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Facebook…….I get it….finally!

Friday, May 9th, 2008

I’ll be honest about Facebook.
When I initially set up my profile several months ago I didn’t find it useful, interesting, or fun. I promoted it as another web site our Loan Officers needed to have in order to increase their ability to connect with someone.
I didn’t know as many people on Facebook as I […]

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How to Create Embeddable Spreadsheets for Your Blog

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

If you ask me, one of the hardest pieces of blogging is consistently finding content ideas. One possible source of interesting content is pure data — essentially, anything in a spreadsheet is potential blog content.
Though Google Docs can also be used to embed a spreadsheet, the tool I’m going to demonstrate is EditGrid. Here is […]

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For Real Estate or for “Piece of Mind”, Digsby is “The Bomb”

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Thanks to my newest BFF’s at makeuseof.com (an absolute must for any RSS Reader), I have found Digsby! I have been looking long and hard for an application that can allow me “All-in-one” access to my Emails, Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, & MySpace), and my IM accounts (Yahoo Messenger, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, and […]

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Seesmic Video Commenting for WordPress Blogs

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Let me introduce a recently released WordPress plugin which I find to be a very high value — Seesmic.
As I learned on Techcrunch, Seesmic, a video conversation start-up - founded by Loic Le Meur, a well-known European entrepreneur - released a WordPress plugin which enables video comments for Wordpress blogs. Seesmic is a video Twitter, […]

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Foreclosure Radar Update

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Sean O’Toole and the guys at ForeclosureRadar.com were nice enough to let me try out their new product, Foreclosure Listing Exchange(FLX). I’ve had it on my site for about 2 weeks now and I’m beginning to get a good amount of activity on it now.
At first, I only posted a blog about my new service […]

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A word of advice to Real Estate Agents who Blog, the power of social networking can be a “double-edged sword”

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

In what can only be described as an amazing commentary on the true power of Social Networking, one incredibly ignorant RedFin representative, Carol Hian, wrote a scathing Blog post on her RedFin Blog about a fellow “Twitterer” and Facebook friend, Kris Berg and her husband Steve. In which she not only referes to them as […]

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“Link Love”, Peace, and Real Estate 2.0!!!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Some weeks are just better than others when it comes to reaping the benefits of Blogging and Blog-Surfing. Over the past 5 days I have found MakeUseof.com, a fantastic post by Matt Rathbun, and a web 2.0 tool that every stinkin Realtor/Real Estate Agent/Anybody in Real Estate should be using, without fail…because once again, the […]

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Foreclosure Radar

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

As the market has shifted and distressed sellers are more plentiful, a variety of companies are trying to help home buyers and Realtors keep up to speed. In response to the increase in foreclosures and short sales, Sean O’Toole founded a company called Foreclosure Radar. Foreclosure Radar allows home buyers to track every foreclosure in California, […]

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Self Perpetuation is a beautiful thing

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I was a late comer to the blogging party. About a year and a half ago, I found Active Rain and first discovered purposeful blogging. This was around the same time that most traditionalists were discounting this phenomenon as just a fad for ‘youngins” looking to waste some time on the Internet. And I […]

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Hate to code? Check out SquareSpace

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

When I first came into the blogging world (seems like a long time ago), there was a period of time when I could not decide which blogging platform was best for my personal needs. Each option had positive aspects as well as negative ones and I could not find one that was just the […]

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Real Estate Agents, if I save you $9,500, will you send me $950?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Ok great! Please contact me at any of my links and I will give you my address, so you can send a check. Please try to send it immediately after reading the Blog, I have 2 kids in College, and Spring tuition is due!!
Ok, now for the serious side. As most of you already know, […]

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Blogging is Like Dating

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Without any introduction, here’s what I mean….
1. Hard to Get

The method in which one pretends not to be interested, or at least less interested in the other person, as they really are. Actions related to this method may include, but are not limited to: not calling someone who’s number you got for several days, letting […]

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