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2012 BiggerPockets Year In Review & 2013 Preview (With Video)

by Joshua Dorkin December 30, 2012

What a year! 2012 proved to be an incredibly productive year for BiggerPockets, and has set the groundwork for an awesome 2013 to come . . . 1) The Growth of a Company: Here’s a look at some of our growth numbers for 2012: Members: +30.9% BiggerPockets Blog Articles: +22.3% Forum Posts: +23.1% User Blog [...]

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The BiggerPockets Keyword Alert System Tutorial (+Video)

by Brandon Turner December 19, 2012

I’ve got some exciting news for anyone who is involved with BiggerPockets! Today BiggerPockets is unveiling an awesome new feature that will make interacting on our real estate forum much easier and more efficient: the new Keyword Alert System! In response to suggestions from our members, we’ve put together a brand new system that will notify [...]

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Ten Awesome Things I Didn’t Know About BiggerPockets…

by Brandon Turner December 2, 2012

Last week I was driving into town along the same route I’ve taken daily for years and noticed a large sign on the side of the highway advertising local apartments for rent. The sign was old, crumbling, and faded from years of exposure – which is why I thought it so odd that someone would bother [...]

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BiggerPockets Grows its Team

by Joshua Dorkin November 29, 2012

I’m excited to announce that BiggerPockets is growing its team to include a new hire, Brandon Turner. Brandon will be serving as our Senior Editor and Community Director, and will be responsible for not only managing our blog, and online community, but will also be playing a key role in much of our social outreach. [...]

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Project Simplify: Outlining the Near-Term Future of BiggerPockets

by Joshua Dorkin October 18, 2012

Companies go through various growth stages, and it is extremely important that a company’s leadership knows where in the life cycle their business is, and what they need to do to maintain the growth needed to succeed. With that in mind, one of the challenges that we’ve faced here at BiggerPockets has been our desire [...]

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BiggerPockets Social Company Profiles: Features & Tutorial

by Joshua Dorkin October 5, 2012

In just over two weeks, we’ll be celebrating our 8-year anniversary here on BiggerPockets. Over those years, we’ve celebrated many milestones, and have seen quite a few new products come and go. We’ve learned from the countless mistakes that we’ve made, and have built a better, stronger company as a result. We’re able to do [...]

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The Impact of 28.1 Million Real Estate Investors on Housing [Infographic]

by Joshua Dorkin September 30, 2012

Real Estate Investor Impact BiggerPockets / Memphis Invest

As we already covered in “The $9.2 Billion Impact of 28.1 Million U.S. Real Estate Investors,” the impact of real estate investor on the housing market has been substantial, to say the least, over the past few years. Our Joint BiggerPockets.com / Memphis Invest National Survey of Residential Real Estate Investors outlined a slew of [...]

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The $9.2 Billion Impact of 28.1 Million U.S. Real Estate Investors

by Joshua Dorkin September 20, 2012

As most of you know, BiggerPockets.com has been the online home for real estate investors for almost 8 years. Through that time, we’ve developed intimate knowledge of the investor market and mindset. However, we knew that simply stating our belief from those years of insight and access to investors was not going to mean much, [...]

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BiggerPockets: 100,000 Members and Beyond. A Celebration!

by Joshua Dorkin September 6, 2012

Just a short while ago, we accomplished something that I never imagined possible when I created BiggerPockets — we crossed the 100,000 member milestone! As I mentioned in my article last week about the early days of BiggerPockets, I initially created this site to help me with my own investments, and didn’t have my sights [...]

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Countdown to 100,000 Members: A Look at the Origin of BiggerPockets

by Joshua Dorkin August 29, 2012

In just a few days, BiggerPockets.com, a company that I founded close to 8 years ago, will cross the 100,000 member milestone. In that time, we’ve seen over 10 million unique visitors to our site, our forums, our thousands of articles, and the hundreds of resource pages that we’ve put together. The journey for both [...]

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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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