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5 Ways To Instantly Improve Your Blog

If you’ve talked to me for any length of time you know that I am a HUGE proponent of blogging. There are so many reasons that blogging is good for your website and ultimately for your business that I could do a whole month worth of posts about it. For the purposes of this post I am going to assume that you agree with me and that you’ve already started blogging. If you haven’t already started blogging, might I suggest you start…and QUICKLY!! Assuming you already have a blog started there are some common things that most bloggers are (or aren’t) doing that are holding their blog back from being an astounding success. These are things that you can do to help bring more people in to the fold and start to build your community. If Read more [...]

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5 Things You Can Do During #Frankenstorm To Improve Your Internet Marketing

It’s coming, a historic storm that could present some similar outcomes to Hurricane Irene and is drawing comparisons to centuries old storms. Hurricane Sandy is set to make landfall somewhere between New Jersey and Connecticut and with the prospect of a huge storm it’s always my plan to hunker down and ride out the storm in the comfort of my own home. If you’re like me, then you probably already have your plans laid out for the weekend, but this doesn’t mean that you can’t continue to work on your Internet Marketing while you’re buried under a blanket, in fact, that would be a perfect time to focus on some of the things that you know are important but that you just haven’t had time to do. Grab your iPad or your laptop this weekend Read more [...]More Reading:Video Games: Not Just Fun and Games Anymore 5 Domain Names You Should Own Now Why Your Social Media Efforts Aren’t Working 10 Blog Posts You Can Write Today Membership Blog: Sign It! E-mail Signatures

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Where I Get My Ideas For This Blog

I hear it all the time from CT REALTORS®, I would blog, but I just don’t know what to write about. It is a problem that most people who blog face, but it’s one that you can overcome very easily with a little help and a heaping spoonful of creativity. Not unlike you, I have a challenge to come up with a topic for my blog posts. Sometimes the posts just flow out of my fingers like soda out of a soda fountain, but other days it’s like banging my head against the wall trying to find a few words to get the blog started. I have two blogs that I write virtually everyday, this one and the blog for our public facing website CTReal.com. If it’s such a challenge to write two blogs everyday, why not just write one a day or one every other day? Read more [...]More Reading:What Is An Internet Meme and Why Should You Care? Why You Shouldn’t Use Twitter My Internet Marketing Pet Peeve My Virtual Pet Peeve With Virtual Tours Internet Marketing: What To Share On Facebook

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What Is A Keyword And Why Should You Care?

One of the most critical pieces of your business online is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This sounds like a big scary concept that would lose even the most confident computer users in jargon, but really the concept is very simple. Here is the concept boiled down: Search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) scan your website on a daily/hourly basis for new content. They then index that content so that others, who are looking for the kind of content you have can find it easily when they search using one of these engines. SEO is the process of writing the content on your page to help tell the search engines what your site is all about and how they should index it. Think of it as a really high powered Dewey Decimal System with millions Read more [...]More Reading:What Does Internet Y/N Mean Inside MLXchange? You Can’t Do That On The Internet… Use This Surefire Technique To Drive Your Clients AWAY Using Facebook For Good: Proving The Medium 7 Tips for Connecting On Facebook

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10 Ways To Promote Your Connecticut Real Estate Business Through Search Engine Optimization

I talked about this yesterday in my Internet Marketing 101 class. There are literally hundreds of social networks that you and your business can be on. There are literally hundreds of companies that will help you promote your business online. There are literally thousands of websites that you can pay to advertise on. So how do you sort through all of the clutter and get the most out of your time and your money online? Today I want to walk you through 10 different ways to promote your business sellingCT homes for sale using Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Having 10 steps is not meant to overwhelm you, but rather give you a blueprint for your future. This way you can bookmark or print out this list and run through them like a check Read more [...]More Reading:How To: Reorder Your Photos In MLXchange You’ll LIKE This: Enter To Win A Free Professional Home Photo Shoot Why You Should Be Measuring Your Online Presence Where Are Your YouTube Videos? Why You Should Be THRILLED About Facebook Timelines

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90% of REALTORS® Don’t Do This…But Should

Would you believe me if I told you that 90% of REALTORS® do not have a blog? 90% You could look at this number in two ways: 1.) Most people don’t have blogs because they don’t work 2.) Most people don’t have blogs, so if I started one, I would have a leg up on my competition. We choose to look at it from that perspective.  This statistic was recently reported in NAR’s 2011 Member Guide, along with other jaw dropping Internet Marketing statistics which you can read more about here. You can certainly find REALTORS® who are out there working on their Internet Marketing and having tremendous success using tools that in many cases are free and require only a simple time investment.  For every one REALTOR® who is making that Read more [...]More Reading:Do More Business On Your Tablet – Upcoming Training Dates A BIG Thank You To Apple at Westfarms Tonight Is The Night Get Ready For Fusion MLS With May Training New Year – New Training!!

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