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Why Guest Blogging & Leaving Breadcrumbs is a Good Idea — Because Anderson Cooper Does It

Why Guest Blogging & Leaving Breadcrumbs is a Good Idea — Because Anderson Cooper Does It

Last week, I mentioned that guest blogging is one way to market your blog. If you watch 60 Minutes regularly, there’s a good chance that you know Anderson Cooper (an employee of CNN) has contributed stories to 60 minutes every couple weeks for quite awhile…

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REBarCamp San Francisco Announced

REBarCamp San Francisco Announced

Andy Kaufman has announced today on the AgentGenius blog and Zebra Talk that he is coordinating a BarCamp to take place a day ahead of the Inman Connect Conference in SF this summer. I think it’s a great idea and I plan to do all…

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Marketing Your Blog

Marketing Your Blog

One of the better panels at Inman Connect tackled the issue of marketing your blog. Moderated by Joel Burslem the panelists included: Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National & Author, MyTechOpinion.com Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real Estate And…

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"Social Saturation" covering Beer with Bloggers at Inman

"Social Saturation" covering Beer with Bloggers at Inman

First of all, I loved all the coverage of Inman Connect New York last week. Between all the blog posts, message boards, and live Twitters, it allowed me to feel like I was there listening to the speakers myself. Bill Wendel as RealEstateCafe used Twitter…

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Marketing Your Blog – Part Deux

Marketing Your Blog – Part Deux

As a follow-up to Drew’s marketing your blog post, I thought I’d re-cap of some of the main points that I touched on during Wednesday’s Marketing Your Blog panel at Inman Real Estate Connect. Moderator Joel Burslem kicked off the discussion with the question “how…

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Marketing Your Blog

Marketing Your Blog

I’m speaking on a panel here at Bloggers Connect titled Marketing Your Blog. I’m sharing the stage with 3 other great panelists: Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National. He also writes at MyTechOpinion. Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real…

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Would the Real Estate Blogosphere (RE.net) Benefit from a "Techmeme for Real Estate"?

Would the Real Estate Blogosphere (RE.net) Benefit from a "Techmeme for Real Estate"?

I, for one, think the RE.net would benefit and would love to see it happen. What about you? Check out my post on the Carnival of Real Estate blog for more.

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Don't Make the Mistake of Forgetting to Backup Your Blog

Don't Make the Mistake of Forgetting to Backup Your Blog

Most bloggers know blogging (read: good writing) is hard work and consumes a LOT of time. As a blogger who has spent well over a hundred hours creating content for both my blog and the blogs I contribute to on behalf of Zillow, I realize…

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40 Blogging Tips for 2008

40 Blogging Tips for 2008

Ken at Realivent put together a great post for you bloggers and wanna-be-bloggers — 40 Tips to Kickstart Your Own Blog in 2008. He broke out the tips into 4 categories: 10 Admin Tips During Blog Install 10 Resources for Themes and Designs 10 Links…

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New Geek Estate Contributor – Matthew Kelly

New Geek Estate Contributor – Matthew Kelly

Drew and I were discussing the need to get more mortgage and lending professionals involved with Geek Estate. I am lucky enough to have a friend and former colleague that works with the on-line lender, RMC Vanguard Mortgage Corporation out of Houston Texas. RMC employs…

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