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Real Estate Marketing Goes Mobile

Real Estate Marketing Goes Mobile

Real Estate advertising used to be easy. You put up signs in front of the property, held a few open houses and showed up to let people in when they wanted to check out the property. Life was good. Things began to get a bit more complicated as technology progressed. Eventually prospective purchasers wanted to access information about the property from home.

Facebook Changing E-mail As We Know It

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If you’re in business, you can’t imagine a day without e-mail. Neither can I. It’s my lifeline and always will be a huge part of how I do business. Or will it? This week, Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a “new” email. “Whenever I get the chance to talk to high schoolers,” Facebook founder Mark [...]

Facebook Places – Stake Your Claim.

Facebook Places – Stake Your Claim.

Facebook Places is here. Do you have a business that’s a brick and mortar location? Customers that visit you in person? You will likely find yourself in Facebook Places. Similar to Foursquare or Gowalla, Facebook Places will list your business, pretty much without asking or telling you. With over 500 million members, Facebook is the [...]

Social Networks and Small “Local” Business Revenue

Social Networks and Small “Local” Business Revenue

You own a small business. You rely primarily on foot traffic. You wonder if social media can really help YOUR bottom line?

9 Killer Tips for Location-Based Marketing

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…social media can mean more foot traffic and profits for business owners.

Facebook to use @ in Status Updates and Posts

Facebook to use @ in Status Updates and Posts

Facebook has Twitter envy. No doubt about it. Facebook is about to roll out the ability to “tag” your friends in your status updates with the “@”, which until now, has been used only by Twitter Tweeple. Although the concept is a direct copy, Facebook engineer Tom Occhino explains that the @replies do come with [...]

SEO and Bing …Optimizing Your Rank Result

SEO and Bing  …Optimizing Your Rank Result

SEO and Bing …Optimizing Your Rank Result Our advice to optimize your ranking results with bing isn’t too far off what you or your SEO’s strategy would be with any other search engine – but it’s always good to remind ourselves of what is expected: Content is Still King.  Relevant and rich content is where [...]

Just Bing It.

Just Bing It.

Bing is Microsoft’s newest search and is already a significantly more competitive product that Live Search.  While Bing rates higher than Yahoo in initial polls, it still falls below Google. This isn’t surprising, as the Google brand influences many of us before we even try the competition. (Think Kleenex or Saran Wrap). It’s a hike [...]