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Reliberation.com

12/31/09, Final Day of Reliberation »»

12/30/09, Good BYE again, RELIB »»

12/25/09, It's been swell »»

12/17/09, How to World Real Estate Blogging! »»

12/15/09, Now Its Time To Say Goodbye To All Our Family »»

12/14/09, Contact Info... »»

12/10/09, Very sad to see RELIB go... »»

12/8/09, Hello, friends »»

12/6/09, SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM PUERTO RICO »»

12/4/09, Maybe this is part of the problem »»

12/3/09, Say it isn't SO...The Ending of Reliberation »»

12/3/09, Say it isn't SO...New Friends found...soon gone »»

12/2/09, My Favorite Reliberation Memories »»

12/1/09, Goodbye Reliberation »»

11/30/09, EagleOpenHouses.com »»

11/26/09, Domain Names and Trademark Infringement. »»

11/23/09, The Perfect Holiday gift for Your Real Estate Agent!! »»

11/21/09, My website is worth #%@*!(^)!!!! »»

11/20/09, Inherited Property in the Bahamas »»

11/19/09, Ninja Selling Webinars »»

11/18/09, Realtor.com's "Search Assist" product -- any one using it? Results? »»

11/15/09, Hello All »»

11/14/09, Don't count calories, or chloresterol--just enjoy »»

11/14/09, Problem Solving For Dummies »»

11/14/09, What Is Taken So Long To Get The Deal Done "The Office Chair" »»

Inman Blog

7/28/10, Find the best real estate photo opps »»

7/28/10, Is Facebook bigger than Google? »»

7/28/10, Site launches neighborhood profiles »»

7/27/10, No 'sustained recovery' in real estate prices »»

7/27/10, HUD probes lender treatment of new moms »»

7/27/10, California 'hot' among homebuyers »»

7/27/10, Brooklyn completes MLS merger »»

7/27/10, 5 rules for managing your e-mail »»

7/26/10, 9 steps to a stickier real estate website »»

7/26/10, Worst June on record for new-home sales »»

7/26/10, D.C. real estate pro is a 'Real Housewife' »»

7/26/10, New player in title insurance »»

7/26/10, Designing great Web experiences »»

7/23/10, Succeed by failure »»

7/23/10, 8 high-ranking real estate iPad apps »»

RISMedia

7/28/10, Today’s News at a Glance »»

7/28/10, Tips to Differentiate Yourself through Value-Added Selling »»

7/28/10, NAR Pulse: This Week’s Top Stories from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® »»

7/28/10, Moving Season: Book Early and Be Prepared »»

7/28/10, New-Home Sales Bounce Back from Record Low in June »»

7/28/10, Real Estate Investment Securities Association Conference Provides New Opportunities for Real Estate Professionals »»

7/28/10, Survey: Consumers Still Feeling Impact of Recession; Most Believe Tide has Turned and Things Are Improving »»

7/28/10, Expired Listings/FSBO Marketing System »»

Effective Realty Sites takes a custom (w)holistic approach to treating your web site performance

7/28/10, Leading Dayton Real Estate Firm Joins Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Franchise Network »»

7/28/10, Home Prices Have Generally Moved Sideways for Past Year, According to S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices »»

7/28/10, Today’s News at a Glance »»

7/28/10, Home Buyer Tax Credit Expires – Opportunity Doesn’t »»

7/28/10, 4 Easy Promotional Strategies to Get Your Name in the Marketplace »»

7/28/10, Weekly Video Tip: Vocabulary Clarity »»

7/28/10, An Online Advertising Revolution »»

7/28/10, The Wisdom of Crazy Ideas »»

7/28/10, California Tops Regions Where Homes Sell Most Over List Price, According to ZipRealty’s Home Hunter Report »»

7/28/10, Survey Reveals Majority of Apartment Dwellers Living without Renters Insurance »»

7/28/10, New Agent Recruiting Kit »»

7/28/10, Century 21 Real Estate LLC Announces Affiliation with the Distressed Property Institute »»

RealTown

7/28/10, Anyone using Google Base to marketing listings? »»

7/28/10, Permission issue »»

7/28/10, 9 Killer Content Creation ideas for your Real Estate Blog or Website »»

What’s the number 1 absolute best way to get more organic traffic to your real estate blog, website or lead capture pages...

