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What Realtors Should Put on Their Blog

by Christian Russell | November 19, 2009
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A good number of Realtors are getting on the ball and putting up a blog. This is smart. It’s a powerful communication tool. It’s a powerful way to build your presence online. However keep a couple important points in mind:

It will only serve as a powerful communication tool if you actively use it to communicate. [...]

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Blogs

Bloggers: How to Give Yourself a Raise Today

by Christian Russell | October 22, 2009

The thing I love about running my internet business is that if things are awesome, I can gloat a little bit and revel in my own genius. And when things suck, I have no one to blame but myself. Make no mistake about it, if you make the decision to run your own company you’re going to experience a little of both ;)

The cool thing is that by running a blog you can give yourself a raise anytime you want. How is this done? It’s done by paying attention to the little details. This isn’t my favorite thing to do, but it’s necessary from time to time.

Some prerequisites

First things first. In order to implement the detail-tweaking recommendations I will give you here in a minute, it’s essential to first have a couple things in place. Without these two prerequisites, you aren’t going to get much fruit from your labor.

  1. Be working in a niche where you have actual expertise or something valuable to offer.
  2. Have a responsive readership. Not necessarily a large readership (what is LARGE, anyway? Large according to who?), but you need to have a community of readers that actually read your stuff and pay attention to what you’re doing.
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Social Media

8 Tips on Running Your Blog Quickly and Efficiently

by Christian Russell | October 15, 2009

For professionals and business owners, time is scarce, yet it should be clear by now that blogging offers such a strong return that it should not be ignored. So what’s the solution? How is it possible for a busy professional to work blogging into an already crazy schedule? Here are a few tips:

Tip one: Just post once or twice a week

It’s been said that posting every day is great for search rankings. It’s true that more is better if you’re shooting for the best search rankings possible. However, search rankings are only one of many ways to benefit from blogging. And not posting every day does not detract from any of those other benefits. It also does not remove all search ranking benefits. Many, many successful bloggers only post once or twice a week. Post every day if you like and can maintain that type of schedule. However, don’t think about it in black and white. If you can only post once a week or so, there is still a lot of good you can do with a blog. Not being able to post something new every day is not a reason to not start a blog for your business.

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Real Estate

The Top 35 Real Estate Blogs Revisited almost 3 Years Later

by Joshua Dorkin | May 20, 2009

Back on August 25, 2006 we put together a hugely popular list of The Top 35 Real Estate Blogs, which continues to drive great traffic to those on it today.
What is astounding is how quickly sites are falling off the list!
Since its initial publication, the list has been trimmed down to twenty (20) blogs. [...]

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real estate blogging

The First Rule of Real Estate Blogging

by Joshua Dorkin | December 4, 2008
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Real Estate Technology

How Technology Can Help Your Real Estate Business

by Joshua Dorkin | November 23, 2008

I’ve realized for some time that the way we all conduct our lives and businesses is dependent on technology. Technology has improved how we accomplish things, but has also proven to be a distraction — think of all of the games we waste time playing on the computer at work or on the phone [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Top Five Ways To Fail As A Commercial Real Estate Investor In The Coming Economic Storm

by Rob Powell | June 22, 2008

Hello from the metropolis of Cedar Crest, NM.
I am getting ready to take twenty kids from my youth group up to Durango, CO for the Christ In Youth Conference (www.CIY.com).  I think I am more excited than my high school kids are…..it is always a blast.  I am so grateful for commercial real estate because [...]

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BiggerPockets News

3 Years and Counting: Celebrating 3 Years of Real Estate Blogging

by Joshua Dorkin | March 13, 2008

The Launch of the BiggerPockets Blog
It all started 3 years ago today with a post titled “Real Estate Is Very Hot Investment” On March 13, 2005 I launched this blog about real estate, as an experiment to see if it would interest our BiggerPockets users.
3 Years Later, our BiggerPockets Blog known as Real Estate [...]

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Real Estate News

Sunday Real Estate Wrap-Up

by Joshua Dorkin | February 24, 2008

I’m not sure about the rest of you, but this has been a LONG week for me. Personal issues aside, is seems like there is just so much happening in the world: Lunar Eclipse, US shoots down failing satellite, Kosovo declares independence, Castro steps down from leadership of Cuba, Ralph Nader is back, Clinton/Obama [...]

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