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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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BiggerPockets Hosts The Real Estate Blog Carnival #159

by Joshua Dorkin | September 21, 2009

It’s been a while since we last hosted the Carnival of Real Estate . . . with 29 submissions, this one required a bit more work than last time. That said, I’m puzzled why there aren’t hundreds or even thousands of submissions. With all the people in real estate who are blogging, I can’t imagine why more people aren’t taking the two minutes a week it takes to participate in the carnival.

Here are my pics for this week’s Carnival of Real Estate:

Is Buying a Rental Property Worth it? from Alex. This post grabbed me for one reason – it was the tale of someone struggling as a landlord; someone willing to let everyone else in on his problems. He tells of his mass of evictions, vacancies, and more. My advice to Alex is to take some time and start reading the forums, articles, and this blog here on BiggerPockets before he does anything else in real estate. I don’t know much about him, but it sounds like he needs some help and the support of other successful landlords. I’d like to personally invite Alex to join us and I hope the rest of the community will do their best to help him turn his struggling landlording venture around!

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4 Steps to Sold: Making AIDA Work for You in Real Estate Marketing

by Molly Castelazo | August 21, 2009

Has it been one week already? Wow, how time flies by.

Last week I wrote about 5 smart marketing moves you can make to boost your real estate business without breaking the bank. #4 was to “Keep ‘AIDA’ on your mind.” In his comment, J. Lamar Ferren asked that I go into some more detail about the AIDA formula. So without further ado. . .

What is AIDA and How Can it Help in Your Real Estate Marketing?

AIDA was devised, by the real Mad Men, as a way to walk a prospect through the psychological steps he takes on the way to engaging your service. For real estate investors, AIDA is the process by which you convince a seller to sell to you, a buyer to buy or a renter to rent. For real estate agents, AIDA is the process by which a prospect becomes a client.

I figure it’ll be much more fun to look at AIDA in action, rather than read me just blathering on about it (I’ll do that, too, of course ). So I’ve copied a real estate agent’s postcard below. Take a look:

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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) [...]

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Stop Paying Useless SEO Companies to Promote Your Website!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 25, 2009

Log into the blog . . . check comments . . . remove useless SEO comments . . . A Look at SEO Blog Comments that Will Sink Your Company Getting SPAM comments on your blog is certainly an annoying thing, particularly because of all of the filters on blogs these days, but more annoying, [...]

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BiggerPockets Featured in The Orlando Sentinel

by Joshua Dorkin | June 1, 2008

Sunday, June 1, 2008: Martha Phifer of The Orlando Sentinel features BiggerPockets.com in her Home Base column in the Real Estate Section of the paper. Every week Martha shares in her column “products, Web sites, tips, books and other things related to home decoration or home buying or anything home related.” In her own words, [...]

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Sunday Real Estate Wrap-Up – March 2, 2008

by Joshua Dorkin | March 2, 2008

March is here and what else can I say about this past week other than — things aren’t looking good for the US. The cost of real goods continues to rise, with the price of everything from gasoline, oil, food, and commodities all continuing to climb at alarming rates. Gold hit a new high near [...]

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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 battle [...]

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Top 35 Real Estate Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006

Update 6/15/10: We fixed a few links and removed a few blogs from the list as well. It is sad to see more and more of the original top blogs on this list removed, but that is how things go. We never put together an updated top real estate blog list since the original was [...]

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