CONTENT CREATION (“But, what on earth am I Supposed to be writing about (or video’ing), and how will it get me business?”)

Don’t Worry — It’s Not Your Fault That You Don’t Know What Kind Of Content To Create, It’s YOUR BROKER’S For NOT GRABBING YOU AND SHAKING A NICHE OUT OF YOU!

Here’s the thing: 99 out of 100 Real Estate brokers out there are just plain ignorant or willfully blind to this next point - If everybody in your office was mandated to create just 1 piece of targeted, niche focused content per week (or even better per business day!), your office could surely dominate the local marketplace in a short time.

We’ve talked about this concept a number of times before on notably, when a few months ago, we detailed a plan for how this might work, called the 2010 Real Estate Broker Market Domination Plan. The plan itself lays out a strategy for how you might go about creating an architecture for leveraging agent created content to zoom the GCI of your office or team, but it doesn’t go too much into specifics about what kind of content you might create.

So here’s a list of possible topics you and your team might be contributing to a central real estate blog monster site on a regular basis.

9 Killer “Niche Content Creation” Ideas For Real Estate Agents & Brokers

Before you read the rest of this, imagine that you have 1 person on your team assigned to one of these ideas, with the requirement that they deliver the related content to (the site you own) on a regular basis. (Or if you are a single person shop simply pick one or more and make it your job to create one piece of content for your real estate blog or website each and every day!)

1. Weekly Market Update – Take a 5 Minute Video (or Screencast) Interpreting Data From Your MLS and the general mood amongst buyers and agents in order to deliver a public update on the state of the local real estate marketplace

2. Daily/Weekly Transaction Report – Cut and Paste the Reported Transactions from Your MLS. (Trust us, this will garner lots of organic traffic especially long tail stuff related to property addresses in your area.) Be sure to include “Real Estate Sales Transactions” in the title of each post, wherever you are, people are searching those keywords.

3. Restaurant Of The Week – Want to charm the pants off of a local restaurant owner and provide a valuable resource for folks relocating to your area? Do a restaurant review once a week… and be sure to include a picture of your dish and why you loved it so much. Chances are good that expecially for smaller restaurants and markets, your post will rank organically for people doing a direct search of the restaurant name.

4. Business Of The Week – Same of the restaurant idea, recommend doing actual video tours of each biz, highlighting the coolest service/product to buy from the place. (Can you see this helping you gain Top Of Mind status with the local business owner, then a bunch of referrals as he talks you up to other patrons?)

5. Local Dog Parks – Psst… People moving to your area with pets are going to do a search engine search for dog parks in the area. Talk about a non-competitive keyword! (York Pa Dog Parks) WOOF!

6. “Where In (Insert Your Area Here)?” - Take a random photo of a person, place, or thing in your area and post it to your site. Offer a prize to the first reader who guesses what the picture is. (Be sure to offer an email signup for folks to receive your latest pics so they can be one of the first to take a guess.) [Example of this in action here]

7. Weekly Neighborhood News Update – Give each agent in your office an assigned neighborhood, require a piece of hyper local content. Run with this for a month and see what happens to your recruiting/retention efforts.

8. Resident Interviews – Interview someone in your area. Ask them what they like about their town. What they like to do. Where the best places to get a little tipsy are. Stuff like that. (What an easy way to generate spiderable content that’s interesting to onlookers!)

9. “Contract Chronicles” – Grab a clause from one of your real estate forms and tear it to pieces. A nice way to demonstrate competence while creating content that’s sure to be indexed and searched. (If you don’t already have an article and a downloadable copy of the standard “Residential Lease” for your state on your website, do this now!

There are a ton more ideas out there but this is a great start and should give you more than enough to get the ball rolling.

Here’s the thing, the content you created today will most likely = traffic to your website tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, and probably years and years for now.

Repeat: If you invest a few minutes creating content for your website today, it’ll pay off for years to come.

