Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

What’s New in 2012

I personally think the best part of planning for the next year is deciding which marketing tools I am going to add to the mix. I either have read about these tools and haven’t had time to implement them or are too overwhelmed with my current projects to add anything else into the mix. When [...]

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Take the Leap {Service}

So you have decided to take the leap and are ready to start blogging about real estate. Good for you! Now the challenge starts on how to actually set up your blog. There are so many things to do between choosing a host and finding the write template that it can be quite overwhelming. If [...]

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August’s Challenge: Comment on forums and blogs

If you are looking to have your website or blog found organically on the search engines a free way to have this happen is to communicate with other bloggers and like minded people. To explain how this works, I will start at the beginning. Search engines reward websites with a higher ranking when people that [...]

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Marketing Tip: How long should blog posts be?

Recently someone said to me that someone told them that in order for a blog to be successful that you have to write posts containing at least 600 words every day. Needless to say this person I was talking to was very turned off by the idea of blogging. Actually the thought of it stressed [...]

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What I learned in July

Normally I like to start off the first of the month announcing the new marketing challenge, but today I would like to take the opportunity to look back on July and share with you some important lessons I learned. I looked back at my blogging efforts for last month and I know it wasn’t good. [...]

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Technology Tuesday: List Building

I use the excellent service, FeedBlitz, to burn Automated Marketing’s RSS feed and to send out email newsletters to our clients. Last week, Phil Hollows, the creator of FeedBlitz, released a new eBook titled “List Building for Bloggers: Proven Email Strategies that Build your Audience, Increase Engagement and Grow your Income.” This book has a ton [...]

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Technology Tuesday: My Favorite List Maker

I have mentioned before that I am a major list maker and that even my lists have lists. In today’s technological world list makers like myself have oodles of tools available to make our lists. Yes, I drooled over the options available to me and had fun trying a bunch out before I settled on [...]

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Friday’s Homework: A Final Blogging Thought

As I was finishing up April’s Challenge on Wednesday night, I took some time to look back at my own blogging for this month. I am happy that I have stuck to it and even happier to find out that I really enjoy it. But it feels like something was missing. I felt like I [...]

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April’s Challenge: Keep On, Keepin On

What a month it has been for our first marketing challenge! This month’s challenge was all about starting a blog. At this point we have created a blogging plan, chosen a blogging platform and a template, added widgets, burnt the feed, written your first post, let people know you were blogging and looked at the [...]

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April’s Challenge: Get the Word Out

You’ve added widgets, burned your feed and written your first post, now it is time to get the word out! Tell everyone you know that you are blogging. Let them know what you are writing about, how they can subscribe to your blog and ask them to please share this information with their family, friends [...]

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