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The Latest on the BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Conference 2012

by Joshua Dorkin | December 26, 2011

As most of you probably already know [ 12/21/11 Press Release ], a few weeks back we launched our BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit 2012 – a conference to take place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO on March 23-23. The event has been coming together great, as is our fantastic lineup of [...]

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BiggerPockets.com Turns 7 – Happy Birthday!

by Joshua Dorkin | October 22, 2011

On October 22, 2004, while teaching high school in Los Angeles and worrying about my own personal real estate investments, I created BiggerPockets. The seven years that have passed since then, have seen what was intended to be a resource for my own personal needs, turn into the greatest platform online for real estate investors [...]

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Celebrate The Five Year BiggerPockets Blog Anniversary!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 13, 2010

Time certainly flies, doesn’t it? Today marks five years since I started the BiggerPockets Blog (formerly known as “Real Estate Investing for Real”) with a post that set off a revolution! Ok, actually, the first post on this blog, Real Estate Is a Very Hot Investment, was pretty weak, but like most other blogs experimenting [...]

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Real Estate Blogging Case Study: SEO Benefits of BiggerPockets Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | August 30, 2009

Earlier today I was browsing through some of the blogs on our BiggerPockets Blog Network and saw a post that caught my attention. It didn’t grab me as much for the content, but because the author shared with everyone the fact that the post had first page rankings on Google, soon after going live.

The post, titled I Buy Houses in Joplin Missouri, written two days ago, is now the top result for “buy houses Joplin” and the second result for “buy houses Joplin Missouri” out of 107,000 and 110,000 total results in Google’s index.

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BiggerPockets Solidifies its Position as the Go To Real Estate Social Network

by Joshua Dorkin | July 5, 2009

Over the past 4+ years, BiggerPockets has steadily grown, forging its place as the leader for the real estate investing community. We’ve gone above and beyond in an effort to meet the needs of our users, and as a result, new members from every corner of real estate investing have flocked to our site. As [...]

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New BiggerPockets Milestones: 150,000 Forum Posts, 34,000 Members

by Joshua Dorkin | May 23, 2009

This has been a week of milestones here at BiggerPockets.com! In the last few days, we crossed the 150,000 forum post and 34,000 member milestones. I just wanted to thank everyone who has been a part of our success! In addition to the tens of thousands of members, millions of visitors have come to BiggerPockets [...]

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BiggerPockets Events and BiggerPockets Pro are now Live

by Joshua Dorkin | March 15, 2009

BiggerPockets.com launched two great new features to the site today: Events & BiggerPockets Pro Real Estate Events The events system is an events calendar application, where members can find out about and choose to attend real estate auctions, classes, seminars, conferences, open houses, real estate club meetings, social events, webinars, etc. When a member chooses [...]

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BiggerPockets is Featured by CBS 4 Evening News in Denver!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 10, 2009

Today has been another exciting day for BiggerPockets.com. Earlier today, I sat down with Andrea Lopez from CBS News (4) in Denver to talk about BiggerPockets. The interview was aired earlier tonight and I wanted to share it with all of our readers: CBS FEATURES BiggerPockets.com Special thanks to Andrea and CBS! I hope you [...]

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30 Thousand Members and Counting! BiggerPockets.com Reaches Social Networking Milestone.

by Joshua Dorkin | March 5, 2009

BiggerPockets has reached yet another exciting milestone in its continued development as the nation’s premier real estate social networking website, 30,000 Members! With a limited amount of time in the day and attention spans shrinking, it is becoming harder and harder to join every social network out there. As such, only the best thrive! We’ve [...]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Responds to BiggerPockets Article About National GO Zone

by Joshua Dorkin | February 12, 2009

On Monday, January 12, 2009, BiggerPockets.com’s own Richard Warren wrote a compelling piece here on the Real Estate Dispatch called A National GO Zone?, proposing a solution to the nations housing crisis. At a time when housing is one of the most critical issues in the national debate, I’m excited to let our readers know [...]

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BiggerPockets.com Featured in Today’s Denver Post

by Joshua Dorkin | February 8, 2009

As proof that we continue to provide a needed service to the online real estate space, the press has once again come to write about our site. BiggerPockets.com got a great featured writeup in today’s (Sunday) Denver Post (with a nice photo of yours truly!) that we hope you’ll check out: Real estate investors at [...]

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BiggerPockets Adds Sophisticated Targeting to Real Estate Network

by Joshua Dorkin | January 16, 2009

We’ve realized for a long time that advertisers are looking to reach a targeted market when they promote their wares. Over the years, people who were looking to advertise to real estate investors have been coming to BiggerPockets. As our site has expanded, so has the audience, and as such, our advertising capabilities have as [...]

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BiggerPockets Launches Real Estate Company Index: Free Profiles for Real Estate Companies

by Joshua Dorkin | January 12, 2009

One of the nice things about BiggerPockets, in my opinion, is that we try to focus on people interacting with one another. We don’t allow members to travel the site using a company avatar because it is just plain impersonal. The internet is impersonal enough, and we’re working very hard to change that, particularly in [...]

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BiggerPockets Founder Joshua Dorkin Does Newsday, US News & World Report, more

by Joshua Dorkin | January 2, 2009

BiggerPockets.com continues to attract the attention of the mainstream press, and I thought I’d share a few recent mentions of note. The following are articles that I was interviewed for, which are now live: What’s ahead: Buyers and sellers will fare better in 2009 if they know what to look for. – Newsday – 1/2/09 [...]

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