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Excel Plays Well With Others Through Linking and Embedding

by Loretta Steele May 1, 2013
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Excel is one member of a family of applications called Microsoft Office.  The more common MS Office applications with their focus are; Access – tracking and managing databases OneNote – organizing, find and share notes and information PowerPoint – presentations, slide shows, meetings and web pages Publisher – publications and marketing materials Word – create [...]

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Help, My Contacts List is in Excel! (Using Microsoft Excel Tables)

by Loretta Steele April 10, 2013
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Microsoft Office’s most used applications are: Word, Access, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher and Outlook.  One of the most used applications is Excel.  Real estate investors need an application that can analyze numbers.  Excel is well suited to that purpose.  Because Excel is so widely used, at times we expect it to go beyond “number crunching.” The [...]

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How To Set Up Your Very Own Real Estate Website

by Frank DeFazio January 18, 2013
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It’s a known fact that almost everyone buying or selling real estate in today’s market relies heavily on the internet.   So much so that having a real estate website with social media exposure may now be a necessity for the real estate investor looking to sell his own flips or to find sellers to buy [...]

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Six Helpful Tools Your Virtual Assistant Can Use For Your Real Estate Business

by Shae Bynes November 11, 2010

I have worked with virtual assistants (both abroad as well as in my local city) for two years now and my experiences have varied widely.  Unfortunately, I’ve had more negative experiences than positive, but today I want to focus on the positive. (Note: if you want to learn from my not so good experiences, check [...]

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Google Places: A Free Way to Promote Your Real Estate Business

by Shae Bynes August 26, 2010

Since I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like free advertising, I wanted to encourage all of my fellow real estate entrepreneurs and professionals to take advantage of Google Places. Google Places provides businesses with an online profile that can appear in Google search results for your type of business as well as Google Maps. For [...]

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Six Essential Items Every Real Estate Investor Should Keep in the Car

by Shae Bynes August 12, 2010

Maybe this seems like a silly topic to write about, but a couple missed opportunities over the past week made me realize that this is an important topic for new and experienced investor alike and can actually lead to more deals! As real estate investors, we always want to keep an eye out for deals [...]

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Free Video On How To Get On the First Page of Google For Highly Competitive Real Estate Terms

by Peter Kolat February 28, 2010

One of the hottest topics and internet marketing strategies right now is social media.  Social media networking websites are everywhere.  Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Blip, YouTube, Viddler, Friendster, LiveJournal, Meetup and of course Bigger Pockets.  But that’s just a tiny little sample of all of the different social media website that are out on the internet.  [...]

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The Associated Press Economic Stress Index Tool

by Tom Koziol January 15, 2010

Economic stress seems to be an apt description of today’s environment. Unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies seem to have hit every nook and cranny in these United States. Put another way, I don’t care where you live, your jurisdiction has its share of these problems. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had instant access to a [...]

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One More Way a Real Estate Blog Will Save You Time

by Christian Russell January 7, 2010

One of the most powerful things about a business blog for your real estate practice is that it saves you time. What’s that you say? That’s right…it SAVES you time. And you thought a blog would be a huge time sink, didn’t you? Does blogging take time? Of course it does, but it can also [...]

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How to Research Local Crime Statistics for FREE Before you Purchase that Property

by Winston Westbrook January 4, 2010

You find a perfect property to purchase. All the numbers are right. You have everything in place yet you have this sinking feeling that this might not be a great area to invest in. If only there was a way you could get the history of the crimes that have been committed in the area. [...]

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How to Find Real Estate Keywords That Will Help You Rank High In Search Engines

by Peter Kolat January 3, 2010

One of the most important actions you need to take when marketing your real estate business on the internet is to create a powerful list of low competition, highly searched for keywords. There are hundreds of different tools that you can use to find those keywords, both free and paid; at times, it can become [...]

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Systemetizing Your Facebook Based Lead Generation Effort

by Ryan Hartman December 21, 2009

Everyone’s saying, “Hey, You Gotta Get On Facebook! Get My Ebook! I’ll show you How.” But is anyone out there really giving business people a solid game plan for leveraging social media in an efficient way, with an eye toward avoiding the mafia wars time suck? An Facebooking Schedule That Could Work For Real Estate [...]

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Real Estate Marketing is Changing Fast and Furious

by Christian Russell December 18, 2009

The rules of real estate marketing are changing. The changes are fast and furious. And most Realtors are sitting on their hands. I hate to say it, because I have a lot of love for real estate pros and how hard you work, but it’s true. By my estimate, there are two main reasons this [...]

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How The Long Tail and Hyper Local Content Will Punch a Hole Through the Competition

by Ben Roberts December 16, 2009

Some of you have heard the terms Hyper Local and Long Tail before.  There’s actually a book (The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine) written about niche marketing back in 2006.  I decided to focus on this topic because I don’t think it’s something that is readily understood by many people and [...]

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Lessons From the First Ever Virtual Real Estate Barcamp

by Ben Roberts November 18, 2009

Yesterday was a first in the world of real estate.  The first ever Virtual real estate Barcamp was held with 27 presentations in three simultaneous webinars.  The subject matter was as varied as the presenters.  From Stefan Swanepoel’s enlightening thoughts on Social Media Trends in 2010 to Matthew Fetick’s 10 Tech Tools and Tips.  This [...]

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