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  • BlogEasy for Local Real Estate Agents

    admin 9:26 am on February 18, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    BlogEasy is a new service from AgentMapIt.com that makes it easy for Real Estate Agents to create and maintain a powerful locally oriented blog.

    The biggest problem involved in maintaining a useful blog is adding new, interesting and well-written content to it on a regular basis. BlogEasy solves this problem.

    Here are the three most important features of BlogEasy.

    1. Blog content – BlogEasy members have access to new articles published on a daily basis. Articles cover topics such as Real Estate News, Real Estate Trends, Homeowner Tips, Renovation Tips, Green Tips, and much more.

    2. Remote posting – Subscribers can publish BlogEasy material, as well as their own original articles, directly to their blogs right from within BlogEasy. Content is search engine optimized for each subscriber’s location, and each time an article is published by a member the system generates a unique version. So it is not just the same article being published over and over again by members.

    3. Links and Traffic – Subscribers can also earn links from other members to their websites. The more often a member uses BlogEasy the more links he or she can accumulate from other members sites. Links mean traffic, search engine exposure, and better placement in the major search engines.

    Go here to give the Free Trial Offer a spin.

     
  • New Articles added to BlogEasy - Feb 11

    admin 10:44 am on February 11, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    The following article has been added to BlogEasy for use by BlogEasy members:

    Are US Home Price Declines Turning Around?
    Real Estate Trends

    Canadian 2009 Real Estate Figures Very Positive
    Real Estate Trends

    Learn more about BlogEasy

    Log in to BlogEasy

     
  • New Articles added to BlogEasy - Feb 10

    admin 11:41 am on February 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    The following article has been added to BlogEasy for use by BlogEasy members:

    Staging Your Home To Sell Faster
    Real Estate Advice

    Designing an Eco-Friendly Kitchen
    Home Improvements

    Learn more about BlogEasy

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  • Get Email Updates Of New Posts

    admin 8:16 am on February 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    You can receive updates of new AgentMapIt features and programs by subscribing to “Email Updates” in the top corner of the sidebar on the right >>>>>>>.

    Subscribe to The AgentMapIt Blog by Email

    New BlogEasy entries are updated in the blog too. As we enter new articles and posts into BlogEasy we announce these titles in the blog, and subscribers will be notified.

    This is the best way to keep up-to-date on new BlogEasy content you can use for your own blogging.

    Subscribe to The AgentMapIt Blog by Email

     
  • Another BlogEasy Article - Feb 9

    admin 1:17 pm on February 9, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    The following article has just been added to BlogEasy for use by BlogEasy members:

    Little Things That Help Sell Your Home
    Real Estate Advice

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  • Lessons from a Successful Blogger

    blogeasy 10:25 am on February 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: bloggers, , , Matt Mullenweg

    This is not Matt Mullenweg.

    Matt Mullenweg is one of the most successful bloggers on the web. He is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

    His blog is at http://ma.tt – Yes, that’s right, it is not a .com and it is very easy to remember. The blog itself has been called various things over the years – PhotoMatt, The World of Matt Mullenweg, and now (apparently) The World of Matt, and it is currently a PR8.

    Matt’s analysis of his blogging activity 2002-2009 is informative. Here are some points worth noting:

    1. Of his Top 10 posts for 2009, 4 were photo “galleries”. Conclusion: people like to see photos in blog posts. (Yes, I know, he’s a photography guy, so you would expect that.)

    2. Number of posts for 2004-2009: 1,108, 703, 340, 360, 314, 182. Conclusion: post often, but once you’re established frequency is probably not as important.

    3. Average number of words in his posts (2004-2009) – 49, 43, 65, 56, 48, 80. Matt concludes from the increase in length in 2009 (80 words) that his posts are getting “meatier”. Conclusion: At least one successful blogger writes pretty short posts. So why do the rest of us think we have to write a 500 word essay every time we make a blog post?

    4. In the same time period his average number of comments/post have steadily gone up from 5 to 23.

    5. He has a core of very faithful readers (including “Mom”) who he corresponds with by email every 1-3 days. As he says, “Email is my most frequently used social network.” Conclusion: Online social interaction, as well as blog readership can be greatly enhanced by regular communication with key individuals.

    There’s more, but this post is already way too long.

     
  • More Articles Published in BlogEasy - Feb 6

    blogeasy 8:02 am on February 7, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    The following articles have just been added to BlogEasy for use by BlogEasy members:

    NEW – Green Alternatives to Commercial Household Cleaners – Video
    Green Tips

    NEW – Calculating How Much You Need for Retirement – Video
    Retirement

    NEW – Should Retiring Lead to Downsizing?
    Real Estate Trends

    Learn more about BlogEasy

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  • Getting Valuable Links to Your Blog

    blogeasy 5:28 pm on February 6, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: link building, links, Search engine marketing,

    BlogEasy Link Building
    Building Links with BlogEasy

    Building inbound links to your website or blog is one of the most important ways to increase its search engine ranking. If you don’t know why links are important, read my one paragraph summary at the end of this post.

