Active Rain is a site that is designed to drive consumers to real estate agents and others in the real estate field. There are no fees and no sales pitch of any kind. Active Rain says it’s “the real estate industry’s first online networking resource for real estate professionals.”
So what is Active Rain, well it […]

So are you tired of getting junk mail filling your mailbox everyday. So how can you reduce the amount of junk mail?
Here’s a very simple way to make a lot of it go away. Four major credit bureaus used in the united states routinely sell your credit information to other companies so that […]

So I caused a little bit of a stir in a few forums with my last post. In a private forum to AA site owners only Terry, the creator of RealEstateABC and the owner of HomeSurfer.com, posted this:
I just had a parrallel discussion to this on another forum.
My point was only that if […]

Are we are our own worst enemy???
Do you link to any lead generator sites?
How many directory sites do you link to?
Have you ever wondered why a directory or lead generator site has better ranking than you?
By linking to directory sites or worse lead generators (like Home Gain) you are helping them outrank you […]

Fine Coastal Living is a Wilmington NC Real Estate site that is run by a Keller Williams team. After talking with Melody, the marketing director, for the team and picking her brain as to how they are using their website and other advertising to do business it was clear I needed to share a little.
By […]

The open directory project or dmoz.com is a human edited directory. The descriptions from the ODP have been used by msn.com for listings and in many cases are outdated or contain errors. MSN.com now gives a way for webmasters to control this and remove the ODP descriptions.

So in your Web page you’d put […]

Posted about us-realestatedirectory.com back in April as a directory resource. Gary the site owner has now added a real estate forum to the site. At this point the forums are just getting started and could use a few new members (hint, hint), but with a little effort this can become a great resource for agents. […]

An open house can be one of the most cost effective ways to generate business or it can be the biggest waste of time in the business. To get things started you need to promote your open house and yourself. This is a prime opportunity to meet some of the neighbors and potentially find […]

If the real estate industry can learn to produce more of their own leads and bypass the lead generators of the world we can start to make more money. A higher level of professional service is needed; Your clients deserve more than what you give, your clients expect more than you give, and you want […]