Repeat: If you get 20-50-100 agents in your office each investing a few minutes a week to create content, it’ll pay off for years to come, help you establish local market dominance, (and make your website the most valuable asset your business has… Honestly, that piece of cyberspace could be worth 6 figures a year from now if you play it right)

Josh Schoenly & Ryan Hartman are co-owners of ReTechulous, LLC and are lead generation junkies. You can get immediate access to 10 real estate lead generation systems, trainings & more for free by visiting their well "liked" Facebook Fanpage at: http://www.facebook.com/realestateleadgeneration

7/28/10, change of email »»

7/28/10, Does any one know the RESPA rules on giving gift cards for referrals »»

7/27/10, R.E. Marketing Strategies - Are You Sabotaging Your Own Success? »»

Have you ever felt like you had reached a plateau and could go no higher? If so, you're not alone, many people sabotage their own success. This article teaches you how to reverse self sabotage. In my work as a real estate business coach for the past 14+ years, I have had many people present a similar question, "Why can't I be more successful? Why do I stop myself? I feel like I am my own worst enemy."

If you've ever felt this way, you're probably suffering from a pattern of self sabotage in which you get in your own way. While on the one hand, your conscious mind is saying," I want to be more successful," your subconscious mind is caught in a "Fear of Success syndrome".

There are several things that cause people to be afraid of success:

1. They associate success with stress:

It's a prevailing idea in our society that if you want to be successful, you have to work hard, struggle and strive. Many of my clients have done that and reached a place of "burnout". Then they are faced with the dilemma of wanting to move forward, but having a very unpleasant memory of what it was like before.

They need to work hard at reprogramming the self limiting belief, "To be successful you have to work very very hard," and replace it with an Empowered Belief, such as "I am committed to working smarter not harder."

2. The next self limiting belief that stops people from success is "I'm not worthy or I do not deserve."

Usually we are not scripted to be successful when we were growing up. Rather we were told to fit in and not bring too much attention to ourselves.

We often incurred criticism when we felt too good about ourselves and heard things like, "Who do you think you are?" Being boastful was considered conceited and a definite "no no". Many of us over generalized and made the mistake of thinking that we shouldn't think too highly of ourselves, and if we did someone would shoot us down.

The truth is that a healthy level of self-confidence is necessary to be successful. In addition, happiness is feeling good about you. If you've been carrying any of the old beliefs that make you feel unworthy, I urge you to replace them with empowered beliefs, such as:

I am more than worthy of prosperity
I am highly deserving of an abundance of good
It is now okay for me to feel good about myself
I give myself permission to feel pride in the work that I do
As I share my expertise I am worthy of being amply rewarded

Say these Empowered Beliefs to yourself frequently to raise your level of self-confidence.

3. The "gung ho" vs. "comfort zone" conflict

Let's face it; in order to be successful you do have to take a leap of faith and leave your comfort zone. Moving forward always involves some risk.

However what many people fail to realize is that staying stuck in your comfort zone also involves risk. What risk? It's the risk of not fulfilling your potential, the risk of staying at a low financial level, the risk of never reaching your dreams.

In all of us there is an inner struggle between the part of us that wants us to dream big, and the part of us that wants us to settle for what we have. Usually some inner "conflict resolution" will help you to realize that you can have a win-win between both parts of you.

The "gung ho" part needs to realize that you need a balanced life with plenty of time for self-care and self maintenance. The "comfort zone" part needs to realize that the comfort zone is not safe, and that sensations that are labeled fear can just as easily be labeled excitement as you find the growing edge of your comfort zone and move beyond it.

To reinforce the balance of these two parts of us, I recommend these empowered beliefs:

It is now safe for me to grow and expand
I'm committed to creating success in a balanced way

Here's one of my favorites, "In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, I create total financial success, for the highest good of all".

Let this be your mantra and allow yourself to grow into your full potential with ease and grace.

Dr. Maya Bailey, author of Law of Attraction for Real Estate Professionals, integrates 20 years of experience as a psychologist and 14 years as a business coach with her expertise in the Law of Attraction. Her powerful work creates a Success formula for professionals ready to double and triple their incomes. Get Dr. Maya's free report, 7 Simple Strategies For More Clients in 90 Days, by visiting 90daystomoreclients.com.

7/27/10, ready and waiting! »»

7/27/10, "Disclose" bill »»

7/27/10, Probation for Carl and Brad »»

7/27/10, love this idea! »»

7/27/10, addressing Sheila's comment »»

7/27/10, Hi, Barb! »»

7/27/10, Translate.Google.com is amazing »»

7/27/10, Seminar on Commercial REO »»

7/27/10, The iPad for Real Estate - A Collection »»

The Apple iPad has been available in Canada now for a couple months and no doubt, as was in the US, many real estate professionals are looking at the various options to see if it will work well for their business needs.