    Now the age old question is “How do I get inbound links?” I’ve wrestled with this question for years and come up with all kinds of effective and not-so-effective ways to generate inbound links.

    The link building method that I am introducing right here (Ta Da!) is undoubtedly the best. Here’s how it works.

    BlogEasy is about building content in your blog or website.
    Not just any content. It is well-written, interesting and relevant to your prospective customers and readers. And it is “localized” – which means it is about your local service area. So it helps reinforce your blog’s relevance to, say, “Toledo real estate”.

    BlogEasy lets you post professionally written original content in your blog. Some of these posts are longer articles, some are news items, and some are summaries pointing to other resources such as videos and articles on other sites.

    This is where it gets interesting. Let’s say we write a top notch blog post about Downsizing Your Home When Retiring and then post it on one of our blogs (or one of our members’ blogs).

    So far, so good.

    Now let’s say we create a short summary of this article with a link pointing to the full article. Then we put that summary in the form of a blog post on BlogEasy and make it available to all of our BlogEasy members as a BlogEasy article.

    Now remember, the summary is a typical blog post. It is interesting to your readers in itself because it is a summary of some of the main points in the article.

    But here’s the thing… Every time one of our members publishes that summary they are creating a link pointing to the original article.

    Just like I did above. See the link above that looks like this:

    Downsizing Your Home Article (Oops… I just created another link.)

    That is the kind of link the search engines love. And that is the kind of links we can create for you with BlogEasy SuperLink.

    Here’s how the BlogEasy SuperLink program works

    1. Every time you publish 10 BlogEasy articles we will give you one SuperLink credit.**

    2. For every SuperLink credit we will create a special article that will be posted only on your blog.

    3. Then we will create a summary of that article containing a link pointing to your site and make that summary available to our members as a pre-written BlogEasy article.

    4. Every time a BlogEasy member posts the summary they will be creating a link to your site.

    Voila. Link building at its finest!

    Can you see the potential here? Publishing BlogEasy posts not only gives you high quality relevant content, but it is an awesome way to build inbound links from just the kind of sites the search engines consider the most important – other active real estate sites.

    Go ahead. Sign up for the Free 5 Day BlogEasy Trial right now. Tons of professional pre-written content. And now SuperLinks. This is an awesome way to supercharge your blog.

    *Why Links Are Important – The search engines consider an inbound link to your site a “vote” indicating that someone else found your content interesting and/or relevant. The more “votes” you get the more your site’s importance is reinforced. The more important your site is considered, the more traffic the search engines will ultimately send to you.

    **SuperLink credits awarded only to non-trial (paid) members.

     
  • New Articles added to BlogEasy - Feb 4

    admin 9:06 am on February 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    The following article has been added to BlogEasy for use by BlogEasy members:

    Left in the Dust By Technology
    Real Estate Trends

    Social Security and Retirement
    Retirement

    Learn more about BlogEasy

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  • The Next Generation of Real Estate Customers

    blogeasy 12:35 am on February 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: cell phones, email, mobile, technology, text messaging

    Nicole and Amanda talking over lunch.

    For those of us over 30, text messaging has kind of crept up on us. Now that so many kids have cell phones, text messaging has become second nature to young people – many as young as 9 or 10 years old.

    You think you’re on the cutting edge because you use email to communicate with friends, family and clients? Think again. For younger people text messaging has basically made email obsolete. Jay Thompson, a Phoenix area real estate agent reports that in December his two teenagers sent and received about 10,000 text messages – that’s about 83 messages each per day – while his 17 year old son claims to have sent maybe 10 emails in the whole month.

    In an article called The Future of Real Estate Communication Thompson suggests that agents who want to be in the loop with the next generation of home buyers had better understand the communication media they use.

    Thompson is a good example himself of the communications generation gap. More technology savvy than most agents, he has more than 5,000 email messages in his inbox, while most of his own text messages have been back and forth with his children. Rarely, if ever, does he use text messaging for “serious” business purposes.

    As he says, “The point is, the way we communicate is changing. According to some researchers there will be 2.3 trillion text messages sent this year. Wikipedia says that 80% of 13 to 24 year olds use text messaging (compared to 18% of 40 to 49 year olds). That’s a whole lot of texting by a whole lot of soon to be first-time home buyers.”

    The other change that has already taken place over the last couple of years is the way an increasing number of people use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. People who would not think of using a stuffy email message to talk to each other find themselves commenting to each other back and forth through Facebook and Twitter. Not only are these becoming mature communication channels between people, but companies and entrepreneurs are finding innovative ways to interact with customers and prospects through these massively popular media.

    The bottom line is that real estate agents will have to accommodate themselves to the communication media used by their clients. That means if they want to reach young people who are plugged into these non-traditional modes of communication, they themselves will have to become plugged in.

     
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