common for real estate professionals to have an amazing looking blog or website but they don’t have anything that allows the visitor to stay much less come back. So what tools do every website and every blog have to have? Let’s get into it so we know that these are can’t miss. You can always have more (be careful about having too... 

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 people could contact you for specific needs.  Wordpress has so many plugins that you can readily find contact forms and even place them on their own page, but Blogger doesn’t exactly... 

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... 

 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 much he actually donated his time to coach us. Before the summer of our senior year he asked us what times we wanted to achieve for our races in the upcoming season.  Being as it was our final year we had some aggressive... 

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 and because of that we are probably just like some of our clients. Never ever assume that your client know what you know. Their job isn’t real estate and there are things they know that you don’t. You want... 

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 see our complete schedule of where we are going to be for the next several days.  Before we get into it the post today in case anyone wants to attend one of the free seminars that is happening today the information is below... 

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 Google.  “Good directions drive traffic to your website” discuss some key points of how Google goes about determining the page rank of a website and how they (Google) then goes about... 

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 the Internet then try attending one of these sessions and if you are really a glutton for punishment we are having an 8 hour all day seminar on June 27th from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Where are these events taking place? Well you get...