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6 Killer WordPress Plug-ins for your Real Estate Blog (Part 2)

by Shae Bynes | October 1, 2010

In last week’s post, 8 Must Have WordPress Plug-ins for your Real Estate Blog, I provided a list of what I considered the bare essential plug-ins for every blog to have.  There were several additional recommendations made within the comments, so I encourage you to check those out as well.  Today, I’d like to do [...]

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8 Must Have WordPress Plugins for your Real Estate Blog

by Shae Bynes | September 23, 2010

Many real estate entrepreneurs and professionals have started blogs for their businesses over the last few years which is a great way to engage clients and partners, build expertise, market services, and feature properties for sale (for wholesalers and realtors).  One of the most popular platforms for blogs is WordPress and its very powerful thanks [...]

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Simplify Your Craigslist Searches & Marketing With SearchTempest

by Shae Bynes | July 29, 2010

I’ve used Craigslist off and on for the past year to find buyers for properties,  build a cash buyer’s list in my local area, and find motivated sellers to make offers to.  The reason why I say “off and on” is because I could never find my groove and work Craigslist consistently.  Mostly because I [...]

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How to Put Symbols in Craigslist Titles

by Justin McClelland | July 26, 2010

For those of you who frequent Craigslist, I’m sure as your eyes have scoured the listings they were attracted to the ads that were in CAPS and the ads that had the graphic symbols included in them.  If you’re not sure what I’m talking about take a look at the page below. I don’t know [...]

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Work Smart without Getting Carpal Tunnel: ShortKeys

by Justin McClelland | July 1, 2010

In this tech post, I’d like to share a piece of software that I’ve been using for a few years now.  I used it for years in the corporate world while working in a customer support center and now I use it all the time when responding to CraigsList Ads and composing emails. The software [...]

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Using Google Maps to Save Time

by Stephani Davis | June 10, 2010

As a real estate wholesaler, one of the websites I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the last year or so is Google Maps- particularly the “Street View” function they provide.  In fact, unless I am already intimately familiar with the neighborhood where a potential deal is located, Google Maps is the first place I go [...]

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4 Essential Tech Tools For Real Estate Professionals.

by Alex Cortez | June 6, 2010
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Technology tools for real estate professionals, varying from CRM’s, to smart marketing tools, to document management.

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Have A Property To Sell? Use A Foursquare Special

by Justin McHood | May 25, 2010
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Quite a few of my geeky friends were on Foursquare way before I was. Heck, one of them even became the mayor of my house (at 4:00am) before I started paying attention to it. And now I am convinced that location based marketing services like Foursquare will be as mainstream in 2 years as Twitter [...]

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Add-On Domain, Intalling WordPress W/Fantastico (YorkPaQuickSale #4)

by Ryan Hartman | February 23, 2010

This week’s exciting because we’ll now be able to fire up our site as a destination on the world wide internets. Once you’ve got your nameservers all pointed to your hosting account, it’s time to login to your Hosting Control Panel, in this case “CPANEL,” and take the next steps. ADD YOUR DOMAIN TO YOUR [...]

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Property Fraud Alert Service – Watch Your Back!

by Justin McClelland | February 6, 2010
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There is a service offered in a select number of counties called, Property Fraud Alert, which, after you sign-up, runs a query against any new documents recorded within the county of your choice.  The primary purpose for this service is to help stop mortgage and property fraud.  If any document recorded within your county lists [...]

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You don’t have to be a Geeky Web Designer to build a real estate website!

by J. Lamar Ferren | January 30, 2010
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Real Estate websites, or any website for that matter, can be very intimidating to someone who knows nothing about designing websites. It’s like another world with its own language. I mean that in the most literal way possible. When you hear web designers talking all that HTML, XML, Javascript, DIV mumbo jumbo, you might get [...]

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Organize your Business with Microsoft Outlook 2007

by Justin McClelland | December 24, 2009
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Since you’re reading the BiggerPockets blog right now, I presume two things about you; you’re a real estate investor/agent/professional (or aspiring to be) and you use email on a frequent basis.  If only one or neither of those traits apply to you, then read on as you may benefit as well. Today I’m going to [...]

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Stop wasting time at your County Recorder’s Office

by Justin McClelland | December 17, 2009
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Why Record real estate documents? To protect yourself as a Real Estate Investor, it is ideal to record your contract positions at your County Recorder’s office.  When you have a property tied-up with a Contract to Purchase or an Option to Purchase, you may think that you’re in good shape.  You go on to start [...]

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Use Adobe Acrobat and Stop Printing Real Estate Contracts

by Justin McClelland | December 3, 2009
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Adobe Acrobat is a software application that allows one to view, create, manipulate and manage files in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF).  PDF’s are most commonly viewed within Adobe’s freeware Adobe Reader, which is available as a no-charge download from Adobe’s website. By utilizing Adobe Acrobat, you can create custom electronic forms that can be [...]

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Why Blogging for Real Estate is Worth the Time

by Christian Russell | November 27, 2009
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In real estate, branding and name recognition is the name of the game. Don’t you agree? Consider this: They need to have heard of you before they will call to list with you. They need to have heard of you before they will call to buy a home with you. They need to have heard [...]

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