In fact, since the iPad was released in the US back in April, there has been a lot written about using this device for real estate. So, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel and write about it here. Instead, I've created a collection of links to some of these articles, tips, tricks, and lists of apps that might be able to help you put the iPad to good use in your real estate business.

There are probably many more blog posts and articles about using the iPad for real estate that I have missed, so feel free to share any that you've come across by adding the links in the comments below.

I know that I've learned a lot about the Apple iPad from these other real estate specific experts. Where before I had my doubts about the iPad being useful for business, after actually seeing and playing with an iPad I can definitely see the potential for use in real estate. (Also, it's great for playing games!)

I haven't personally spoken to any real estate agents using an iPad, so I'd love to hear your feedback about how you're using your iPad for your business. What Apps are you using? What do you find works great? What doesn't?

Don't have an iPad yet? Well, if you're in Canada, we have good news for you. You still have a week to be entered into a draw to win a brand new Apple iPad (16GB Wi-Fi + 3G) during our special promotion. All you have to do is purchase a Spotlight Ad for Point2 Homes before July 31 (that's just 5 more days, folks!) and you'll be automatically entered into the draw. Full promotion details can be found here.

7/26/10, Public Relations Question »»

7/26/10, web design »»

7/26/10, Hoist The Storm Jib »»

The Perfect Storm descended upon our industry a little over 3 years ago, and still continues to rage, although to a lesser degree. The waters are still turbulent.

However at Allison James Estates and Homes we have the storm jib deployed, the jack lines secured, our foul weather gear on and we’re sailing through the storm.

This is what every Realtor and every brokerage that has survived for the past three years has done. They’ve battened down the hatches and plowed through those turbulent waters. There are times when you have to sail into the wind. My wife and I had to sail into the wind one night in 1996, 100 miles off the coast of Baja Mexico in 35 knot winds. Those are the times in life that you man up and survive, or give up.

I’m seeing a lot of people give up right now. Not just in our industry but in spirit and with their goals. Some of these people surprise me that they have given up. At one point they were confident, strong and successful people, and they have been reduced to frail, whining shadows of their former selves. I feel for them, but they have to stand on their own two feet.

With that said I’ll address what these individuals in our industry need to do to get back on their feet, regain their confidence and survive the storm.

First: Quit blaming everyone else. This includes the government, the industry, the banks not lending, everyone. You can’t change those things. What you can change is yourself. If I can give some overly simplistic advice, go buy the book “Think And Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill and read it. Recently I had a good friend ask me if I had ever read it. I shared with that friend that not only had I read it, but I carried it in my briefcase for probably 20 years and read it almost daily till it finally just fell apart. I implemented those teachings into my life and to this day I am a very strong goal setter. Every day I look at my goals; several times a day. I have pictures of my goals, my passwords reflect my goals. If nothing else try this. Confirm to yourself several times a day that you are successful and you will achieve your goals.

Two: Get back to the basics. As many of you know I’m a big Social Media guy but Social Media is just another tool. It won’t change your life without the basics. The basics in our industry have always been to go out and secure listings. Go out in your neighborhood like we used to. Bring that smile you get from reading “Think And Grow Rich” to every door. I think everyone in the country right now has a sour attitude. What a pleasant surprise you’ll be to your neighbors when they find a hopeful and positive Realtor.

Three: Make 10 WHO DO calls a day to your sphere of influence. A WHO DO call is when you speak to someone about Real Estate you ask WHO DO YOU KNOW that may want to buy or sell Real Estate. As I taught my Realtors over the years, 10 WHO DO’s a day will make you successful, 20 WHO DO’s a day will make you wealthy.

I know these ideas will be laughed at by many, because we are so much more sophisticated today. But you know what? We do these things at the corporate office of Allison James Estates and Homes every day and in the last 2 ½ years since we opened our doors we have grown from just myself to a presence in 11 states with two new states about to open, and have recruited over 400 Realtors while most other companies have shrunk or disappeared.

Positive and simple has made us successful.

James A. Crumbaugh III is CEO of Allison James Estates and Homes and may be reached at jcrumbaugh@allisonjames.net

7/26/10, New Marketing Article »»

7/26/10, Waiting 4 months »»

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